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Auburn, MI, US

Midland, Michigan, US

• Product owner for design and development of new custom order control tool integrating systems and facilitating movement to online ordering providing real time product availability and order control for customers.
• Led design and deployment activities for implementation of OMP demand planning software company wide. This solution delivered on our goals to digitize our plans, expand our planning horizon, and improve visibility.
• Designed and garnered support to introduce new cross training, rotation based “E2E Hybrid Role” to build and spread much needed planning process and tool expertise across our organization.
• Delivered design and development on custom “OMP to GATP Shuttle” linking our demand plans to SAP and eliminating the need to create separate plans to control orders.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Developed, instructed, and implemented new work processes that changed how demand is planned at Dow. This achieved a “one set of numbers” mentality delivering clarity on the plans being executed for all functions.
• Initiated development of a new infrastructure to link demand plans directly to our company finance tools. This realized greater and more frequent visibility to the impact of changing demand plans and eliminated manual.
• Developed an agile hybrid method utilized for OMP planning software development which allowed the key benefits of agile scrums while retaining the timeline and tracking elements needed for our integration teams.
• Formed cross company Demand Governance team that introduced several corporate wide changes to demand planning tools and work processes.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Built regional implementation teams including new process and expertise roles to facilitate global adoption of new planning processes and tools.
• Developed and implemented new planned product hierarchy to facilitate alignment to global asset structures and enable alignment to key market segments.
• Built value proposition and secured leadership support to add five Demand Manager roles which have transitioned the business from supply chain focused to commercially focused demand plans improving accuracy.
• Orchestrated businesses global process configuration sessions to educate cross functional leadership team on industry best practices and clarified roles and responsibilities for new end to end planning processes.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Identified and led cross functional team to secure and implement vendor tap and bill consignment for a key raw material. This agreement and process reduced inventory by an average of 800,000 lbs. each month and.
• In order to enable Dow to offer and maintain competitive pricing on a key material, created a proposal for a revamped pricing model to our tolling agreement. This resulted in a $.02/lb. reduction delivering $60,000.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Identified and led the implementation of an opportunity to take advantage of raw material trends with recipe variations achieving $1-2MM in annual cost savings vs. legacy recipes.
• Spearheaded implementation of an externally produced material into an underutilized asset enabling over $550,000 in savings and margin from increased volume.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Developed a strategy and grew market share at unprecedented rates (67% and 27% year over year) through a focus on product strengths, service, technical expertise, and targeted market expansions.
• Developed a market analysis and business case to support a significant investment to restart an abandoned asset which delivered a multimillion-dollar return in that same year.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Identified and implemented a change to improve production costs of a principal commercial product enabling over $1.5MM in annual raw material cost savings while reducing cycle times.
• Located a producer and negotiated a contract agreement for an external alternative source on businesses highest volume material. This agreement was utilized to enable additional sales and avoid supply interruptions

Midland, Michigan, US

• During the exit of a large integrated production site, led commercial activities for a successful transition of all grades to an alternate manufacturing location while qualifying and maintaining 100% of the customer.
• Implemented Demand Driven Business Operations planning within the polyol portfolio.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Developed a SAP Productivity Shortcut Tool educating Customer Service Representatives on alternative methods to increase their efficiency and provide superior service.
• Identified alternate production location not considered by supply chain for critical raw material for Polyurethane’s largest customer in a critical market segment. A successful reintroduction of this grade at this.