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North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Develop global freight and warehousing budgets and comprehensive supply chain cost reporting and variance analysis.
• Improve supply chain cost data reliability and accuracy for freight and warehousing spend and develop systematic enhancements for supply chain cost reporting.
• Create new KPIs for CTO supply chain cost analysis to drive data-driven decision making and standard cost impact.
• Partner with finance to provide supply chain cost to serve data for use in margin analysis for new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with the business units to provide end- to- end cost scenarios for optimization of costs to customer or service level requirements.

Richmond, IN

• Managed procurement of Belden’s North American compound spend, totaling $100 Million of yearly spend.
• Used strong negotiation skills to determine pricing, lead time, minimum order quantities, and rebate contracts for year over year savings of 5%.
• Managed open lines of communication between manufacturing facilities, vendors, sales teams, and warehousing personnel to expedite product orders and facilitate quality problem resolutions.
• Coordinated closely with engineering team to determine and implement lower cost raw material options.
• Analyzed data to determine total cost of ownership for use in make or buy decisions.

Richmond, IN

• Created production plan for incoming demand across six production cells based on analysis of cell capacity, order intake vs. forecast, service levels, inventory and raw material lead times.
• Managed delivery key performance indicator by identifying root cause of performance issues (5-Why Analysis and Lean Daily Management) and implementing corrective actions.
• Organized inventory reduction initiatives with overall inventory reductions of $100,000.
• Participate in plant IT improvement initiatives including efforts to pioneer automatic scheduling in pilot cell with current projected savings of $120,000 per year.
• Implemented a work-in-process kanban system for high volume items that reduced item lead time from 14 to 7 days.
• Analyzed capacity and demand to recommend actions to ensure optimal supply chain execution and ensure on time delivery to end customers.

Richmond, Indiana

• Prepared process mapping and participated in two cross-functional kaizens to reduce cycle time of the returns process by 66%.
• Led a kaizen to reduce receiving cycle time from 24 hours to two hours at Hirschmann Automation’s distribution center.
• Analyzed volume and packaging type of all products to re-slot the Richmond warehouse to increase efficiency by 5%.
• Identified consolidation opportunities on outbound shipments with savings of $100,000.
• Reduced daily on time delivery misses from the Richmond distribution center by 94%.

Columbia SC And Southaven, MI

Improved the products returns, processing, and reshipment process by mapping the current state value stream using VSM and swim-lane maps, improving the flow and throughput of the process with 5S Lean techniques, and creating and implementing a shipping optimization tool to reduce cost and manage inventory.

University Of South Carolina

Educated potential students and prospective football recruits about the University of South Carolina by giving campus tours -Worked over 150 hours in the Visitor's Center in the unpaid ambassador position.-Exceeded visitor's expectations 93% of the time on campus visits and tours.-Attended over 25 professional development meetings.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business; Global Supply Chain And Operations Management, 3.975

Japanese Language, Japanese Industries And Companies, Japanese Culture, Pass (Pass/Fail)

Activities and Societies: Festival Dance Club