PRODUCTION MANAGER - Sweaters

The main objective of the production manager for shoes is to manage the production of the DKNY and Donna Karan shoe lines. They will ensure that product is produced according to confirmed production spec sheet, adheres to company quality standard and is produced/shipped according to confirmed production timelines.

Production Planning, Order Placement, Tracking, Maintenance and Reporting

Production Planning

• Create seasonal order placement and delivery schedule and review with Director of production for approval.
• Partner with Director of Production on projections to reserve factory space.
• Create and maintain seasonal factory allocation reporting.

Production Order Placement

• Gather bookings information from system and prepare bookings reports for review with sales and senior management teams.
• Collect all notes from bookings review meetings and prepare recaps for sales teams and external sources. Follow up to ensure that dropped bookings are removed from the system.
• Issue purchase orders and pass to factories by the seasonal deadline established.
• After purchase orders are completed, check and balance inventory reports and oversold reports to ensure that all purchase orders were completed accurately.
• Communicate with overseas agents / vendors on all cuts to ensure their clear understanding of order totals and x-factory requirements.
• Check and balance all production reporting received from agents / vendors to ensure they have received all orders.
• Reorders – negotiate best delivery and at times reduction on costs.

Tracking  

• Follow up with agents / vendors to receive confirmed delivery reports after cuts are completed.
• Review weekly production reports sent by agents / factories to ensure timeliness of production (material deliveries, component deliveries, etc).
• Maintain deliveries in system when there are factory delays .
• Gather weekly preproduction reports from agents / vendors and initiate weekly preproduction meetings with production team to identify potential issues.
• Manage flow of production in most cost effective manner.
• Provide sales team with updates on late production deliveries.
• Communicate with Logistic departments and warehouses to ensure that goods are received in warehouse and shipped to customers in a timely manner.

 Maintenance / Reporting

• Review weekly open invoices for payment, obtain the required approvals and submit to finance for payment.
• Create and submit seasonal preclass report to Logistics department by established deadline.
• Pass seasonal PR sample orders to agents / factories.
• Enter and monitor all finalized FOB costing in system.
• Update logistics on trim disclosures and reconciliation seasonally.
• Request and follow up on testing reports for REACH and Prop 65. Update production and Design teams on failures. Work with factories on corrective action plan.
• Gather production correction comments and create correction recaps that can be shared with internal and external teams.
• Track preproduction approvals and alert production team of potential issues.
• Review all fitting and confirmation samples. Pass correction comments to sources and follow up on corrected submits.

• 5+ years industry experience.
• Technical knowledge of footwear
• Microsoft Excel proficient
• Strong communication skills
• Strong organizational skills