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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Manage finished goods inventory levels at both the production plants and third-party logistic distribution centers to ensure on-time shipping of customer orders, while also reducing or eliminated aged inventory and waste. Review inventory levels, demand forecast and sales orders to initiate stock transfers between production plants and third-party logistics.Developed new tool utilizing SAP/IBP that simplified the entire inventory deployment process from analyzing inventory, allocating full pallets to truck to building stock transfers.

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Analyzed historical date to identify business optimization opportunities and to develop forecasts to drive external vendor staffing and internal staffing. Communicated with business partners on short-term and long-term volume outlooks. Ensured data integrity in the current excel-based tools.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Enhance the specialty assortment planning tool for Canada chains. Link tabs to incorporate both planning and forecasting and add a this year/last year summary sheet. These enhancements optimized communication of this year’s plan compared to last year’s sales results, while also accelerating and simplifying the end-to-end assortment planning process.• Doubled both unit and dollar sales on Hanukkah Box cards by utilizing Hanukkah season counter sales to target additional ethnic and regional accounts.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Implemented season counter card sales strategies for over 200 chains, 20,000+ rooftops; performed detailed sales analysis, in-season replenishment analysis, field execution and post season analysis, while maintaining a retail focus that maximized wholesale and retail revenues. • Expert on season counter orders related to program strategy, order planning, booking, data integrity and the proper method of analyzing and reporting.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Developed a template and process used to book season counter orders for all new accounts using both like store and model line data. The new account template and process accelerated and simplified the booking process for new accounts. • Managed the process of booking all season counter card orders for all the competitive take over chains, 20+ chains. Ensured that all orders matched store market place demographics, sales projections and shipped on time.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Engineered the process to analyze POS data during the selling season to identify stores pacing ahead of trend and then calculating the needed replenishment amount. Increased sales while also keeping sell thru high. • Increased the season counter sell thru from 70% to 76% while still achieving or exceeding the retail sales goals at both the individual chain level and customer team levels. • Developed, implemented and trained order writers and field sales personal on the order planning and booking process for the national accounts team. • Collaborated with I/T programs on enhancements to the Season Order Writing Tool. Tested all new enhancements, documented all errors and assisted in developing solutions to those errors.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Developed the entire order writing process for booking season counter card orders. Coordinating with the Retail Focus Teams and Order Management & Solutions team, creating all communication, forms and procedures to ensure accurate and efficient booking of season counter cards orders. • Trained all new order planners on the Season Order Writing Tool and order writing process. • Authored the instructions on how “How to initiate orders in the Season Order Writing Tool.”

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology, Cum Laude

Associate'S Degree