1. Keith Reed___________________________________
8 Belmont Drive Conway, AR 72032 501.428.6720 kr161205@yahoo.com
Strategic Planner --- MasterScheduler --- Production Planner
Buyer --- Customer Service Liaison
Dedicated professional with long term manufacturing experience. Experience in SAP, master
scheduling, IFAPPs and purchasing. 21 years of experience in various stages of production,
ranging from supervision to planning.
Professional Experience
Aerojet 2012-Present
Senior Program Planner
Develop, coordinate, distribute and monitor specific production schedules for the plant
operation.
Maintain contact with the departments and individuals involved in the production effort or
its support to determine conformity to approved schedules.
Maintain familiarity with Production Process Flows, Resource/Process Limitations and
Capacities.
Maintain and distribute the Operations Status Report and other key reports/documents as
directed.
Monitor and status Production Requisitions, Production Plans, and Work Schedules to
ensure seamless work integration and timely task completion.
Recommend corrective actions for Schedule conflicts. Develop and implement Production
Recovery Plans when required.
Saint Jean Industries 2012
Purchasing Manager
Ensure purchases by the support team are justified and per company policy.
Participate or head cost savings and supplier on time delivery plans and initiatives.
Direct and manage sourcing strategies and support the various production departments to
insure they are serviced.
Lead a team of three support members and advise as needed.
Relay departmental strategy and input to upper management and advise team members
about company goals and plans.
Monitor and rank suppliers and advise on quality, delivery and other performance criteria.
Advanced Armament Corp 2012
Buyer Planner
Responsible for creating master production schedule to utilize the efficient and timely
2. delivery of product to customers.
Maintained master data, made recommendations and update the planning tables.
Purchase raw materials and components on a timely basis.
Negotiates cost and delivery; analyzes and select vendors based on determined corporate
criteria.
Utilized DBA software to accomplish my daily task. Worked daily with management to
develop processes to determine stocking levels, suppliers and in-house and outside
production processes.
Hawker Beechcraft 2009
MRO Buyer
Responsible for negotiating and buying supply/repair items to support the various
manufacturing departments.
Molex, Inc 1998-2009
Master Scheduler and Production Planner
Responsible for procurement of raw materials.
Provide production scheduling and interfacing with customer service to meet daily, weekly
and monthly shipping goals.
Strategic planning to ensure availability of materials at all times.
Master scheduling based on forecast.
Expediting of orders to our plants located around the world.
Molex SAP / BW Experience
Material master and production planning (MM, PP) – used these modules to interface with
demand from customers to satisfy their request.
MRP was approximately 75 percent of function.
Purchasing. Used customer demand and translated into requirements to focus on
purchasing raw materials. On-line purchase orders transmitted through EDI.
BW. Business warehouse data extracted as needed, depending on request throughout the
plant.
IFAPPS- (Integrated forecasting and production planning system) to identify what products
to focus on from a “make to stock” program.
Molex Demand Planning
Used MRP to determine exact product, quantities and dates to satisfy customer demand.
Consulted engineering or management if there were inconsistencies in BOMS, units of
measure or time fences.
Molex Supply Network Planning
Used schedule agreements and VMI to manage inventory as directed to satisfy core
customers.
Molex Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
MRP, BW and IFAPPS were used to determine customer demand.
Initiated reorders points and safety stock.
Used sap in the demand field to determine demand from our overseas entity.
Access to various plants to determine actual demand and stock.
3. Molex Core Interface Framework
On line interlink with key customers and suppliers to speed up the processing phase.
Purchased weekly over $100,000 worth of resin and metal to run our molding and stamping
departments.
Provided a daily production illustration to our production staff, enabling them to service
our assembly departments and overseas production.
Worked directly with our Chicago office to make sure product was delivered as needed to
various customers (Cisco, IBM, Molex Singapore)
Developed a packaging stocking system with both local and overseas customers.
Analyzed monthly inventory reports to determine what was slow, if there was excess, and
why.
Held monthly meetings to determine how to dispose and keep product from reappearing.
Worked with product engineering to push new product to market.
10+ years of experience working in SAP R/3 in the MM and PP modules to satisfy
customer demand
Prescolite/ USI Lighting 1987-1998
Buyer/Planner for USI lighting.
Responsible for negotiating, stocking, and expediting raw materials from suppliers, making
sure product was to spec and delivered on a timely basis.
Planned production floor products ranging from CR steel, formed metal parts to aluminum
die castings and electrical components.
Reduced on hand inventory over 33% in raw materials by initiating a vendor stocking
program.
Interfaced with production for a steady flow of materials to supply our customers in El
Dorado, AR. and San Leandro, CA.
Maintain MRP maintenance and reported monthly cost savings to upper management.
Previous to buying and planning, I was a first line supervisor responsible for over 30
employees daily.
Education
Southern Arkansas University - Magnolia, Arkansas
BBA Accounting