Glenn Lawton

Company profile: design and manufacture desalination plants for use on submarines, cruise ships and other marine vessels.

Role overview: newly created role, responsible for the end to end planning function within the business.

Main duties:

• Develop Epicor ERP system to maximise MRP functionality.
• Manage Master Production schedule & planning of all production areas.
• Advise and implement best practice in the planning processes.

Company overview: leading manufacturer and supplier of domestic cleaning products.

Role overview: production planning of blow mould, liquid blending and bottle filling machines and assembly lines.

Key responsibilities:

• Produce and manage production plans for high volume mass production lines (circa 4.5 million units weekly).
• Monitor demand and adjust production plans accordingly to react to the volatile demand profiles.
• Manage capacity planning on SAP.

Company Overview : DCL designs and manufacturers high and low-pressure cartridge valves, manifolds, reducing stations and fluid/gas systems for nuclear, defence, marine and commercial applications.

Role overview: Planning of the machine shop and sawing resources.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate weekly plans for each machine shop resource.
• Monitoring MRP output & managing exceptions;
• Release of jobs into production
• Monitor load vs capacity to identify shortfalls in capacity.
• Co-ordinate machine shop overload for tender to sub-contract.

Company overview: Telent designs, builds, supports and manages the traffic management infrastructure projects (ULEZ camera, Zebra crossings, speed cameras, bus lanes etc).

Role overview: Manage inventory across five Southern England traffic depots to ensure timely delivery of planned traffic management projects.

Company overview: design and manufacturer funeral hearses and limousines.

Role overview: i.) Help the business to transition to the newly implemented ERP system. ii.) Generate & manage Master Production Schedule; iii.) Create and manage week to week schedules for all manufacturing areas.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead weekly S&OP meetings with CEO, sales, and other related departments; lead daily production meetings to monitor planned vs actual in real-time; liaise with sales to co-ordinate finance and delivery related processes.
• Led daily stand up shop floor production meetings.
• Monitor material availability to support schedules, liaise with the vehicle manufacturers to call off cars for production (Mercedes/Ford chassis), deal with account related issues & communicate component shortfalls to purchasing for expediting,
• Develop the planning functionality within Microsoft Business Central ,perform housekeeping regimen & cleanse system of unclean data.

Company overview: Yourgene Health PLC is a molecular diagnostics company that develops tests for screening for a range of genetic disorders; supplied COVID testing facilities.

Role overview: Analyse global sales forecast data and use existing orders to create, maintain and manage a rolling 18 month rolling MPS for each product.

Key responsibilities:

• Chair weekly SOP meeting with global sales pillars, customer services, technical, manufacturing and procurement to review supply vs demand.
• Supply planning: review inventory vs plan and communicate shortfalls to Purchasing team.
• Operational representative for all manufacturing/stock/planning related enquiries from global sales pillars.
• Analyse sales data, forecasts, safety stock requirements & product expiration implications to produce stock availability models for each SKU on a rolling 18 month basis.

Company overview: Emerson Automation manufacture safety and pressure reducing valves for the heating, ventilation & cryogenic industries

Role Overview: Responsible for the production planning of several high volume assembly lines using SAP.

COVID enforced break in work.

Company profile: Mi3 provide confidential design, development and manufacturing services to the disposable medical device and pharmaceutical industries.

Role Overview: management of the planning, purchasing, warehousing and logistics functions. Managed a team of ten staff members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage materials, manufacturing and sub-contract schedules to satisfy customer demand and achieve OTIF (on time in full) delivery targets.
• Management of 3rd party providers of warehousing and logistics services: external storage facilities, working with both UK and European logistics operators.
• ERP system (EFACS) master user responsible for system administration & training.
• Organization and management of company P.I checking and annual stock takes.
• To conduct Internal Audits and External / Supplier Audits in line with ISO13485 (certified lead auditor).

Company overview: SSUK manufacture pressure and safety relief valves for use in steam, liquid and air applications in the process industry.

Role overview: Production planning & day to day management of the production team.

Role Overview: Assisting the operations team in a variety of areas: expediting suppliers, monitoring safety stocks levels, stock taking, releasing work orders, stock adjustments and various administrative tasks.