Jackie Brannan
Summary
Supply chain professional with proven track record in logistics and supplier management. Known for driving efficiency and fostering collaborative team environments. Dependable, adaptable, and highly skilled in process optimization and strategic planning.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Supply Chain Manager
Baltimore Aircoil Company
12.2020 - 10.2024
- Servant leader to 3-4 direct reports, with larger team of 65-100 responsible for Scheduling, Production Control, Purchasing, Material Movement and Kitting, Inventory Control, Traffic, Shipping and Aftermarket
- Tracking and maintaining inventory to meet targets (Raw, WIP and FG)
- Implemented Supplier Quality program through NCRs and tracking OTD
- Coordinated and led first physical inventory event in over 10 years
- Supported SAP implementation
- Developed strategy for yard storage
- KPI tracking of Revenue, OTD, OTC, Cycle Count Accuracy, On-Time Scheduling, On-Time Ordering, Kitting Accuracy
- Maintained monthly budgets for packaging, consumables, office supplies
- Monitored and tracked supplier performance to enforce adherence to quality standards and established timelines.
Procurement Manager
ABB/Hitachi
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Responsible for maintaining/improving inventory levels with volume fluctuations and decreasing lead times to customers
- Manage long lead time materials to ensure availability
- Materials evaluation to improve lead times to customers in ETO environment, focusing on safety stocks, driving suppliers to decrease lead times, reviewing similar materials to consolidate and reduce high variability where possible
- Improved Inventory Turns from 7.8 to 13.6 in 8 months by reviewing safety stocks, SMI, obsolete, and excess stocks
- SAP improvements using SPEX principles and audits
- Manage purchasing team of 8 buyers, including implementing an apprenticeship program, mentoring leadership program participants, and managing buyers in a third party satellite office
- Coordinated 1st plant-wide physical inventory in over 25 years, facilitated training in PI processes and standards, and ensuring proper completion of counts and reconciliation
- Using various daily/weekly/monthly reports to maintain desired outcomes from all areas, including daily cycle counts, exception message management, SMI, inventory, turns, OTD
- Implemented Flop Five program to improve suppliers’ OTD and quality through tracking and driving root cause countermeasures for poor performance
Materials Manager
GE/ABB
08.2017 - 12.2018
- Responsible for maintaining inventory targets, both RIP and FG
- Manage several quarterly budgets, including transportation, UDM, Box and Pack
- Led the materials team to ensure timely ordering/receipt of purchased goods while maintaining safety stocks and quarterly targets
- Coordinated with the Master Scheduler to develop/improve scheduling process
- Site SAP Super User and PDV
- Immediate supervisor to Shop Services team, managing stockroom, shipping/receiving, label production and paint hang
- Coordinate annual Physical Inventory
- Compiling various daily, weekly, and quarterly reports, including forecast, backlog, inventory levels, inventory inputs/outputs, warehouse stocking levels, in transits, and daily production tracker
- Improved plant’s overall Maturity Model scorecard from low 80% range to mid 90% range, by focusing on master data maintenance, cycle counting accuracy, more frequent COGI clearing, and Purchase Order/Purchase Requisition exception message management
- Implemented auto POs for all internal sister plant purchases, moving away from time consuming visually managed system
MSO/Value Stream Leader
General Electric
04.2015 - 08.2017
- Actively managed value streams from fabrication to assembly, utilizing constraint theory manufacturing
- Began with the industrial Safety Switch value stream, bringing service levels from upper 70% range to remain consistently above 95%
- Continued on to residential Load Centers, maintaining high service levels while streamlining fabrication processes
- Responsible for maintaining target stocking levels of finished goods in the warehouse
- Immediate supervisor to 110+ hourly employees in fabrication and assembly, managing their assignment rotations and performance accountability
- GE Morristown was recognized during this time as Top Plant for Operational Excellence
Lead Buyer
General Electric
08.2013 - 04.2015
- Responsible for purchase of materials from sister plants and external suppliers based on production needs
- Maintaining target inventory levels while staying within a predetermined budget
- Communicate with suppliers to ensure on time delivery
- Site lead for SAP implementation in 2014, while also filling in as Master Scheduler
Shop Service
General Electric
11.1999 - 08.2013
- Held a variety of positions within the Shop Service Classification: Stockroom, Shipping Department, Label Tech, and Raw Buyer
- Responsibilities included all shipping activities, stocking materials and performing necessary system putaway, maintaining inventory accuracy, label printing
- Purchased all box and pack materials, raw materials and indirect materials while working within budget guidelines
Education
BBA -
King University
Skills
- SAP Super User
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Excellent communication skills
- Multiple ERP systems
- Servant Leader
- Data Driven Problem-Solving
- Expense control
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- Procurement expertise
- Warehouse operations
- ERP systems proficiency
Timeline
Supply Chain Manager
Baltimore Aircoil Company
12.2020 - 10.2024
Procurement Manager
ABB/Hitachi
01.2019 - 12.2020
Materials Manager
GE/ABB
08.2017 - 12.2018
MSO/Value Stream Leader
General Electric
04.2015 - 08.2017
Lead Buyer
General Electric
08.2013 - 04.2015
Shop Service
General Electric
11.1999 - 08.2013
BBA -
King University
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