Mark L. Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Supply Chain professional, results driven leader who specialises in creating end-to-end value through, Supply Chain leadership, Data Strategy and Data Science leadership at Laminex.I have led the Demand team through multiple high impact transformation initiatives; the business case for and subsequent implementation of Data Science and the successful.

Whilst managing a team of 4 Supply Planners and 2 Demand Planners, I worked with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to embed Demand Planning within the business and worked with the Sales Leadership Team to drive Sales ownership of the Demand Plan.Whilst driving an improved Demand Planning Process, I also introduced a proof of concept stock projection to.

Melbourne, Australia

• A Demand and Supply Chain Planning leader, driving end-to-end value in the Healthcare sector through innovation in an intrapreneurial and agile environment.
• Project Lead for the use case investigation of RFID technologies in the Blood Supply Chain, including testing technical infrastructure for interoperability.
• Developed and implemented the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process for the Australian Red Cross Blood Lifeblood Milk Bank through a user-centred (milk bank supply chain, innovation & clinical departments).
• Implemented and managed Donor Centre consumable stock on hand management (IMPREST stock management)
• Improved Lag 2 demand forecast accuracy from 95.7% to 97.8% across all states for short shelf life products
• Streamlined the manufactured product forecasting and ordering process

Melbourne, Australia

I worked closely with retail customer Priceline to optimise the customer supply chain and improve DIFOT outcomes for the customer. This was achieved through collaboration and improved customer forecast accuracy.

• Ensure robust sales and budget forecasts for Libra, Handee and Sorbent brands and manage the full IBM process for Tena and export customers, through effective communication with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Management.
• Expanded my role from the Personal Care division to also encompass the Consumer Tissue division, identifying synergies and driving cross-divisional process optimisation
• Principal demand team member in a major SAP upgrade project, taking responsibility for demand related system testing across all divisions
• Driving team member in improving Personal Care Asia Pacific Lag 3 forecast accuracy from 69% to 86% across all item classes
• Through managing the Health Care demand process, Lag 3 forecast accuracy improved from 78% to 87% across all item classes
• Delivered an average 81% time-save on all process optimisation initiatives implemented, across both demand and brand management teams.