Bartek Stepien Email & Phone Number

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

- supporting the change within the S&OP and Demand Planning global teams- facilitating the roll out of the S&OP process across the globe- facilitating the alignment of Demand Planning process and its input to the S&OP process- defining robust S&OP implementation process and roadmap to efficiently implement S&OP across key business functions - Mapping and aligning with all the S&OP internal and external process links to achieve complete information for Executive Leadership Team as a decision support platform- designing and implementing E2E Risks & Opportunities process embedded within S&OP process to support Executive Leadership Teams decision making to achieve Business Plan.

Poland

- Supporting the ongoing growth of the company with more new categories introduction to the market- Supervising the company P&L, Balance Sheet and cash flow statement to support the future developments

Poland

- Introduction, procurement and supply management of the 4 new categories to the company offer in 2021: cold pressed oils, organic vinegars, candles & high content wild fruit spreads. More categories to be introduced in Q3 2022.- Implementation of the Comarch ERP XT system across organization.- Leading the transformation from in-house production to outsourcing of 3 categories.- Leading the transformation from company warehouse to 3PL warehouse for the complete end to end order fulfilment process to include: storage, order receipt, order preparation, dispatch and delivery together with inventory balance database within cloud/online solution.- Leading the implementation of the procurement segment in 2021 with more than 65% of commodity at this stage being outsourced from the reliable suppliers in order to meet the growing honey demand. Established the reliable outsourcing network with sustainable contracts in place to support growth with target of 100% commodity outsourced from April 2022. Contracts already in place.- Healthy inventory levels buildup leading to the peak sales season in September, leveling at 128 days on hand, decreasing to around 30 days by end of March at the end sales season.Pre-season inventory buildup from May to August to meet the growing sales season demand supported from the cash generated sales without additional debt needed.- Supporting 129% revenue growth in 2020 and 126% revenue growth in 2021 decoupled with achievement of 99.5% DIF in 2020 and 96.7% in 2021 with at least similar revenue growth expected in 2022. Company profitable, funding new developments from operating cash flow.- Supporting entry to main leading supermarkets: Społem, Carrefour, Intermarche, Delikatesy Centrum, SPAR with maintaining double digit margins. More new contracts in negotiation stage.- Maintained healthy balance sheet with no debt. Growing the net equity by 58% in 2021.

Poland

Establishment of the Raglan premium health food brand with initial supply of the polish rawand organic honey- establishment of the largest professional apiary in the Świetokrzysie voivodeship managed on the unique American beehive Langstroth type. The growth from 40 to 300 beehives.- establishment of the 40+ health food store distribution channel across 3 voivodeships- establishment of the company online shop with fully embedded and optimized order to cash cycle using various payment methods based on the country order origin- First international orders shipped to UK, Italy, Germany and USA.- Implementation of the unique Research & Development project with National University of Agriculture Cracow leading to a development of the unique pro health benefits certificate program to be implemented within the organization.- Implementation of the stable production process with semi automated machinery processes fully reliable on the proprietary owned apiary including automated honey filler, high power honey pump and additional honey premium extractors and external chiller storage built.- Introduction of around 30 honey SKU’s to the market- Full control of the commodity sourcing process- Year on year 80% gross revenue growth- Sold 50% of share and moved to the double role of: Director of Operations role and viceChairman letting the Head of Sales driving the revenue and client base growth- Achieving healthy balance sheet, with growing revenue, healthy inventory even during highly skewed seasonality and managed to achieve sustainable growth with no debt required.Honey quality controlled by vertical integration and full operating honey harvest control through own apiaries. Development of new industry solutions to guarantee the highest quality and preserved honey health benefits in the world. On track to become recognised for innovative and worldwide unique beekeeping supply chain solutions for professional apiary management.

Warsaw Metropolitan Area

Current capabilities that I can offer to help your company with:- Implement new or review current Sales & Operations Planning process (S&OP) across all divisions in your organisation - Inventory Management: statistical modelling of all inventory types and implementation of planning parameters across planning systems. Proven methodology to achieve up to 50% inventory reduction and increase customer service levels- Implement Demand Planning process including statistical KPI’s to measure its efficiency across organisation. Proven method to increase forecast accuracy by 30% and achieve no bias across your organisation.- Review business operational cash flow and design detailed road map to make transition from negative to positive territory together with keeping financial and investing cash flows aligned with shareholder expectations- Design a business strategy to help business turn around its inefficiencies not only at supply chain level but also at total business level- Full review of the Supply Planning process from receiving demand signal to align production strategies and reduce supply chain operating costs- Review current or assist to implement best in class Supply Chain Planning systems including review of the current systems used across the organisation.- Conduct S&OP, inventory and demand planning workshops and education for cross-functional teams including practical application of the theory

