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Responsible for overseeing the manufacturing of Home Entertainment product throughout Italy and for logistic and distribution in cooperation with Sony DADC warehouse in Dietzenbach (Frankfurt- Germany).Develop the European HE supply chain strategy particularly through working on various distribution transitions and key initiatives such as Finishing on Demand and Service Excellence.Project Manager for the warehouse transition from Sony Music Milan to Sony DADC Germany and project leader for the new distribution system implementation.Relationship and negotiations with main vendors, Internal & External customers; Support the Commercial function both in strategic initiatives and delivery of company targets. Collaborate with cross functional departments in implementing best practice initiatives, optimizing customer experience and identifying cost saving opportunities.

1999- 2002 Distribution Center PlannerManagement of inventory level of Oral Care products, in order to assure their availability to meet customer demand, by producing demand forecasting figures and by using a range of communication techniques to allow also resource management at the factory and outside producing sites, contributing to the excellent levels of customer service, whilst meeting the Company’s working capital goal.Follow up all promotions and NPD’s with Marketing, Sales and Manufacturing.Responsible to update the Material Master in SAP, measure and report periodic DC planning and C.S. KPI’s and recommend corrective actions.Power user for forecasting module.1999 SAP Power UserResponsible of SD module during SAP rel. 4.6D implementation.1998-1999 SAP Support – Interface & data loading Power UserCollaborated with the team responsible for the realization of the new financial organization of the Company. From April-98 to March-99 in Brussels for the Colgate Palmolive SAP international Project, with responsibility of financial interfaces and data conversion from legacy systems to SAP, for all the European Subsidiaries.1987-1998 Analyst programmer. I.T. 1997 - Managed the support to the sales force for the operational and acquisition mode of the orders through Laptop.June 97-Dec 97 - Team member with responsibility of data conversion from AS/400 to SAP MM module.1991 – 1997 - Team member of the Colgate Palmolive Financial Competence Center for the management of Accounts Payable & general Ledger procedures on AS/400 for all the CP European Subs.1987- 1991 – team member for the realization of applications in IDMS – ADS On line environment.