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Everett, Washington, United States

• Developing baseline demand plans to understand trends and seasonality with intermittent sales data.
• Developing KPI’s and tracking early forecast accuracy.

Woodinville, Washington, United States

• Implemented and overseeing demand planning and demand execution processes, including design, procedures, responsibilities, and metrics
• Managed the monthly demand planning process, including developing a rolling 24-month aggregate demand plan and a detailed SKU level demand plan over a 13-week planning horizon
• Created spreadsheets for manual forecast modeling. Partnered with IT support to build reports in Business Objects Database for repeatable data gathering.
• Led monthly Sales Consensus meeting with senior executive team (CEO, CFO, VP Global Sales and VP Operations and Supply Chain)
• Assisted in improving demand plan accuracy and eliminating bias from the plans
• Collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Managers and Customer Engagement to determine and document assumptions, latest market trends, and promotional activities

Greater Seattle Area

• Drove Global Demand Planning to produce periodic demand plans for three global regions
• Led Global Supply Planning to create purchase plans and to effectively allocate supply to our global distributors and customers
• Developed and created KPI’s for Supply Chain Planning functions with a focus on demand, supply and inventory metrics
• Drove the development of the Global S&OP processes by facilitating communications between Sales, Finance, Purchasing, Product Development, Demand Planning and Operations teams.
• Provided strategic planning and input to executive team on operational activities.
• Mentored, directed and coached international team of supply chain planners, based in Hong Kong

Everett, WA

• Building out the functional areas of Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Order Management and Sales Reporting at Funko LLC
• Implemented and led the Sales and Operations Planning Process with focus on the key business groups of; Product Development, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Purchasing and Finance
• Partnered with Procurement team to ensure all purchase signals are processed in a timely manner
• Implemented a product life cycle process from item concept to Finished Good receipt, to guarantee critical dates are met to ensure product availability
• Partnered with Sales to optimize production of Finished Goods by balancing demand for new development and continuous selling items
• Created Point-of-Sale (POS) forecasting tool to improve visibility and predictability of incoming demand from our key retail partners (Amazon, Wal-Mart & Target)

Everett, WA

• Created and documented forecasting methodology and process. Created the forecast model used in the monthly demand planning process.
• Along with implementing Demand Planning at Funko, collaborated on warehouse consolidation project; both initiatives help Funko achieve a 35% improvement in inventory turns
• Built forecast accuracy measurement tools. Improved forecast accuracy by 10% in the first six months. Forecast accuracy now averages 70% since launching the demand planning process.
• Created Sales Planning Tool which is used to ensure the timely and effective gathering of key customer demand signals
• Built Inventory Aging Report to help Sales and Finance track inventory through the product life cycle. Inventory is segregated by age to improve visibility of potential obsolescence.
• Recruited and built out a Demand Planning and Order Management team of three

Seattle, WA

• Created and implemented Demand Planning and Sales Reporting functions
• Responsible for demand planning, purchasing, sales forecasting, sales reporting, and inventory management
• Built and maintained relationships with key vendor partners
• Improved key item planning by developing Demand Plans, Safety Stocks and an MOQ analysis, which resulted in a reduction of on hand inventory of over $1 million dollars
• Analyzed retail sales data by customer and product to discern key business trends to help drive retail sales and new product development
• Member of the Leadership team, setting direction and strategy for sales and operations planning

Redmond, WA

• Launched the demand planning function at Clarisonic
• Developed and published a 15 month rolling forecast at the SKU level, monthly
• Managed the monthly forecast consensus process with Senior Management, Sales Directors, Marketing and Finance. Chaired the monthly S&OP (consensus) meeting.
• Led the annual forecasting process with Sr. Management, Sales Directors, Marketing and Finance
• Improved forecast accuracy from 33% to 65% in six months
• Designed and compiled a MS Access database of historic shipments which became the go-to source for historic shipment and returns data

Bothell, WA

• Created and implemented Demand Planning function
• Created and implemented a monthly demand planning procedure for the Network Solutions division using Demand Solutions forecast software
• Improved Leviton Network Solutions forecast accuracy by 15% to 69% measured by the Weighted Mean Absolute Percentage Error (WMAPE).
• Improved forecast accuracy for Leviton SKUs sold at a major retailer from 48% to 80% in six months. Achieved this result by creating a monthly forecast review meeting with our customers inventory analyst to review SKUs.
• Developed a forecast consensus meeting and created a forecast consensus report to review forecast performance and the rolling 12-month forecast.
• Led the monthly forecast consensus meeting, with Operations and Product Management.

Lake Forest, CA

• Responsible for $120 million demand plan for Canada. The demand plan covers three brands, 6,000 SKU’s and both Retail and Wholesale Channels.
• Demand Planning lead for a project that discontinued 6,000 SKU’s and launched 2,000 new SKU’s.
• Managed peer demand planners to ensure all forecasts were transitioned to the new SKU’s
• Developing CPFR tools for Home Depot Canada with Retail Sales Director and Regional Sales Manager. Using POS and customer inventory data to align demand plan.
• Developed and maintain Safety Stock calculation for three Distribution Centers, totaling 4,000 SKU’s across two brands.
• Designed and maintain Supply Demand Management (SDM) tool. 328 critical SKUs have their demand plans reviewed/adjusted weekly.

Lake Forest, CA

• Received Black and Decker Team Operational Excellence award for service level and lead-time improvements. Retail service levels improved from 89% and 15 days to 99% and 3 days lead-time. Wholesale service levels.
• Responsible for managing 2,500 Make-to-Stock Finished Goods SKU’s totaling $6 million
• Reviewed $3.2 million of Excess and Obsolete inventory (E&O) for Weiser Lock and developed a rework and liquidation plan. Identified $800 thousand for rework and $1.5 million for liquidation.
• Implemented two process improvement projects involving the Manugistics software application. Demand Planning moved from Demand Solutions software and Supply Planning moved from Excel and MRP reporting.

San Diego, CA

• Achieved a greater than 80% accuracy on monthly inventory level forecasting.
• Facilitated the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process meetings.
• Implemented lean (Kanban/JIT) purchasing methods and principles with two local mechanical assembly suppliers, which reduced company’s RAW material inventory from a 30-day supply to a 14-day supply.
• Purchased $25 million in parts, annually from large semiconductor supplier.
• Developed and implemented, with Unisys Corporate IT, a web-based inventory tracking system, that tracked inventory throughout the company’s supply chain, which reduced inventory obsolescence by $1.5 million in the.
• Maintained a 100% on time delivery to customer requirements for 10 consecutive quarters.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

• Generated all Supply/Demand plans for all products shipped from the Winnipeg Operations site.
• Selected to relocate the Supply/Demand Planning group from the Mission Viejo Operations site to the Winnipeg Operations site.
• Converted the monthly sales forecast into the master schedule, scheduled production line, and coordinated Return Material Authorization requests.