David Howard Email & Phone Number

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Chicago, Il, Us

I directed the integrated business planning (IBP) transformation at a Fortune 50 company, building solid relationships and advising leaders across 30 business units. I spearheaded planning change management and developed best practices training content for over 200 global colleagues.• Cost Reduction: Coached a cross-functional team of leaders and key stakeholders through an IBP transformation, saving $5M (10%) in inventory and manufacturing costs in two years. • Technology Discovery: Led the discovery process for a “full enterprise” APS tool selection, which included developing the value case for over $100M in margin improvement over seven years and the functional requirements list to cover varied supply chain planning models across business units.• Best Practices: Developed an extensive library of supply chain best practices to support business maturation and benchmarked the current state process of each business unit against this content to develop an improvement plan, identifying over $80M in potential cost savings.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

I led a supply chain planning turnaround for a 15-member team, collaborating with stakeholders at 15 sites and sales offices across three lines of business. I oversaw the implementation of the IBP meeting framework and content, led two key software integrations, and upgraded user experience to accelerate daily workflow improvements• Cross-Company Partnerships: Led a collaborative effort to improve the IBP process and include greater executive team involvement, enabling over $1.5M (1%) in margin improvement in 18 months.• Software Transformation: Partnered with IT to reboot the Oracle planning platform, improving inventory visibility to enable a service-level improvement of 2% while reducing the order-to-cash cycle by two days.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

I developed a team of eight direct reports to lead monthly regional S&OP processes for a business unit with 50 plants, 15,000 SKUs, and 10,000 customers. I partnered with the SAP implementation team to develop supply chain processes for optimized APO readiness.• Revenue Growth: Led project to increase capacity using a production wheel concept, boosting run length by 15%, adding 10% capacity, and enabling $500k (2%) revenue growth.• Strategic Planning: Demonstrated over $3M in capital spend avoidance in collaboration with Operations and Leadership by developing a capacity-utilization tool to show constraints in a 5-year horizon under various demand assumptions.• Demand Planning Buildout: Developed an Excel-based forecasting tool as the basis for a consensus demand planning process in partnership with the Commercial team, improving forecast accuracy at the SKU level from 40% to 65%.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

I directed a 20-person supply chain planning team, driving process discipline in S&OP activities for a seasonal business with 2,500 SKUs and 70,000 sales outlets. I influenced executive leadership at the privately owned business to adopt the best supply and demand balancing practices.Strategic Capacity Planning: Developed rough-cut capacity planning process, partnering with leadership to streamline execution and save $700k (2% total cost) in overtime.End-to-End Demand Planning: Overhauled demand planning and VMI processes, improving forecast accuracy from 55% to 75% and reducing post-season obsolescence by $1M (35%).

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

I developed a small team to drive corporate planning activities across a 5-site, custom-SKU ingredients business, creating new workflows in alignment with cross-functional stakeholders.• Process Redefinition: Created a robust MTO/MTS process to transition the business from an “endless customer service” mindset to a measurable and quantitatively defined target, contributing to service-level improvement from 97% to 99%.• System Optimization: Managed a 18-month selection and implementation of an APS software project across five sites, which met budget and delivered cost savings from manufacturing efficiency and an inventory reduction of 20%.

Olathe, Ks, Us

I managed a high-growth, multinational product line in a volatile consumer electronics market, maintaining a service level of over 98% while reducing inventory working capital by 10%.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, Us

I led the implementation of APS software to improve production planning in a resource-constrained, seasonal manufacturing environment, reducing the seasonal inventory trough by 40% and cutting working capital expenses in inventory by 20%, all while maintaining a 99% customer service level.

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