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Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Barnard Castle, County Durham, United Kingdom

Victrex is a leading supplier of high end polymers to the medical device, aerospace, automotive and consumer electronics industries. I lead all demand, supply and material planning activities, S&OP, as well as global logistics and distribution, with a team of twenty employees in three countries. Victrex works to ISO9001 and 13485 standards and manufacturers an FDA regulated medical device.• Implemented global replenishment planning processes and weekly production planning cycle, to smooth demand at the major manufacturing site.• Best practice Sales and Operations planning process, including monthly rough cut profit and loss projections, improving the business’ capability to manage demand and capacity through a period of significant volume growth.• Collaborated with a primary toll manufacturer to move from campaign to continuous manufacture to reduce order to delivery lead times by 35%.• Reduced total stock value across the business by 10% over 18 months whilst maintaining OTIF over 99%, at a time when sales volumes have increased by 45%. Also reduced slow moving and obsolete stock levels by more than 40% over the same period.• Supported the implementation of a new Quality Management System, working to ISO13485 for an FDA 510K registered device, as part of the establishment of a medical device manufacturing company within Victrex.

Crimson & Co is a specialist supply chain consultancy focusing on process improvement and operational excellence across the end-to-end supply chain, from procurement to distribution, and also from strategy to implementation.Selected clients:ASSA ABLOY, May 2013 to July 2013 – Scandinavian Warehouse and Transport StrategyAccolade Wine, June 2011 to May 2013 – Global Supply Planning ImplementationTetrapak, February to May 2011 – Supply Strategy ImplementationAstraZeneca, November 2010 to February 2011 – Coding and SerialisationBritish American Tobacco, January to April 2009 – APO Business Process DevelopmentAlso completed projects at Sony Computer Entertainment, PZ Cussons, British American Tobacco and Avon Cosmetics

One of the largest kitchen furniture businesses in Europe, Nobia includes the Magnet and Poggenpohl brands, as well as supplying a range of the “big shed” UK DIY chains. This role was on an interim basis following a successful consulting assignment• As part of the Nobia UK Senior Management Team, established and developed the Supply Chain Planning Manager role in the UK, managing three separate planning teams within the business.• Successfully led a significant change programme to merge the three disparate planning teams to create a single supply chain planning function in the UK and established standardised processes and reporting.• Identified significant opportunities for stock reduction across the three business units including setting safety stocks statistically, introducing VMI and reducing minimum order quantities and lead times from suppliers.• Reduced slow moving and obsolete stocks by 30% in four months, increased retail channel customer service to over 99% and reduced stock days cover across the business by 10%.• Developed a collaborative framework for the planning teams to engage with suppliers with the aim of improving supply parameters; this delivered over £1m of stock reduction.• Developed and implemented S&OP across the UK Nobia business as part of their new European strategy.