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Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for demand planning of $3M annual revenue customer. Key responsibilities include working with procurement and manufacturing coordinators to ensure cost effective manufacturing while maintaining excellent on time delivery. Partner with internal cross-functional teams to understand customer goals and key performance metrics. Focus on ensuring we maintain superior customer service levels, operational excellence and strategic insight. Four direct reports. • Gather, analyze, and summarizes forecast data to recommend and implement solutions on supply disconnects• Manage SMI (Supplier Managed Inventory) program ensuring the customers on hand inventor levels are met.• Partner with logistic team to manage on hand inventory and resolve issues impacting shipments to customers

Austin, Texas Area

Applied Materials Product PlannerMaintained consistent, on-time material flow to meet production schedules and customer requirements while minimizing inventory investment. Conducted available to promise analysis and establish scheduled ship dates on all customer orders. Defined and implemented balanced production plans and schedules to assure tools were completed per the manufacturing schedule.• Expertly supported day-to-day purchasing operations while working closely with suppliers and customers to improve commitments and reduce cost as it relates to the over-all project• Specialized in production and inventory control and material resource planning (MRP) integrity• Identified material shortages and drove corrective actions to mitigate impact to customer commitments

Austin, Texas Area

Coordinated yearly contract price negotiations with top 10 customers in my region to determine new pricing. Managed sales quote activity for the Southeast and Central U.S. territory. Partnered with sales to confirm customer forecast to the planning organization to build strategic inventory on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.• Analyzed CRM data using Tableau to identify new business opportunities; partnered with sales to identify customer needs associated with high growth opportunities, tracked progress and updated business management team on key opportunities• Managed PCN process to customers stating the changes made in the raw/supplementary materials, design, or process of products allowing the customer to apply the changes in a timely manner• Provided input into the monthly S&OP process on new products by unit and price to assure front and back end capacity was reserved for build plans

Austin, Texas Area

Enabled effective supply chain management by reviewing the long-term customer forecast and supply resources across a thirty-six week rolling horizon to identify capacity disconnects and under loadings in order to resolve issues impacting customer commitments. Partnered with product engineering to drive planning parameter improvements allowing for full tester utilization maximizing capacity.• Analyzed weekly customer forecast using Excel to rationalize wafer starts versus existing inventory in order to build product for customers while staying within the capacity allocated by the factory. Developed and presented recovery plans on capacity shortages impacting customer commitments to the manufacturing and business unit management teams• Lead the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and quarterly Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process with business, finance and factory teams• Represented business group on monthly calls with Sales and Marketing to discuss the ability to support customer orders and potential upside

Austin, Texas Area

Developed and implemented weekly master planning schedule (MPS) for 20 product lines for the largest customer of the corporation using SAP. Balanced inventory across the supply chain network to ensure corporate and customer inventory targets were met. Participated on cross-functional teams in the areas of bookings & billings, customer on time delivery improvement, customer scorecard improvement and reported results to Senior Management Team on a monthly basis. • Managed supplier-managed inventory (SMI) program for customers via electronic data interchange (EDI) to ensure the customer's gross requirements, inventory, and desired minimum/maximum inventory levels were met• The customer's first point of contact for weekly forecast analysis and resolution of tactical delivery issues• Developed and implemented early build strategies to push out disconnects impacting supply to customers and eliminate capital investment in order to meet customer demands