Product Performance Management:-Propose and implement sustainable solutions to optimize replenishment processes, order management, and customer relationships, minimizing negative impacts.-Optimize product management in collaboration with customer and sales teams to increase product presence in stores.-Collect and analyze data to identify opportunities for performance improvement.Profitable Growth Through Collaboration:-Lead an efficient and adaptable supply chain, driving innovation and alignment with company objectives.-Collaborate closely with sales teams, participating in customer meetings with account managers and the customer's supply team.-Establish a robust and sustainable planning cadence with customers, including participation in QBR executive meetings.-Actively collaborate with internal multifunctional teams and the customer’s Supply Chain team to monitor activities, identify trends, and implement corrective actions to ensure customer satisfaction.-Ensure the implementation of customer improvement plans to drive sales growth and optimize EBITDA efficiency through penalties and returns management.-Work with operations and customers to optimize total cost of service and build network optimization solutions.-Prepare and present performance tables for key KPIs, taking corrective action as needed.-Play a key role in defining forecast alignment and replenishment policies according to S&OP process standards, sharing best practices across customers.Team Management:-Manage the Customer Collaboration and VMI Teams, addressing day-to-day operational challenges and workload management.-Establish individual development plans for each team member to enhance functional and managerial skills.-Enhance the skills of customer collaboration analysts within the supply chain and multifunctional services.

-Ensure that team's goals are regularly met, as well as to develop replenishment strategies to maximize the efficiency of the Canadian supply business. -Internal reporting and impact analysis on specific KPI's impacting the forecast, orders and customer inventory levels-Organize and lead customer facing and collaborations with external business partners and retailers-Partner closely with the forecasting team to apply forecast impacts based on customer inventory levels-Provide in-month revenue guidance to leadership based on customer lead times, weekly order volumes and fill rate trends-Undertake and lead various supply chain initiatives focused on efficiencies with retailer partners (reduced lead times, ordering multiples and cadences, promotional/holiday planning)-Review and manage customer inventory levels working directly with the customer, sales team and forecasting team and other cross functional groups-Understand and apply how this will impact future looking forecast during the POS to PO process. Applying logic for load ins and bleed outs for specific SKU's, segments or planned sales promo's-Gather and apply learnings from collaborations with sales, marketing and the customer and apply to the forecast cycle to ensure product availability- Develop SKU-level details regarding product and brand launches and/or discontinuations-Ad hoc request for specific business needs and trends.-Able to synthesize large data files in a presentable manner-Lead and present for the North American CDP and other business meetings-Communicate short term impact of supply and apply that with the forecasting, sales and SLT teams.-Build forecasting models for other atypical situations -SKU changes, case pack changes, flow-through analysis.-Establish, develop an improve SOP's for customer reporting.

• Use Kraft CDP processes to develop and maintain an internal shipment forecast • Leverage Customer data and collaboration to develop a more robust forecasting model for turn and promotional volume • Manage Customer forecast exceptions to eliminate forecast error • Understand, track, and report KPI’s (Forecast Accuracy, Bias, CFR, etc…) to stakeholders as necessary• Enter promotion information in Customer systems • Collaborate with Customer on Replenishment settings and Event strategy • Track Event Performance • Follow-up with Customer on event performance and Correction of Errors • Provide input for BU Event Tracker• Use Customer data to analyze store and DC Inventories • Identify and manage seasonal and non-seasonal trends • Manage gaps between Customer POS and retail forecast • Manage product flow throughout the Kraft/Walmart Supply Chain• Manage Store changes as communicated by Customer for Modular Updates (Changes to Planograms) • Development of Replenishment strategies and Demand plans for new items and increased distribution (new store authorizations) • Provide visibility to Product Supply and Fulfillment by maintaining forecast information accurately in ADF• Track Customer Days of Supply, CFR, POS, and In-Stocks, and report to Customer and Internal partners as necessary • Track Customer Forecast Accuracy/Bias and communicate to stakeholders • Track Item/Category seasonal profiles and collaborate with customer• Build and maintain customer and internal stakeholder relationships that will ultimately drive supply chain efficiency and business influence • Lead Supply Chain collaboration process with Customer and internal partners. • Weekly category meetings with Sales and BU partners • Weekly collaboration with Customer Replenishment and supply chain stakeholders• Eliminate “trapped” inventory within Customer’s Supply Chain • Necessary forecast adjustments to prevent code date rotation issues • Develop reports for senior leadership team.

