Jessica Vercimak

Supply chain and operations leader with 25+ years of experience, including extensive manufacturing leadership improving production readiness, inventory reliability and team performance. Led teams of up to 28 and operations supporting more than $10M in inventory. Food-industry experience includes ownership of production scheduling, ingredient and packaging purchasing, distributor fulfillment, lot traceability and FIFO controls.

Combines hands-on root-cause investigation with practical systems, proactive labor planning and coaching that develops future leaders.

Supply Chain Manager - ECC CORROSION - Wisconsin Rapids, WI

(2025)

• Lead purchasing, inventory and material flow supporting approximately $5.1M in 2025 purchasing spend and $3.46M in on-hand inventory; have led teams of up to 13.
• Rebuild legacy materials management and purchasing processes; train a team new to these functions while managing staffing, coverage and overtime approvals.
• Created reusable and job-specific BOMs in Sage and standardized approximately 7,000 Item Master records to connect engineering requirements with production material usage.
• Establish verified receiving, cycle-count and replenishment processes to strengthen inventory reliability and production readiness.

Materials Manager - SEAGRAVE FIRE APPARATUS - Clintonville, WI

(2023 - 2025)

• Led approximately 28 employees across six warehouses supporting custom fire apparatus production and more than $10M in inventory; controlled staffing, coverage and overtime approvals.
• Improved inventory accuracy from approximately 43% to 87% through receiving verification, cycle counting, defined locations and stronger execution standards.
• Restructured warehouse storage and streamlined picking, increasing rates in the reorganized area from approximately 0.5–1 load to 2–6 loads per team member per day.

Supply Chain Manager - S&R TRUCK - Marshfield, WI

(2022 - 2023)

• Led approximately eight employees supporting specialty vehicle manufacturing; managed purchasing, supplier negotiations and shortages, and partnered with vendors to establish point-of-use storage and vendor-managed inventory.

Weekend Materials Manager, Full-Time | Brief overlap with S&R Truck in 2022 - GENERAC - Jefferson, WI

(2020-12 - 2022-12)

• Led 22 material handlers supporting 12-hour weekend manufacturing shifts; corrected receiving and inventory practices and coordinated materials readiness with Production Management.
• Improved inventory accuracy from approximately 15.9% to 86% through weekend cycle counting, transaction correction and physical receiving verification in SAP.
• Substantially reduced material-related production downtime by scheduling shipments around production needs, safety stock and complete receiving lead times; coordinated two supplying facilities and expanded planning to weekday lines.

Materials Manager - AROW GLOBAL - Mosinee, WI

(2018 - 2020)

• Led 23 material handlers and three leads; managed staffing assignments, shift coverage and overtime approvals supporting commercial bus window manufacturing.
• Improved inventory accuracy from approximately 65–73% to 92% through receiving controls, cycle counting, staging and Syteline transaction discipline.
• Partnered with leadership to estimate approximately $223,600 in annual operational impact from correcting receiving and process failures.

Purchasing and Production Scheduling Manager - COUNTRY FRESH/ JACK LINK’S

(2017 - 2018)

• Owned the production schedule and purchased meat, cheese and packaging; managed inventory and coordinated orders and loads for distributors including US Foods and McLane.
• Built an ERP-style operations management system in Excel covering purchase orders, material planning, ingredient and packaging inventory, cycle counts, quarterly inventory, lot tracking, expiration dates, FIFO, shipping and reporting.

Materials Manager - DELUXE PLASTICS - Manufacturing Operations

(2015 - 2017)

• Traced a production-stopping rivet shortage to equipment ejecting unrecorded material. Tested loss rates and reconciled estimated scrap with the reported shortage, leading to equipment correction and routine scrap tracking.

Warehouse Manager - H&S MANUFACTURING - Marshfield, WI

(2013 - 2015)

• Led a six-person warehouse team; improved inventory accuracy from approximately 25% to 90% within one year and reduced stockouts to approximately 5%.
• Developed seasonal Kanban/JIT replenishment and proactive production staging; replaced handwritten pick lists with an Excel BOM tool and strengthened FIFO controls.

Additional experience - KI Mobility; Greenheck; Aspirus Health

(2003 - 2010)

Aspirus Health, Supply Chain, Lawson ERP Implementation and Network Training.

Associate Degree - Human Services - Rasmussen College, Wausau, WI