Harold E. Olsen Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

• Lead the design and implementation of an integrated sales and operations planning (S&OP) process in collaboration with functional stakeholders ensuring alignment of processes with customer requirements and business.
• Oversee all the steps in the S&OP process; ensuring timely and quality participation in the process and holding all stakeholders accountable to defined roles and responsibilities.
• Principal representative for S&OP within the InFlyt Experience (IFE) business unit tasked with oversight of all S&OP communications, training, and documentation as well as coordination with the broader Thales S&OP.
• Responsible for the translation and validation of order intake and prospects information into a consolidated demand plan while identifying the underlying risks and assumptions.

United States

Orange County, California Area

• Leader of the supply chain planning (S&OP) process with integration of the demand forecasting, analytics, and supply planning functions end-to-end ensuring that customer, financial and strategic objectives were achieved.
• Developed monthly PSI (Purchases, Sales, and Inventory) forecast reflecting product lifecycle management, inventory management policies and strategic priorities.
• Led key initiatives designed to improve S&OP flexibility and key performance indicators (KPIs) including projects for excess inventory utilization and parts forecast methodology review.
• Created budget and mid-term business plans utilizing historical trends, seasonality, product lifecycle management and company goals.
• Managed the Toshiba inventory position to achieve overall inventory objectives while supporting sales plans.
• Successfully led knowledge transfer initiative for process and tools knowledge and enabled future onboarding by designing and conducting a comprehensive training curriculum.

Orange County, California Area

• Managed the demand planning, inventory management, analytics, and performance reporting for laptop and accessory products.
• Realized 70% reduction in inventory levels and mitigated P&L risk by overhauling PC accessory sales and operations plan based on customer needs analysis.
• Improved information share and enabled management oversight by rebuilding the planning process to integrate newly acquired international divisions.
• Led cross functional team to develop and implement planning process and tools for new product introductions while minimizing resource impacts.
• Provided local oversight, analysis and summaries of monthly purchase, sales, and inventory plans for global regions.
• Spearheaded project team to develop a new database to provide centralized data functionality and hierarchy information lost with the shutdown of the JDA Demand Manager database.

Orange County, California Area

• Led the organization with tactical precision and strategic vision to plan purchases, sales, and inventory for digital products generating $2B of annual revenue. Segments included US retail (B2C), corporate (B2B).
• Increased profitability, reduced inventory, and improved customer fulfillment by establishing a product lifecycle management process to enable collaborative planning with Retail Sales.
• Developed and presented a monthly forecast summary for executive staff outlining variances for all key measures, demand and supply issues, market analysis, and business risks and opportunities.
• Provided leadership to teams; recruited, trained, mentored talent, and contributed to a positive, productive, and evolving work environment.
• Gained business intelligence and communicated factors which could impact sales performance, including seasonality, sales trends, market information, and marketing lifecycle plans.
• Created budget and mid-term business plans integrating historical and market analysis with financial and strategic objectives.

Orange County, California Area

• Managed the sales and operations planning process for multiple product lines in conjunction with supply chain planning and financial forecast processes. Created demand & supply balanced forecasts utilizing sales trends.
• Achieved #1 market share for US laptop sales by driving the transformation of the business planning process from a B2B to B2C model.
• Developed an inter-departmental weekly planning process to address near-term demand and supply imbalances which reduced partner inventory and increased customer satisfaction.
• Optimized roadmap planning and SKU selection with Retailers by creating assort targets based on historical trends, seasonality, market forecasts, and company objectives.
• Reduced errors in component planning and financial modeling by developing a standardized enterprise-wide part number methodology.
• Improved PC forecast accuracy by 20% and reduced P&L risk by analyzing price band and market share targets to adjust B2B planning.

Orange County, California Area

During this time, I advanced through multiple roles involving data analysis, demand forecasting and planning in which I also developed processes, created new tools, implemented databases...