Greg Forbes

Experience

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  White River Broadcasting

  Jun 1995 - May 2001

  WCSI/WNVI On Air Broadcasting; Live Radio Board Operations

  Part-time/weekend hours; On Air news reports, board operations during live sports events, various radio spot recording, satellite patching through varios networks, copy editing and audio programming for automated radio play.

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  March of Dimes

  May 1997 - May 1999

  Division Director

  * Division Director (11 Indiana counties), responsible for meeting the goals and budgets established by the Indiana Chapter of the March of Dimes. This included the “WalkAmerica” National fundraising event. * Primary duties include fundraising, volunteer recruitment, marketing, and merchandising.* Responsible for purchasing or approving all Division-wide purchases/expenses which included event fundraising for major events in five cities and other events and grants across eleven counties.* Maintain constant community involvement via frequent media promotions, public speaking engagements, and a transparent operation for public review Show less

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  American Red Cross

  May 1999 - May 2001

  Executive Director

  * Executive Director responsible for Chapter-wide non-profit operations under the direction of a volunteer Board of Directors, operating under established guidelines and principles of The American Red Cross and 501(c)(3) non-profit business.* Develop annual budget planning, strategic planning, business development, fundraising, marketing, training and hiring of personnel for the Chapter’s paid-staff.* Assure continuous delivery of Red Cross’ primary services: Health and Safety Training, Disaster Services, Armed Forces Emergency Services, and Blood Services. Help coordinate these services with the assistance of over ninety-percent volunteer-driven manpower. * Coordinate an annual budget with the local United Way Chapter.* Responsible for purchasing or approving all Chapter purchases including certified health and training devices (first aid, CPR, etc.), office systems, negotiated contracts, and Chapter-to-Chapter agreements.* Maintain constant community involvement via frequent media promotions, public speaking engagements, and a transparent operation for public review. Show less

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  The Republic Newspaper

  May 2001 - Dec 2007

  Circulation Sales Manager, Advertising Account Rep.

  * Circulation Sales Manager, 2003 to 2007. * Maintain existing sales relationships with in-store dealers; identify new sales locations; maintain newspaper draws and perform weekly sales draw analyses.* Fill numerous contractor routes for newspaper delivery; negotiated contracts, contract rates, mediate contractor disputes and handle calls during a 24-hour service period. * Responsible for purchasing newspaper sales equipment including sales machines, coin mechanisms, in-store displays, point-of-purchase merchandise, and repair and maintenance services. * Purchasing activities include acquiring monthly quotes from several national vendors, developing cost comparisons, meeting with various vendor representatives and attending annual vendor conferences.* *** Worked as an Advertising Account Executive, 1995 to 1997; 2001 to 2003 (Advertising Department). Designed, developed, planned, and sold newspaper print advertising to new and existing businesses. * Called on new and existing customers to maintain and develop advertising campaigns, propose advertising budgets, and propose and secure annual spending contracts. Show less

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  Cummins Inc.

  Apr 2008 - now

  EDI Product Support; EDI Supplier Onboarding, RPA process support.Process lead for Robotic Process Automation (RPA).Provide on-boarding process support for direct material suppliers across all Cummins business units in order to provide an electronic (EDI) business link between the supplier and our Cummins internal business processes and/or our Cummins manufacturing and warehouse plant locations. This support also includes various Cummins to Cummins (inter-company) business interfaces. Follow existing implementation procedures and established troubleshooting procedures, maintaining documentation of all supplier onboarding requests. Show less Provide on-boarding process support for direct material suppliers across all Cummins business units in order to provide an electronic (EDI) business link between the supplier and our Cummins internal business processes and/or our Cummins manufacturing and warehouse plant locations. This support also includes various Cummins to Cummins (inter-company) business interfaces. Follow existing implementation procedures and established troubleshooting procedures, maintaining documentation of all supplier onboarding requests. • Conduct on-boarding steps with new suppliers, and existing suppliers for Cummins globally.• Work with Cummins plants and suppliers to identify process failures, determine root cause, and implement corrective action.• Maintain supplier data integrity within the Ecommerce trading partner database.• Support analysis, problem solving, and process improvement efforts related to ECommerce processes.• Support design, development and implementation of common ECommerce business processes and applications.• Work with Cummins internal and external business partners to establish and maintain EDI processes.• Perform day-to-day EDI support and issue resolution.• Follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to execute work tasks.• Meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for defined area of responsibility.• Responsible for documenting processes and procedures for defined area of responsibility. Show less My responsibilities include direct materials support, international invoicing, warehousing, Ocean and Air Freight shipments, hazardous materials certification, EPA documentation of diesel engine certification, and use of 6-Sigma processes for business improvement.* Work as account representative for Bought-Out-Finished diesel engines.* Provide customer supply chain support to a global account list; act as liaison between customers/distributors and diesel engine supplier/plants in Komatsu/KCEC (Japan) and BFCEC (China).* Continuous process improvement for International logistics flow.* Provide analytic support, research assistance and archival history for JVO engine business.* Accept, compile, and maintain engine orders utilizing web, mainframe, and other internet tools.* Manage daily work and maintain a flexible schedule in order to meet various international shipping, receiving, warehousing, and documentation processes. Current project lead for JVO/SILC (warehouse logistics) process. * Provide inventory support to domestic and international contracted and bonded warehouses, maintaining inventory goals and costs. .* Process domestic and international invoices, bills of lading, EPA and trade documents.* Analyze and process freight pay data; maintain premium freight recovery at >90%.* Maintain an understanding of Cummins B3.3, 4B, 6B, ISF, QSF, QSG diesel engines. Show less

  • EDI Product Support - Senior;

    Mar 2022 - now

  • E-Commerce Specialist

    Jun 2018 - now

  • Supply Chain/Logistics

    Apr 2008 - Jun 2018