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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Own Production Planning Process and strongly follow up execution from plants to fulfill sales demand.• Collaborate with cross functions (Operations, Procurements, Logistics, Finance) to build up resources for product/materials supply sustainability in S&OP horizon of 4-18 months at nationwide level.• Control supply plan and inventory status of in charged category on a weekly basis by strongly coordinate with location Production team.• Recommend short-term changes to target inventories, turns and inventory (DFC) when necessary to deliver required customer service level.• Recommend disposal of obsolete or expired FGs inventories.• Identify and propose solutions on conflicts between Supply and Demand to balance supply needs among 5 plants & 8 DCs.• Ensure manufacturing resources in place to sustain supply plan of 12-18 months planning horizon.• Collaborate with Co-packer to ensure production plans established & tracking.• Collaborate with Financial Planning and Brand Team to influence launch or phase out plan to optimize revenue growth, cost, inventory, obsolescence and speed to market.• Ensure appropriate contingency plans established based on levels of risks (capacity shortage, impacts of project implementation).• Coordinate with MRP to ensure sustainable materials supply for production with all basic requirements on quality, quantity and timely basis.• Collaborate with logistics team to work on relevant resource readiness to streamline the products flow from plants to DCs, including warehouse and transportation resources planning.

Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area

In charge of the world-renowned brands PEPSI, 7UP, MIRINDA, TEA+, LIPTON, BOSS COFFEE (carbonated soft drink & ready-to-drink tea & coffee)• Statistical forecast lead: wrote and implemented new auto-optimized forecasting program in Python• Digital Upskill champion – liaise with HR & IT to select contents and organize digital upskill trainings• Managed and implemented a new phase of Integrated Business Planning (IBP).• Facilitated monthly and weekly demand management reviews with leaders of channel development, sales operations, trade marketing and brand marketing.• Monitored demand – supply reconciliation and inventory management.

Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area

In charge for the leading brands TEA+, TWISTER, LIPTON, BOSS COFFEE (ready-to-drink tea, juice & coffee)• Statistical forecast lead: generate demand forecast using advanced predictive algorithms and techniques.• Pioneered to implement new technologies (Power Query, RPA, Python automation) and officially trained team members to enhance working efficiency• Implementing Sales & Operations Planning process: closely work with commercial teams to incorporate uplift activities into the forecast and collaborate with supply planning team to define constrained demand for both short-, mid- and long-term plan• Created various automated data processing tools for business use• Key User of SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP): System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT), hyper-care for Demand Planning IBP Module• New Product Introduction: collaborate with innovation planning & commercial team ensure new product availability according to the strategic demand plan.

Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area

Among more than 1,500 candidates, I was honored to be 1 of the 11 selected candidates to join the Young Talent Program (Management Trainee Program) of Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage. As a Management Trainee for Supply Chain department, I was assigned a 18-month rotational scheme within and outside of supply chain to acquire essential and holistic experience for a future management role.Highlights:- Finance Dept.: Built a price-cost analysis model to drive a major change in the delivery model in Ho Chi Minh city.- Sales Operations Dept.: + Built and implemented an automated Order Processing tool using Power Query, VBA, Microsoft Flows (RPA) and AI Builder. Result: reducing 66% of processing time per order, applied nationwide. + Built and implemented an automated forecasting framework as a statistical reference to improve sales forecast accuracy and embrace data-driven culture. Applied nationwide.- Trade Marketing Dept: ran 2 launching projects for re-labeled and re-formulated products.- Marketing Dept: Assisted Brand Manager to run Lunar New Year (Tet) campaign and managed supply matrix for Tet packaging deployment.- Experienced 3 months of fields sales in general (traditional) trade and modern trade channels.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Production planning: - Planning materials & components for fabric production - Negotiating & anticipating shortage in production capacity - Monitoring production plan weekly on-site at the plant.Inventory management: - Monitoring stock level - Resolving slow moving and obsolete stockOrder management: - Ensuring on-time delivery & avoiding air shipment

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Howden is a global engineering business focusing on industrial products that are vital to multiple sectors: from power generation, oil & gas to waste water treatment. 20% of Thermopower plants worldwide are using Howden's quality machines.As a Project Management Trainee at Howden Vietnam, my core responsibilities are:- Managed full-range logistics tasks, from factories abroad to end-user's site in Vietnam (up to USD 300,000/shipment).- Set up Standard Project Execution Process.- Negotiated, composed & executed Sales contracts.- Created Visual Board for project tracking.- Developed relationship with logistics vendors.- Procured logistics solutions.- Directly assisted General Director in sales quotations.- Travelled to customer's site: + Mong Duong 2 Power Plant in Quang Ninh, Vietnam (shipment delivery) + Thai Binh 1 Power Plant in Thai Binh, Vietnam (customer relationship management) + Ha Long Cement Plant in Quang Ninh, Vietnam (customer relationship management)

Hồ Chí Minh

Dedicated to Phase 1 of project Carmudi – the one and only e-commerce website in Vietnam specialized in trading used cars. Personal remark: how to dream a big dream with niche market and how applying technology can make it into reality-Analyzed web product (UI/UX)-Directly assisted Project manager-Contributed ideas to build the system of the web -Generated product documentaries for Developing team -Bridged Product Owner, Designer & Dev team together

Master Of Science - Ms, Global Production Engineering And Management, 9.2/10 (1.4 German Scale)

Activities and Societies: Top 3 of cohort Merit scholarship 2023-2024

Bachelor Of Economics, International Business Economics

Activities and Societies: Youth Union Executive Degree classification: Very good Specialization: Logistics and Foreign Trade Operations.

Taiwan - Cultural Exchange

Activities and Societies: - Basic Mandarin course - International mindset - Soft skills - Companies field trip - Reportorial presentation.