Sydney, Australia

- Implementation of the S&OP process across the organisation with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations divisions- Setup of the Demand Planning Team and S&OP Project Management function- Implementation of forecast accuracy and forecast bias KPI's in Demand Planning function and across organisation including achieving set targets - Delivering between 10% - 50% inventory finished goods reduction depending on brand per location - Increasing operating cash flow through reduction of inventory finished goods- Implementation of the supply chain reporting and scorecards across the organisation including targets for customer service, inventory, SLOBS, forecasting including root cause analysis- Managing Demand Planning, S&OP Project Management and Master Data Teams- Leading inventory reduction program workshops across the organisation based on bottom up modelling approach with optimising safety stock, batch sizes and other components of inventory management through the planning systems- Full re-implementation of the Demand Planning System across the organisation- Improvement of the DIF% KPI rate by up to 20% depending on the ship to location through enhanced planning methodologies- Creating culture of target driven performance and embedding synchronised supply chain KPI's to deliver tangible business improvements and increase customer satisfaction

Sydney, Australia

- Key team lead which managed the $30 million inventory reduction of finished goods, raw materials, packing materials and engineering spare parts- Managing and designing statistical inventory modelling with the bottom up approach in order to design targets at the product category and stocking location level- Application of the optimised parameters into SAP APO for supply planning, manufacturing processes and to facilitate inventory target achievement- Optimisation of the production cycle times based on the batch size, demand and financial factors- Review and optimisation of safety stocks based on forecast errors, end to end lead times, ABC classification and supply chain partners reliability ratios- Leading the inventory education and inventory workshops across the multiple factories and offices in Australia and New Zealand. The review of inventory theory and its practical implementation across all levels of stakeholders and systems- Providing senior management and global teams with the in depth inventory reporting including inventory loss tree by inventory type including inventory days, values and reason codes- Recognised as inventory expert in Unilever Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia

- Management of demand plans for ANZ Home & Personal Care divisions in SAP APO- Demand management of baseline and promotional planning for three largest national retail chains- Achievement of two main targets of forecast accuracy - Application of statistics for various demand planning cases like seasonality, growth, declines, new product introduction and product phase out- Lead the company wide project implementation to align promotional planning with key retailers in order to increase forecast accuracy and to address main root cause of the error. The project delivered key benefits to manufacturing due to better volume and timing planning and less waste- Liaising with key sales and marketing stakeholders to find consensus and to align full year budget targets with sales forecast- Working closely with sales team on promotional sales forecast in order to remove negative forecast bias- Reporting gross sales value at all hierarchy levels based on the reviewed forecast within S&OP cycle

Sydney, Australia

- Setting up and managing team of 3 Continuous Improvement Analysts- Design and execution of the value added reporting with various Supply Chain KPI across Customer Service, Replenishment Planning, Manufacturing and S&OP departments based data integration from the ERP systems e.g. SAP R/3, SAP BI, SAP APO and i2Demand Planner- Design and the implementation of the company wide intranet - Established structured processes within Customer Service and Supply Chain department and create the culture of Kaizen so as to eliminate the non value added components from the current processes by applying Value Stream Mapping- Leading Value Stream Mapping one on one sessions and workshop in order to educate teams on how to streamline processes and eliminate bottlenecks

Sydney, Australia

- Developing new company wide reports for senior management within Supply Chain division - Conducting analysis based on logistics and supply chain key performance indicators and providing the senior management with recommendations- Designing performance metrics in order to enhance Customer Service department strategy with the usage of SAP R/3 and SAP BW modules- Implementation of the reporting automation in order to streamline teams operations

Sydney, Australia

- The role entails application of modern VMI techniques in order to properly manage demand and supply plan between Australian largest dairy foods manufacturer and the largest Australian retailer - Application of statistical demand planning, managing safety stocks, managing supply with short expiry dates- Achieved 96% forecast accuracy for baseline demand planning (best perishables division performance) - Achieved 91% forecast accuracy for promotional demand planning (best perishables division performance)- Achieved 0.6 Days of Supply in fresh milk division (best perishables division performance) - Achieved 100% inbound and outbound service level from distribution centers to >800 stores during important annual events like Easter and Christmas periods- Successful statistical simulation of the demand signal of multiple products for the new two distribution centers based on number of stores and individual stores sales rate forecast- Efficient communications of the demand plan back to the manufacturer demand & supply teams for supply planning adjustments and quick response to the market changes- This position requires the knowledge of complex inventory, demand, warehousing and supply chain systems in order to deliver the best customer service results to the retail customer.

Warsaw Area, Poland

Learning processes of the project management and data base analysis for the key accounts.

Translations for English, Polish and Spanish speaking students combined with the education management processes

Learning Quality Processes

Master Of Logistics Management, Uncertainties In Fmcg Supply Chains

Activities and Societies: Coursework in SCM and Logistics with individually appointed research project in "Supply Chain types.

Master Of Commerce In Marketing, Data Mining In Marketing

Activities and Societies: Market Research, Forecasting and Data Mining Science with application of Multivariate Data Analysis tools.

Scholar, Data Mining

Activities and Societies: one year Socrates/Erasmus scholarship for Spanish language learning and Data Mining Tools application using SAS.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Thesis in Cluster Analysis application in Agro-Foods industry for Customer Relationship Management.