Owen Kiser Email & Phone Number

Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, United States

• Worked in the Sales and Operations Execution department on the Crop Protection division to manage the Midwest region of 5 distribution warehouses.
• Scheduled hundreds of product transfers between warehouses to fill customer orders across the nation in the most cost-effective yet inventory conscious way
• Placed Purchase Requisitions to order $25+ million of product annually when transfers couldn't be arranged due to Crop Protection's 1000s of SKUs
• Held weekly S&OE inventory meetings with each of my 5 warehouses to create a plan for filling all open orders and to review the next 30-day demand forecast
• Developed various PowerBI reports in my free time to track current sales programs, Excel analysis on needed inventory rebalancing between warehouses, and an Excel macro to cut 15 minutes off the manual process of.

Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, United States

• Developed production schedules and forecasts for both plants in CHS’s Sunflower division to provide increased visibility and risk awareness to the 10+ people who use the production plans daily
• Met with stakeholders to gather user requirements, initial inputs, and ongoing feedback while developing the production schedules or other various improvement projects
• Created an RPA bot to automate repetitive data entry from Excel into SAP, saving 10-15 hours monthly
• Made daily Key Performance Indicator reports in Excel and PowerBI for the Sunflower and Ethanol production plants to highlight areas of risk and display daily capacity metrics.