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Greater Milwaukee Area

• Managing the process for acquiring, developing, and supporting the design of forecast to plan for Project Unity including Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning
• Completed enterprise HLD (high level design) for the Forecast to Plan Components * Business Unit Workshop Facilitation and Lead * Requirements gathering * Business Process Design documentation
• Completed DD (detailed design) based on high level design decisions * Business Unit Workshop Facilitation and Lead * Business Process Design Documentation Updates * ARIS process model development

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Provided leadership, governance and administration of master data for materials and related data elements in SAP ECC produced and sold. Oversaw direct reports including 3-master data coordinators with indirect.
• Improved material master data accuracy over 95% by employing governance procedures and quality focus.
• Measured and improved forecast accuracy by grade family to 85% by utilizing best fit analysis.
• Created high-level and detailed demand plans for 3 paperboard mills, resulting in operational efficiencies.
• Implemented and utilized SAP ECC and APO including DP, SNP, GATP and PP/DS components, sun-setting legacy applications.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Managed demand planning, capacity planning and master production scheduling functions for 2-paperboard mills. Led direct reports including 2-capacity planning managers and 1-demand planning supervisor.
• Created, led and participated in division sales and operations planning process, leading to balance between production and sales with inventory.
• Created Perfect Order Index (POI) metric and led improvement project, enabling outside-in view of customer service.
• Oversaw block schedule creation and schedule adherence, resulting in 90% on time delivery to customers.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Led and consulted with all MeadWestvaco divisions on processes, strategies and tactics. Engaged in warehouse layout and design, transportation analysis, master production scheduling, forecasting and planning, inventory.
• Completed warehouse layout for chemical plant, creating efficiency for put away and picking.
• Developed local dray analysis, resulting in 50% reduction in carriers.

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Served as project lead for interfacing module of Advanced Planning and Optimizer (APO) SAP R/3 with IBM Trim optimization and training lead for IPS.
• Completed 13 successful SAP implementations, resulting in 1 systems platform for organization.

Menasha, WI

Various mill and management positions including:General MillProduction ControlFinishing SupervisorMPII Coordinator Manager, Forecasting and Scheduling