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• Oversee supply planning function across internal and external (co-pack/co-man) manufacturing and suppliers
• Manage development of short-, mid-, and long-term supply plan to fulfill unconstrained demand plan (e.g. production management across sites, seasonal pre-build requirements)
• Identify and escalate supply risks and opportunities to leadership and key customers, along with proposed solutions
• Identify slow-moving inventory to mitigate obsolescence risk
• Evaluation of attainment and adherence and critical thinking to communicate impact to future supply plans and service
• Manage weeks of supply inventory targets at the item level for semi-finished and finished goods.

• Lead the distribution planning team, responsible for all DC-to-DC inventory movement and supporting plant-to-DC inventory movement for Ferrara internal network and co-pack/co-man locations
• Support top line growth through improving and stabilizing fill rate
• Improve interplant transfer (STO) cycle time
• Deliver cost savings through reducing re-deployment spend
• Determine network product flow, balancing cost and service level to guide deployment strategy for +700 SKUs
• Develop KPIs and create role specific cadences for team members to align with system and department cadences, and S&OP/IBP cycles, as well as dashboarding and leader standard work to support critical activities

Greater Chicago Area

• Manage and own specific discontinuation activities and SKU transitions
• Create standardized, repeatable, and transparent reporting to all key stakeholders
• Develop cross functional partnerships in order to ensure minimal excess and at risk inventory within the supply chain
• Establish and document the policies, process, and procedures for governing and managing a SKU’s life cycle
• Lead mitigation activities to avoid waste/write-off and drive cost savings to improve EBITDA

Chicago, Illinois

• Served as point of contact for all domestic inventory management, inventory control, receiving and cold storage warehousing with ad-hoc responsibilities for international inventory management
• Led standardization initiatives and rollouts to cold storage partners. Sample projects included lot level reporting and formatting, uniform item number reporting, CHEP rollout
• Built tools (Excel) and processes to eliminate waste and complexity in internal and external activities. Sample projects included customer shelf life requirement report, internal lot level shelf life report, and a.
• Identified and communicated at risk inventory; perform analysis and provide solutions to VP of Supply Chain
• Assisted in the implementation of ERP system and modifications, as well as EDI transmissions at partner cold storage locations
• Developed a template for new item requests, owned/updated an Item Master File, and held supply chain responsibilities for new item set-up

Neenah, WI

• Scheduled production (APO) that supports efficient utilization of production machines, materials, and storage space while achieving customer service objectives
• Executed material requirement plans to ensure finishing supplies and work-in-process availability which supports production schedules
• Maintained accurate planning information in SAP (an Enterprise Resource Planning system), updating as necessary for material/product changes
• Aided and led in the execution and completion of special projects related to the logistics field as assigned
• Provided on-call support to the production sites

Neenah, WI

• Executed key hard rollovers new product investment as well as pipeline fill for rollovers and major promotions
• Led the department transportation cost initiative focusing on intermodal transportation opportunities
• Identified and eliminated waste in daily tasks; +240 hours reclaimed
• Leveraged orders and retail scan data to identify trends and facilitate supply chain driven sales
• Challenged vendor compliance agreements to receive exemptions

Neenah, WI

• Developed and implemented a new process to realize space-making opportunities, reduce transportation redundancies, and increase warehousing efficiency
• Aided continuous improvement through development of visual management to monitor daily responsibilities resulting in both the reduction of vendor notifications and a decrease in the average lifespan of vendor.
• Organized and validated procedures to promote standardized and unified work instructions
• Owned responsibility for raw materials at seven contract manufacturers with a focus on improving raw material cycle count accuracy
• Served as the point of contact for the Auction Committee for the Kimberly-Clark Co-Ops Harbor House Golf Outing

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Operation And Technology Management, Marketing, Management And Human Resources

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi

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