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Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

OutlineOwning the demand and forecast planning process across Central Spares' scope of supply.Key Responsibilities• Highlight opportunity to reduce and/or transfer stock based on demand and forecast requirements.• manage and develop systems & intelligence to achieve targets for availability at regional warehouses.• Preparation of required material data for Order Management to procure, store and distribute goods.• Manage and develop systems & intelligence to achieve targets for availability at regional warehouses. • Develop and optimise processes in MRP to help deliver a pro-active spares service. Key Achievements• Developed a system for calculating spares requirements in 3 regions (EU, NA and APAC) for 28 (+) regional distribution centres.• Pivoted same tool to feed demand data into new MRP process in development.

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

OutlineResponsible for International procurement and delivery of spares to support Ocado and Ocado client sites globally. Working to achieve business goals, whilst building relationships with suppliers to ensure on time delivery. Dealing directly with internal and external agents, to ensure timely goods clearance through customs.Key Responsibilities• Placing orders which must meet expected budget costs.• Achieving targets to reduce costs and inventory year on year.• Monitor supply and demand, rescheduling deliveries where appropriate.Key Achievements• Developed tool using Google Sheets to track and manage spares coverage for a major site upgrade.• Reporting weekly to Senior Leadership to scope risk and manage remedial activity.

Royston, England, United Kingdom

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

OutlineWorking for a leading wholesaler of office products. Controlling inventory levels and availability of Electronic Office Supplies and Business Machines. Dealing with large Blue Chip organisations such as Brother and Sharp.Key Responsibilities• Building relationships with a portfolio of 36 suppliers, delivering 3,200+ products to up to 5 separate locations.• Resolving issues with forecasting, pricing, ordering, intake and storage across a number of systems and working groups to ensure that every product is available for purchase within the shortest possible lead time.• Forecasting demand and resolving forecast exceptions on all 3,200+ products, and providing realistic data to my supplier base.• Working with the marketing team to plan for future promotional activity to ensure that the correct volume of stock is in place at the correct time to support marketing goals. Key Achievements• With an annual spend of ~£50 million, introduced a stock reduction from £2.3 to £1.8 million, whilst maintaining target availability.• Project managing a change in EDI processes with a third party provider to resolve order transmission errors.

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

OutlineScoping and developing a comprehensive reporting suite to assist the inventory team with maintenance of stock levels and availability. Eventually this role was extended to support the wider business with key stock information.Key Responsibilities• Co-ordinating data retrieval from E3 Forecasting Tool plus FOCUS and AS400 systems, then subsequently on Infor10 and SAP Business Objects.• Developing and maintaining linked databases to output internal and external reporting from above disparate systems in a variety of formats including Excel and PDF. • Part of a project team tasked with automation of all reporting tools through VBA to enable access to necessary reports as early as possible. Key Achievements• Developed a consolidated inventory report, summarising demand and availability across ~18,000 products and 7 locations, broken down by Product Category and Pareto.• Achieved a reduction in reporting time of around 2 hours through automation.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Monitoring data integrity and analysing purchasing and production requirements through MRP using SAP.• Part of a key team implementing and integrating SAP MRP system to replace legacy systems.• Obtaining quotes, negotiating and selecting suppliers for newly published products.• Maintaining stock levels, placing orders in UK, the Far East and US.• Developing and utilising systems for stock analysis and production scheduling, using various legacy systems.

Atherstone, England, United Kingdom

• Conducting an extensive environmental audit for a major client.• Ordering and maintenance of water quality monitoring equipment.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Advanced Environmental Practice, Merit

H.N.D., Applied Biology, Merit