Dorcas Young Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Engage with executive level stakeholders to drive a large portfolio of complex, interrelated, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring holistic solutions across those initiatives.• Works closely with the solution architects, application architects and system engineers to ensure that individual program and product strategies align with business and technical objectives.• Extracts and analyzes data from specific applications, systems and/or databases to create reports and provide recommendations based on the analysis of the data. Utilized SAP/Power BI/ ERP/Oracle/Toad/Tableau SQL.• Investigates and resolves data issues across platforms and applications, including discrepancies of definition, format, and function. • Develop and deliver highly advanced/leading edge technology solutions and concepts with a focus on executive presentations on IT strategies for multiple service technologies.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Analyze data and methods to predict and improve delivery of products and services while optimizing methods to increase efficiency, in production, supplies, and transportation.• Leads in resolution of issues and execution of business projects as it relates to supply of product.• Collaborate cross-functionally across the business on projects to help maximize efficiency while reducing costs.• Serves as a liaison with IT, engineering, etc. on rollouts of new software while gathering and providing feedback to stakeholders on initiatives.• Partner closely with planning team to improve on-time delivery of stock to warehouse for distribution to sites while developing solutions and implementing changes.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

· From the Consensus Demand Plan, the role creates finished goods needed to support customer orders, forecasted demand & inventory stocking requirements.· Collaborates with cross functional partners to ensure inventory is managed according to constraints and targets that are aligned with the business strategy.· Maintains critical inventory parameters for Target & Safety Stock of raw materials, while considering supply lead time, warehouse and transportation constraints.· Actively interacts with demand management, manufacturing, quality, warehousing & transportation to solve material issues & consumption patterns.· Measures, analyzes, and reports key process metrics, while monitoring adherence to key performance indicators (KPI) that are assigned to the assigned product categories.· Identifies possible material shortages against inventory plans and develops action items. Marshal resources to address action items and follow up on all material shortage-related issues.· Responsible for long-term capacity status, weekly category KPI updates, product shortage reporting & ad-hoc daily information flow amongst supply planning partners (Demand Planning, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Business Management).

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

• Forecast the production of raw materials and part numbers for over 8,000-part numbers• Ensure the creation of accurate SKU/service forecasts, manage parameters to execute replenishment strategies, and improve service and inventory performance • Work with internal and external stakeholders/vendors to establish inventory management strategies and achieve lead time reductions • Provide short and long-term material projections to vendors. Execute phase in/out strategies precise and accurate raw material movement. • Liaises with warehouse staff and material manager to understand management inventory levels and agreed targets• Weekly lead continuous improvement and status meetings/workshops with team members to improve quality, delivery, and productivity• Manage BOMs, creation of part numbers, RMA and purchase order execution and edits • Expedite raw materials as needed to maintain project completion efficiency

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Review and forecast monthly location-based customer service productivity, quality, and sales performance goals• Negotiate raw material costs to reduce and centralize inventory and cost of raw materials• Create SOPs that drive lean purchasing and define best procurement processes• Manage, forecast and adjust the planning and establishment of production schedules, monitoring of material inventories, tracking the progress of production and reviewing factors which affect production schedules and mitigate negative impacts to same. • Manage suppliers, materials and inventory in a manner consistent with the requirements of a Lean Six-Sigma, JIT, and OTD manufacturing environment. • Manages the purchasing and inventory control functions. Provides support to production scheduling on all material flow issues to meet production schedules and customer requirements, and Continuous Improvement strategies. • Maintains optimum inventory levels to insure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements while maximizing turns, minimizing carrying costs and premium transportation charges by utilizing JIT and OTD strategies.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Forecast for all business entities and find solutions for improving metrics, along with making recommendations on how to increase and improve productivity.• Developed a "plan, do, check, act" supplier management system that utilized scorecards, running action item lists (R.A.I.L) and business review to improve supplier on time delivery to 98%.• Implemented a process that coordinated purchasing and supplier activity with the production schedule, leading to an 80% reduction in part shortages.• Created capacity planning model to improve visibility for production capacity, eliminating sales allocations during a period of high growth and realized over $5M in additional sales over the final two months of 2012.• Implemented visual Kanban system for raw material inventory, improving inventory accuracy by 22%.• Led team that negotiated price reductions by leveraging volume that realized $5.3M savings on raw materials purchases, a 6% reduction over prior year pricing.• Independently manages supplier relationships including all subcontracted repairs which involve pricing negotiations, delivery terms, and price breaks. • Managed purchase order execution and product delivery, including accurate on-time schedule agreements and mitigation of billing adjustments

Stockholm, Se

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Associate'S Degree, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management