Jane Wooten
Hickory,NC
Summary
Experienced packaging professional bringing 20+ years' experience in a variety of areas within folding carton and flexible package manufacturing. In whatever capacity or position, pride myself in being able to organize, facilitate and collaborate with key personnel at all levels to get a quality product that meets the customers' expectations in a timely manner.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Graphics Coordinator
Interflex Group
Wilkesboro, NC
06.2015 - 11.2021
- Received and evaluated art and designs for new projects, facilitating preproduction meetings with key production and production support personnel to troubleshoot and offer suggestions for improved printability and reproduction.
- Communicated back all suggestions and functioned as a hub for information between customer, sales, plate vendor and production.
- Facilitated ink drawdowns as required by project/customer.
- Initiated creation of specs within the Filemaker system.
- Set up and maintained digital filing cabinet for each customer and each project within.
- Became knowledgeable and proficient in various customer portal systems as required for file approvals.
- Maintained personal Excel spreadsheet to keep track of each project from initial contact to approvals to plates received. This was a quick reference on project details and dates.
- Cultivated positive relationships with all accounts and contacts by maintaining high customer satisfaction and in fostering professional relationships with a personal edge.
- Issued all purchase orders for new projects within graphics department for two locations.
- Maintained and processed all purchase orders to and invoices from plate vendors for two manufacturing locations.
- Took billing process from all paper to completely digital process, increasing efficiency and timeliness for AP and accuracy and accessibility of records.
Production Planner
RSI
Lincolnton, NC
02.2012 - 08.2014
- Provided weekly production schedules for assembly lines for a national cabinet manufacturer.
- Employed accurate forecasting to increase efficiency and reduce waste.
- Worked closely with Demand Planning to establish weekly production schedules according to deadlines for existing orders and sales forecasting.
- Monitored workload against supply base to assess capacity constraints and communicate potential shortages with manufactured parts as well as outside purchased components.
- Reviewed inventories of mill parts and increased mill orders as needed to meet all production requirements for any given mill parts. Worked daily with scheduling and procurement to ensure availability of raw material for production schedule adherence.
- Used JD Edwards software to provide real time inventories and shortages on parts, evaluations and planning data for production.
- Created production forecasting plans utilizing Excel spreadsheet tools and input from demand planning and management teams.
- Used JD Edwards software to monitor and record production resources for all facets of product planning, development, manufacturing and sales.
- Developed, released and monitored daily schedules to foster on-time completion of finished products.
- Planned production schedules, taking employee production rates, company needs and seasonal changes into account.
- Scheduled and monitored production of wood components from internal mill operations to supply assembly lines with parts to build cabinets as planned for assembly line.
- Coordinated with purchasing on raw materials including board, hardware and corrugated.
Scheduling / Vendor Managed Inventory Coordinator
West Rock (formerly Rock Tenn)
Claremont, NC
07.2000 - 03.2010
- Monthly reviewed and analyzed customer forecast data using ACCESS database to determine and plan for upcoming inventory needs. Set up master schedule accordingly, taking into account wash ups, make ready and raw material inventory levels.
- Strategized, introduced and updated master schedule daily to satisfy customer demand/changes while carrying minimum active inventory for just-in-time manufacturing.
- Coordinated, collected and maintained VMI records and reports.
- Worked with supervisors and team members to understand supply needs and bring levels within desired tolerances to adapt to shifting customer demands.
- Drafted concise and accurate reports detailing inventory, trends and sales for distribution to upper management and use in strategic planning and purchasing.
- Adapted to shifting customer demands by strategically implementing schedule changes and updating production and plate making departments in a timely manner.
- Had access to Nestle's system via VPN and wrote contracts and adjusted the quantities as production completed skus. This qty alerted plants to exact quantities available to release for production.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Graphic Communications
Clemson University
Clemson, SC08.1989
Skills
- Team Collaboration
- Client Relations
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Relationship Building
- Schedule Coordination
- Microsoft Office
- Spreadsheet Tracking
- Attention to Detail
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with two IT specialists, our company's and Nestle USA's in the development of an ACCESS database to calculate monthly requirements for Nestle. This database performed the calculations to combine inventory levels on both sides against projections taking into account any upcoming graphic changes. The database took our Vendor Managed Inventory program to the next level in service, accuracy and most important, timeliness. I provided the IT team with the process flow and information sources for the calculations that were being done by hand and IT created/programmed the actual working database. From concept to months of testing to final working database took over 18 months . It was a fantastic project to be a part of and the results made a huge difference for both sides.
Additional Information
Interests include photography, hiking, pets and animal rescue, cooking and anything outdoors.
Timeline
Graphics Coordinator
Interflex Group
06.2015 - 11.2021
Production Planner
RSI
02.2012 - 08.2014
Scheduling / Vendor Managed Inventory Coordinator
West Rock (formerly Rock Tenn)
07.2000 - 03.2010
Bachelor of Science - Graphic Communications
Clemson University