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Napa, Ca

Responsible the Demand Planning portion of the S&OP cycle, including developing a demand forecast using data such as industry/market trends, sales forecasts, shipment histories and marketing plans. • Interact with Sales, Marketing, Business Insights, and Supply Planning to understand and interpret the potential impact that market trends and demand drivers can have on demand, and adjust forecast to reflect those impacts. • Assess the impact of market changes or significant variances in the forecast, and recommend appropriate revisions. • Worked with leadership to transition demand planning process from quarterly to monthly cycle.• Work with various cross functional teams on projects such as new product launches, line extensions, product discontinuations, etc. Demonstrate sound business decision-making, aligned with company goals • Business SME for implementation of SAP IBP Demand Planning. Worked with Deloitte, TFE IT and business stakeholders to submit requirements, test, validate, and implement.• Designed and developed interim solution to improve demand planning process and integrate forecast, order, shipment, depletion and distributor inventory data for the first time at TFE. This utilized SAP, SQL Server, and MS-BI.

Napa, Ca

Responsible for analysis of all winery commercial demand and planning systems, collaboration solutions and reporting resulting in recommendations to advance global winery business strategies and goals. • Managed team responsible for Sales Analytics applications and all collaboration solutions primarily using Microsoft and Cognos technologies (SQL Server, Microsoft BI, SharePoint, and COGNOS).• Worked with IT and Business Leadership on roadmaps for the next generation of Collaboration and Business Performance Measurement for TFE, and led teams engaged to deliver the first round of these improvements.• Worked with in-house development team and managed external resources to architect and deliver improved depletion database and reporting solution. Through improved database design employing slowly changing dimensions, simplified star schemas and data integrity checks as well as collaboration with TDLinx, BDN (now VIP) and Distributor partners, retail account depletion data accuracy and reconciliation was improved to over 99%. • Utilized Microsoft cloud (Azure) solutions and external resources to rapid-prototype a solution to deliver improved retail data reporting (Nielsen) solution using SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, and PowerPivot. In-house implementation shortened ETL, validation, and delivery time of this data to by more than 80% along with adding improved reporting performance and capabilities.• Oversaw project to upgrade SharePoint to 2013 in order to deliver enhanced BI reporting and collaboration capabilities. Project was delivered 70% under budget and on-time while greatly adding to business SP capability.• Developed solutions to deliver Demand EOQ tracking, warehouse capacity modeling, and detailed expense reporting.

Napa, Ca / Norwalk, Ct

Business Analyst responsible for sales planning and measurement solutions for Diageo North America.- Project Lead and Architect for Commercial Volume Planning solution utilizing cloud based platform (Anaplan) and Agile methodologies. This solution enables efficient, exception based sales planning at a standardized level of detail not previously possible.- Led team to develop 1st generation Trade Promotion Management (TPM) planning solution.- Responsible for delivery of rapid proof of concept planning solutions working with business stakeholders and vendors. This enabled better solution evaluation and requirements definition during initial project scoping.- Worked with other analysts and business leaders to map new and existing commercial planning processes for Diageo North America's Sales, Marketing and Finance units.- Led collaborative effort with implementation partner to gather requirements and develop back office processes and integration of pricing, credits / debits, master data, purchase requests and actual spend with SAP CRM (TPM, BW, and core SAP modules).

Napa, Ca / Norwalk, Ct

Managed the team responsible for Order to Cash (OTC) business process support and improvement, fulfillment of export orders, and Customer EDI for Diageo’s North American business.

Napa, Ca

Responsible for the enablement, support and improvement of Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay (PTP), and Record to Report (RTR) processes for Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines.• Supported business critical systems and process across multiple workstreams (Finance, Sales & Distribution, Manufacturing, and Purchasing). Worked with 3rd party partners, Accenture and IBM, as needed to resolve issues.• Identified and implemented numerous business process improvements and drive efforts to leverage SAP functionality to create efficiencies and better ways of working across Customer Service, Pricing & Compliance, Inventory, and Data Management teams. Partnered with Accenture to implement and test system changes.• Played a key role in the integration of the Chalone Wine Group and Rosenblum Cellars companies with Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines including business process integration, data conversion, systems testing and user training.• Awarded the CIO’s award for most successful project for Fiscal Year 2005 as workstream lead for Diageo’s first North American implementation of SAP Full Warehouse Management.• Developed training materials and conducted user training at multiple sites.• Developed reports to manage daily business activity and track key metrics.• Led the Logistics work stream for Diageo’s Project Unity - the successful implementation of a single global instance of SAP across 24 markets to 14,000 employees. A global SAP platform integrates business processes into a single database across Diageo's global markets, delivering common processes, reducing overall IT costs, and providing a common view to users worldwide. Very few companies, in CPG and beyond, can claim such an achievement on a global scale.

St Helena, Ca

• Managed the Business Process Team to support and improve ERP(SAP) and legacy system related processes. Coordinate all functional changes to the SAP R/3 system.• Identified and documented potential improvements to systems or procedures for possible implementation.• Worked with Winery Leadership and key business stakeholders to maintain, prioritize, and schedule IS projects.• Administered MS Windows 2000 Server running MS SQL Server 7 and Congnos reporting tools. • Maintained corporate reporting applications using SQL Server and Cognos tools.

St Helena, Ca

• Directed the day-to-day activities of the Business Process Team.• Responsible for SAP configuration and support of the Sales and Distribution (SD) module.• Led SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) implementation of Release 4.6B. This included gathering and documenting user requirements, writing specifications for programmers and testing ABAP programs (custom reports, interfaces, etc.), coordinating testing, and legacy data conversion to SAP.• Administered user authorizations for the SAP R/3 system. Implemented company policy for SAP security (profile generator). Created activity groups and profiles for standard functional roles.• Initiated and developed a data warehousing application for account level depletion, shipment and inventory reporting using Microsoft SQL Server and Cognos tools for local management and Field Sales personnel.

St Helena, Ca

• Provided the support and configuration for the implementation of the Sales and Distribution module of the SAP R/3 system, including the order processing, shipping, billing, pricing and product allocation processes.• Supported reporting applications involving legacy PC and AS/400 based distributor sales (depletion) tracking system.• Researched, developed, and implemented a distributor sales reporting system using Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, and Cognos PowerPlay. Trained, deployed and supported the application for the national sales force.• Supervised the sales reporting systems support staff.

St Helena, Ca

• Developed and maintained the company mailing list databases using Paradox and FileMaker Pro.• Implemented and supported the retail sales room Point of Sale System.