Joseph Eschenbrenner, Mba, Ms, Acpf Email & Phone Number

Greater Phoenix Area

Oro Valley, Arizona, United States

• As a key part of the RTD OPS leadership team, the Director of Planning and Materials Management is responsible for production planning, materials management, master data control, and supports logistics activities of.
• Developed and implemented inventory strategies and processes driving down inventory by 15% and exceeding plan.
• Developed and implemented root cause and exception management methodology to drive best ever customer service by exceeding factory adherence goal.
• Successfully developed and lead a high performance team demonstrated by my strong GEO’s eSAT score while delivering all key metrics.
• Drove the implementation of S&OP, MPS, RCCP, VMI and long range (10yr) planning.
• Architected and championed the developed of a new buying tool that enabled real time analysis of NFG inventory. This tool provided a real time BOM inventory status view of components for all instruments and was a key.

Greater Boston Area

• This Director position is responsible for building and leading reliable global supply and demand planning processes to improve forecast accuracy, bias, and customer service levels. This includes leading the ownership.
• Developed and implemented New Service Review BI tools and processes resulting in improvements to our Customer Service on time delivery by 7%.
• Implemented New Demand Planning methodology utilizing a value-added approach. Achieved a 25% value added improvement.
• Developed and Implemented new supply strategies and inventory stocking policies leading to a significant improvement to inventory turns of +1.8 turns.
• Developed and maintained a high functioning team during pandemic times while still driving continuous process improvements and high morale!

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for developing a high performance "global" demand management organization (Europe, China, India and the US) creating and implementing policies and controls of demand planning results on six continents..
• Lead consensus SI&OP processes; directly driving long and short-term manufacturing, procurement, financial, budgeting, and business planning results.
• Developed a global closed loop monthly process to run the new demand management function. The Global Team included demand planners in Europe, India, China and the United States.
• Reduced inventory requirements and improved customer service by significantly reducing forecasting error (WMAPE) by 7-11% (over eight unique industries).
• Supported and drove the implementation of new SAP/APO/Logility processes to support over two million unique SKU / customer combinations.
• Implemented Value Added Forecasting metrics and processes.

Torrington, Connecticut

Managed the business services function, which included demand management, forecasting, pricing administration, contract administration, government procurement/contracting, sample shop co-ordination, and market research.

Torrington, Connecticut

Managed the profitability (P&L) and direction of multiple product lines. Applied technical skills to develop comprehensive product plans driving growth, profitability while balancing supply and demand.  Developed capacity plans to support product growth. Responsible for pricing, profitability and pricing strategies to meet corporate financial goals. .

Mba, Masters Business Administration

Ms, Finance

Ba, Mathematics And Statistics

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