Jacob Shilts
West Bend,Wisconsin
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Planner
Brady Corporation
04.2025 - Current
- Create, release, and manage production orders by monitoring demand forecasts, substituting material, and altering BOMs/routing
- Ensure material availability for VWS and Kitting department production orders by conducting cycle counts, utilizing release-reject reports, analyzing inventory levels in SAP, and expediting orders with purchasing
- Collaborate between customer service, distribution center, and operations to resolve order inquiries, expedite sales lines, and address issues shipping orders
- Engage and work with operators and production leads to efficiently complete orders, resolve issues with inventory, and identify and implement process improvements
- Manage and own the VWS backlog by providing status updates, due dates, and actively resolving issues for aging production and sales orders
- Driven continuous improvement by creating an excel-based missing material tracker, enabling trend analysis to optimize order quantities, safety stock, and supplier performance
Inventory Intern
Kapco Metal Stamping
06.2024 - Current
- Perform daily cycle counts on inventory, ensuring quantities are 100% accurate
- Create process mapping for inventory decision making and warehouse operations
- Input data for important specifications for over 700 raw material inventory IDs
- Solve inventory discrepancies by problem-solving and performing root cause analysis
- Understand ABC analysis and use it to categorize inventory value, with splits of 10%, 25%, and 65%
- Utilize lean six sigma approach for continuous improvement projects
Supply Chain Co-Op
Mercury Marine
01.2025 - 04.2025
- Analyze and understand material flow and inventory management at Plant 15 for potential process improvements
- Lead 3 continuous improvement projects aimed to reduce waste and result in cost saving outputs
- Cooperate with all departments to communicate details on projects
- Perform multiple assembly rack audits to ensure 100% system accuracy
- Communicate with assembly floor operators to maximize work space and ensure part availability
- Utilize PowerBI and Excel tools to establish data for decision making
Backroom and Stocking Associate
Walmart
02.2018 - 06.2024
- Ensured daily customer satisfaction by assessing needs and being knowledgeable in all departments
- Managed backroom and sales floor inventory, with goal of above 95% accuracy
- Utilized power equipment daily to unload pallets and achieve backroom organization
- Trained over 20 new retail associates in all stocking and inventory activities
- Standardized sorting processes to reduce wasted movement of associates and products
Education
BBA - Supply Chain Management
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI05-2025
Associate of Arts And Science -
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
West Bend, WI05-2022
Skills
- Inventory Management
- Problem-Solving
- Data Analysis
- Materials Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Communication
- Microsoft Excel
- SAP
Timeline
Production Planner
Brady Corporation
04.2025 - Current
Supply Chain Co-Op
Mercury Marine
01.2025 - 04.2025
Inventory Intern
Kapco Metal Stamping
06.2024 - Current
Backroom and Stocking Associate
Walmart
02.2018 - 06.2024
BBA - Supply Chain Management
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Associate of Arts And Science -
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee