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Noel Despain is a seasoned supply chain professional with extensive experience in manufacturing, logistics, and procurement. He has a strong background in lean manufacturing, inventory management, and quality control. With a degree in Business Management and an Associate Degree in Applied Science/Business Management, Noel has honed his skills in cost control, shipping and receiving, and procurement. He has worked in various roles, including Materials Manager/Warehouse Manager, Buyer/Planner, and Production Process Supervisor/Warehouse Manager.

Credentials

  • Logistics Managment
    SNOW COLLEGE

Experience

    • Materials Manager/Warehouse Manager
      • Jan 2013 - Present

      Cost control of all incoming raw materials for the Plant. Shipping and Receiving for the Plant.Writing and applying standard operating procedures for the plant. Scheduled and shipped all customer orders out of the plant as well as tracking their packages.Responsible for the departments annual Physical Budget. Ordered and purchased supplies needed for the Warehouse. Responsible for coaching and track 20 employee’s performance for the department.Made sure that Inventory levels were kept accurate per customer’s forecast.Worked with all Shipping Companies to arrange shipments.Worked to decrease Inventory levels in time for the company’s annual yearly audits.JIT Manufacturing practices.Worked with customer’s that supplied their own parts, to ensure inventory levels are kept correct.ISO Implementation for the plant.Ensured that the kitter employee’s kitted the jobs on time and to the production schedule.Created and implemented a clean working environment for the Plant.

  • Medron Inc.
    • Greater Salt Lake City Area
    • Buyer/Planner
      • Jan 2011 - Present
      • Greater Salt Lake City Area

      Purchasing all raw materials and non-raw materials for the Plant.

    • Buyer/Scheduler/Tool Crib Manager
      • Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

      Purchased and scheduled all non- raw materials for the Plant including all tooling, machined parts and all facility maintenance items needed to run a manufacturing plant.Created delivery schedules for our suppliers and made sure they were kept.Created a Tool Crib for the company from the ground up, consisting of thirteen production lines with six hundred employees.Worked with all suppliers as well as potential suppliers and kept a quality professional relationship with all of them.Received and processed customer’s purchase orders and made sure they were processed in a timely manner.Saved the company money thru negotiations with supplier’s and new suppliers.Writing and applying Standard Operating Procedures. Worked with all freight carriers to insure on time delivery was met.Purchasing supplies needed for the facility and insured that we never ran out.JIT Manufacturing practices.Responsible for coaching and tracking 5 employee’s performance for the Tool Crib and purchasing.Made sure Inventory levels were kept accurate for the entire Maintenance Department.Purchased and set up a new MRP software material tracking software system to track individual machine parts consumption rate’s as well as tooling and facility supplies consumption rates and accountability reasons.Created a Min/Max system for the Plant and implemented throughout the facility.

    • Buyer/Scheduler/Operations Manager
      • Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

      Purchased and scheduled all raw materials for the Plant.Created delivery schedules for our customer’s and made sure they were met.Invoiced customer’s on a weekly basis.Worked with our customer’s and kept a quality professional relationship with them.Received and processed customer’s purchase orders and made sure they were processed in a timely manner.Saved the company money thru negotiations with supplier’s and new suppliers.Writing and applying Standard Operating Procedures. Worked with all freight carriers to insure on time delivery was met.Purchasing supplies needed for the plant. Scheduling all jobs through the plant. JIT Manufacturing practices.Responsible for coaching and track 120 employee’s performance for the Plant.Made sure Inventory levels were kept accurate. Made sure that the Production never ran out of any materials needed to produce our product.Created a Min/Max system for the Plant and implemented it into the Plant.

    • Warehouse Manager/Operations Manager/Facilities Manager
      • Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

      Supervision of five employees.Worked with all freight companies to arrange shipping rates as well as the companies shipping needs.Insure Inventory levels are kept accurate. Insure the Receiving Department receives all products that come in same day. Shipping and Receiving for all four divisions.Inventory records of the Medical Industry are correct.Prepare all Quality Control documentations.Worked with our customer’s on a day to day basis and kept a quality professional relationship with them.Saved the company money thru negotiations with supplier’s.Writing and applying Standard Operating Procedures. Worked with all freight carriers to insure on time delivery was met.Purchasing supplies needed for the plant. Responsible for coaching and track 20 employee’s performance for the Plant.Made sure Inventory levels were kept accurate. Made sure that Inventory levels were kept at adequate levels to ensure the line never shut down.Made sure that Inventory levels were never too much or too little because of the effect it may have on the company’s finances.Worked with the company engineers to get our products qualified in different states.

    • Master Scheduler/Warehouse Manager
      • Jan 2003 - Jan 2009

      Cost control. Shipping and Receiving for the Plant.On-Line bidding for purchasing of all raw materials. Scheduled and shipped all customer orders and tracked the customer’s shipments.Annual Physical Budget. Purchasing supplies needed for the Warehouse. Scheduling all jobs through the plant. Made sure that Inventory levels were kept accurate. Worked with all Shipping Companies to arrange shipments.Scheduled 60 Injection Molding machine for Coca-Cola companies and Pepsi Cola.Directed weekly plant scheduling meeting.Worked with Coca-Cola and Pepsi buyer’s and customer service departments.Purchased all raw materials for the plant.

    • Production Manager/Buyer/Scheduler/Warehouse Manager
      • Jan 1997 - Jan 2003

      Qualified in complete knowledge of Manufacturing Fiberglass Insulation.Scheduling for all customers the plant. Writing and applying Standard Operating Procedures. Writing and applying Weekly Employee Compensation Program. Worked with all freight carriers to insure on time delivery was met.Purchasing supplies needed for the plant. Scheduling all jobs through the plant. Online bidding for the plant. Made sure Inventory levels were kept accurate. Shift Leader for the Plant for 6 years (A) Shift.Maintained at least 100% operation efficacies on most shifts.Purchased and negotiated with all suppliers for better product and cost saving’s.Supervision of 2 shifts consisting of 110 employees and 6 Lead men.

    • Production Process Supervisor/Warehouse Manager
      • Jan 1992 - Jan 1997

      Supervision of 2 shifts consisting of 150 employees and 6 Lead men. Quality Control. On time delivery. Monthly shipping quotas (World wide). Production of all CNC Machines. Scheduling for the Flooring department. Reduced machine down time. Experience in all Clean Room Manufacturing best practices.Coordinated Logistics of vendors and sub-contractors. Managed department budget of over 300K per year. SkillsOracle ERP Software, QUBE Software, APICS Member, Microsoft software, Oracle, Novell GroupWise, Production Manager of all Employees.

Education

  • 2000 - 2008
    Snow College
    Bachelors Degree, Business Management
  • 1995 - 1998
    Salt Lake Community College
    Associate Degree, Applied Science/Business Management

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