James Mitchell Cook

James Mitchell Cook

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Furniture Manufacturing

  • Education

    • Catawba Valley Community College

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      Associate of Applied Science Furniture Production Management
    • Catawba Valley Community College

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      Associate of Applied Science Business Administration
  • Experience

    • HICKORY CHAIR CO

      Jan 1993 - Jan 1996
      • Management Trainee

        Jan 1995 - Jan 1996
      • Cost Accounting Clerk

        Jan 1993 - Jan 1995
    • Thomasville Furniture

      Jan 1997 - Jan 1998
      Industrial Engineering Technician
    • Hickory Business Furniture

      Jan 1997 - Jan 1997
      Product Engineering Technician
    • Lee Industries Inc

      Jan 1998 - Jan 2025

      Lee Industries, Conover NC July 2024 – January 2025Supervised staff of three stock room clerksCoordinated quarterly physical inventories to insure Standard Operating Procedures were followed.Maintained physical inventories of off -site slow moving product and showroom items.Identified obsolescence of products for potential write offs.Partnered with Accounting for continuity and clarity of inventories. Close relations with Manufacturing management for better point of use inventoryDeveloped relationships with vendors for onsite VMI Show less Oversee production scheduling, pricing analysis, and antique showroom inventory. Analyze daily backlog data and complete overall operations summary reporting. Participates in multiple daily accountability meetings to ensure alignment on scheduling needs. Obtain approval on proposed daily schedule. Create market tags, pricing, and application for biannual furniture market. Develop reporting for furniture market order tracking.Supervise, train, and mentor team of two. Act as back-up scheduler when required. Review current day-to-day processes and recommend optimizations. Build and maintain cross-functional relationships across customer service, manufacturing, product development, and information technology (IT) departments. Show less

      • Inventory and Planning Manager

        Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
      • Production Planning Manager

        Jan 2001 - Jan 2025
      • Production Planning Assistant

        Jan 1998 - Jan 2001
    • Brookline Furniture Company

      Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
      Production Planning Manager

      Production Planning and scheduling for Residential and hospitality lines. Currently, monitoring vendor capacities by component catergory to insure manufacturing and vendor on-time successful performance.Navigating manual processes toward automation through the use of Microsoft Power BI.

    • Vanguard Furniture

      Mar 2025 - now
      Custom Order Specialist
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

      Lean Six Sigma Institute LLC
      Jan 2021