Darran Sands Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, GB

Suffolk

Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

To lead the Supply Chain function for the Paint and Resin production plants for PPG Stowmarket, sitting on both the Supply Chain Regional Leadership team and Production Site Leadership team. I manage a team of 6 planners and analyst within production planning and procurement. Managing inventory, cost and service for all manufactured finished good items for.

To manage a team of analysts, responsible for inventory and service of finished goods throughout the regional warehouses structure of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. To understand the needs of customers in each region and translate this into sustainable inventory plans that balance inventory, customer service and cost. In addition to finished.

Recruit, deploy and supervise engineers to deliver installation, breakdown and preventative maintenance of electronic POS equipment to customers in the retail and leisure sectors. During this short term contract I supported projects for Toshiba, the CoOp and McDonalds. I also deployed a web based scheduling system including real time activity tracking of.

Overall responsibility for the IT and Supply Chain functions within the company. Manage all IT supplier relationships ensuring that the company IT infrastructure was maintained in line with business demand whilst driving down costs. Manage data integrity and process mapping and development on Airchannel's ERP system (IFS); this includes large data.

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of delivering a logistics solution for our key customers. This comprised of a 125k square foot consolidation centre off port and an on port non-food imports solution for Sainsbury's, covering 500k square foot of warehousing on the Port of Felixstowe. I was dedicated to the management of all administration, customer.

The management of 3 team managers and 20 replenishment analysts who deliver stock management to circa 1300 Somerfield, Somerfield Essentials and Kwik Save stores.Control replenishment of all ambient and frozen stock including managing major promotional and seasonal activity.Responsible for achieving and reporting key performance indicators of stock holding.