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Mississauga, On, Ca

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Collaborate with the commercial team in planning and forecasting product demand from business franchises over the mid and long-term (24 months), using statistical models and commercial intelligence.• Chair the SIOP demand planning committee by conducting monthly meetings, crafting the Sales Plan statistical proposal, tracking commitments from process participants, fostering consensus on the Unified Sales Plan and ensuring alignment with market dynamics and the Company's annual budget commitments.• Maintain communication with the commercial team regarding plant-based product availability, delivery delays, and stockouts to align with the sales plan while analyzing demand changes due to tenders, launches, or market expansion, updating the entire process, and providing contextual insights for necessary decisions related to these events.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Reviewed inventory levels, ensuring the right mix to minimize obsolescence risk and promptly address aging issues. Led periodic reviews with local and international vendors, overseeing the execution of action plans to ensure material availability.• Collaborated with Marketing /Sales Managers in identifying opportunities to increase the inventory cash return. Led continuous improvement projects to streamline supply chain operations by implementing better processes and optimizing existing technology.• Successful implementation of WMS (SAP EWM)

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Led mid and long-term production capacity planning for seven production plants, communicated with plant schedulers, and identified and implemented continuous improvement initiatives in planning processes.• Directed production planning and inventory management tools development and implementation, resulting in achieving lean inventories and optimizing customer supply levels across America.• Led the project to launch and implement a more robust database planning tool. This tool enabled internal stakeholders to produce according to actual demand, reduce inventory surplus, improve customer service, reduce short-ships and easily track performance indicators.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Supported plant managers and union/non-union staff for thirteen plants nationwide; reported to the Head of Supply Chain for North America; analyzed large data sets and trends, and losses while championing project management.• Led a $7M, four-year business solution project collaborating with Plant Managers, IT experts and analysts to implement a high-tech bar-code system, vastly improving inventory management.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Analytical position committed to minimized supply chain costs, maximized customer service levels and balanced workloads, collaborating with sales, customer service and 3rd party logistics.

Specialized, Supply Chain Management

Certificate, Inventory Management

B.S., Industrial Engineering