Daniel Tuan Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Led a team of 6 in generating bottomup demand forecasts for major retail channels including Walmart, BestBuy, Target, and Costco, across 5 brands in the U.S. and Canada• Established and Standardized CPFR and PSI ladder forecast methodologies and the entire forecast review process, enhancing crossfunctional collaboration and resulting in forecast accuracy increases from 50% to 70%• Developed key tools and processes including Fluctuation Report, Forecast Accuracy Report, Sellout Dashboard, Weekly Briefing, Forecast Sign-off Process, and monthly S&OP meetings. These initiatives improved visibility, facilitated root cause analysis, and enhanced engagement with business teams• Identified and resolved data timing issues in collaboration with crossfunctional teams, reducing financial data discrepancies by 50% and improving work efficiency by 2hr/person/wk• Stabilized supply shortages and reduced air freight ratio from over 20% to single digits in 2023 through persistent coordination and proposing strategic rule adjustment to leadership• Enhanced team efficiency by 20%, managing more categories and channels with two fewer headcounts. Cultivated team growth, leading to 2 promotions within a year by spearheading impactful process improvements.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

• Lead a team of 4 professionals to manage TV/AV CPFR(demand planning) process with 20+ retailer and distributor customer accounts. • Host weekly CPFR process to collaborate with Account sales managers and buyers for Costco, Amazon, and key regional retailers totaling $1B in annual sales. • Create and distribute advanced sales analysis weekly and ad-hoc basis to SVP and senior management level to provide early warning and risk assessment.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

Analyze data and collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and distributors to generate 9-month demand forecast for B2B products such as Smart Signage, Hand Held Phone, HTV, Tablet, PC, and Monitor. Make order recommendations to ensure healthy inventory level for distributors. Analyze trend to give early warning signals to impact marketing strategy. • Lead weekly collaboration calls with 7 nationwide distributors to optimize demand forecast.• Manage Samsung’s largest B2B category, Smart Signage, which leads industry with yearly $600M revenue. • Initiate and execute process/system improvement projects – o Early Order Program - improve distributor’s engagement of future forecast and to help the company to evaluate current gap to monthly target. o Pipeline Optimization Project - gain engagement from field sales to improve long-term forecast, which lead to more efficient stocking and less aging issues in channel as well as Samsung hub. o PO Lock Program – improve order to forecast accuracy from 50% to 90+%.o Forecast system integration and Excel report building – improve efficiency and forecast accuracy.• Improve sell-thru forecast accuracy 11% to 72% and sell-thru A/R from +/- 10% to +/-5%.• Standardize multiple weekly reports to track forecast fluctuation and root cause analysis.• Supervise and lead 3 junior staffs to cover all B2B categories with over $1B annual revenue.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Sourced from the best vendors in terms of cost and timeline to fulfill the instant needs for customers. Managed over 100 orders and generated $10,000+ gross revenue per day with great efficiency and accuracy. Increased sales volume as well as retained the customer relationships. • Reviewed historical data and forecasted levels of demand to meet the business needs. Identified top-sellers and maintained buffer stock to minimize stock-out rate. • Analyzed inventory and sales record to identify inventory errors, improving efficiency and reducing risk of lost sales due to inventory error. Identified potential vendors and built up purchasing procedures with new vendors from scratch.

Edison, New Jersey, Us

Oversaw and managed over 50 projects simultaneously, coordinating and negotiating with vendors and clients such as Giant Tiger, Dollarama, Five Below, Walmart to ensure all the requirements and timelines can be met.• Sourced and negotiated pricing with vendors to ensure best possible price/schedule/quality are reached for production.• Built and developed the procedures and compliances of a promising new category of product line as a leading product manager, engaging with new vendors and clients to establish all the procedures and requirements. • Organized over 400 emails from vendors, in-house team, and customers per day, identifying problems and updating timelines, then managed each situation accordingly. • Prioritized all the problems and assignments to ensure efficiency and make sure all projects are well managed on schedule. • Compiled database of all projects and worked with all vendors and customers to facilitate the production process. Accomplished over 100 production projects which are worth over $3 million gross revenue for the company.

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Analytical Skills:• Aggregated a feasibility analysis that includes revenue/sales forecast. Greatly increased the market potential value by over 20%. • Conducted a cost analysis, which indicated a cost saving of $469.13 per surgery and a total potential annual cost saving of $1.8 billion in healthcare by using FastStitch in abdominal surgery. Presentation Skills:• Made recommendations based on the feasibility analysis to help the company formulate a solid business plan and appeal to potential funding and partners.

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Accounting/Financial Skills:• Built systematic templates for client communication system, proposal writing, and inventory control system, which helped the company to improve business efficiency by 20%.• Conducted a thorough profitability analysis to evaluate the company cost structure, saving unnecessary expenses for over 10%.

Chutung Township, Hsinchu County, Tw

Analytical Skills:• Conducted primary and secondary analysis to build the forecast model for Industry/market projection, especially for Flat Panel Display (FPD) and end user devices. • Contributed to the creation of 2011 Flat Panel Display Industry Yearbook and 2011 Electronic Components Industry Yearbook, which are worth NT$6,000 per copy.Communication Skills:• Participated in a NT$3.99 trillion governmental project: Invest in Taiwan, providing professional suggestions for the foreign investors based on industry information and regulations in Taiwan.

Leadership and Communication Skills:• Instructed over 300 new recruits in basic infantry skills. • Led 15 squad leaders to accomplish daily missions that were delivered by the company commander.• Served as an Infantry advisor by collaborating with officers from other units.

Communication Skills:• Communicated frequently with over 50 customers to maintain and manage customer relationships. Received 100% satisfaction rate from customers.Problem-solving Skills:• Investigated and solved customers' problems and produced written information for customers.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General