Terry Knabe
JMS Associates International, Inc.
13010 Silver Sands Drive  Fort Myers FL, 33913
Tel 941-768-1366 - Fax 941-768-1666
E-Mail: jmsintl@aol.com
www.foodprocessingconsultants.com

Over thirty years successful experience in all facets of manufacturing in food processing including: cookies, crackers, sweet goods, salty snacks, bread, buns, rolls, juices, drink concentrates, sauces, fruit processing, toppings, meat snacks, and tortilla chips.

In 1992 I formed JMS Associates International Inc., which provides valuable consulting services in operations management to the food processing industry.
Our partial client list includes:
Frito Lay                                               Kroger Company                                   GoodMark Foods
Kellogg Company                             Hunt Wesson Foods                             Lance Inc.
Parmalat / Canada                            PepsiCo Foods Intíl United Biscuits / China
Ralcorp                                                 Pascual / Panama  Grupo Gamesa, S.A.
Sara Lee Bakeries                             Sunshine Biscuits                                  Biscuiterie Nantaise

We are a consulting firm that specializes in the baking, snack, and food processing industry. We focus on effective process control, labor utilization, increased productivity, improved material variances, reduced waste, and cost savings opportunities. Comprehensive technical expertise combined with extensive operations management experience enables us to identify the best solutions to our clients operating and reporting problems.

We have worked on projects in Brazil, Taiwan, Poland, France, China, Mexico, Jamaica, Philippines, Panama, Canada, and the USA.  We are interested in assignments that require the ability to obtain positive measurable bottom line results quickly.

Keebler Company 1970 - 1986
Cincinnati, OH - Philadelphia, PA - Grand Rapids, MI
Director of Operations

  • Full responsibility for plant operations including production of Zesta Crackers, Townhouse Crackers, Club Crackers, Sandwich Cookies, Sugar Wafer, Enrobed Products, Graham Crackers, Kelloggís PopTarts, Cracklin Oat Bran Cereal, Rotary Cookies, and Wire Cut Cookies.
  • Installed and started up two soft cookie production lines below budget
  • Improved productivity and reduced daily material and operating variances
  • Reduced scrap levels at three plants
  • Reduced overhead spending and reduced management and employee headcount while increasing productivity and efficiency
  • Develop a reporting system that correct reconciliation of scrap to less than one percent
  • Successfully completed a "turn around assignment" at a northeast plant with 650 union employees

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    CPC International - Arnold Foods Baking 1986-1988
    Greenwich, CT
    Director of Operations

  • Total responsibility for all operations and functions of this bread, bun, and roll plant with 440 employees
  • Improved productivity by seven percent
  • Improved labor utilization
  • Implemented effective process control procedures
  • Started up a continuous fermentation system replacing an old batch mixing system

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    Ocean Spray Cranberries 1988-1992
    Sulphur Springs, TX - Kenosha, WI
    Director of Operations

  • All normal manufacturing responsibility with bottom line accountability plus customer service, distribution, warehousing, and co-packing relations.  Line of products included fruit processing, sauce, canning, glass and PET bottle filling, and aseptic packaging of juices.
  • Twenty percent increase in productivity measured in cases per machine hour
  • Justified and hired a Logistics department with resulting improvement in customer service, cost control, production planning, and finished good inventory turns
  • Implemented a "just in time" system for raw and packaging materials
  • Develop a successful relationship with Wal Mart.  Successfully negotiated an agreement for them to pay OSC $154,600 related to a pallet exchange program as well change the pricing agreement to include the pallet cost in the case price on all future orders.

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