James Kimble

• Review sales orders for shipping prepared parts and identified shortages
• Met daily with purchasing, production, and sales to determine priorities
• Analyze statistical data and reports to ascertain trends in performance, resulting in maximum effective and efficient use of all supply chain aspects
• Determined planning parameters like safety stock, lot sizes and maintained optimum inventory levels
• Established a weekly critical stock out report to communicate issues to Purchasing, Operations, and Sales
• Worked with IT department to identify business needs and NetSuite shortcomings and select an MRP suitelet that will improve material planning and procurement
• Designed various inventory, transaction, and fulfillment reports to track, record, analyze and monitor inventory movement
• Executed daily inventory transactions, issued and closed work orders, issued inventory against sales orders, allocated inventory, conducted backorder inventory replenishments to meet demands of eCommerce orders
• Conducted investigations into inventory discrepancies by researching variances and identifying root causes
• Provided oversight to the day-to-day activities of all inventory employees, emphasizing quality, teamwork, and inventory accuracy

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Improved first-count accuracy and reduced re-counts 30% by instructing cross-functional personnel in approved procedures and constantly reinforcing their importance
• Evaluated cycle count program that was in place and revamped the program to better align with the fast-moving inventory and increase inventory accuracy at a rate of 97.4% from 92%
• Increased inventory accuracy from 61% to 92% in a 3-month span
• Improved inventory turnover by 13%, by determining slow-moving, obsolete, and overstocked products