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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managing day to day operation including end to end supply chain.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managing Online business strategies and implementation of printing, 3D consumables and consumer electronics products.Managing Digital Portfolio of the company for providing up to date sales & marketing strategies.Creating and implementing business promotional activities to universities, research institutes and SMEs within Australia.Client relationship management for Efficient and effective support for clients and prospective clients for emerging as B2B Specialist.Strategic planning for developing and implement strategies for expanding the capability's capacity and product offerings.

Kemps Creek, Nsw

Lead and provide expert advice on IBP implementation project as Demand facilitator to Finance, Operations & Sales Directors in S&OP meetings.Lead the dialogue with Sales and Category Management, challenge assumptions and outputs. Based on Demand Plans outcomes, initiated the supply plan with the help of supply planners to execute the inventory purchases.Develops robust rolling demand and supply plans at multiple levels of aggregation (SKU, product group, channel, region) over 12 – 24months planning horizon which then inputs into the Inventory plans meetings for inbound freights with Logistic Team.Drive and playing key roles in Sales & Operations Planning product groups meetings to achieve monthly cross-functional consensus on the unconstrained demand plan that can be achieved and prepare the Demand / Supply Plan reporting for the S&OP meetings.Use and maintain any designated demand planning software (e.g. MCA, Logility), as the primary modelling, simulation and forecasting toolConstantly track the Demand and Supply Plan against actual sales/goods receipts and initiate corrective actions; provide analysis and communicate projected impacts on volume and value levelLiaise with the Operations functions on an ongoing basis to agree upon actions to balance service, cost and inventory.Supporting Europe team members for developing the demand plan which creates the supply plan to Australian plants within Briggs.Involved in Purchase Orders review meetings for submitting the inventory plan to the factory / supplier. Review supplier metrics and provide key input for 24 months demand /supply plans.Coaching and managing one demand analyst for directing and supporting them to deliver business goals and expectations

Ermington, Australia

Embed the revised Demand/Supply Forecasting processes to support the new Supply Chain Operating model and Core Commercial Cycle for Oral Care Portfolio.Manage end to end demand forecasting (both volume and value) across relevant categories (Oral Health & Nutritionals) to improve customer service levels and to reduce end-to-end COGS and working capital.Build a detailed understanding of seasonality and other market drivers for all brands within your categories. Partner with sales teams to generate baseline and promotional forecasts with high accuracy across relevant categories. Utilise data sources such as Nielsen scan and IMS.Partner with Category & Shopper Marketing and Consumer Marketing teams to generate forecast assumptions for NPI, Media investment, Shopper activations, competitor activity etc.Embed processes to support key account and trade channel specific forecast capability to drive enhanced service levels and reduced working capital requirementsPromote a ‘one number’ mindset to drive business decision making and forecast transparency / functional accountabilityPrepare Demand Forecasting inputs into the key Core Commercial Cycle (CCC) meetings including Demand Review / Supply review and regional S & OP meetings.Ensure appropriate identification and understanding of demand forecast changes against short and long term horizons to support effective supply chain function. Provide key inputs to support E2E Supply Chain thinking and effective decision making Drive the long term strategic planning process (3-5 years) to inform network design and capital investment decisions.Contribute to and lead significant projects to transform the operating model, and deliver the benefits required including gross to net, complexity reduction, cost of goods and working capital reductions.Embed baseline statistical modeling and integration of existing forecast platforms to deliver enhanced forecast accuracy.

Meadowbank, Sydney

Establishment of S&OP processes (IBP processes) within the business and lead the demand planning area in the business.Implementation of demand planning tools to align global criteria.Introduction of statistical and analytic approach for forecasting of the products.Lead the NPI and EOL process with marketing for achieving in market attachment rate.Managing cost initiatives process to streamline supply chain engagement with supplier and 3PL. Major AttainmentsSuccessfully introduced S&OP process within 6 months of joining business.Successfully implemented demand planning tool (Logility) and generated statistical forecast for the first time in Targus Australia business.Reduction in warehousing cost by identify extra cost associated having two warehouses.

Sydney, Australia

Developing Supply Chain arrangements for finished and semi-finished goods between global headquarters and end market entities within group in project “Destiny”.Goods receipting process handling for south pacific markets.Single point of contact between supply chain service center and end market companies of the group.Analysis on cut rag tobacco (semi-finished goods) for analyzing different productions options.Managing/helping forecast process to south pacific market during transition to global headquarters.

Sydney, Australia

Designing and developing Supply Chain processes within business and product management team and deploying demand planning tool to run the process.Forecasting of IT infrastructure related products and services which are offering to internal business users.Introducing new demand planning tool to initiate supply chain discipline, process and governance within related departments in bank.Engagement with vendors to create bridge with CBA to manage stock availabilities. Creating S&OP Process to introduce supply chain concepts for more efficient collaborative decision making process.Alignment of Capacity Planning management into Strategic planning function of the business.

Sydney, Australia

Managing forecast and S&OP process of home entertainment and home appliance business. Validating forecast based on their selling ratio for all key customers.Generate Allocation of stock based on criteria decided by higher management for all key retailers on weekly basis from six warehouses.Managing internal company’s inventory level as well as retailer’s stock on hand.Finalizing final production qty with factory based on customer forecast and direction from higher management.Leading CPFR process.Key Member of SBUs (Strategic Business Units) and S&OP Workshop

Sydney, Australia

Generating Statistical Forecast of all products of the Snacks business for all customers as source of forecast. Drive the longer term operational forecast and highlight the GAP to business targets.Maintain planning parameters in Demand and Supply Planning to ensure appropriate safety stock levels at each distribution point.Preparing and conducting the weekly demand & supply review meetings.

Sydney, Australia

Lead and manage the monthly forecast process of three categories, 75 ranges within multiple SKU’s, utilizing APO, BW and AC Nielsen for weekly scan sales data to determine the seasonality and customer demands within the Uncle Toby’s Business.To create, develop and maintain the robust Statistical Baseline forecast within APO.Managing demand planning team of three people while transition of business of Uncle Tobys into Nestle.

Masters Of Professional Accounting (Mpa), Finance, Accounting

Masters Of Commerce, Finance, Advanced Accounting, Statistics

Bachelors Of Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Statistics