TAMARA ELLIOTT
Albert Lea,MN
Summary
INFLUENTIAL, TOP PRODUCING MANUFACTURING & PROCUREMENT MANAGER. Expert in leading rapid implementation, transforming performance, and driving profitability. Recognized for collaboration, teamwork, negotiations, and relationship building. Align technology and business to maximize delivery of high levels of quality and service. Implement operational goals, tactical and strategic plans, as well as establishing and monitory key performance metrics for manufacturing, quality, LEAN, and procurement functions. Partner with business unit leaders to deliver quality products, on-time, with the lowest cost structure. Build best-in-class manufacturing function, manage material and labor productivity through continuous improvement activities to improve operational efficiency and increase revenues and profitability through process and operational improvements.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Supply Chain Manager
Amesbury Truth
Owatonna, MN
10.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Market leader in door hardware manufacturing
- Manages all aspects of the organization's supply chain management including procurement, vendor relations, production, logistics, and distribution
- Develops and implements all safety stock and production plans
- Oversees demand forecasting, supply planning, and procurement to ensure resource requirements are satisfied
- Communicates with executives regarding business needs to secure resources needed to satisfy customer demands and ensure delivery and/or implementation
- Tracks metrics of performance of a team of 60 plus employees and looks for cost savings and time savings
- In the first year successfully reduced finish goods inventory by 3.8 million dollars and raw goods by 1.5 million dollars
- Help create a Women in Business group that has donated coats and funds for families across southern Minnesota
- Successfully implemented a new ERP system and helped train two other plants in SD and Mexico
- Developed a global safety stock for materials coming from China
- Market leader in door hardware manufacturing
Director of Procurement
Mrs. Gerry’s Kitchen
Albert Lea, MN
03.2021 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: Market leader as an in salads and sides food manufacturing
- Manages all aspects of the organization's supply chain management and operations, including procurement, vendor relations, production, logistics, and distribution
- Develops and implement plans for managing supply chain processes for production and operations
- Oversees demand forecasting, supply planning, and procurement to ensure resource requirements are satisfied
- Communicates with executives regarding business needs to secure resources needed to satisfy customer demands and ensure delivery and/or implementation
- Tracks efficiencies and looks for cost savings throughout the plant
- Creates a link between production floor and sales to create continuous improvement
- In the first six weeks identified and implemented $70,000.00 worth of cost savings on production floor
- Headed up a cost savings of over $290,000 in vendor negotiations
- Market leader as an in salads and sides food manufacturing
Material & Maintenance Planner
Conagra Foods
Hamburg, IA
09.2017 - 03.2021
- Company Overview: Conagra Brands has revenue of $11B, 18K employees, and 50 locations
- Manage an annual budget of $37.2M, inventory associate, and 7 maintenance personnel to ensure material resources are consistent with production schedules
- Make certain there is an appropriate supply of cost-efficient and high-quality materials to maintain steady production and product delivery
- Determine material specifications, create and maintain inventory schedules, coordinate with internal departments, and manage external stakeholder relations
- Coordinate with departments regarding production goals, timelines, and supplier payments
- Track production volume and monitor customer demand patterns and purchasing trends
- Liaison between customers, suppliers, and distributors
- Schedule maintenance in a way that minimizes equipment downtime and impact on production
- Make sure maintenance technicians have the tools, parts, and supplies required to complete work orders
- Led $300K cost saving initiative by negotiating new contracts and outsourcing shipping
- CPS Lead to address improvements to asset management, reconfigurability, and productivity
- Conagra Brands has revenue of $11B, 18K employees, and 50 locations
ERP Analyst
Cambria USA
Le Sueur, MN
02.2017 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: American-made, family-owned natural stone company
- Guide direction to operations, develop and implement MRP system to drive down costs of material for production
- Serve as a technical resource/content expert to sales and service to increase productivity
- Assisted with the development, implementation, maintenance of the ERP program with a focus on purchasing, discrete manufacturing, and outbound shipping processes
- Support applications and solutions for manufacturing to improve processes and functions
- Gather and document detailed requirements, design functional solutions, customize and configure applications, identify and execute advanced test scenarios and support solution deployment
- American-made, family-owned natural stone company
Production Scheduler
Imperial Plastics, INC.
