Tony Ross
Materials Manager at Tesa Tape.
- Role
- Materials Manager at tesa
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tony Ross
Tony Ross is a lean-trained, take-charge operations leader with over 20 years of experience in manufacturing & operating strategic planning, continuous improvement, materials management, logistics, and budget planning. His expertise comes primarily from serving the automotive electronics manufacturing industry along with in depth experience launching and developing defense and aerospace manufacturing business from the ground up. Tony’s success is derived from his abilities to break down a vast array of manufacturing processes to eliminate redundancies, wasteful costs in production control, logistics, inventory management, demand planning and safety through implementing forward-thinking initiatives and lean principles in a multitude of manufacturing environments.
Experience
Materials Manager
Jan 2025 — Present · Sparta, MI, US
Manage scheduling, planning and inventory control teams while driving continuous improvement and collaboration within plant operations.
Education
Villanova University
Six sigma black belt certificate, Lean principles and six sigma
2015 — 2015
Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business
Supply Chain Management certificate, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
2013 — 2014
Ferris State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician
2002 — 2006
Michigan Technological University
Worked towards general engineering degree. Transferred to Ferris State University, Engineering Technology, General
2001 — 2002
Skills
- Product Design
- Six Sigma
- Lean Manufacturing
- Fmea
- Engineering
- Spc
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Leadership
- Autocad
- Business Process Improvement
- Oracle Applications
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Project Management
- Solidworks
- Process Engineering
- Maintenance & Repair
- Wms Implementations
- Toyota Production System
- Continuous Improvement
- Value Stream Mapping
- Distribution Center Operations
- Process Improvement
- Distribution Logistics
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Warehousing
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Supply Chain Management
- Assembly Lines
- Automotive
- 5s
- Distribution Management
- Cost Savings
- Kaizen
- Root Cause Analysis
- Ctpat
- Ppap
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