• Lead a team of 14 people across 2 shifts including 2 lead coordinators, 6 coordinators, and 6 associates.• Serve as a primary liaison in leading site visits for numerous key supplier partners, providing tours of the National Logistics Center, and selling the value of a centralized distribution model to SVP and VP level attendees.• Completed several standardization initiatives across the inventory control team to streamline processes. Notably, partnered with the Exceptions department which included time study analysis, best practice sharing across shifts, the development of TAKT times, and an Excel based shift hand off to assist the team with labor planning/managing outstanding workload. Since implementing these changes, outstanding damage/short date claims have been reduced by nearly 70%.• Led a kaizen event to further optimize outbound dock processes, investigating and implementing both standard operating procedures and technology solutions to increase efficiency. Project is targeting a dock process lead time reduction of 68 minutes per outbound shipment.• Mentored a National Logistics Center summer intern providing guidance around career strategy, personal effectiveness, and networking within the organization.• Completed ad-hoc analysis spanning multiple areas within the National Logistics Center including advanced ship notice reporting, profiling optimization, and miscellaneous reporting automation.

• Automated over 35 reports/processes via Alteryx by partnering with multiple key business partners such as Purchasing, Finance, Risk Management, the National Logistics Center, and several Customer Relationship Management teams.• Led a kaizen team of 7 individuals to develop a standard process for bypassing select lead time receipts to improve lead time accuracy and reduce inventory investment. Savings related to reduced inventory holding cost exceeded $220,000 over the 12 months of project tracking and defects were reduced by 98.8%, beating project goal by over 50%.• Transitioned a Microsoft Access VBA purchasing optimization model to Alteryx and improved the model to fit a variety of use cases. Specifically, developed the model to provide suggestions around items to move throughout the CAH warehouse network in the smallest increments possible. Suggestions from the model are forecasted to save over $6.5M annually from reduced inventory holding costs.• Participated in mentorship program as a mentor to another individual within the department. Conducted 1-on-1 meetings with mentee to discuss career development strategy, interviewed and provided interview feedback to mentee, and facilitated development of mentee’s connections with others across the IM organization.• Served as an inventory management subject matter expert in the evaluation of two corporate development related projects .• Completed ad-hoc analysis using various tools such as Alteryx, SQL Server 2014 Management Studio, Tableau, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and SAP.

• Managed purchasing for a portfolio of 7 suppliers, including the top spend Generic manufacturer, totaling over $230,000,000 in average monthly inventory on hand• Participated in 2 kaizen events and 1 blackbelt project as a subject matter expert projected to save over $150,000 for the Pharmaceutical Inventory Management organization• Created an enhancement for a Microsoft Excel tool used by the entire Supply Chain Inventory/Purchasing department resulting in a 75% reduction in touch points for short dating item availability updates• Completed DIOH analysis to transfer over $1,700,000 in Generic overstock and order point analysis to reduce order up to levels by over $700,000• Served as a member of the Supply Chain Committee, Training Committee, and managed indirect procurement for the VP of Pharmaceutical Inventory Management

• Managed purchasing and was the primary inventory liaison for 6 of the top 30 National Brand suppliers and over 300 non-top suppliers• Utilized SAP, including ECC and APO to complete service level research, resolve purchasing issues, and maintain data integrity, completing analysis in Microsoft Excel and Access 2010• Developed and communicated comprehensive inventory strategy during a vendor software system conversion • Researched and implemented a solution for a pricing discrepancy affecting over a month of PO’s

- Forecasted, allocated, and managed up to 30 items of women’s outerwear to over 270 chain stores.- Communicated strategies with cross-functional partners to maximize profitability of inventory.- Created detailed hindsight reports investigating opportunities for improvement in forecast accuracy. - Worked extensively in MID Retail, Abercrombie Business Intelligence, and other satellite software systems to drive forecast and allocation accuracy and efficiency.

- Forecasted, allocated, and managed 10 items of men’s and women’s outerwear- Completed detailed analysis on the percent contribution of direct-to-consumer business relative to the entire business