Drew Mcelroy Email & Phone Number

Springdale, AR, US

• Directing and coordinating demand planning forecasts through event analysis, trending, and consensus activity
• Driving supply chain performance via leadership in several cross-functional topics
• Responsible for key customer service and supply chain-related performance metrics, while contributing to the S&OP process and maturity
• Responsible for the direct management of 4-5 planners and the oversight of their respective desks of business

United States

• Managed the cooking oil desk by overseeing Pricing/Strategy/Negotiations/Supplier Relationships/Forecasting
• Delegated work to direct reports for cooking oil and analytics in efforts to grow those Team members and bring value to Tyson Foods
• Grew oil sales opportunities by selling cooking oil to external customers from our transload facility in Northwest Arkansas totaling $1m in FY22
• Created a new forward-thinking culture through analytical projects (predictive and prescriptive) and training programs for our buyers and analysts
• Initiated cost savings opportunities through Product Waste contracting and RFPs
• Supervised the contracting and pricing for feed sales with external customers

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Managed ~$400 million dollar spend on natural gas/power supply for all locations for Tyson Foods
• Researched sustainability initiatives for Tyson Foods relating to renewable energy
• Collaborated with energy providers and renewable experts to obtain sustainability goals for Tyson Foods
• Continuously improved process and procedures for best practices and efficiency for the desk
• Mitigated risk with financial instruments and working with suppliers to fix best price for natural gas/power
• Managed the Customer Relationship Management software project being implemented for CPG

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Managing all nominations and renominations for all Poultry/Prepared locations for Tyson Foods
• Determining opportunities for the Energy group by meeting with suppliers and other energy consumers
• Executed a winter hedge to fix natural gas price for natural gas supply
• Completed the 2015 RFP process for natural gas to secure gas supply for a year for all managed facilities
• Developed a new Electricity Budget Database and enhanced the Natural Gas Budget Database
• Created the Poultry/Prepared dashboard to be able to obtain natural gas usage and process invoices with ease

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Managed Prepared Foods Cost Savings Initiative tasked with saving Prepared Foods $33 million dollars
• Consolidated Pricing Forecast reports which assisted in forecasting accuracy for the optimization team and continue to improve Meat Procurement reporting structure to produce quality and relevant analytics
• Created several data analysis reports for Business Units and Commodity Purchasing Buyers
• Administered weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the Commodity Purchasing group
• Developed Procurement Intern through training and mentoring

Springdale, Arkansas

• Automated Management Support pay scales in SAP using cross functional groups to obtain desired compensation across all locations
• Developed costing documents for locations during Union ratifications and location increase periods
• Managed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for HR Directors and VP and SVP of Operations
• Created new validation database in Access and trained Labor Compensation team

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Enhanced customized screens in SAP by collecting requirements from Businesses and relaying them to the developers in a functional specification format
• Configured data in different SAP platforms based on Business requests
• Mentored recent new hires on MM team by familiarizing them with the Materials Management process

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Evaluated and deconstructed over 30 reports in Access and recreated them using SQL Server Reporting Services
• Supported several Live Production applications

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area