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Kai Luo

Garland,TX

Summary

➢ Over 13 years’ experience in various manufacturing industries
➢ Demonstrate initiative and lateral thinking for problem solving
➢ Years of experience in managing MRP
➢ Resolve differences between available capacity and required capacity
➢ Limit inventory investment and meet customer requirement
➢ Strong analytical skill to identify key issues
➢ Deep experience in ERP, K3 and SAP environment
➢ Skilled in 5S, Kanban, JIT, Pull production, and Lean manufacturing
➢ APICS,CPIM certification
➢ Strong work ethic: Extremely dependable, punctual, hardworking, motivated/dedicated

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PMC and Material Manager

Canadian Solar USA
03.2023 - Current
  • Worked closely with purchasing, logistic and warehouse teams, leveraging power of commodities and materials in outlining trade and distribution agreements.
  • Understood common material delivery methods using automated vehicles, conveyor belts and rail-guided distribution systems and determined best strategy for products.
  • Create forecast and master production plan;
  • Lead MRP and shipment schedule for finish good's
  • Monitored safety stock levels and established order policies to balance inventory availability with minimal investment.
  • Improved resource allocation to promote efficiency and deadline management.
  • Coordinated implementation of complete and raw product changes to facilitate successful launch and exceed customer expectations.
  • Worked closely with purchasing team, leveraging power of commodities and materials in outlining trade and distribution agreements.

Production and Planning Manager

Canadian Solar Inc
10.2018 - 03.2023


  • Planned resources, conducted costing activities, and managed bid and proposal phases.
  • Assessed and forecasted brand sales projections.
  • Allocate resources of work centers, manpower and equipment to meet the MPS
  • Manage four shifts of production crews
  • Established KPI and production goals for supervisors and team members

Planning Manager/Assistant GM

Canadian Solar USA
07.2017 - 10.2018
  • Oversaw inventory replenishment strategies and processes for programs.
  • Devised sales plans and inventory plans for customers by product.
  • Collaborated with company leaders to support consistency and best practices.
  • Allocated net production requirements to dedicated manufacturing work centers respecting both customer service and production needs
  • Maximize capacity to lower production costs
  • balance overall manufacturing capacity
  • Manage and execute 200M dollar annual purchase requisition
  • Enhanced order fulfillment, picking & shipping processes, greatly improved customer satisfaction

Producution Plan Supervisor

Canadian Solar USA
05.2013 - 03.2018

• Translate Production Plan into Master Production Schedule for two manufacturers
• Organize daily meeting for production supervisors to update status of work orders regarding issues and potential delays and deviation
• Purchased key critical materials and issued PRs, which is worth of 80% of BOM
• Communicate with Sales team weekly to review progress of orders, and adjusted the master production if needed
• Develop and maintain rough-cut capacity planning and find concerns in advance
• Limited WIPs under 1% on the floor

Manufacturing Engineer

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc.
01.2011 - 05.2013
  • Introduce new materials and technical to improve current process
  • Served as technical liaison between customer, manufacturing, quality assurance and vendor and supplier personnel to resolve technical and quality issues.
  • Identified and matched potential suppliers by applying automated enabling technologies tools for Advanced Logistics and information processing to procure obsolete or hard to find parts.
  • Developed streamlined manufacturing process, which boosted productivity and saved $500,000 annual

Leader of Equipment Engineer

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
01.2006 - 01.2010
  • Assign job of daily and project for all team members
  • Manage and troubleshoot precise optical equipment in the lithograph department, such as ASML, Canon and AMAT
  • Analysis and monitor daily production data in lithograph

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science - Finance

South-Central University For Nationalities
Wuhan, China
06.2006

Skills

  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Production Planning
  • Supplier Relationship Management

Certification

  • CPIM - Certified Professional Inventory Management

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

PMC and Material Manager

Canadian Solar USA
03.2023 - Current

Production and Planning Manager

Canadian Solar Inc
10.2018 - 03.2023

Planning Manager/Assistant GM

Canadian Solar USA
07.2017 - 10.2018

Producution Plan Supervisor

Canadian Solar USA
05.2013 - 03.2018

Manufacturing Engineer

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc.
01.2011 - 05.2013

Leader of Equipment Engineer

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
01.2006 - 01.2010

B.Sc. in Computer Science - Finance

South-Central University For Nationalities
Kai Luo