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Winfield, Illinois, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas

 Manage $100MM+ inventory replenishment for apples, pears, and limes across 44 DCs and 4,500+ stores for North America Establish and monitor sales forecasts for all items at Corporate, DC, and store levels Drive improved customer satisfaction through root cause identification and correction Work with suppliers, demand management, transportation and.

Plainfield, Illinois

 Managed $80MM+ in annual spend across corrugated, labels, cartons, bags, & trinkets Drove year on year cost savings through contract negotiation and pack improvement initiatives Developed and managed new team members on Procurement WOWs and career development

Plainfield, Illinois

 Drove the commercialization of new to world SKUs from concept through production Worked with both domestic and international stakeholders on project timeline development and implementation Executed against multi-faceted budgets to ensure COGS goals are met

Plainfield, IL

 Planned and scheduled 800,000+cs/wk for 10 production lines using SAP Optimized scheduling through the management of run rates, changeover matrices, and minimum batch requirements resulting in schedule adherence of 90%  Planned start-up production of 60+ new SKUs across three new production lines

Naperville, IL