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Englewood, Colorado, United States

• Lead and manage the day-to-day and end-to-end production planning, buying, and demand planning functions for strategic business decisions, process improvement, weekly/monthly reporting, backorder remediation and avoidance, and inventory management.• Drove major supply chain process improvements within production planning, buying and demand planning, including manual ERP overview, daily production commits and S&OP process improvements using meaningful data and analytics.• Manage and… Show more • Lead and manage the day-to-day and end-to-end production planning, buying, and demand planning functions for strategic business decisions, process improvement, weekly/monthly reporting, backorder remediation and avoidance, and inventory management.• Drove major supply chain process improvements within production planning, buying and demand planning, including manual ERP overview, daily production commits and S&OP process improvements using meaningful data and analytics.• Manage and maintain the Min/Max levels, reporting the status of inventory levels against inventory targets; working cross-functional with Finance and Sales to align inventory levels.• Optimize warehousing and distribution capacity requirements through planning and inventory optimizing.• Partner with Manufacturing (external Tollers and Blenders) determining long term capacity investment plans.• Provide clear direction and accountabilities to team members through appropriate guidance, direction and delegation; Intervenes as needed to remove obstacles.• Lead SIOP / IBP processed and engage with key stakeholders to ensure processes are embedded to improve supply chain performance. Show less

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• S&OP Process Owner - manage the monthly S&OP process focusing on the key process drivers, including Portfolio Management Review, Demand Planning, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, and new product launches. Provide continuous improvement ideas to streamline monthly process.• Manage Product Portfolio Optimization – Partner with Sales Strategy, Product Management to review active portfolio for SKU rationalization via Soley Rationalization Software. Drive the process to… Show more • S&OP Process Owner - manage the monthly S&OP process focusing on the key process drivers, including Portfolio Management Review, Demand Planning, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, and new product launches. Provide continuous improvement ideas to streamline monthly process.• Manage Product Portfolio Optimization – Partner with Sales Strategy, Product Management to review active portfolio for SKU rationalization via Soley Rationalization Software. Drive the process to completion after discontinuation decision is made; manage the discontinuation plan, sell down, scrap and system item attribute updates.• Inventory Management - establish and maintain Inventory Health Targets, prepare monthly/yearly inventory forecasts, and implement inventory reduction levers to hit corporate inventory targets. Show less

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• Manage the sales controlling team to provide sales reporting and analysis to the Sales, Supply Chain, and Marketing teams, with timely and actionable information and insights to support strategic decision-making.• Prepare and manage the nine-figure Annual Sales Budget and ten-year Strategic Plan, make recommendations to guide attainment of aggressive growth targets and strengthen corporate initiatives.• Develop and manage the monthly Global demand forecast, work cross-functionally… Show more • Manage the sales controlling team to provide sales reporting and analysis to the Sales, Supply Chain, and Marketing teams, with timely and actionable information and insights to support strategic decision-making.• Prepare and manage the nine-figure Annual Sales Budget and ten-year Strategic Plan, make recommendations to guide attainment of aggressive growth targets and strengthen corporate initiatives.• Develop and manage the monthly Global demand forecast, work cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Finance, Sales and Marketing teams to align demand forecast based on historical trends, corporate goals, market conditions and initiatives. • Track new product introductions for release via demand plan; manage discontinuation of products monthly to minimize material liability and E&O exposure. Show less

Broomfield, Colorado

• Developed, managed and published the $250M Quarterly Inventory Plan (IP) to ensure product availability for the Entry-Mid, Intelligent Blades, Optic FRU and Optic POD FRU product lines.• Developed, managed and published the weekly Master Production Schedule (MPS) based on Quarterly IP to ensure material availability, capacity constraints and cost reduction to the Contract Manufacturer (CM).• Managed the Contract Manufacturer to ensure all customer backlog is fulfilled based on product… Show more • Developed, managed and published the $250M Quarterly Inventory Plan (IP) to ensure product availability for the Entry-Mid, Intelligent Blades, Optic FRU and Optic POD FRU product lines.• Developed, managed and published the weekly Master Production Schedule (MPS) based on Quarterly IP to ensure material availability, capacity constraints and cost reduction to the Contract Manufacturer (CM).• Managed the Contract Manufacturer to ensure all customer backlog is fulfilled based on product lead-time.• Managed supply allocation during supply constraints.• Developed and enhanced planning factory process to help drive business improvements.• Manage new product introduction, phase-in plans and end of life planning.• Managed the Planning transition from Brocade to Broadcom processes; included a complete planning process change.• Developed and managed the Worldwide Business Operations Factory Audit to ensure Contract Manufacturer strictly adhered to agreed a upon processes within Planning, Materials, Program Management, Doc Control and Logistics. Show less

Broomfield, Colorado

• Ensured continuity of supply for SAN products by managing buffer strategies, inventory turns, tactical procurement of material, and purchasing activities for production builds at the Contract Manufacturer.• Managed transitions of new programs from NPI to Sustaining for launch, and EOL to minimize material liability and exposure of excess and obsolete.• Developed and enhanced material factory process to help drive business improvements.

Longmont, Colorado

• Align and manage supply to support worldwide inventory and product supply to meet the demand requirements while minimizing inventory levels for the Digital Entertainment and several Global OEM accounts with shipments exceeding 2.5 million units annually (2005). Accounts include: EchoStar, Tivo, Scientific Atlanta, Apple, Fujitsu Siemens and Gateway.• Provide supply account support to a worldwide team of sales and technical support representatives in 10 countries. Maintain direct customer… Show more • Align and manage supply to support worldwide inventory and product supply to meet the demand requirements while minimizing inventory levels for the Digital Entertainment and several Global OEM accounts with shipments exceeding 2.5 million units annually (2005). Accounts include: EchoStar, Tivo, Scientific Atlanta, Apple, Fujitsu Siemens and Gateway.• Provide supply account support to a worldwide team of sales and technical support representatives in 10 countries. Maintain direct customer contact and relationships with several customers within North America.• Manage new product introduction, phase-in plans and end of life planning.• Conduct weekly analysis and subsequently develop a weekly supply allocation and commit to meet site demand forecasts and buffer requirements. Execute ad hoc scenario analysis and modeling for supply and demand alignment/business optimization decision-making. Show less

Longmont, Colorado

• Created, scheduled and maintained four daily shipment schedules from three shipping factories in Singapore for Compaq’s 47 worldwide sites for desktop disk drive products and six sites for server disk drive products.• Entered and maintained all order transactions including contracts, sales orders, credit and debit memos, administrative returns, scheduling agreements and stock transport orders from hub to hub or hub to customer locations.• Successfully integrated Quantum products into… Show more • Created, scheduled and maintained four daily shipment schedules from three shipping factories in Singapore for Compaq’s 47 worldwide sites for desktop disk drive products and six sites for server disk drive products.• Entered and maintained all order transactions including contracts, sales orders, credit and debit memos, administrative returns, scheduling agreements and stock transport orders from hub to hub or hub to customer locations.• Successfully integrated Quantum products into daily processes on the Compaq account after the merger of Maxtor and Quantum. Show less