Mankato, MN
06.2012 - 02.2017
- Company Overview: Market leader as an engineered custom injection plastics molder specializing in thermoplastic manufacturing
- Create and maintain production schedules in order to ensure all company goals are achieved and deadlines met
- Managed product schedule, customer service, product direction, competitive analysis, and market research for an assigned product or group of products
- Developed and implemented strategic vision, interfacing with engineering department to develop the bill of materials and create work orders
- Built partnerships with software/service providers, managing existing relationships with product alliances
- Directed MRP, tracked sales, and coordinated shipping
- Post schedules, provided quick responses to production issues, improve processes, and fulfill company expectations
- Market leader as an engineered custom injection plastics molder specializing in thermoplastic manufacturing
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management, Accounting, Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Crookston, MNSkills
- Purchasing
- Inventory Management
- Scheduling Techniques
- Risk Management
- Material Planning
- Product and Service Design
- Service Scheduling
- Plant Maintenance
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
- Operation Strategy
- Manufacturing Process Environment
- Standard Time Measurement
- Supply Chain Management
- Process Improvement
- Lean Management
- Execution
- Planning
- Scheduling Control
- Sustainability
- Technology Application
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Accountability
- Problem Resolution
- Decision Making
- Planning & Organizing
- Conflict Management
- Support & Training Staff
- [Software] experience
- Negotiating
- International purchasing
- Multi-plant experience
- Supply chain distribution
- Financial management and reporting
- Financing structures
- Staff management
- Relationship building
- Supply chain risk management
- Demand planning
- Logistics management
- New vendor setup
- Strategic sourcing
- Supply chain modeling
- Supply and demand requirements
- ISO [number] standards
- Warehouse operations
- Cost reduction strategies
- Supplier negotiation
- Supply chain management
- Warehouse management
- Supplier relationship management
- Lean manufacturing principles
- Expense control
- Global sourcing
- Logistics planning
- Production scheduling
- ERP systems proficiency
- Forecast monitoring
- Sustainability practices
- Purchasing oversight
- Forecasting accuracy
- Performance tracking
- Six sigma methodologies
- Transportation management
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- Procurement expertise
Certification
- CPS Trainer
- Non-Finished Goods Optimization
- Run Strategy Optimization
- Work Process Improvement Planning
- Rapid Change over Event Planner
- Kanban & Milkruns
- Supplier Optimization
- Warehouse Optimization
- Lean Supply Chain Inventory Manager
- Product Mapping
Continued Professional Development
- Master SAP Planner
- Zero Loss Leadership
- Lean Supply Chain Master
- Continuous Skills
- EHS Backup
- Focused Improvement
- Lean Supply Chain Pillar Owner
- Food & Safety
Industry Expertise
- Manufacturing & Procurement
- Management & Estimating
- Supply Chain
- Maintenance Planner
- Process Improvement
- Purchasing
- Inventory Management
- Scheduling Techniques
- Risk Management
- Material Planning
- Product and Service Design
- Service Scheduling
- Plant Maintenance
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
- Operation Strategy
- Manufacturing Process Environment
- Standard Time Measurement
- Supply Chain Management
- Lean Management
- Execution, Planning, Scheduling Control
- Sustainability
- Technology Application
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Accountability
- Problem Resolution
- Decision Making
- Planning & Organizing
- Conflict Management
- Support & Training Staff
Timeline
Supply Chain Manager
Amesbury Truth
10.2022 - Current
Director of Procurement
Mrs. Gerry’s Kitchen
03.2021 - 10.2022
Material & Maintenance Planner
Conagra Foods
09.2017 - 03.2021
ERP Analyst
Cambria USA
02.2017 - 09.2017
Production Scheduler
Imperial Plastics, INC.
06.2012 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Management, Accounting, Computer Science
University of Minnesota
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