Andy Nelson Email & Phone Number

Orem, Utah, US

Downtown St. Petersburg, FL, US

We Bring Brands to Life... Let Us Invest In Yours.Headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL, Growve is a brand aggregator specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing world-class brands in the dietary supplement, personal care, healthy food, active nutrition, pet nutrition, and household products verticals. Growve’s team of 500+ derives its value from.

Collaborate with accounting team to redesign and maintain financial reporting package. Migrate reporting from Legacy FoxPro applications to new Infor M3 ERP. Provide monthly reporting deck to private equity ownership, comprised of key financials, gross margin analysis, budget results, and other key initiatives. Utilize general programming, SQL, and.

Led a team of seven to maintain corporate data, direct corporate strategy of data processing, oversee development of applications used by internal employees, and worked closely with third-party development companies based in India. Maintained and updated Legacy Sybase Product Design application, multiple reports, and improvements. Led a team to develop.

• Responsible for planning & sourcing of contract manufacturing side of business, oversee process from point of manufacture to distribution to customer
• Created and managed new purchasing department to oversee planning and sourcing of copacked finished goods inventory
• Managed five employees in departments, set goals, review employee performance, etc
• Negotiation of vendor pricing, YTD 2012 saved company $350k through volume price negotiations
• Managed redesign of inventory management system to integrate with existing ERP system. Oversaw design and launch of project
• Sourced alternative vendors as necessary to maximize product margins, quality, and performance from vendors

• Trained existing staff on company systems and worked with corporate headquarters to send/receive inventory to/from Utah
• Interviewed, hired, and trained warehouse manager and additional pickers
• Worked with company help desk to resolve numerous system issues
• Redesigned warehouse/location layout to improve efficiency of order picking process. I.e. on average, orders take 50% less time to complete
• Improved picking efficiency by designing and implementing replenishment process for warehouse gravity racks
• Work with purchasing/planning to plan production and purchase orders based on inventory levels and projected sales volume

• Involved in several acquisitions, responsible for preparing inventory shipment to company warehouses in Ogden. Prepare acquired inventory for system load and ensure accuracy of both counts and valuation
• Promoted to cost accounting manager in April of 2006
• Prepare monthly labor overhead analysis and provide feedback to corporate controller for preparation of monthly financial statements
• Prepare trended inventory report used by upper management to create reorder points and make key inventory decisions
• Use VBA programming in Excel to send various reports to management
• Manage employees responsible for regular cycle-counting of inventory and reporting results to auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers

Masters Business Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance