Travis Hintz

Responsible for developing and leading process alignment efforts across Manufacturing, Logistics, Planning and Quality. Created the North America Master Data organization for the future state operations.  Collated over 450 process alignment tasks to align the current state with the future state processes.  Responsible for new technology implementation of a full Microsoft Power BI tracking tool to monitor metrics across all functions for process alignment activities.  Partnered with Catalyst Business Adoption team to prioritize activities in three main stages to ensure readiness before testing, before go live and shortly after go live phases.  Managed a team of over 75 employees engaged at all locations to enable the plants to implement the process changes prior to the new system implementation.  Identified, Staffed and developed Master Data organization for North America with current state and future state needs fully identified.  Partnered with the specific Plant Leadership teams to develop their current capabilities and ensure simplification and adherence to the aligned future state.  Fully staffed each plant location and corporate functions to execute project autonomously to support parallel execution of all aspects of SAP implementation including ITC, UAT and pre and post Go-live execution  Continued to coach, mentor and train associates within the Supply Chain organization

Responsible for Manufacturing Planning both Demand and Supply for nine direct manufacturing locations with an annual production volume of over two billion pounds of finished product. This also includes the equipment production of over 16K active SKUs.  Responsible for ensuring adequate supply to fulfill over 45% of the total company orders.  Accountable for production planning of products to service our customers that drive over $5B in sales and support for 12 sales divisions globally this equates to 40% of the companies OI.  Successfully integrated/decoupled multiple acquisitions/divestitures into the Planning organization.  Responsible for new technology implementation of Demand Driven Supply Chain tool as well as Supply Chain Network Optimization.  Accountable for key performance metrics: Service (DIFOT), Cost-Total Delivered Cost (TDC), and Inventory (DOH).  Responsible for the implementation of Supply Chain Network Design tool to determine production across North America given supply chain capabilities and customer proximity.  Partner cross-functionally with Research, Development and Engineering (RD&E) and Manufacturing teams to optimize Total Delivered Cost (TDC) to the customer by leveraging the competencies of our manufacturing locations around the globe.  Align with executive management peers in supply chain to ensure the overall strategic direction and objectives are carried through the planning function.  Coach and develop associates and provide critical input on the talent plan for the entire NA Supply Chain talent pool.

Directed and responsible for all equipment procurement functions within NA Supply Chain, with over $500MM in spend responsibility. Developed solid relationships with vendor base to ensure continued year over year savings, strategic partnership development, and benchmarking utilizing a total delivered cost methodology.  Delivered $4.0M+ in savings for NA o Managed projects including:  Vendor Pricing Letters-savings $1M+  Insourcing- savings $600K+  Vendor Kaizen events-savings $75K  Major acquisition integration team for Procurement regarding Equipment integration and achieved over $1.2M in synergy savings.  Managed all buying activity both for local sourcing and global sourcing for four direct equipment facilities and 12 sales divisions totaling $500MM+ in annual spend with six direct reports.  Worked closely on all new product introductions & acquisitions to understand present & pending purchasing and supply chain needs.

Recruited from Delphi Automotive to implement Lean Manufacturing techniques within Supply Chain. Responsible for all aspects of Production, including first-time quality, productivity, throughput and budget compliance for $13MM+ budget.  Role also included acting as area Purchasing Manager from August 2008 to July 2009.  Developed and directed planning processes to ensure small lot production, enabling flow and reducing assembly overproduction.  Improved service levels, achieving 96.2% perfect order service and reducing backorders from 4,000 lines to less than 100 lines over 16,000 active SKU inventory numbers.  Drove a 3% manufacturing efficiency improvement in 2007 and 7% in 2008 through lean implementation.

Managed all aspects of the Supplemental Inflatable Restraints (SIR) manufacturing which supported all of General Motors automotive production in North America including Canada and Mexico as well as Isuzu production. Also accountable for new product introduction and working directly with design engineering on product specifications and design for manufacturability.  Accountable for first time quality, productivity, throughput, and budget compliance for a budget of $14 million and production of twelve million units annually.  Directed launch of multiple sensing diagnostic modules, canvassing eight families and 94 different part combinations.  Coordinated efforts of the lean manufacturing team comprised of engineering, maintenance, quality and Production Control & Logistics personnel.  Implemented Lean/5S visual management tools for overall workplace organization.  Performed quarterly value stream mapping updates utilizing Kaizan workshops for development of improvement strategies.