Notable Accomplishments:
- Implemented quality practices and streamlined assembly procedures to maintain production rates and quality whilst reducing assembly time by 25%.
- Implemented data-driven, just-in-time purchasing enabling inventory value reductions.
- Setup weekly reporting on stock position for sales and executives to provide insight into production status.
- Implemented improved batch processing for subcomponents, further increasing production line throughput by 30%.
- Performed product line rationalisation in consultation with sales and marketing, streamlining product offerings by 56%.
Key Responsibilities:
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Optimise stock-on-hand quantities ensuring minimum levels of saleable stock with minimal inventory capital investment and enforce stock management principles in other warehouse locations. - Established forecasting for stock based on historic sales and spearheaded reduction of low-value end-product SKUs by 56% to improve stock on hand quantities with a reduction in sub-component stock held. Implemented reporting for stock control for other warehouses to ensure timely resupply of saleable products and to provide overview reporting to management and sales to allow for negotiations of dispatch timelines with customers.
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Troubleshoot & take lead in resolving supply chain issues (e.g. stock availability). - Investigated supply chain issues and worked with suppliers to ensure appropriate quality checks were in place to minimise faults. Implemented incoming goods inspections to ensure faulty stock was returned to vendors quickly to reduce stock and management overheads.
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Assist the Purchasing Manager to ensure a high level of supplier communication is maintained and act as the first escalation point when supplier issues arise, ensuring suppliers are held to account whilst maintaining professional and polite supplier relations. - As part of staff reduction in the department, modified procedures to streamline product assembly and component ordering to accomodate a >25% reduction in staff whilst ensuring implemented quality assurance practices were followed on incoming goods.
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Ensure processes are well-documented, create new process documents and ensure documentation is published, updated and distributed as needed. - Developed processes and documented processes to assist with onboarding of new staff, maintained documentation and encouraged team to provide updates to documentation as processes changed based on external factors such as vendors and shipping.
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Investigate opportunities to reduce production costs while maintaining quality (e.g. alternative suppliers, improved tools, utilising different office locations, changing build processes). - Spearheaded time-saving measures in production to improve build efficiency through changes in tools used for processes, expanded testing of finished product (reducing rework time). Performed negotiations with alternative suppliers to improve held stock quantities and reduce part lead time.
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Ensure quality control standards are maintained and seek opportunities for further improvement using internal metrics, reports from the support department and other data. - Working with the production staff and development team, implemented testing requirements and standard testing for all products to ensure prior to dispatch that all products function as expected.
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Ensure production space is kept tidy and that space and staff adhere to OH&S standards. - Implemented procedures for stock storage, management, and for build area post-work clean-up and usage to improve overall tidiness and visibility of stock within the production space.
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Prepare stakeholder reporting to demonstrate with appropriate data that production goals are being achieved & organise regular internal stakeholder meetings. - Developed stakeholder reporting covering all sections of the department from incoming goods through to dispatch, including providing monthly and historic build-times for assembled products to help identify issues as they arise and provide indications as to when additional resources required based on expected sales for future months.