Richard Jacullo

• Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
• Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and improve ontime delivery performance.
• Strong knowledge of the steel and corrugate packaging commodities.
• Led the transition of the purchasing of all corrugate packaging materials from the individual manufacturing facilities to the centralized purchasing team. Developed a deep knowledge of corrugate packaging products during this process.
• Improved assigned suppliers' On Time and In Full percentage from 61% to 95%.
• Responsible for purchasing $62 million of domestic and imported raw material annually.
• Led a cross functional team to develop a standardized process for managing the raw material impacts of product discontinuations.
• Led a cross functional team to identify approximately $7 million in obsolete raw material and to create a multi-year strategy for disposing of it.

Door Distribution Rotation

- Worked with the Distribution Division sales team to develop reports for tracking retail sales and retail order performance.

Plant Operations Rotation

- Managed various production lines at the Vista, California Vinyl Windows facility.

JEM Rotation

- Developed strong understanding of LEAN Manufacturing principles.

Lean Transformation Rotation

- Led two Rapid Improvement Events that resulted in a 100% improvement in manufacturing line output.