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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

• Lead monthly Operating Review. Audience: Transportation Senior Leadership, including curation of data, facilitation of meeting prep, presentation, and implementation of improvements to overall process.• Provide project management leadership for development of insights and analysis for Transportation KPIs: on-time performance, cost, and customer experience.• Collaborate with Enterprise Technology to support the implementation and change management of the data warehouse migration from Teradata to Snowflake.• Leading the team through the Knowledge Management initiative. • Project managed effort to streamline system updates for carrier and plant change requests. Time savings of 30 minutes per transaction. • Developed a tool to track project requests and provide visibility of the team’s workload to leadership.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed and maintained an inbound product forecast ($70M on hand inventory) for the LA Distribution Center.• Led quarterly forecast sessions. Communicated labor requirements to DC leaders. • Managed a project to automate the forecast process. Time reduction from 20 hours to 1 hour per week.• Developed reporting for leadership that provided visibility to sales and inventory levels during the Pandemic.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed processes to conduct Cost-to-Serve analysis to aid in the decision making of policy construction, program design, item pricing and customer service execution.• Used Modeling tools to analyze, design, and optimize transportation work streams across the supply chain.• Assessed areas of opportunity and developed solutions to meet customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost objectives.• Consulted in the determination of Information Technology requirements for Transportation Operations.

Greater Chicago Area

• Maintained influence over $19M in transportation spend through cost savings programs, reporting analysis, and direct consultation with field transportation management.• Developed a spend tracker and cost accrual process which increased visibility to the fiscal plan versus actual outbound shipments.• Led a cross functional project to transition $2M of Cardinal product out of Baxter warehouses, resulting in improved visibility and a reduction in receipt-to-put away times from 95 hours to 48 hours.• Enhanced shipment tracking reporting to reduce purchase order-to-receipt times by 2 days.• Provided secondary management support for Replenishment Center personnel. • Led quarterly business reviews with carriers to discuss shipping performance and service opportunities.

Greater Chicago Area

• Maintained statistical forecasting, planning, and scheduling of manufacturing resources to satisfy $9.4M in annual sales volume.

Greater Chicago Area

• Created and maintained Master Production Schedules for approximately 25% of the network using APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) planning tools.