Derek Kunesh Email & Phone Number

Lake County, Illinois, United States

Gurnee, Illinois, United States

Waukegan, IL

Lake Forest, IL

• Managed monthly planning schedules cross multiple product lines to support sales forecasts, analyzed capacity and material constraints, managed product conversions and new product launches.
• Developed and maintained weekly/monthly manufacturing schedules for stock and made to order items across 6 production facilities.
• Proactively identified capacity problems and work with manufacturing engineering developing plans which expanded production capacity for new business.
• Daily cross-functional interaction with marketing, customer service, logistics, and manufacturing.
• Maintained a case fill rate of 99.6% for high profile product categories by building inventory on strategic items achieving the highest case fill rate in company history.
• Managed inventory levels for 4000 items across 6 distribution centers supporting corporate sales forecasts.

Highland Park, IL

• Created and adjusted sales forecasts for all PET and Polystyrene plastics lids, worked with sales and marketing to identify and resolve sales fluctuations as to avoid excess, aged, and obsolete inventory.
• Reviewed and adjusted weekly company sales against forecasts supporting case fill and inventory goals.
• Consulted with marketing when initiating a phase out to a product line or launching a new item.
• Communicated variances in product sales and forecasts to production planning avoiding stock outs.
• Analyzed monthly sales forecasts supporting production and labor budgets.

Highland Park, IL

• Performed daily review of plant production and distribution center inventory levels to develop product deployment plans to support sales forecast and company case fill goals.
• Utilized Manugistics sourcing and demand information to move inventory across the distribution network increasing the on time shipment of customer orders.
• Implemented a direct ship distribution system which automated movement of production inventory out of production facilities to the distribution centers resulting in increased accuracy of product deployment.
• Reduced backorders 1.6% and supported demand by repositioning inventory across the network.

Lake Forest, IL

• Member of SAP training and implementation Team. Developed, implemented, and updated SAP, EDI, Lotus Notes, policy, and communication training for all local and off site customer service employees around the country..
• Supported customer service locations through continual training and support of systems and procedures utilized in office and warehouse locations.
• Proactively identified possible problems in existing practices and developed resolutions.
• Utilized Cognos Impromptu and Microsoft Access to run monthly policy tracking reports for department supervisors to identify under minimum and rush shipments.
• Evaluated external department training needs, developed, and implemented training plans.
• Evaluated the merits of outside training companies and software tools.

Lake Forest., IL

• Main point of contact for U.S. Foodservice accounts throughout the country. Worked with buyers and sales force in managing customer requests and resolve service issues.
• Transitioned customers when ordering policies went into effect.
• Coordinated unpaid invoices and bill backs with sales and the credit/claims group.
• Communicated with the inventory planners to identify any service issues that existed in warehouses throughout the United States.
• Expedited special production orders for the sales force with the production team.
• Utilized sales database to run monthly case fill reports which tracked customer ordering patterns and identified service issues.