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Responsible for Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Purchasing, S&OP and Warehousing.

Responsible for Supply planning, Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse Management. Set up template deck and process for the Supply Review within the Sales and Operations Planning Process. Created Inventory forecasting template to drive ability to forecast and manage Inventory. Reduced Backorders by $45M over 4 months and Inventory by $20M over 4 months.

Deerfield, Illinois, United States

Responsible for Global Supply Chain for Electromechanical business (15 sites) including demand and supply and inventory planning and direct purchasing. Assisted in integrating HillRom business into Baxter by aligning KPIs and processes. Continued to expand the S&OP process and created a roadmap and detailed implementation schedule for planning software (Kinaxis).

Rebuilt and implemented the Global Sales & Operations Planning Process and technology. Focused on understanding each individual business then created a path forward that will work in all business units by connecting systems, processes and metrics. Created a business case for demand planning software and then further enhanced it to include supply planning. Led creating a new product / profit center hierarchy that would align commercial, finance and operations.

Lake Forest

Oversaw US Established Health organization demand and supply planning team, US and regional S&OPs, and US new product launches, contributing to more than $8B annually. Assisted in the roll out of the Integrated Business Planning initiative. Managed over $450M inventory through statistical analysis, as well as monitored excess and obsolescence and evaluated opportunities to move inventory with commercial. Additionally, oversaw all other supply chain activities which included warehouse consolidations, U.S. launches and Integration and implementation of new processes.

Lake Forest, Il

Oversaw global integrated business planning program, global product launches, global supply chain systems, and U.S. demand planning, contributing to more than $3B annually. Managed $380M inventory, actively monitored within a changing generic product market. Coordinated, trained, and executed integrated business planning process, including meetings, process adherence, relevant topics, and elevation of key issues/discussions. Calculated, communicated, and ensured accuracy of key metrics. Implemented relaunch of SAP APO for production and rough-cut capacity planning for all plants. Launched more than 25 products globally ranging from medical devices to biosimilars worldwide and worked with local, international, and contracted plants, raw material suppliers, import/export requirements, local and global Commercial teams and Research and Development to ensure a smooth launch. Launched biosimilars in four international markets and continued to be the face for supply chain with the contracted manufacturers.

Oversaw rollout and implementation of integration business planning process utilizing new system (Steelwedge/E2Open), US demand planning team, and entire portfolio of products driving over $2B in revenue annually. Built new team and process while driving company to achieve company goals.

Managed global demand planning team (USA and Germany) responsible for all reagents and consumables supplied from multiple manufacturing facilities and several OEM suppliers, with budget of $110M. Acted as global lead for S&OP for four manufacturing facilities. Worked with each region/market (>60 markets) to improve forecast and supply through the S&OP meetings as well as ongoing meetings. Transferred manufacturing of products (>100 products) to alternative plants (locally and internationally) to optimize utilization and capacities.

Managed global demand planning team, located in USA and Germany, for six diagnostic product lines, with budget of $65M. Utilized sales and operations planning (S&OP) to highlight issues to management and understand any upcoming concerns. Built team to align with department and company goals by challenging team to look at root cause and make corrective actions and reduce on redundancies and streamline process.

Abbott Park, Il

Oversaw planning and purchasing of a mixture of chemical/biologics to commodities. Reducedbudget by ~50% within seven months without increasing distressed inventory or causing product availability issues.

Mba, Management And Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General