Zachary Held

• Develop and maintain detailed tactical and strategic production plans to optimize workflow, ensure on-time delivery, and align with shop capacity and customer requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of three planners, providing guidance, training, and feedback while working toward production goals.
• Allocate resources, including manpower, machinery, and materials, to maximize production efficiency and minimize downtime.
• Collaborate with all cross-functional teams to ensure that customer needs are met.
• Analyze production data (earned hours, lead times, machine utilization) to identify bottlenecks, improve scheduling accuracy, and enhance overall shop performance.
• Develop and present Power BI reports to monitor production performance, schedule adherence, and key metrics to senior management.
• Drive process improvement initiatives by identifying inefficiencies, implementing best practices, and supporting lean manufacturing principles.

Key Achievements:

• Developed and deployed a slow-moving inventory review and disposition process, aiding in the reduction of net inventory by 25%.
• Developed and implemented a past-due tracking and resolution process, aiding in and driving the reduction of plant past dues by 98%.
• Developed and implemented a shipment scheduling process for efficient and accurate shipment planning and reporting.
• Provided data analysis and reports to support projects that drove $2.3 million in annual savings to the production processes within our location.

• Partner with Global and Regional Business Unit & finance and their operational teams to ensure excellence in process and standards for efficient and effective planning and materials management.
• Communicate with production, sales, demand, and supply teams to modify and maintain master data.
• Provide data analysis and systems support to promote the strategy, management, and governance of supply master data including the integration of data ownership in business processes.
• Work with other internal analysts, IT leadership, and business representatives to maintain awareness of operational issues and business initiatives.
• Updates and inputs accurate information into the master data system.
• Implements process improvements, policies, and procedures relative to data governance within all supply process streams.
• Investigate and resolve data accuracy inconsistencies.
• Lead efforts to automate manual reporting systems.
• Manage collection and actions related to all process KPIs

• Compile and analyze inventory data to reduce stocking levels where adjustments can be made to better service diverse customer base.
• Transition components to new suppliers while ensuring customer service levels remain above target 95% OTD
• Collaborate closely with 130 domestic suppliers to improve their quality and performance
• Manage/expedite purchase orders and projects per customer needs
• Tactically reinforce the supply chain to maintain 90% OTD during pandemic closures.

• Analyze inventory usage and assess trends to provide maximum coverage for each time period.
• Maintain key item stock levels and writing or expediting purchase orders.
• Meet with suppliers to assess changes in quality to determine root cause and countermeasures.
• Manage 400 high volume products and components with strategic planning and procurement.
• Communicate and meet with suppliers to fully understand non-conformance issues.
• Develop new ways to schedule production lines for efficiency improvements.
• Own delivery and inventory metrics during MDI (Managing for Daily Improvement) meetings.

• Assisted materials group with various inventory projects providing analysis of inventory data
• Developed stocking strategies to provide better service to customer orders and overall on time delivery improvements.
• Assisted production planning group with daily tasks and vacation coverage across entire manufacturing planning group.

• Produced production schedules for manufacturing lines while maintaining safety stocks and servicing customers on time.
• Prioritized production according to customer demands.
• Communicated with customer service to ensure on-time delivery of promotions and short lead-time orders.
• Analyzed finished good stocking levels to reduce inventory while maintaining 95% on-time service to customers.