JOB SUMMARY:Responsible to manage all aspects of materials flow and to maintain control and accuracy over all goods inventories, including all transactions, material requirements planning, scheduling, cost, and shipping to ensure continuity of supply. Direct reports include all business unit material managers with indirect responsibilities for the material schedulers at 8 manufacturing locations.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.• Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.• Identify, develop and manage effective relationships with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.• Achieves financial objectives by working with management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions.• Participates as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions.• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets.Organizational Relationships•6-9 direct reports responsible for production planning and deployment •Sr. Director Product Supply•Marketing Senior Directors/Vice President, Sales Planning Operations, Finance, Network Leads, Product Change Management, External Manufacturers, Quality, Procurement, Forecast Managers, Materials Managers and CS&L

Lead the development of tactical demand plans for all categories in BU through standardized business processes that integrate with IBP and drive key business metrics: customer service, waste, profitability, and growth.Responsibilities include:-Lead the development of a shipment forecast by product family and SKU on a 24 month basis utilizing inputs from IBP, statistical models, historical sales data, headquarter sales, field sales and marketing intelligence-Lead integration of the IBP Demand Planning process with supply planning while working closely with IBP Demand Lead-Drive improvements to item-location, weekly forecast accuracy and forecast bias metrics through process improvements and standardization-Interface with senior members of marketing, sales (headquarters and field), finance and operations to drive day to day results and ongoing process improvements-Identify abnormal forecast consumption and work with Sales and Marketing teams to develop resolution plans-Identify and communicate approved short term demand changes to supply planning-Establish standard approach and process for accurate integration of promotional intelligence to statistical forecast. Establish collaboration process with headquarters and field sales-Provide input to development of future state Kraft wide Demand Planning process-Manage day to day forecasting activities of category forecasting planners-Provides leadership across the BU on forecasting best practices-Establish standard approaches and processes for development of demand plans for new items-Lead evolution of Demand Planning process to incorporate emerging trends and technologies, e.g., POS data, Demand Sensing

As part of the Center of Expertise our group has been tasked with increase Customer Fill Rate for all Kraft customers to 98.5%. Process includes development of root cause analysis tools, demand sensing reporting, and production planning fundamental improvements. Responsibility also falls to create inventory reduction project charters, monitoring sustainability of set processes, and continue to tackle the root causes of service issues.

12 month management development program focused on increasing the bench strength of supply chain professionals for Kraft Foods. Rotations lasted 4-13 weeks and covered everything from raw material procurement to retail merchandising. My locations included: Ahold Customer Business Team- Boston MA, Warehouse Distribution- Ft Worth TX, Manufacturing Capri Sun- St Louis MO, Business Unit Oscar Mayer- Madison WI, and Direct Store Delivery Warehouse- San Francisco CA.

Responsible for bottoms up forecast for Desserts, Mac & Cheese, and Planters Peanuts portfolio’s for the Wal-Mart customer team. Role requires close network with sales counterparts, understanding ADF forecasting system platform, SAP order management experience, and strong business analytics. Maintained relationship with Wal-Mart Replenishment team to seamlessly execute promotional and turn business.

This position is an integral part of Customer Service & Logistics with exposure to EDI, Supply Chain, Mixing Centers, Plants and Buffers, Transportation, Logistics, Forecasting, Inventory Planning, Demand Planning and financial aspects of the business. The Customer Supply Chain Coordinator is responsible for orders received, insuring products are priced correctly, ordering appropriate quantities, sourcing from the correct locations and shipping to the customer per their specifications and managing truckload rounding. CSC’s are also responsible for key financial and supply chain performance measurements, and drive participation in Supply Chain efficiencies. Strong emphasis on team environment with clear communication at all levels and demonstrates leadership in the development of team members.