John Plotkin Email & Phone Number

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Worked with and assisted Regions globally with revenue and margin, along with alignments of pricing activities.• Managed projects to assist the regions. Some of the projects I managed include raising more competitive data points through automated efforts, making sure parts are in the correct segments so the revenue of these parts flow through the correct bucket and regional opportunities to find additional growth where parts and tractor models are selling in one region but not in another. • Added $12 Million in additional revenue for the combined regions of North America, Latin America, EMEA, APAC in 2022• Assisted Latin America with research and blueprint of new pricing tool: Will be launched June 2023• Assisted North America and revision of pricing tool which will launch in June 2023.• Recommended and assisted regions with Global pricing strategies.• Assisted regions with raising margins globally by looking for reduced sales and margins year over year and adjusting pricing as needed.• Worked with global costing and purchasing to reduce costs and assist purchasing to develop new suppliers and lower quotes/costs to make CNH competitive and raise our margins.

Racine County, Wisconsin, United States

• Manage Pricing for hardware, frames and other parts as needed for CNH Parts & Service. o Priced over 4000 parts according to specifications, margins as directed by manager of department. Also, manage alerts and pricing questions from dealers. I work with databases Servigistics, Nexgen, Iview, CRM and Dynamics for this role to achieve pricing in line with part category. o I manage parts for part time pricing analyst who no longer works at CNH. This includes hardware parts, labels, decals, frames, structural parts. I also price electrical and harnesses in backup role and other hardware parts in backup role for primary pricing analyst.o I quote parts for dealers and answer questions, concerns regarding pricing, costs and inventory.o I search similar parts, prior parts to compare to current part number to make sure our pricing is accurate. By gathering dimensions, specifications, materials and grade, I am able to search various competitor sites to make sure our parts are in line for pricing.o

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Managed inventory to optimize allocations and replenishment inventory productivity and customer fulfillment. o Allocated purchase orders, ensuring optimal investment by store across key attributes, e.g. cluster/tier and lifestyle.o Created/modified replenishment models ensuring proper in stocks while optimizing inventory investment.o Recommended order cancelations; flow adjustments; reorders; and replenishment edits, builds and assortment expansions.o Ensured that Allocations and Replenishment models support Localization initiatives.• Provided analysis and recommendations. o Created Store Analysis reports; reviews opportunities and action plan with VP of Inventory.o Identified and quantified opportunities for store growth.o Analyzed past performance to provide depth and breadth assortment recommendations.o Supported OTB process by building accurate monthly forecasts.• Initiated monthly (minimally) Inventory Strategy meeting with Buyer & Planner to discuss inventory management thru Allocation and Replenishment. Information is shared so that Inventory Manager has clear understanding of product life cycle, product re-flow, advertised items, and markdown schedule.

Glendale Wi

analysis of aftermarket battery returns in Americas. Issuing credits to customers for returning used batteries.. Also analyzing lead being returned to smelters and reconciling loads of battery returns to make sure all loads of returned batteries reach their destinations.

Milwaukee

billing for service work for BE JCI

Milwaukee

handled major accounts for johnson controls, scheduling, expediting, sales