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Goodlettsville, TN, US

Goodlettsville, TN, US

Goodlettsville, TN, US

• Team lead responsible for the completion of the company’s largest strategic initiative to date, which resulted in the creation of a perishable supply chain and self-distribution of fresh products from 12 DC’s to over.
• Cross functional leader managing internal and external resources needed to plan, execute, and adjust project plans and develop capabilities to support creation of a self-distribution refrigerated and frozen network.
• Developed business processes, reporting, and collaborated w/ IT to influence systems requirements and design to deliver improved product quality, freshness, and customer instock to support sales, damage, and profit.
• Additionally, Created and led two major fresh process improvement workstreams, the first being a dairy value stream mapping exercise that identified and eliminated excess inventory, damages, and drove sales of fluid.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Provide vision and leadership to transform daily business processes for a multi-billion-dollar company by improving work flow, measurement, and collaboration between functional teams.
• Team leader for the Business Process Improvement team. Responsible for redesigning daily execution processes that supported S&OP results.
• Subject matter expert for retailer collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) processes, analytics, and standardization.Select Mars Petcare Achievements:
• Developed and introduced tiered daily stand up meetings that drove +20% improvements in customer service by focusing on key metrics and driving cultural changes to support problem solving.
• Created automated system to support issue management and escalation while enabling analytics and insights on frequency, size, scope and impact of issues.
• Designed and implemented a retailer demand signal repository to bring all customer data into a centralized location allowing for best practice sharing, automation, and standardization of work across desks.

Goodlettsville, TN, US

• Lead cross-functional strategic projects to drive out costs and support aggressive growth targets at the nation’s largest value channel retailer with 15K stores.
• Lead for project management group responsible for dynamic roster of strategic projects. Responsible for managing projects from conception to completion while providing updates to key stakeholder and executive team.
• Responsible for identifying improvement opportunities and designing solutions to enable company goals.Select Dollar General Achievements:
• Achieved savings across multiple business segments. Store Operations (6-12 Hours/Store and 1.5-2 comp sales), Finance/Replenishment ($400M), Marketing ($22M), Facilities Management ($5M), Product Recovery ($2.5M).
• Created a collaboration with Simbe Robotics and Trax Image Recognition to develop the first fully automated robot to capture and evaluate images of on shelf availability in 2015.

Irving, TX, US

• Responsible for creating industry leading collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) processes and demand planning retailer demand signal integration with Kimberly-Clark’s largest customer.
• Developed best in class CPFR processes and tools that allowed for exception-based collaboration at a lower level of granularity than previously possible with the same head count. Processes created enabled the team to.
• Worked with planning subject matter experts to evaluate and integrate collaborative retailer demand signals and event plans into internal forecasting systems and processes allowing for better service at lower inventory.

Irving, TX, US

• Drive efficiency and capability by developing new supply chain business processes and leverage enhancements to eliminate work and increase sales.
• Designed and built supply chain centric business intelligence database and tools that led to transformational shelf back replenishment processes resulting in 20 hours per week of time savings and an incremental $4.5M.
• LEAN coordinator responsible for teaching and training of LEAN principles and processes.Select Kimberly-Clark Achievements:
• Created a best in class processes to provide recommendations around on shelf availability (OSA), its root causes and impact on lost sales resulting in $50 Million in reclaimed sales.
• In recognition of the work on OSA and CPFR, I was selected by Wal-Mart to be the first supplier that they shared their new global replenishment system order forecast with. The output of that collaboration resulted in a.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Established business process improvement team tasked with identifying areas of opportunity within replenishment and planning. Created systems and processes to support recommended countermeasures.
• Responsible for proof of concept, short term transformational projects that reduced workloads, streamlined processes, and enabled long-term strategic initiatives by leveraging data and automation resulting payback in.
• Working with Wal-Mart IT and Microsoft, designed and deployed the largest OLAP cube in the world (as of 2008) to transform internal category management processes.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Created and maintained financial P&L budgets and forecasts for the infant / toddler girls area in the apparel department.
• Planning, forecasting, and managing spend in an area responsible for more than $300M in annual sales. Developed new planning processes that streamlined and improved results that were adopted across all apparel.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Responsible for leading corporate strategic cross-functional initiatives from concept to completion.
• Managed large corporate cross functional initiatives designed to improve sales, profitability, quality and freshness of perishable and promotional products.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Developed and executed project plans to enhance current business goals and objectives.
• Performed statistical root-cause analysis to develop business cases for corporate projects.
• Partnered with corporate IT department to develop applications and strengthen current business processes.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Bentonville, Arkansas, US