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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Business Analyst & SME for Supply Chain Continuous Improvement - Lead continuous improvement efforts for our Supply chain team within our ERP systems - Work with consulting partners to solutionize for our process gaps, test & implement in our production environment, ensuring that the improvements meet internal requirements. - Collaborate with internal partners to identify and document inefficiencies in our processes, acting as a liason between business stakeholders and developers. - Train and mentor internal partners on best practices and newly implemented featuresProduction Planning and Scheduling • Maintain and manage the finite production schedule for our Middleton & Milton plants, while optimizing weekly labor utilization based on upcoming demand and available capacity. • Work closely with operations to build a balanced production schedule that meets our metric goals. • Consolidating and reporting on key metrics and KPI's that are used to monitor and calibrate our Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. • Assisted master scheduling, including MRP, item setup and capacity reviews.Materials Supply Planning and Purchasing • Purchasing & planning of our Bulk Ingredients for all Midwest production facilities • Effectively managing capacity constrained bulk inventories within a highly variable and dynamic demand schedule & multiple modes of delivery (Truck, Rail, & Container). • Successfully grew and managed our bulk rail transload process, including order management, planning transload schedule, forecasting projected future demand, and purchasing new orders. • Collaborating with our external suppliers and plant operations to optimize schedules and work through the frequent delays or changes that arise due to supply chain issues.

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

- Supporting project team during implementation of new procurement management platform by performing system configuration changes, developing trainings based on supplier feedback, and managing small implementation projects.- Process Mapping internal procurement system's operations to provide visibility to the system, highlight gaps in compliance, and drive best practices among users. Analyzed spend data within the specific purchasing group to look for risks in segregation of duties and control points & bring these issues to the foreground.- Updating SAP material group configuration master data. Developing changes in the development environment, tested & validated changes in the testing environment, and then transported those final changes into the production environment.- Developed PowerBI reports on historical spend analytics data to provide members of executive leadership a concise and high level view of spend data within particular categories.

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

As part of the Supply Chain Rotational Program, I have the experience to rotate between 3 Supply Chain roles over the year, allowing me to have hands-on experience at all ends of the supply chain. This opportunity helped me to gain a working understand of business operations, while developing tangible skills that help me deliver value and provide solutions with an insight that includes the scope of a company's entire operations.Rotation 1: Corporate Transportation & Logistics - Developed a network capacity report that summarized and standardized the way we look at capacity, working with DC site managers and project leaders to understand the individual needs of the sites, while displaying the data in an informative and visually appealing way that can be easily understood by a variety of people at different levels and functions within the company. - Supported a project to transfer and shift the inventory balance within our network, using previous data and future assumptions to forecast the impact that the network change would have on our customers. Further worked with S&OP and Alignment teams to determine how this project would effect operations, and work to make the transition as seamless as possible. - Assisted the logistics solutions team on the introduction of a quality management tool in SAP to help track and measure the quality of inbound shipments received from other sites & suppliers in our network. Used SAP to query data and output a report which would then be used a basis for a monthly dashboard to monitor the status of our inbound process, giving visibility to key issues that are impacting our quality and safety inside our transportation operations. - Created a pallet configuration database, in excel that used macros to search and update configuration specifications & images, allowing inbound processing teams to quickly search for the correct configurations to use, and have a visual guide during the put-away tasks

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

• Reviewing and Auditing SAP master data for the new implementation of PP/DS in plants BS and BK to correct any errors in material and routing master data during the implementation period• Master Scheduling work centers in the PP/DS environment in SAP to assist in daily production scheduling, ensuring the production floor is given a realistic and manageable schedule each week• Providing visibility and data on important business initiatives through updating various daily reports for key stakeholders, including schedule adherence reports, build plan progress reports, and other operational health reports• Scheduling delivery and unloading times for Shipping containers at multiple locations, offering consistent and timely support to a wide variety of stakeholders

Espoo, Uusimaa, Fi

• Analyze quantitative survey data in Excel through confidence testing and statistical analysis to identify how consumer reactions will affect the improvement of future products• Design and build research studies through Qualtrics to conduct research on new products for the consumers insights team, focusing on understanding the target consumer’s feelings towards products• Develop professional reports on PowerPoint to summarize the findings of our research, which is used by the Product Management & Innovation department to create beneficial product changes• Aggregate data from secondary research studies, developing trendlines and data points which are presented to key stakeholders to aid in the understanding of the market’s evolution• Created databases that can be searched and queried, which contains all the product concepts ideated in the past ten years, using Excel, Access, and physical data sources to give new team members a singular source of all past product concepts, as well as aid future ideation session by reducing redundancies

- Performed inspections on City contract's for the Engineering Department- Created request's for proposal of bids from contractors- Worked on data entry and filing of correspondence paperwork for Secretary using Microsoft Office (Word & Excel)- Designed layout for parking lot remodel on AutoCAD for Planning Commision- Demonstrated commitment and versatility through completion of office work for multiple departments

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

-Answered customers questions regarding plants and other nursery items-Took inventory on new shipments into the store-Delivered orders to customer’s homes-Helped customers carry and load plants and other items into their vehicles

Port Washington, Wisconsin, Us

-Stocked and Ran checks on inventory in warehouse-Shipped and Packed orders accurately and quickly -Set up and Ran booths at fairs to demo and sell the company’s products-Demonstrated commitment and motivation by working extra hours on days when help was needed

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, Supply Chain Management Emphasis

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Operations & Technology Management, Marketing, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration; Data Analytics, Marketing