• Strategically directed and optimized comprehensive end-to-end supply chain operations, overseeing the departments of Inventory Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Transportation, and multiple Distribution Centers. • Managed a dedicated team of eight direct report managers and 85 indirect reports, ensuring seamless coordination and execution throughout the supply chain. • Accountable for managing an extensive inventory surpassing $55M and overseeing monthly inventory purchases averaging $18M.• Coordinating collaborative decision-making to align and balance Supply and Demand plans, meticulously reviewing new launches, slow movement, excess, and discontinuations. Focusing on elevating service levels, minimizing operational costs, and driving increased profitability.• Enhanced the company's inventory management system, achieving a remarkable 30% reduction in overstock levels, translating to annual savings of $10.5M. • Championed the successful implementation of a Supplier and Freight Portal, a pivotal initiative that significantly enhanced company operations by promoting transparency, streamlining the management of vendors and forwarders, and effectively tracking productions, shipments, and ETA’s while introducing key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and elevate vendor performance. • Active participant in vendor selection processes, leading negotiations and conducting thorough reviews of their cost structures and performance metrics.

• Responsible for initiating the creation of the Inventory Planning department, strategically designed to enhance and fortify the success of the Sales and Operations Planning process. This initiative involved a meticulous division of responsibilities, specifically focusing on the planning and distribution aspects of inventory operations.• Managed the Inventory Planning and Logistics department with nine direct reports, overseeing multiple responsibilities, including production scheduling for a manufacturing plant, coordinating imports from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, planning and distributing goods to the company's branches and wholesalers, and coordinating transportation. • Successfully coordinated finish goods replenishment for three Distribution Centers and twelve Branches, managing a portfolio exceeding $54M in inventory and encompassing more than 8,000 SKUs.• Takes a hands-on role in the semiannual new product launches and discontinuation, collaborating closely with Product Development, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, and Executives.• Delivers ad hoc analysis to support decision-making across Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Executive leadership, contributing valuable insights to inform strategic choices.• Implemented a ticket system designed to streamline communication with the sales team, facilitating efficient exchanges on ETA’s, inventory levels, sales orders, and purchase orders.• Served as a project leader, coordinating the successful implementation of the Sales Force CRM that promoted the collaboration with the Sales team on project leads crucial for effective inventory planning.

• Responsible for evaluating Supply Chain processes to identify opportunities and suggest, develop, and implement solutions. • Project leader for the implementation of the Sales and Operation Planning process.• Served as the Project Manager for designing and implementing enhancements to the Distribution Centers' Warehouse Management System (WMS), utilizing Agile methodology. • Leader for a project of safety stock optimization for inventory planning. • Designed and implemented comprehensive inventory and sales dashboards, encompassing the creation of databases necessary for extracting and presenting essential information. • Responsible for implementing KPIs for Supply Chain areas, including Procurement, Distribution Centers, and Logistics.

• Responsible for the analysis, design, Implementation, configuration, development, and support of Oracle E-Business Suite and other software that support Inventory Planning, Supply Chain, and operations business processes.• Collaborated with functional and technical teams across all ERP modules and other applications to define and design proposed solutions that met business requirements and adhered to application design guidelines, strategies, and best practices.• Working knowledge of statistical forecasting software and a working understanding of statistical modeling.• IT Lead for Oracle WMS/Inventory, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning/Demantra, Order Management, and Procurement modules release 12.