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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Reviews company-wide operations and communicates key insights and root causes to leadership to drive decision making, process optimizations and drive other business strategies.
• Built and maintain a fully automated comprehensive operations, KPI and scorecard utilizing SQL Server ETL and Power BI for consumption of end users at all levels of enterprise
• Created a critical COVID supply and Vaccination dashboard tracker utilizing SQL and Power BI to track mandatory compliance of vaccination status of employees and veterans per federal and VA policies. Information from.
• Work with a broad set of data problems including the extraction, loading, transforming, cleaning, and validating data needed to drive insights to solve business problems.
• Daily tracking and coordination of inventory of over 31,000 SKU’s across 8 VA hospitals to ensure operational success.
• Research, design and develop models and visualizations to inform various functional teams with deep insights to empower them to unlock value in the business and take action in a strategic manner.

North Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Accountable for 295 million of capital assets (buildings) 95 million of capital assets (equipment) with total direct report count of 8 to 4 department heads in addition total division head count of 103 in-direct reports.
• Led change management of aligning SCM (Supply Chain Management) org chart and positions to national requirements and worked with HR to strategically identify to fill open roles in line with new organizational needs.
• Provided strategic direction to division heads for the materials / supply chain organization and developed and executed the overall strategy for materials planning, inventory control and purchasing strategies.
• Collaborated and engaged with cross-functional leaders and partners in Planning & Allocation of resources and National Warehouse Operations to develop and execute strategic plans.
• Identified and implemented continuous improvement activities to increase efficiency and accuracy across the organization.
• Made recommendations related to annual budget, headcount, and operating plans – and continuously evaluated all aspects of the supply chain operation to identify opportunities to optimize cost and operations.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Led the planning and inventory management as well as drove analysis and optimization of inventory management systems and processes to achieve world class inventory availability and inventory health.Responsibly for over 25 million of spend annually managing 1,600 SKU’s.Implemented Lean/Green Initiative of converting paper purchase records into a digital.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Managed three functional areas with 24 direct reports across three shifts for 24/7/365 operational support.Supervised the daily work schedules of warehouse employees involved in performing a combination of shipping, receiving, loading and unloading trucks, stacking, picking and palletizing finished products.Updated all training manuals and entire training.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Lead and implemented Lean process improvement project to standardize all medical supplies and supply rooms (53) across entire hospitalCreated automated process using Macros in Visual Basic to correct or remove 1,000 of lines of erroneous data points in ERP system.