• Analyzed and identified sales trends and key drivers in order to prepare and support statistical for internal key account managers.• Work with key account managers to use market intelligence to integrate forecasting metrics. • Develop consumption reports to track items moving over sales forecasts to indentify improvements. • Have weekly meetings with customer planners to improve on-shelf availability for their stores.• Analyze new product trends by using mass media to determine product sell through.• Discuss internal teams on their financial governance reports to determine if they are over/under forecasting budget projections based on sales and what are the key drivers are influencing the ratio.

Interm Supply Chain Manager• Provide leadership to a team of three individuals while overseeing day-to-day operations from a managerial standpoint while providing support to the senior management team. Prepare background information to support sales forecasting:• Analyze sales trends and identify the key drivers of sales of key products and product groups.Develop statistical forecasts:• Gather, analyze and validate all data that will be used in preparing statistical forecasts.• Sense-check statistical forecasts and highlight any unexpected trends or forecasts.• Prepare reports and data that will be used in the forecast review process – part of the BU planning process.• Implement any forecast changes resulting from the forecast review.Measure and report forecast accuracy:• Develop and reach agreement on appropriate measures of forecast accuracy and forecast bias.• Prepare regular reports on forecast accuracy.• Analyze trends and identify opportunities for improving the accuracy of future sales forecasts.Lead initiatives to improve forecast accuracy:• Identify and lead the implementation of opportunities to improve forecast accuracy. These could include collaboration with customers and channel partners and effective use of end-consumer sales data.Monitor and report on significant variances between sales forecasts, budgets and business plans:• Identify report on any significant variances between forecasted sales and the organization’s budgets and business plans.• Develop repository of information that can be used to support future forecasting and risk analysis.Provide input to the development of inventory policies and parameters:• Provide data on sales variability, forecast accuracy and future forecasts that are used in setting safety stocks and inventory planning parameters.SAP Product Development:• Assist in developing, testing and innovation of new SAP t-codes to support supply chain operations in SAP user end environment.

-Excellent team player, team leader and team developer.-Maintained a 98.7% weekly National service level on the highest case volume desk at LCL.-Able to manage volume from 15,000 shipping units up wards to 600,000 shipping units on a daily basis.-Strong understanding of confectionery, HABA, beverages, dairy, consumables, frozen, paper, pet, cookie/cracker, general merchanside and international retail categories from a retailer and supplier dynamic.- Strongly familiar with Environmental Contingency Planning, Holiday Seasonality Planning and Special Event forecast planning execution.-APICS: Basic Supply Chain Management Certified (Sheridan College)- Creation and Management of product forecasts levels.- Management of inventory and all replenishment flows from vendor to distribution center to store.- Vendor Management: Ensuring all forecast and flow requirements are executed to defined targets/standards.- Work with transport, distribution and vendors to co-ordinate flow of goods through a national and international network.-Project management experience: Involved user application testing on new SAP procedures and establishing user protocol. - Ensure all data management pertaining to forecasts, product and vendor attributes are maintained.-Execute aged, excess and obsolete inventory.-Establish and execute alternative methods of product distribution.-Establish and execute methods of securing alternative products for contingency plans. -Team trainer for new hires.-Establish new reporting structures and assist in execution.- Undertake process improvement efforts, primarily with vendors, focused on improving KPI’s.-Strong knowledge in transportation, supply chain, inventory control, category management, product allocation, pricing and SAP.

-Monitor and control inventory investments in a multi facility environment to successfully maintain company turn and service levels.-Act as a liaison with suppliers, merchandising, logistics and Retail Support Centre’s.-Set up and coordinate items between suppliers and the Retail Support Centre’s, the end-to-end process of ordering and releasing store distributions.-Being responsible for purchase order creation, scheduling receiving and follow-up with loads that are not on time.-Successfully utilize AWR(Advance Warehouse Replenishment) system, WMS(Warehouse Management System) and SAP exception tools to manage items and vendor profiling parameters.-Taking action with aged and obsolete inventory with the use of velocity and aged reports.-Utilize availability exception and daily or weekly periodic reports to manage day-to-day operations.-Managing inventory levels, order lead times, order cycles and store allocation tables.-Development and execution of new items/merchandise.-Analyze pricing discrepancies on orders, transportation allowances, and price reductions on aged merchandise while sustaining profit.-Currently completed the development on the replenishment team for the execution of a new automated warehouse. Development, planning and execution of daily replenishment functions of a new automated warehouse.