Deron Echols

Providing direct customer contact support, managing Sales orders request and raw materials staging. Materials management: Volume forecast, managing stock levels and suppliers lead time Making sure that rubber compounds pass quality inspections for Pirelli, Caterpillar, Valeo, and GRT. • Manage customer's account, reply to shipping/ request and address them with internal organization. • Direct, optimize and coordinate cycle counts. • Resolve any arising problems or customers’ complaints. • Strategically plan and manage logistics, warehouse, transportation, and customer services. • Keep track of quantity, stock levels, delivery times, and transportation costs. • Supervise, coach, and train shipping and receiving employees • Comply with ISO requirements. • Maintain stock levels, set safety stock, and purchase raw materials

Under the direction of the Inventory Accounting Manager, this position is responsible for providing operational support and for developing, documenting, and executing processes as well as providing training that will assure the continuing accuracy of all inventories. • Discover and identify the root cause of each material inventory variance. • Create and support inventory control methods, policies, and procedures. • Develop and implement best practices that will ensure the collection and appropriate dissemination of accurate and detailed inventory reporting. • Leads count approval process for count variances • Investigates inventory location count variances, in collaboration with Cycle Counters, to determine root cause. • Collects root cause data for Pareto & monthly reporting • Identifies areas needing improvement and leads initiatives to shore up gaps in processes • Works with the entire organization to lead and develop inventory strategies, continuous, improvement, and to adopt best practices relating to inventory control • Personal development to include continuously updating skills related to materials management and inventory control

Timely and accurate batch entry, analysis and closure, discrepancy reconciliation, bulk tank planning, raw material cycle count program facilitation, annual physical inventory coordinator, statistical forecast data generation and excess and obsolete inventory management, and purchasing raw materials.

Responsibilities include providing reconciliation to general ledger based on revenue impact generated from both positive and negative losses due to every day operations (shipping, receiving, returns, and inventory). Maintaining inventory control for Great Lakes, Omnis Health, and Doctor Diabetics. Reports directly to the controller. • Adjusting the books to reflect actual on hand inventory and cash flow. • Saved the company millions by identifying a glitch in the system that was causing discrepancy with inventory. • Composed various analytical reports / databases in order to track inventory variances, results of cycle counts, inventory audit trails, cost of goods being adjusted and verifications of product shipments • Working with vendors to provide the best price for customers and for the company by purchasing through competitive bidding. • Review of purchase requisition for account correctness, validity of expense and budget availability • Responsible for purchasing all strips, meters, and control solutions for distribution and working with vendors to get best available price. • Tracking of delivery dates of assets to ensure timely recording. • Monthly reports on expenses level vs budget, and forecasts, analysis of variances, root causes and follow up plant controller. • Perform a physical inventory monthly on all local inventory.  Reconciliation of physical inventory to books  Analysis of losses  Coordination of action plan for corrective actions

Responsibilities include providing inventory control for Technicolor’s four distribution warehouses in Memphis. Providing accounting corrections for Paramount, Walt Disney, Universal & Warner Bros and recommending corrective actions based on Warehouse movements, outgoing shipping, and products received in. Work with Inventory Control to correct Inventory discrepancies. • Monitoring expenses spent on products and maintain cost levels to reflect desired results within company’s budget • Collect, track, trend, analyze and report Distribution Center activity data. • Responsible for monitoring variances and determining causes that led to a positive or negative cash flow. • Created inventory database that encompasses SAP and JBA databases in order to determine perpetual / systematic inventory variances, new item numbers as well as obsolete item numbers. • Composed various analytical reports / databases in order to track inventory variances, results of cycle counts, inventory audit trails, cost of goods being adjusted and verifications of product shipments.

Responsibilities include driving operational efficiency, process improvements, cost reduction and improved quality in the Chemical Plant. Collect and analyze data related to the operation of the Chemical Plant. Perform cost/benefit analysis and troubleshooting activities. Lead quality and continuous improvement projects. Recommend corrective actions plans based on trend analysis and forecasting. Measures productivity and recommend process improvement programs. Partner with the Lab Techs and Plants Operator to implement a solution • Collect, track, trend, analyze and report Distribution Center activity data. Partner with Ops teams to create tools / reports to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness. • Develop project plans, including objectives and benefits analyses. Lead / participate process improvement teams that involve and impact internal and external customers. • Work with the planner to create process orders and adjust inventory levels. • Analyzing data from the balance sheet and using cost analysis to determine the best way to allocate resources in accordance with GAAP. • Monitoring expenses spent on products and maintain cost levels to reflect desired results within company’s budget. • Responsible for monitoring variances & determining causes that led to a positive or negative cash flow. • Create inventory database that encompasses SAP, JBA & GOLD databases in order to determine perpetual / systematic inventory variances, new item numbers as well as obsolete item numbers. • Provided reports and detailed analysis of change in inventory value by product line, variance accounts, plant productivity, efficiency, rework, backlog, work in progress status, cost center activity, etc. • Composed various analytical reports / databases in order to track inventory variances, results of cycle counts, inventory audit trails, cost of goods being adjusted and verifications of product shipments. • Review BOM to determine costs of materials and production analyst.