Kedra Brown Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Currently leading the Demand Planning team with a focus on forecast generation across all regions,, process development, and establishing best practices.

- Manage a three-person Demand Planning team responsible for forecasting products upwards of $1billion in annual revenue. Publish and use of forecast metrics including MAPE and forecast bias to maintain forecast accuracy upwards of 80%.
- Completed internal Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification course and became Project Leader on a SKU optimization project to reduce the number of active SKUs within the organization. By focusing on total revenue and gross margin, we reduced the number of active SKUs by 20%.
- Optimize resources to select the right statistical models to forecast demand. Employed use of 10 statistical models to forecast 2500+ SKUs that improved forecast accuracy by 5%.
- Created new forecast accuracy reports requiring use of SQL queries to acquire sales and forecast data.
- Started monthly category review meetings to present forecast performance changes at monthly demand review and executive S&OP meetings. This involves financial and volume forecast alignment, comparing year over year sales, and reviewing sales to forecast gaps with Marketing.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

- Scheduled and delivered trainings on SAP ECC, SAP APO, and offline tools including Qlik Sense data visualization to business leaders, as well as manufacturing and staff personnel who utilize these systems. - Project management experience in companywide initiative to reduce raw material inventory. This resulted in an inventory reduction exceeding $1 million by adjusting various safety stock strategies to Kanban, Order to Safety Stock, and Order to Demand. - Implemented Inventory Turns as new company metric for finished goods, semi-finished goods, and raw materials, to be used across Product Supply division to meet Working Capital reduction targets. - Project management experience in product transition from one product line to another. By working with Marketing and Operations, we were able to successfully reduce inventory write-off risk from $1.5million to $500,000.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

- Reduced projected inventory write-off from estimated target of $956,000 to $676,000 as member of planning team responsible for transitioning all products from one brand to another. This represented a write-off reduction of 30% for my production location.- Decreased current safety stock inventory targets by some $847,000 as part of an Inventory Target Setting team, without affecting customer service, and being an advocate for greater Inventory Management.- Maintained 98% customer service level, despite lowering inventory targets, by keeping average backorder dollar value at $98,000; well below target of $160,000. - Utilized Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including Planning and Safety Stock Conformances to drive improvements in Inventory Control. Successfully reduced inventory by some $150,000 by analyzing data within KPIs to locate products with stranded inventory and identify best methods for product consumption.

Lawrenceville, Ga, Us

-Winner of 2015 Performance Excellence Award and nominee for the RICOH Way Award for successful implementation of new product launch resulting in additional monthly sales of more than $500,000.-Created an MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) schedule and purchasing plan for raw materials based on S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) Analysis and monthly forecasts exceeding $12 million.-Successfully gathered and analyzed forecasting and production data to create S&OP reports and chair monthly S&OP meetings.-Production scheduling and daily oversight of raw materials in excess of $4 million.-Established a FIFO (First-In First-Out) audit for raw materials which has generated savings to the company of over $100,000 by prioritizing the use of materials prior to their expiration.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Direct activities of Supplier Evaluation, Forecast Analysis, Strategic Planning and Purchasing-Effectively developed a purchasing plan through forecast analysis to purchase components consistent with the Economic Order Quantity. This resulted in ordering costs being reduced by 15%.-Purchasing plastic components in excess of $3 million annually.-Created supplier scorecards and provided customer forecasts to suppliers to evaluate supplier performance.

- Successfully applied Theory of Constraints philosophy to capacity planning. Reduced overall throughput time and improved on-time delivery from 65% to 85%. - Saved $1 million in raw materials inventory without affecting scheduling and delivery to the customer- Oversaw the analysis of RFQs, specification, the competitive bidding process and purchased fabricated and machined components to priority plan totaling $1 million annually. - Supervised three support personnel. Successfully developed training plans and oversaw training to coordinate their daily activities to improve performance

Jeannette, Pa, Us

- Created Gantt charts to analyze resource capacity for 23 machinists, 15 fabrication welders and $13 million of capital equipment. Through S&OP analysis, determined whether components would be fabricated or machined in-house or subcontracted- Department leader in companywide initiative to evolve operations from a Push to Pull manufacturing system; reduced by 22% the lead time of finished product to external customer. - Implemented lean production initiatives to reduce cycle time of parts in the fabrication & heavy machining departments; one initiative led to a lead time reduction of 50% with savings of $1 million per year

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bsba, Supply Chain Management, International Business, Marketing

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration; Supply Chain Management; International Business; Marketing