Vocational Achievements
John Crane
Main Duties
MRP Control
Order placement. Clearing assigned and unassigned requestions
Invoice query resolution
Expediting/ Enquiries to Purchase Orders.
Responsible for the daily monitoring, maintenance and communication of operation and planning data
Main Responsibilities
Customer maintenance
Vendor maintenance
Price maintenance (via Toronto)
Stock receiving
Stock movement tracking & maintenance
Product maintenance (via Toronto)
FOB order monitoring
FOB debt collection (assisting SMTFE as required)
Mcvities
My main role was to assess why stock had not left the warehouse.
Introduced reports on Excel and SAP for management. – Run a bespoke report and
downloaded it into Excel and run a macro to reorganise the report for management to see
the reasons for product not leaving the depot.
• SAP MM implementation 4.6. Purchasing and Logistics. I became a Super User for the
MM module..
• Answered queries from other departments and assisted with the implementing of the new
system.
• My main tasks were raising Purchase Orders SAP, dealing with external customers,
vendors and warehouse logistical queries, stock queries and generating stock reports. And
the creation of new material masters for the new products. Updating the purchase orders
with the price of transport and arrival date. This was to allow for the visibility of availability of
product to the company and customers.
• I also had to arrange and deliver training sessions to the department and other members
of staff in the use of SAP and had to deputise for the Manager in his absence. Included
training of the Dutch warehouse in Goods Receipting.
• Created training manuals for the department. Contract terminated due to re-organisation.
I was responsible for transferring all roll movements from warehouse teams daily movement
sheets onto a computer database and all necessary details of purchased paper into SAP.
I had to relate and work with Production/Finishing/Warehouse team personnel in order to
track down rolls and solve problems relating to roll location/roll tracking.
I also had to deal with customers over the phone.
I maintained the recipes created, this meant updating any new production targets and
amending the BOM’s (Bills of Materials) accordingly.
I taught SAP to other users at the site and deputised for my Supervisor in his absence.
Recipe Controller Oct 1997 - April 1999
• This was a new position within the Paper Mill and I was chosen for my experience with
computers and knowledge of papermaking.
• My main duties included inputting and maintaining the papermaking recipes in the SAP system.
• Another part of my role was the creation of Material Masters, this meant that I had to have
contact with other departments.
• While in this role I had training from SAP experts so that I could train others.
• I also became a “Power User”, which meant I received more training from the experts and I
became a point of reference for others to ask for help.
• For this role I had to learn the Microsoft Office suite, mainly Access and Excel.
• Both were used to help in the creation and maintenance of the recipes in SAP. When the
company upgraded from version 3 to version 4, all of the power users were involved with testing
the new version to ensure that there were no incompatibilities and to report on any new features
that had been added to the new version.
• We then had to create a typed manual on our tasks carried out in SAP.
This position was taken by me to gain greater knowledge of how the mill operated and how
testing was done on site.
I was responsible for the testing of the rawbase paper from the paper machine, to customer
specifications and limits.
I worked on my own in the laboratory and made decisions on the quality of the product.
On these decisions, I then liaised with the crews and management.
All the data was then entered onto a computer database.
Education
St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic School, High Wycombe
C.S.E Exams
English, Technical Drawing, Technical Studies, Religious Studies, Commercial Calculations, and
Social Education.
Personal achievements
Gained the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award in 1981
Passed driving test 1981