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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Business Management & Administration
occupation category
Industrial Production Managers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Demonstrates close understanding and practical knowledge of a company’s manufacturing processes and equipment capabilities
- Generate reporting detailing inventory financial statements, turnover ratios, activity-based cost (ABC) analysis and inventory performance
- Develops inventory and plant asset management strategy supportive of company investment and capital management plans
- Motivates, supports and provides guidance to production staff
- Constructs a product tree bill of material when given parents and components
- Develops kaizen event teams to remove inventory, process waste and speed inventory throughput
- Keeps inventory investment to a minimum
- Calculates safety stock for independent demand items
- Calculates the inventory required to restock products or parts with inventory models including: Visual review, Two-bin inventory system, Periodic review, Order point, Time-phased order point (TPOP), Just-in-Time (JIT)
- Calculates nominal and demonstrated productive capacities
- Delineates complex processes into more simple tasks and functions
- Initiates tangible actions to reinforce or support new visions (e.g., organizational restructuring, budgeting changes, new performance metrics, etc.)
- Collaborates with functional departments to discuss and react to changes in demand
- Develops a supplier rating program that monitors and measures performance while providing timely feedback to the supply partners
- Collaborates with supplier on a continuum (from simple transactional to strategic alliance) based on how much value-add the supplier creates
- Manages purchasing cycle, including generating requisitions, PO creation, PO follow up, goods reception, and final payment
- Sets up and runs a pull system of inventory control
- Ensures materials management strategy aligns with the business strategies driving sales, marketing, finance, and manufacturing
- Develops strategic objectives that focus on areas of quality, cost, flexibility, productivity, and speed
- Uses methods of valuing inventory: standard; first in, first out (FIFO); last in, first out (LIFO); average; and actual cost
- Applies safety and health standards (including OSHA regulations) in order to prevent health hazards and accidents
- Demonstrate the ability to visualize the total process and aids in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems
- Calculates inventory carrying costs
- Monitors supplier performance with a system that monitors, measures, and provides feedback on supplier performance
- Provides input for concurrent product design and engineering processes
- Takes into consideration employee skill mix, shift assignments and employee preferences
- Encourages a close working relationship between manufacturing and materials management personnel
- Uses cost accounting systems to keep track of all costs of building products, labor, material, overhead, and variances. These systems include activity- based costing (ABC) and cost analysis and control
- Applies trade-off analysis to balance requirements of demand and supply
- Employs the technique of break-even analysis, which finds the break-even point, the volume at which revenues exceed total costs
- Calculates the order quantity through the economic order quantity (EOQ)
- Assist manufacturing management in the development of meaningful productivity and performance measurements
- Identifies and addresses process problems promptly
- Applies applicable quality standards such as ISO 9001
- Creates a workflow that effectively coordinates and integrates tasks and functions
- Develops systems that allow employees to produce results by: Educating suppliers to create value for customers by streamlining processes in the value chain, using suppliers whose methods and core competencies will align with lean requirements and developing long-term relationships with them, reducing or entirely eliminating the cost of changing from one product or service to another
- Applies the application of independent and dependent demand to ERP
- Knows the life cycle of the organization’s product or service and how the cycle stages relate to functions
- Selects suppliers according to the type of product, quality provided by the supplier, and the possibility of partnership
- Initiates process improvements that are enabled and supported by technology
- Understands the different classes of inventory (raw materials, WIP, finished goods, MRO, service parts, damaged, and obsolete)
- Performs periodic evaluations to maintain processes by gathering pertinent information such as problem symptoms from knowledgeable sources and carrying these through to the problems, potential causes and root causes of the problem
- Applies policies, procedures and regulations related to procurement of equipment, material
- Uses CRP to reschedule open and MRP-generated orders
- Forms partnerships with suppliers based on mutual business value principles: compatibility of interests, mutual need, openness, and trust
- Develop materials storage and delivery processes supportive of manufacturing operations
- Identifies risks that affect supply, transformation, delivery, and customer demand
- Implements improvement methods, such as business process re-engineering, Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and Theory of Constraints
- Determines the success or failure rate of a business using financial accounting, incorporating terms and techniques including income, expense, cost of goods sold, gross margin, balance sheet, return on assets, inventory turns, capital asset management, and cash management
- Establishes specifications in terms of optimal quantity to purchase, quality required, and the cost impact on budget
- Defines the five functions of inventory: cycle inventory, safety inventory, anticipation inventory, transportation inventory, and hedge inventory
- Ensures the continuous availability of quality materials and finished components
- Understands the influence of demand on manufacturing process design
- Applies knowledge of finite scheduling, infinite scheduling, forward scheduling, and backward scheduling
- Defines and communicates a compelling vision of the future that makes adaptive responses to the present appear both feasible and desirable to stakeholders
- Challenges the status quo with facts, figures and logical reasoning about its advantages and drawbacks
- Applies applicable EPA, state and local environmental regulations and procedures
- Ensures processes conform to both the needs of the customer base and the characteristic of the product
- Plans orders for production activity control and purchasing to implement MRP by using capacity requirements planning
- Analyzes the probability, control and impact of identified risks
- Understands product maturity and the financial ramifications (e.g. lower costs and price)
- Applies knowledge of the importance of and demonstrates the ability to take raw materials or knowledge and converts it into a product or service that has more value to the customer than the original material or data
- Utilizes CRP components (work centers, labor and machines, routings, setup times, run, standards and move times) necessary to run CRP
- Searches out opportunities to talk about the new vision in both formal and informal settings at all levels of the organization
- Schedules workflow, materials, and staffing in order to meet objectives
- Calculates for efficiency, utilization, and productivity
- Closes process or system performance gaps through streamlining and cycle time reduction; identifies and eliminates causes of quality below specifications, process variation and non-value-adding activities
- Uses the master production schedule, product structure file, inventory record file and item master file for the MRP process
- Searches for methods to develop an agile and committed departmental workforce
- Sets up an effective inventory control department
- Determines departmental inventory management strategies and objectives
- Purchases products competitively
- Organizes people and activities to accomplish results
- Uses ERP to support advanced planning systems (APS)
- Identifies and takes advantage of opportunities to accomplish multiple objectives and obtain synergies through process development and management
- Manages the network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers
- Develops strategies for dual sourcing, buffering, forward buying and others that minimize financial impact uncertainties such as yields, timing, pricing and catastrophic events
- Creates service schedules that maintain capacity levels to meet anticipated demand
- Determines the elements of inventory decision costs such as fixed, variable, direct, overhead, and costs
- Assists manufacturing engineering in the development of process productivity standards
- Negotiates contracts that include costs, warranties, delivery, handling, and penalties for late delivering or cost overruns
- Manages surplus and obsolete inventories
- Maintains high inventory accuracy through various techniques including inventory audits, annual physical inventory and cycle counting
- Calculates kanban card requirements
- Develops partnerships with suppliers who provide a value proposition in areas including product development, operations integration and efficiencies, flexibility, and others
- Calculates manufacturing and purchasing costs
- Determines the best operating level (BOL), the level of capacity a process was designed for and volume of output at which average unit cost is minimized
- Identifies and reduces or eliminates waste in all areas of a supply chain
- Calculates the total system cost of delivering a product or service to the customer
- Recognizes “where” change needs to happen and communicates it to others
