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Detroit, MI, US

Wilmington, North Carolina, US

Hayward, California, US

-Responsible for the demand plan of $200M+ annual revenue of solar rooftop mounting solutions. -Generated the 2024 budget plan utilizing statistical forecast, market trends, seasonality, and sales input. -Lead the monthly executive SIOP meetings providing key recommendations for critical business plan decisions.-Continuous analysis of a rapidly changing.

Monroe, MI, US

-Managed the scheduling of 40k units per week across 7 North American plants.-Daily communication with U.S. Plants and Cut and Sew Center to review production availability, constraints and scheduling. -Reduced total backlog 1.2M units by making production plan adjustment recommendations and proactively balancing load between plants.-Decreased extended lead.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• Acquired, coached and collaborated with four direct reports
• Responsible for all product forecasting. 10k SKUs with monthly demand of 300k units using SO99+ planning software.
• Daily communication, teaching and problem solving assistance within the team. Valuable weekly team meetings to share learning experiences as well review tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Responsible for driving key KPI metrics: Customer fill rate, supplier fill rate, supplier past due and customer backorders as well as inventory budget and DIO.
• Led the forecasting, inventory planning and supply chain execution of $20m+ revenue months with 97%+ fill rate for each unique customer opportunity.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• Designed and implemented new process for monthly SIOP meetings to align cross functionally between sales, category, finance, supply chain and operations for critical executive business decisions.
• Launched global SO99+ forecasting software as the key user and North America UAT lead driving results to meet deadlines.
• Validated and maintained statistical forecasts for $200m+ annual revenue of 10k unique SKUs across all product lines while leveraging accuracy and efficiency.
• Implemented, reviewed, and updated forecast for 2k+ unique SKUs for new Steering and Suspension product line launch to achieve business growth.
• Calculated and maintained key system parameters such as ABC classification for safety stock to maximize KPI results.

Northville, Michigan, US

• Designing, generating and implementing daily, monthly and yearly statistical forecast reports for over 3,000+ unique SKUs (~111m units annually) across 3 product lines: Lighting, Spark Plugs, and Wipers.
• Assemble and analyze using SAP all data pertinent to create the sales forecast (historical sales, market trends, seasonality, promotions, and inventory levels).
• Projects include UAT testing and training for Supply Network Planning in SAP.
• Train, develop and coach direct report – Supply Chain Planner located in Juarez, Mexico.

Northville, Michigan, US

• Duties Include:
• Generate and implemented statistical forecast reports for over 50,000+ unique SKUs across 20 different product lines.
• Lead 9 product line SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning) meetings cross-functionally with marketing, sales, inventory, and customer manager. Reviewed recommended sales forecasts, inventory goals, and internal.
• Established strong cross-functional relationships. Increased SIOP participation to gain critical insight of unpredicted events pertaining to product line.
• Make recommended adjustments to forecast and inventory targets based on changes in demand and market trends.

Northville, Michigan, US

• Demand planner and inventory analyst for the lighting product line.Duties include:
• Generate and implemented statistical forecast reports for over 1k SKUs for the Lighting product line.
• Manage inventory budget of $8mil at cost while improving customer fill rate from 82% to 96%.
• Prepared monthly forecast and inventory budget measurements (forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets - known as inventory 'flash').
• Provided monthly forward plans to multiple suppliers based on forecast, inventory levels, and production lead time
• Maintained, analyzed, reviewed open purchase orders to suppliers. Prioritized customer fill rate while reducing inventory.

Northville, Michigan, US

• Responsible for reporting inventory levels, turns and fill rates by lines, quantity and dollars shipped/received for multiple product lines.
• Daily duties included customer fill rate report, backorder report, shipped/received report, and replenishment report.
• Weekly reports include global fill rate report, global vendor shipping performance report, product in transit report, and a global metrics tracking report.
• Monthly and yearly reports include global vendor shipping performance by business unit, as well as customer fill rates by product line.
• Created an automated global reporting system with Defiance Technologies maximizing key supply chain goals: efficiency, accuracy in reporting, and effectiveness.

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Updated Grainger and Staples Inc. pricing catalogs including thousands of SKU's within our company system for greater customer support and financial records.
• Entered Purchasing card data from multiple suppliers into our item template while paying significant attention to detail.

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Completed numerous projects throughout the summer in a timely and precise fashion for companies such as Johnson Controls.
• Produced spreadsheets, tables and graphs for multiple project managers using data from the AS/400 system catalog.
• Managed and updated numerous SKU's in the AS/400 database

Bachelor’S Degree, Eli Broad College Of Business - Supply Chain Management

High School