Promoted from Sales and Operations Planning Manager into a newly-created role within the North America Supply Chain team. The role was created to leverage my unique planning, operational and execution skill set and drive production expansion and export growth. Primary responsibility is plant site to export terminal logistics including unit trains, material swaps, vessel scheduling, and external relationship management including complex negotiations. Secondary responsibilities include specialized customer rail car fleet requirements, product flow management, economic analysis, and supply chain personnel training/development

Led Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) for North American Soda Ash, Derivatives and Hydrogen Peroxide business units. Role encompassed full spectrum of demand management, production planning, capacity utilization, terminal planning, fleet utilization, and inventory working capital management.

Hired in a newly-created position to build a complete supply chain organization that manages demand forecasting, production planning, transportation and regional warehouse network with three production facilities and eight regional warehouses.Implemented SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) demand management tool within region. Received team supply chain excellence award. Introduced material requirements planning (MRP) while optimizing import product flow and inventory management for $15 million working capital. Led warehouse consolidation and cost cutting initiative saving >$100k annually while improving customer service.Absorbed planning duties for two additional production facilities (five total) and associated warehouses during 2016 business unit merger. Total working capital responsibility increased to $25 million. Decreased Sub-Business Unit inventory by 25% while maintaining >95% On-Time-In-Full

Manage comprehensive supply chain operations including customer service, demand management, production planning, transportation, and warehouse operations across four manufacturing facilities and five distribution centers within North, Central and South America. Member of multiple management steering committees tasked with establishing strategy, human capital initiatives, supply chain offerings, and process improvements. Manage $13M supply chain and logistics budget. Successfully hired, mentored, and developed multinational, cross-functional team, managing 100 employees in effective order entry and management, forecasting and demand management, production planning, raw material purchasing, capacity management, inventory management, and logistics execution for capacities >110M pounds.Developed and implemented dynamic inventory management processes, achieving 20% inventory reduction from June 2012 through June 2013.Instrumental member of Global CRM & Supply Chain Team, effectively coordinating 200M lb global production and distribution across a 12 facility/10 distribution center network, managing $108M in global inventory and $53M budget.Managed regional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meeting for six-person leadership team including conducting process reviews and developing/implementing the Americas supply chain and manufacturing strategy including a key-performance-indicator review, business results, manufacturing utilization, operating working capital (OWC) management, and issue escalation/resolution. Directed transportation safety and security initiatives, implementing and managing safety procedures while ensuring DOT compliance and training and while assessing organization for transportation risks: highly hazardous class 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, and 8 materials (spontaneously-combustible solids & liquids, temperature-controlled organic peroxides, and corrosives).

Managed comprehensive sales operations and logistics including production planning, raw-material purchasing, capacity management, and logistics execution, leading 35 supply chain professionals consisting of production planners, transportation supervisors, warehouse, and truck drivers across two manufacturing facilities. Conceptualized, implemented, and managed inventory targets and restocking polices for raw materials (>70 SKU’s), packaging supplies (>170 SKU’s), intermediates (>40 SKU’s), finished goods (>250 SKU’s), and trade products (>120 SKU’s), providing structured approach to operating working capital management and reductions. Initiated and implemented S&OP process, resulting in a structured process to manage regional, cross-site capacity and inventory as well as proactively resolve demand, supply, inventory, and capacity issues. Provided subject-matter expertise on Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) Demand Management and SAP Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), and Business Warehouse (BW) reports, providing technical and analytical support to end users. Maintained SAP Material Master, Master Recipes, Bill of Materials, and Routings. Served as liaison between business and supply chain organization, providing detailed analysis and support during periods of constrained supply (production outages or rapidly expanding demand), enabling business and customer service to manage product shortages. Researched and implemented structured supply chain professional screening, selection process, and post-hiring training process including development and delivery of employee training programs.

Provided global supply, demand, capacity and inventory management expertise for two production facilities with 35M lbs of production. Factories included 11 production lines and three blending stations producing Metal Alkyls and associated blends.Researched and initiated business unit S&OP processes, policies, and procedures for an organization that had none, dramatically improving process and data integrity. Developed Excel models to manage demand, supply, capacity, and inventory while initiating demand forecasting and review. Effectively migrated planning system to SAP/APO tools, increasing accuracy and efficiency of data.Developed and led global S&OP process structure with business group.Supervised logistics staff of five tasked with shipment documentation preparation and customer delivery execution.Member of site management team tasked with capital improvement, personnel evaluation, safety procedures, and emergency response efforts.