Dennis Askew Ii, Mba Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Oversee planning and inventory management as well as drive analysis and optimization of inventory management systems and processes to ensure we achieve world class inventory availability and inventory health.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Challenged to restructure the replenishment strategy, increase sales and lower markdowns for a New Walmart Pilot Project called Central Kitchen, a $42M annual business with 457 stores
• Singlehandedly transformed Central Kitchen’s replenishment strategy, by successfully advocating for ownership of the essential processes, implementing faster, more frequent, data-driven reviews, and partnering with.
• Developed and integrated an automated inventory flow strategy to remove one supplier off a manual process of fixed orders (impacting 7K store/item combinations) on to a more sophisticated inventory flow strategy that.
• Unearthed through my data analysis negative business processes impacting entire Central Kitchen categories that diminished sale growth by 30%, valued at $1M, accounting for one-third of our monthly sales.
• Redesigned deli modular and introduced innovative product placement idea for low-velocity items to minimize the space and reduce the inventory carrying cost, impacting 25% of items in my category

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Maintained inventory levels for 1M store/item combinations in the adult beverages and mixers categories across 4,200 US-based stores to ensure product allocation and drive sales, achieving annual sales of $33.7M
• Utilized historical sales data to deliver in-stock levels above 96% ensuring maximization of sales opportunities during new product launches, modular changes, holiday & seasonal peaks, and natural disasters.
• Collaborated with senior demand manager to create a regional-based granular strategy to forecast for high demand events that impact Fresh and Packaged Goods Department
• Engineered a dashboard and developed guidelines for holiday forecast procedures in the food department to evaluate holiday items for forecasting. The process improved communication among the cross-functional team.
• Developed improved flow strategy for dual located items within Walmart stores by adjusting safety stock settings and surveying store operation at Liquor box stores; thorough my strategy in-stock levels improved by 100.
• Redesigned the 2018 Hurricane forecast tool for Fresh and Food division, devised a DC inventory buildup of $15 M for pre- and post-hurricane products for hurricanes Harvey and Matthews

Baltimore, MD, US

MBA- Management Information System - Graduated Sum Cum Laude

Falls Church, VA, US

• Successfully negotiated a mission-critical 3-year international service warranty subcontract with a foreign supplier worth $ 150,000 within a 3-week time window
• Assisted in a $4 M International service subcontract for in-country material by revising the SOW & proposing a counteroffer

Falls Church, VA, US

• Supported 5 Test Program managers over eight programs amounting to $4 million in value, managed several manufacturing redesigns, and initiated several buy projects to sustain the programs throughout their lifetime.
• Drafted material budget for two proposals worth $2 million, and successfully managed both to be on schedule and under budget

Falls Church, VA, US

• Developed a monthly scoreboard to track the overall performance of the LSCO’s department by measuring the impact of Supply Chain support on 16 programs by monitoring process time and conflict resolution through.
• Selected to be one of the pioneering conductors, which is a new role created to manage procurement workflows to satisfy operations’ objectives, manufacturing timelines, and buyers’ bandwidth constraints.
• Devised a series of new procedures to increase the productivity of the overall department by streamlining the procurement and alerting the buyer of pending emergent issues

Falls Church, VA, US

• Spearheaded material cost analysis for a $2 million international proposal that was awarded to Northrop Grumman
• Managed the monthly and yearly material receipt forecasts for the Combat Avionics Executive Review, worth $20 million.
• Negotiated, successfully, the terms and conditions and contract modifications for subcontracts for fair and reasonable pricing and expedited delivery schedules to meet contractual obligations.
• Earned an appointment as the international supply chain analyst and lead proposal developer for the Combat Avionics team.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Led supply chain program planning for an international program valued at $9.5 million in sales and $4.5 M materials.
• Supervised interns’ assignments to collectively develop material forecast plans and proposals.
• Organized weekly meetings with production, operations, procurement, and finance managers to ensure earned value and contractually obligated deliveries are met.
• Earned privileges to present program status to the Vice President of Supply Chain’s review and to the Executive Board of Northrop Grumman’s Electronic Systems Division.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Led supply chain program planning for an international program valued at $9.5 million in sales and $4.5 M materials.
• Supervised interns’ assignments to collectively develop material forecast plans and proposals.
• Organized weekly meetings with production, operations, procurement, and finance managers to ensure earned value and contractually obligated deliveries are met.
• Earned privileges to present program status to the Vice President of Supply Chain’s review and to the Executive Board of Northrop Grumman’s Electronic Systems Division.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Self-initiated a six sigma process with the Calibration Lab and external vendor to target eliminating delivery issues, delinquent payments, plant downtime and back log
• Achieved reducing the backlog of over 200 Purchase Orders to a weekly sustainable level of 15 orders.
• Granted the privilege to on work high monetary purchase order and more diverse array based on prior performance

Houston, Texas, US

• Created a monthly Global headcount report for IPG to identify dimensions of current month levels employee versus various other matrices
• Aligned monthly budget analysis on 6 global department against discrepancies from the targeted forecast for the month, quarter, and year and evaluated individual accounts for irregularities and influx for the monthly.
• Developed a Benchmarking Report for the CFO staff to view the finance department 541 employees current grade level within IPG to establish Local, Regional, and Global hiring goals
• Assisted on creating FY11 goals for IPG Global Location Strategy Headcount and IPG Aspire budget drilldown to a department functional budget

• Wrote contract requirement list for 2 contracts which required researching previous contracts and tailoring them for the new agreements
• Conducted three briefings to update Contracts Data Requirement lists with Generals stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan for a future tooling and services contract worth 2 million dollars

US

• Responsible for administrative services and assist on researched projects

Washington, DC, US

• Facilitated the Perennial Career Exploration Day with approx. 200 recruiters and the student body
• Collected and analyze surveys after the Career Exploration Day to benchmark satisfaction and identify improvement; the result were a component Howard University EOY Department Meeting

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Supply Chain Leadership Program Co-op, Customer Service Analyst, Fall 2009
• Launched innovative customer demand tracking tool to identify loss within supply chain network and to create visibility to root causes by the drill down method
• Created a process to prevent loss sales on bankrupt customers in regards to case fill and delivery
• Managed the West Coast Brokerages account for the Southwest region

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• Finance Leadership Develop Program Global Process, Powertrain Finance Internship, Summer 2008
• Developed a database of vendor tooling cost for four major engine programs to evaluate their variance to cost estimators and suppliers
• Collaborated with global internal operations based in four different countries to compile data for internal benchmark
• Reported weekly vendor tooling irregularities to establish transparencies over engine programs
• Assisted in marketing research for Voice of the Customers by adding cost to future technology
• Presented profit analysis project to senior management for future adoption of Ecoboost technology

Rosemead, CA, US

• Operations Internship, Summer 2007
• Assisted in reconstruction of SCE Corporate General Office floor plan implementation, allocating 345 employees at a cost of $1,000 per replacement and installations

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor In Business Adminstration, International Business Minor Finance

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