Joseph Chavez: Sr. Buyer/ Planning in Santa Ana

* Improved material flow by redesigning box to support pull system (Yearly Savings of $80K) * Reduced Inventory by $700K using 2 Bin Kanban system within 7 months (Greenbelt Project) * Eliminating Return to Stock process by balancing issue vs required kit Qty (Yearly Savings of 230K) * Lead Kaizen event & established process improvement scheduling fixture capacity, with on hand inventory fixture repair& PM schedule resulted in OT savings of $400K (year 2015) * Successfully improved Inventory Accuracy in short period of time (from 78% to 88%). * Established weekly Schedule of 13 vendors in SAP, to align with vendor & manufacturing capacity * On Time Delivers, Monthly Goals * Responsible for accounts payable making sure that pricing and SAP are aligned to ensure that vendors are paid on time. * Working with quality engineers to schedule new product introductions. analyzing & updating engineering change request (ECR) * Work with the tool team with transfers for tool back and forth from vendors. Monthly visits to vendor maintain vendor's inventory's * Collaborated in daily team meetings with all departments. Paint, Graphics group, production, process Engineering, Quality * Provide guidance and establish methods that will promote good communications, objective thinking and teamwork within department. * Actively participated in global team efforts to facilitate successful launch of $52 million worth of new products. * Track daily/weekly/monthly KPI: Quality/Scrap, Efficiency, Volume/Productivity, Lead-Time Track equipment availability, and work with support groups to achieving uptime goals

In charge of scheduling in SAP & making sure that the team hit daily goals up to 40K depending on season, pulling forecast from SAP, sending stock transfers orders to warehouse, for daily production. Daily meeting with Finally

Review daily production, pull and review monthly forecast plan from SAP and released dally & monthly forecast for Oakley Custom Product from Oakley's web orders. Send daily communications to warehouse teams to schedule delivers to customers

Set schedule for up daily production for other operator's, trouble shoot, adjust CNC machines maintain inventory. Train new operators, weekly reviews of performance of CMA operators, Report daily to department manager

Set schedule for up daily production for other operator's, trouble shoot, adjust CNC machines maintain inventory

Ralph's Grocery Co. all of So. Cal • Responsible for buying weekly promotions, for weekly adds • Inventory control for all department • Set up displays for weekly special • Cashier