Melissa W. Email & Phone Number

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, OH

Lead analytics and innovation for the NA region to gain new insights, predictive and prescriptive solutions to better serve P&G Customers. Project manage the creation of new digital tools, and also the accompanying work process to drive new insights for the broader NA organization.- Partnered with vendor and IT partners to develop a quality database to.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Utilizing Blue Prism, Rulex, and other software as needed to help automate work processes to free up P&G 's workforce to solve dynamic issues and better leverage the unique aspects of the team.- Leveraged my strengths of strategic thinking, SNO technical mastery, and digital transformation, which enabled the NA Process Automation organization to become a.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Own supply plans to support supply network delivery of service, cost, and cash results for Feminine Care Always brand.
• Responsible for daily execution and improvement of core planning work processes and ensure compliance to planning standards.
• Modified existing reports to more accurately portray inventory within limits by accounting for inventory by UPC versus sku.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Lead long term capacity and inventory planning for NA internal chemical and fragrance production to support multi-billion dollar categories.
• Drove robust standardization across chemical and fragrance sites to improve service quality – customer service metric, capacity planning, internal customer forecasting. Highlighted capacity constraints and created more.
• Designed an export product tracker, which utilized data from P&G, contract manufacturer, ocean liner, and order management to provide visibility of product in transit for P&G customers globally, reducing service.
• Collated multiple data sets into one interactive Excel workbook to highlight optimum operating strategies for NA perfumes production, enabling quarterly proactive planning improvement, which lowered inventory and.
• Created an initiative tracking tool to highlight conversion risks and minimize remnants for internal customers.
• Developed productivity improvement tools which reduced effort hours by greater than 1,000.

Cincinnati

• Coordinated changes concerning National re-launch of two key NA brands, effectively touching and changing 90+ products.
• Lead planning system and plant technical readiness for the business and had successful on time launches despite multiple project delays, while still delivering below scrap target rate.
• Created a scrap projection workbook which utilized multiple data sources to predict target conversion timing and provide remnant cost tied with different conversion dates.
• Designed an in depth work process to track brand code changes and readiness for launch, which was adopted by the rest of NA Fabric Care.

• Owned forecasting price changes, understanding the feedstock market and cost drivers for NA/LA surfactants, over $77MM worth of spend.
• Negotiated multiple contract bids, delivering $1 million of commercial savings.
• Activated and deployed business continuity plans on five different occasions with no impact on P&G manufacturing.
• Conducted in-depth co-surfactant industry analysis, providing NA perspective for the global team.
• Drove an increase in minority spending by $1.5MM.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Conducted medical industry analysis on nonwoven spunbond material and became department expert.
• Gathered information by meeting with players in the NA supply chain and external consultants.
• Recommended to explore a potential collaborative project with a main supplier and deployed to supplier.
• Developed new supplier relationships to increase spending with minority or women owned businesses.
• Increased minority spending by $1.3 million and the potential of an additional $3 million.
• Recommended to re-evaluate the current strategic supply base to ensure the best total value and long term viability.