Developed and led a world-class demand planning team, ensuring the capabilities to meet the company’s needs. Facilitated the demand planning process with commercial teams as part of the integrated business planning process. Established a vision and strategy for demand planning, standardized processes and tools across the enterprise, leveraged statistical modeling, and enhanced the use of market and competitive intelligence in demand planning. Built strong relationships with commercial and finance leadership. Ensured the team developed and aligned monthly demand forecasts for the 2-24 month horizon for the Consumer Packaging, Corrugated Packaging, and Global Paper commercial business units.

Led a global team responsible for all purchasing, production planning, shipments execution, inventory management, and Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP). Leveraged Oracle NetSuite and developed home-grown systems to support real-time sales and planning decisions. Partnered with freight forwarders and contract manufacturing to optimize flow, reduce costs, and prevent supply gaps in an international supply chain.

Responsible for the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization to develop a detailed monthly demand plan and production/supply plan. Led a team of senior managers and managers responsible for advanced analytics used in demand forecasting and supply/production planning across a portfolio of 30k active SKUs across 25 plants and numerous retail partners.

Led the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and weekly open-to-buy conversations. Managed at team of planners responsible for designing, implementing, and improving planning and forecasting processes. Principal business lead for JDA Demand implementation and for improvements to the former planning system (SAP APO demand planning module).

Directed team of 7 Parts Inventory Managers responsible for forecasting and inventory planning processes to replenish service parts inventory for over 3000+ service vans, 200 parts rooms and 15 Make Ready Centers (MRCs) while delivering high availability service levels, and efficiently managing working capital and minimizing operating expenses. Managed Inventory and Master Data Manager and a Master Data Analyst responsible for forecasting, planning, and managing parts at the national Coca-Cola Parts warehouse that supplies numerous Coca-Cola bottlers.

Developed collaborative S&OP processes to gather market-based demand inputs from Field Service, Make Ready Centers, and Customer Care Commercialization for inclusion in forecasting and inventory planning decisions. Managed forecasts and inventory control parameters, performed complex data analysis, and implemented centralized planning and procurement.

Owned, planned, and managed multi-billion dollar inventory budget and reconciled versus actual inventory performance for assigned product categories. Provided strategic leadership for cross-functional supply chain team consisting of replenishment, logistics, item optimization and forecasting professionals. Developed effective assortment plans, inventory rollout strategies, and promotional inventory builds.

Directly managed team of 12 Demand Planners and Forecast Analysts performing demand forecasting processes for stores, distribution network, and vendors. Responsible for launching (hiring and training on-site) a new forecasting team in Shanghai, China resulting in enhanced forecasting and planning capabilities with global suppliers. Developed sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes for use with cross functional middle and upper management.

Forecasted purchase orders, sales units, sales dollars, and distribution center volume for multiple vendors encompassing over billions of dollars in sales. Business lead responsible for the design, validation, implementation, and socialization of the Manugistics/JDA NetWORKS Demand module implementation. Led CPFR conversations and forecasted for key suppliers for assigned business unit.

Forecasted demand at stores, distribution centers, and import distribution facility. Established inventory targets for stores and distribution centers, recommended best replenishment methods, and monitored metrics for continuous improvement resulting in more effective allocation of inventory. Developed a forecasting tool using exponential smoothing (Winter-Holt’s) to forecast sales by month at item level. Created and updated seasonal forecast profiles for SKUs.