Ernest Davis Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

availability and reduced shipping costs; financial benefit and operational improvement estimated at $19M annually.• Managed IRO (Inventory Reduction Opportunity) program that reduced excess HP owned inventory by $30M.• Led root cause analysis that reduced inventory excess risk exposure of $20M.• Develop and manages the monthly activity cycle from each of the regions. Reconcile the activity inputs and provide a monthly global activity view for monthly S&OP process.• Documents the current demand to activity conversion process for each of the regions and strive towards developing a more standardized approach of converting activity into material demand.• Work with each of the regions and reconcile material forecast against past usage and specific activity drivers for each of the regions.• Works closely with the commercial and product team to understand the activity drivers such as tenders, contracts and any other customer driven events.• Develops and reconcile monthly gross forecast by country to be used for netting and inventory planning strategies.• Ensure accuracy of relevant master data for forecast is properly maintained• Upload forecast in ERP after validation with the regions.• Understand the issues around forecast in-accuracies and work with each of the regions to improve the overall data quality and forecast accuracy.• Directed 10-person team in the development of short- and long-term business plans for plants; compile hemisphere tempo and prepare actual vs. forecast analysis; and handle the tracking of consolidated business performance indicators of an annual budget of $890M.• Facilitated workshops on new software upgrades for SAP/APO/IBP and best practices training.• Develops, enhances, tests and implements reports to support processes and metrics required.• Coordinates research utilizing third party data. Utilizes various data sources to assemble and analyze what the data means.

Houston, Texas Area

• Develop and utilize a variety of teaching methods and materials that assist students in meeting course objectives by providing timely quality access to students through electronic communication and other appropriate methods.

Houston, Texas Area

• Spearheaded start up franchise implementing one anchor store and two satellite retail outlets that generated approximately $750K in transactions the first fiscal year.• Developed Partners in Christ program initiative that yielded $100k in annual revenues.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Sport And Fitness Administration/Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance