Christopher Cameron Email & Phone Number

Bellingham, Wa, Us

Bellingham, Washington, United States

Bellingham, Washington, United States

Eugene, Oregon Area

Responsible for Planning and Scheduling departments, and promoted to assume leadership of Procurement Department, with a spending budget of $48M. Ownership of S&OP process involving collaborative sales forecast using statistical modeling, historic smoothing, promotional planning, industry trend analysis, capacity planning, and what-if analysis.- Interim General Manager during the transition period to 8th Avenue.- Interim VP of Procurement for entire 8th Avenue organization with a budget of >$450M. - Realized $1M in annual planning savings for sister company (Golden Boy Foods) project. - $3M in production planning savings over the past eight years, $200K in carrying cost savings over last year, and a 99.3% customer fill rate through allergen and changeover optimization, efficient inventory management, and overall business modeling with customers to improve forecast and service levels. - Extended ingredient backup supply base from 48% to 80%, reduced raw material cost by almost 3% (savings of over $4.5M over three years) and greatly increased stability in the supply chain by leveraging secondary and tertiary sources. - Obtained new production line approval, and instillation resulting in additional $150K annual sequencing savings in 2018 & 2019 (and ongoing). - Created and coded BOM and router costing model in JD Edwards that accurately takes into account run size, changeover times, and other fixed scale elements for costing and capacity planning. - Key role in successful JD Edwards ERP implementation (no production stoppage, customer impact, or material supply interruption), pulling all companies under the same ERP platform and the 8th Avenue organization.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Responsible for the Inventory, Planning, Scheduling, and IT departments, and the S&OP process, including integrating all aspects of sales, planning, and manufacturing as the company transitioned from Hearthside to Post Holdings. Introduction and ownership of co-manufacturing process to the organization. Leveraged IT knowledge to provide KPI, financial, planning, and production reports to the plant and corporate office. - Responsible for integrating sister company (Attune San Francisco) into Attune ($2M savings) and creating co-manufacturing processes. - Further work with R&D and Sales regarding product formulation and SKU consolidation realized $40,000 additional annual planning efficiency savings by linking commercialization process with Purchasing and Planning. - Successfully led supply planning to achieve lowest total cost, while balancing a significant allergen matrix, limited warehouse space, noncontiguous production, large changeover costs, carrying cost, shelf life concerns, and service rate goals.

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Managed plant Inventory and IT departments, as well as Planning, Scheduling and the S&OP processes. - Continued to leverage IT knowledge to provide KPI, financial, planning, and production reports to the plant and corporate office. - Built and improved pricing process to capture hidden costs regarding changeover times, sanitation requirements, MOQ aging, production interruptions, etc., tying the commercialization process into the planning team to ensure new development items fit the business model. - Worked with R&D and Sales regarding product formulation and SKU consolidation, realized $100,000 additional annual planning efficiency savings.

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Responsible for Planning, Scheduling, and the S&OP process. Reduced item level forecast error by 18% and reduced changeover events by 28% for an annual savings of $250K. - Key role in building entire QA documentation application in Oracle with workflows for approval process, company notifications, and status reports, resulting in the unification of all departments creating one source of truth without manual workarounds. - Promoted in 2010 to move from supporting the S&OP team to leading the process and the team.

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Conducted Forecasting, Scheduling, Production, R&D, Inventory, Costing, and Purchasing regarding Oracle ERP implementation (training, application use, business processes, report writing, and troubleshooting). - Delivered Oracle ERP Implementation, unifying company under single source of "truth" in reporting and structure, by deliberately keeping the business processes inside the ERP structure, enabling the executive team to easily and quickly control the direction of the organization through the planning modules and S&OP process. - Conducted RFI, process modeling, gap analysis, and led conference room pilot testing.- Coded BOM Explosion with proportional and fixed scaling elements for costing and planning, forecasts for raw materials with a link back through the BOM to finished goods, production reports identifying cost variance down to ingredient, packaging and labor.