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Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Presently lead the collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment function (CPFR) for the entire Coty Canada business unit. -Responsible for top-line forecasting in conjunction with sales leadership. This encompasses 15 retailers of varying sizes and operational complexity.-Lead regular executive trade inventory review, highlighting opportunities/risks to gross sales.-Provide customer inventory management strategies/recommendations for:>Innovation product launches>High seasonal periods>Products at the end of their lifecycle; minimizing returns while maintaining on-shelf presence.-Provide leadership to a team of managers and analysts who serve as the primary contact for all supply chain and order management related matters.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

-Led the demand and supply planning functions for Coty Canada’s Prestige Division; a portfolio that spans 1200+ FG SKUs.-Provided leadership to the full monthly demand planning cycle, leading into executive S&OP review. -Represented Canadian finished goods requirements to Coty's global planning and manufacturing hubs.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Responsible for the collaborative planning function with major retailers (Shoppers Drug Mart and Walmart) and distributors across Canada.-Accountable for building a strong relationship with trader partners and through disciplined data analytics and strong KPI measures, prescribe best inventory strategies to maximize availability.-Represented customer requirements cross-functionally to guide sales targets, demand and supply plans, and operational capacity.Achievement:-Identified bottlenecks within the customer's supply chain network and presented solutions to improve on-shelf availability of Coty products. This resulted in increased inventory investment from the customer, driving an incremental $2M in gross sales in Q2 FY22.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

-Managed the end-to-end supply chain activities for Central Roast, one of the largest brands by revenue under the Green Space Brands umbrella.-Instituted the S&OP process and led meetings to achieve organization wide consensus on customer demand and bring to light operational implications as a result. -Oversaw procurement of raw ingredients and packaging.-Created plans to dictate production and purchasing.-Set and sustained optimum inventory levels to both eliminate waste and minimize shortfalls.-Provided leadership, from an operations perspective, to all commercialization activities. -Maintained master data for 1400 SKUs, including their inter-dependencies, and manage models to derive cost of goods taking into account the various stages of production.Achievements:-Developed a system to enable and collect production data. Utilized the data to track operational efficiency, labour and raw material usage, waste, etc. -Scoped alternate suppliers and effectively leveraged the relationship with existing partners to land projected annual savings of over $1M vs previous fiscal year (2018)

Mississauga, On, Ca

-Maintained optimum inventory coverage at storage locations across North America and created strategies to mitigate risks in the network.-Collaborated with three North American and two overseas production facilities in the development of short and long term plans.-Provided direction for manufacturing and transportation planning, in the event of supply constraints, to minimize impact to service levels-Assessed the ebbs and flows in forecast and its impact on production; provided recommendations on achieving balance between production requirements and capacity. -Developed simulations that display the effects on the supply chain of planned or unplanned triggers.-Led regular cross-functional discussions on obsolete or at-risk inventory and highlight planning opportunities to offset that risk.-Managed, constructed, and consistently upgraded supply chain data structures to develop powerful querying tools.Achievements:-Designed and implemented a data architecture and developed automated tools that enable analytical insights, track supply chain KPIs (forecast Bias, MAPE, fill rate, inventory coverage, plant capacity utilization), provide key stakeholders a window into the organization’s performance, and facilitate collaborations within the S&OP process ; all while realizing tremendous time and resource savings.

Mississauga, On, Ca

-Supported the S&OP process with analytical depth and tactful discussions as the organization increased its focus on forecast accuracy.-Created a framework for engaging the sales team and, through rigorous discussions, arrived at a consensus forecast for a rolling 3-month horizon.-Forged relationships with supply chain teams at two key accounts and laid the foundations for collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) activities.Achievements-Improved 8-week lag forecast bias from 17% in 2016 to 5% in 2017 year-to-date (calculated in May 2017).

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

-Developed and maintained a demand signal within specific accuracy margins and supported the organization with analytical information.-Collaborated with the sales and marketing teams to gather market intelligence; gained insight into promotional activities and any events that may influence the forecast.-Managed product transitions and planned for anticipated demand for products being phased out and/ or introduced to the mix. -Sustained effective relationships with U.S head office and manufacturing counterparts to ensure production signal actualized to production.Achievements:-Designed and constructed a user friendly tool to capture commercial activity plans presented by the sales managers. The new tool was instrumental in realizing massive time savings -equivalent to the length of an average work day-within the Supply and Demand team.-Developed a performance dashboard for the Reverse Logistics team. This eliminated the need for ad-hoc reporting and provided monthly updates to stakeholders, allowing for greater efficiency and more analytical depth.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

2014-2015-Managed inventory requirements for construction projects in the western provinces, one of Whirlpool Canada’s fastest growing areas of business.-Assessed future construction project requirements and gauged fulfillment feasibility based on products' life cycles.-Leveraging SAP data tables and Business Warehouse, performed extensive reporting to eliminate deficiencies, track inventory flow, specify stock shortfalls and reduce obsolete inventory.-As a special project, assessed fulfillment bottlenecks across the entire order management structure and made recommendations to alleviate product shortfalls. Achievements:-Implemented a more efficient order management and reporting process that increased inventory flow, helped achieve a fill-rate of 97% in May 2015, the highest level in over 2 years.2013-2014-Managed home appliance inventory levels for Sears Canada, Whirlpool’s largest trade partner.-In collaboration with the sales team, planned to accurately capture demand during product promotions and transition periods.-Analyzed future requirements and deployed shipments from six production facilities in the US to Sears' distribution centers across Canada.-Responsible for publishing weekly shipment and monthly performance reports.Achievements:-Through aggressive monitoring of in-house inventory, production status and in-transit supply, consistently achieved or exceeded a fill rate target of 97.5%

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Physical Science

Graduate Certificate, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management