Alan B. Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York

Schenectady, NY

SPV Biowaste Pyrolysis Solutions (BPS)/Schenectady #1, LLCBPS is a technology company that works with owners and operators of wastewater treatment facilities through SPV’s to reduce the environmental impact of their residual sludge by approximately 90%. The company's focus is to convert residual municpal sewage sludge into heat and electricity through.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

BPS is a privately held company that works with wastewater treatment facilities to provide a cost effective method of treating sludge. The company utilizes its proprietary Automated Micro Pyrolysis (AMP) technology to transform waste into energy. https://biopyro.com/

Greater New York City Area

• US advisor to a Chinese apparel manufacturer Perform and manage:
• Logistics and Importing activities
• Accounting, Legal and IT functions
• Activities related to customer bankruptcies
• Co-Chair Official Committee Unsecured Creditors: Coldwater Creek Bankruptcy, 2014

United States

In March when the virus escalation began in the US, Carri and I had great desire to help. We decided to activate PoB; we knew there was something we could do. We shipped our first mask orders April 1st. Our primary product is the 3-Ply “blue” medical style disposable mask. In the last six months we have sold and delivered over 14 million 3-Ply masks with a.

United States

• Focus:Retail Luxury, Specialty, e-commerce and Off Price chains and wholesale and apparel manufacturing
• Merchandise and Assortment (Localization) Planning, Allocation and OTB management
• E-commerce operations (B2C) and license negotiation and management
• Integration of Business Analytics, EDI-POS data and BI tools with companies’ cultures
• Supply Chain Management, Demand Forecasting and Production Planning
• Retailer Restructuring, Inventory/cash… Show more Focus:Retail Luxury, Specialty, e-commerce and Off Price chains and wholesale and apparel manufacturing

New York, NY

Marketing Department at The Zicklin School of Business; Have taught courses in the undergraduate, MS and MBA programs. To date courses have included “Retail Marketing Management”, “Retail Merchandising and Buying”, "Marketing Foundations" and “Marketing Research”. In 2016 will make a revision to the Merchandising and Buying course to incorporate the use of.

• Specialize in: 1. Growing sales, margin and inventory turn2. Building, training and leading teams for all Merchandise Planning related functions3. Enhancing/designing/streamlining Reporting and Analytics to make them.
• Led aggressive effort to rationalize pricing from $8.98 to market prices
• … Show more Specialize in: 1. Growing sales, margin and inventory turn2. Building, training and leading teams for all Merchandise Planning related functions3. Enhancing/designing/streamlining Reporting and Analytics to.
• Results were a comp store sales improvement from negative 40% to near 0% and a gross margin increase from 32% to 40% for 170 go-forward doors; In 6 weeks
• Managed $100M domestically sourced and replenished T-Shirt business.
• Improved reporting by working with Domestic and India Information Systems departments. Show less

• Led the Merchandise Planning, Rebuying, and Allocation Functions;
• Managed OTB and GM
• Revised demand forecasting process resulting in increased accuracy
• Partnered with IT to create actionable, user friendly, reports
• Implemented localization program; attribute based store assortments; led to significant sales trend improvement

• Leadership of Information Systems, IT Governance and Business Process Analysis.Merchandise, Financial and Assortment Planning; OTB and Gross Margin management; Production Planning, Basic Stock Replenishment.In Planning.
• To build partnerships between planners and merchants
• To empower planners to own their areas and willingly propose measured risk takingInformation Systems
• Led major system conversions:… Show more Leadership of Information Systems, IT Governance and Business Process Analysis.Merchandise, Financial and Assortment Planning; OTB and Gross Margin management; Production.
• Led major system conversions: requirement definitions, searches, negotiations, and implementations; Achieved Company-wide user involvement and buy-in for each system Show less

Responsible for Merchandise, Financial and Store plans; Gross Margin, Open to Buy, Allocation, and Store Product profilesBuilt Planning and Allocation department from 2 to 23 membersLed installation of STS merchandising system as the Merchandising Team leaderResearched, selected and installed MMS Allocation and Planning systems.Member, Senior Management.

Merchandise Planning, OTB, Allocation and Store product mix and inventories

Forecasting sales; applying historical numeric's to line style outs; costing and pricing lines; overseeing Production Planning; managing inventory and the worldwide flow of in house manufactured goods, fabric and purchased merchandise. Led initiatives on EDI, Apparel UPC ticketing and Vendor Managed Inventory for Arrow with the retail community.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing

Ba, Marine Biology

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Education record