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Materials Supervisor/Supply Chain Leader

A leading manufacturing company in Virginia Beach is currently looking for a Materials Supervisor/Supply Chain Leader. They are looking for someone that can come in and handle production planning and inventory management while increasing inventory turns. It’s a leadership position and a chance to join a stable, privately-owned company.


Basic Responsibilities:
- Drive MRP system usage within the organization and promote the development of pull systems
- Implement lean supply chain principles
- Oversee Inventory Management/Shipping and Receiving
- Lead efforts to reduce costs and improve asset management throughout the supply chain, increase inventory turns


Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience using an MRP system in a manufacturing environment
- Experience implementing lean supply chain principles, including Kanbans.
- Exemplary leadership and communication skills



Qualified applicants should reply via email to paul.horn@tyges.com for follow up and further information. Note: this position is being posted by a professional recruiter and all correspondence will be treated as strictly confidential. In addition, referrals are encouraged and welcomed. If you, or someone you know, works in this industry, or a related industry, and would like to provide a resume for our future reference, please email it to the address above.

Averett University - adjunct Professors openings

Averett University is looking for adjuncts who can teach graduate and undergraduate level Operations Management courses.
Ideally, the candidate would hold a PhD in Operations Management or a similar field. In order to teach graduate courses, a PhD is required, but if someone you know has a Master's degree with 18 graduate credit hours in ops management, they could teach the undergraduate courses.
Averett is also looking for PhD holding people in Finance, Economics, and Accounting.

For more information follow the link: http://www.averett.edu/gpsfac/index.html, and reference either Pamela Das or Bob Sims, the Director of Faculty Services.

Hampton Roads Quality Management Community

Hampton Roads Quality Management Community
Continuous Improvement Community of Practice Workshop

Continuous Improvement Deployment: Mostly it's in the execution. Experience from Best-in-Class organizations lists a framework of plans, actions and technologies summarized as follows:
A corporate strategy that plans to extend Lean findings across an organization and expand Lean initiatives across the value chain
Business capabilities that emphasize the continuous flow of information and goods throughout the value chain
The use of technology enablers to aggregate, update, and distribute optimal plans and schedules.

The primary challenge for organizations executing this strategy is the cultural change required at all levels. In Lean terms, workforces/staffs that do not understand the concept of continuous improvement present a significant capacity constraint of internal resources.

Get your workforce exposed to the CI Culture by linking into the regional continuous improvement network at the HRQMC CI Project Workshop. Brochure is attached. Attend 2 of 3 project briefings to appreciate firsthand how significant changes are made.

And our Workshop Speaker will be the usual first rate offering: Norfolk's Business Process expert, Charlie Brown: Closing the Execution Gap.

There's no charge for the workshop. It's a good $400 value, sponsored by the HRQMC Continuous Improvement Community of Practice and the Training Modernization Group. Good value added, CI culture network stuff.

Space is limited so we need to have everyone register: http://www.hrqmc.com/.

Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Virginia Beach, 24 June, 0800 to noon.

Seth Pillsbury