Betül Özbıçakçı

Preparation of daily inventory reports to monitor compliance with monthly factory budgeting. • Examining the production reports and creating the daily production plan for the Aluminium line (OE). • Creation of work orders, completion of their system transfers and control of drops • Control and regulation of the raw material plan, revision of the schedules created for the needs • Creation of pick up organization plans for raw material orders with overseas suppliers • Stock control of consumables • Evaluation of raw material and material needs, opening purchase orders, forwarding and tracking to suppliers • Checking the invoices from the suppliers and planning the entry organizations • Creation of input quality control priority plans • Checking the alloy needs and order tracking (for the foundry factory) • Creation of shipping plans and packing plans of the warehouse • Detailed controls of stock, demand, shipment and orders for correct management of inventory • Performing stock transfers via SAP • Material creation and main data maintenance • As a result of market research for OE component (direct purchasing) and PM (indirect purchasing) materials for Mahle factories in Turkey, presenting offer studies and creating systemic schedules agreement • Opening requests for materials of OE, PM and work tool steel groups, creating offers, ordering and following supplying processes • Creation and follow-up of the return processes of materials belonging to the same groups

-Preparing short and long term schedules according to MRP results and stock levels. -Following the material flow until receiving the right amount of materials into the warehouse in the right time. Ensuring if the customer orders are covered with respect to the production plan. - Determine the critical stock levels and make arrangements on the parameters according to the changing conditions in order to minimize the inventory cost. - Coordinating and communicating with domestic and foreign customers and organizing the logistic operations. - Follow custom procedures and assure that procurement activities are in line with rules & regulations weekly. - Involving new projects that are including to reduce the business capital. - Periodic reporting.

As a member of back office team, I was in control of the PSA Peugeot Citroen France Project and the followings: 1) Ensuring customer demand satisfaction from SILS Warehouses and Demand Reporting & Analysis: - Coverage Report (Demand-Stock Level) - PUS (shipment quantities communicated with plant) - Truck shipment planning (contingency plan) - Customer demand variation analysis - Customer and service provider communication 2) Keeping optimal level of stock in SILS Warehouses: - Min-Max stock - Daily inventory - Month End Inventory Forecast & Follow up - Excess & Obsolete Analysis 3) SAP Master Data Maintenance 4) SAP Booking ( Stock-in, Goods Receipt and Stock-out, Goods Issue) 5) Stock Reconciliation between Service Provider Physical - Stock & SAP Stock.

Within method department, the project that I had involved lead me to complete my thesis was consist of proposing a new layout design to the shop floor in Schneider Electric, Flintshire,UK.

During the senior year project, the field research had been done in the shop floor of this steel facility in order to collect data which guided the project to increase efficiency on job shop environment.