Nims Frank

Experience

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  Hadco Corporation

  Jun 1986 - Mar 1999

  Production And Inventory Control Manager

  • Control the scheduling of engineering and production to meet revenue and delivery goals. • For a make-to order, release for yield product, reduced net excess builds to less than 3/8 of one percent using process step routing/technology based yields. • Responsible for creative design of new equipment in robotic packaging and rapid ergonomic material handling, vastly improving performance. • Initiated key VMI partnerships with customers securing revenue growth. • Key participant in "best practice" teams for new acquisitions. Show less

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  Polyclad Laminates

  Mar 1999 - May 2001

  Materials Manager

  • Developed lean procedures and tools to manage backlog, control WIP and Inventory levels • Improved on time delivery • Implemented a 24-hour turn program, order receipt through shipment, for both laminate and pre-preg accepting orders seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day • Initiated two key partnerships with customers integrating ERP systems allowing direct sequenced delivery to their process start using camera based visual pull • Implemented a 24-hour turn program, order receipt through shipment, for both laminate and pre-preg accepting orders seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day• Developed procedures and tools to manage, forecast, and control WIP and inventory levels. Show less

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  Watts Water Technologies

  Jun 2002 - Sept 2018

  Senior Materials Manager

  Responsible of all aspects of materials from forecasting to shipment for a $1.3 million per day in shipments facility. Accomplishments to date include:• Cellular single piece fixed flow path manufacturing• Visual internal component Kan-Ban Systems• Tugger supplied components to assembly• Pull PFEP replenishment network finished goods• SIOP with consolidated forecasting for CRP and suppliers• Transitioned assembly cells to pull with seasonal smoothing staying within capacity restraints• Managed materials from a leaded to no-lead product lines transition in concert with a new foundry construction with volume production delays of 8+ months with less than a 2% reduction in customer fill rates.• Assisted other domestic and international WATTS sites with materials management and lean implementation training Show less

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  SIG SAUER, Inc.

  Oct 2018 - now

  Senior Materials Manager