Neil Dutton MCIPS

Experience

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  GE Power Conversion

  Mar 1986 - Mar 2008

  Control of site key components.Establishing strategy and rationalisation programmes.Selection/maintenance of specialist production type suppliers. Negotiation/maintenance of supply/price agreements including international (Leading Competitive Countries) & corporate activity.Creation of and implementation of vendor rating system, (Quality/Delivery/Service performance) of Key Suppliers.Supplier development programmes including, cost, lead time and inventory reduction.Establishing kanban, VMI and call off systems.Periodic Supplier business reviews, audits and visits.Expenditure responsibility of £8 MillionProduction material responsibility of 9,000+ itemsTeam of 1 Buyer and 1 Expediter Show less Responsibility for controlling 2,500+ items.Purchasing role included issues such as production material procurement in line with negotiated price/supply agreements to tight production schedules.Material control duties were to ensure continuous production by proactively monitoring changing MRP11 schedules, but also minimising inventory levels, by using modern computerised techniques.Balancing objectives of on-time delivery and inventory reduction achieved by introducing forward progress (which also reduces expediting necessity) as well as electronic data transfer of MRP schedules by EDI and e-mail to suppliers. Show less Started in stores and moved to Production Control after 18 months. Role was to co-ordinate with engineers, manufacturing and purchasing to ensureThe production plan was completed on time and with correct / sufficient material. All projects were bespoke to customer specification and to tight deadlines; therefore the Production Control role was critical in absence of modern MRP bill of materials flexibility.Responsible for collating engineering assemblies and change notes and then issuing Production schedules, pick lists and purchase requisitions, as well as co-ordinating completion with manufacturing.Reliability and effectiveness resulted in surviving a number of company-wide redundancy cutbacks and eventually moving into Purchasing Show less

  • Senior Strategic Buyer

    Mar 2005 - Mar 2008

  • Buyer/Epediter

    Mar 1992 - Mar 2005

  • Production Controller

    Mar 1986 - Mar 1992
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  GE Power Conversion

  Mar 2010 - Aug 2018

  Commodity Manager

  Control of site mechanical commodities with annual spend of £12M+Establishing Supplier strategy and rationalisation programmes.Selection/maintenance of mechanical production suppliers.Negotiation/maintenance of supply/price agreements including international (LCC) & corporate activity.Supplier development programmes including, cost, lead time and inventory reductionPeriodic Supplier business reviews, audits and international visits

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  Rapiscan Systems

  Aug 2018 - now

  • Senior Buyer

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Commodity Manager

    Aug 2018 - now