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Indianapolis, In

• Develops supply plans based on affiliate and statistical forecasts for the Blood Screening, OMNI, MYCO and Oncology portfolio. Consolidates the global affiliates and statistical forecasts to create the global final forecast. Optimizing inventory levels per the GSC strategic guidance• SME Coordinator for Demand Planning and Tender Planning. Worked with E2E cross-functional teams to define new tools and processes for the global planning organization. Most notably an automated Tender Process Tool and also very notable a well-defined and updated PIPO (Phase-In/Phase-Out) process. Trained Global Planners on new tools and processes.• Facilitated the Forecast Accuracy continuous improvement of the Molecular Labs CA portfolios. Working closely with Demand Planning SME Leads and Global Planners to get portfolios more automated towards advanced statistical forecasting, reducing forecast parties, reducing PReqRels.., ultimately improving Forecast Accuracy by 6% (56% up to 62%).• Works closely with Global Planning Lead, International Business Lead, and International Product Manager to define strategies to optimize key KPI metrics.., Forecast Accuracy, Inventory Levels, Product Availability (OTIF), and Write-Offs.

Indianapolis, In

• Develops supply plans based on affiliate and statistical forecasts for the Core Primary Antibody portfolio consisting of internal production with Tucson manufacturing and external manufacturing with MilliporeSigma/Cell Marque. Optimizing inventory levels per the GSC strategic guidance.• Consolidates the global affiliates and statistical forecasts to create the global final forecast. Monitoring demand trends and identifies opportunities to continually drive improvements in the consolidated demand forecasts to maximize forecast accuracy.• Monitors SAP system alerts to identify potential supply disruptions throughout the global network and makes recommendations to provide timely resolution of positive supply with minimum impact to customers. • Supports RTD Life Cycle Management for product launches, conversion and phase-in/phase-outs. Providing global supply deliverables to ensure product availability to meet targeted launch dates. Controlling timely clearance of discontinued products to minimize scrap costs.

Indianapolis, In

• A $100 million global business leading in movement monitoring, diaper disposal, and baby products (bath, feeding and toy).• Led a team of 3 direct reports and 7 indirect reports, putting people first to maximize individual performance and optimize business operations.• Responsible for the end-to-end supply chain solution to drive change, blueprint business processes, enforce discipline, promote profitability throughout a well-defined S&OP process. Focused on vendor management, cost of goods improvement, forecast management, materials procurement, customer service and warehouse operations.• Managed external consultants for sourcing explorations and continuous improvements related to cost of goods, warehouse network optimization (EU, US and Canada) and global freight costs.• Managed internal cross-functional business partners for continuous improvements related to SKU rationalization, GMROI, inventory management and customer experience.

Indianapolis, In

Connected Home Division• A $1.2 billion business group supporting satellite and cable providers with set top boxes and modems.• Led a team of 6 business planning managers responsible for sales and operations planning of 110 commercial reference programs in support of revenue expectations, executive level communication of risks and opportunities, inventory management of a $110M asset and PO creation/management all aligned to WW best practice procedures to optimize working capital and cash management objectives.• Championed the S&OP monthly process by validating an unconstrained sales forecast 12-mo rolling revenue plan, then operationally optimizing revenue projections by driving continuous improvement to supply constraints and outlining sales opportunities. Communicating revenue plans, categorized constraints w/ action plans, inventory projections w/ action plans and cash management AP outlay to executive management team in request of authorized procurement decisions.• A member of the SAP Implementation team.., onboarding acquisitions, driving best-in-class transformational change by partnering with internal and external consultants. Developing and training business stakeholders in P2P, O2C, MM and PP.

Indianapolis, In

Digital Delivery Business Group• Member of the Worldwide S&OP team to validate operational plans to meet top line revenue goals.• A business sponsor of the Salesforce.com implementation team, in support to the Worldwide Operations team, defining global Sales and Program Management business process rules for customer resource management. Implemented Salesforce.com and an add-on forecasting module (Right90) to interface with the SAP demand management module. • A member of the Sharepoint web-based portal implementation team, in support to the Worldwide Operations team, designing architecture and defining business rules. The Sharepoint portal is used by Operations, Sourcing, Quality, NPI Management and CEM Management as a central location to facilitate NPI program documentation, BOM specs, vendor production dashboards, and vendor scorecards.

Indianapolis, In

Consumer Network Solutions Division• Strategically planned vendor production and company inventory levels to support $400M revenue and $42M inventory, attaining to inventory budgets to maximize working capital finance goals.• Championed the S&OP process by leading monthly meeting to discuss supply planning versus unconstrained demand planning. Communicating operational plans to meet customer demand requirements and realize revenue and margin goals. • Developed, lead and drove continuous improvement with ODM vendors through quarterly business reviews. Reviewing delivery performance measurements, quality return rates, new product development/launches and out of process costs.• A member of the WW project team blueprinting, documenting and governing supply chain planning processes for the SAP implementation team.• Lead the SAP Procure-to-Pay implementation for the supply chain team. A super-user involved in global business process planning, integration testing and validation and user acceptance testing.• Supply chain knowledge center for new product launches by conveying supply and demand requirements to internal product teams and vendors. Launched 50+ new products per year.• Managed team of 2 direct reports (US supply planner, US direct import supply planner), 4 indirect reports (Canada supply planner, Latin America supply planner, 2 logistics planners in Hong Kong).

Mount Prospect, Il

Power Tool Accessories Business Unit• A $760 million division of Power Tools in North America• Led a team of 3 supply planners and 2 demand planners which managed inventory of 4000 SKUs produced from 7 domestic manufacturing affiliates, 23 outsourced domestic vendors, 5 overseas affiliates and 49 overseas outsourced vendors.• Championed the S&OP, team responsible for optimizing supply and demand plans to realize inventory and revenue goals. Leading the executive management teams for 6 SBUs.• Developed the planners skill-set by documenting internal procedures and attending industry conferences which resulted in more accurate sales revenue planning, strategic inventory management and improved manufacturing management.

Mount Prospect, Il

• An Operations and Logistics shared service supporting 4 SBUs (SKIL, BOSCH, DREMEL, ROTOZIP)• Managed S&OP outputs to optimize supply with demand of 500 SKUs produced from 5 domestic manufacturing affiliates, 3 outsourced domestic vendors, 4 overseas affiliates, and 10 outsourced overseas vendors. Member of the S&OP team conveying inventory risks and opportunities to the revenue plan.• Led a continuous improvement project team with Sales, Finance and Logistics to redefine and implement corporate KPIs to coordinate a uniform reporting mechanism across all business units (customer fill rate, backorder and allocation, vendor delivery performance, and inventory reporting).

Mount Prospect, Il

• An Operations and Logistics shared service supporting the SKIL branded BU.• Developed the finished goods production schedule to adhere to corporate planning policies while maintaining inventory levels to meet customers demand requirements.• Contributed to corporate customer fill rate goal of 96% and corporate inventory goals.