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Greenville, Nc, Us

Somerset, Nj, Us

Somerset, Nj, Us

Manage a team of 4 Planners and 1 Sr. Planner to coordinate 12 clients and over $50M in planned revenue. While continuing to manage my client load I am leading the reporting and issue mitigation for my team.• Building the skill set of my team members to recognize areas of concern and apply solution based reasoning to develop mitigation plans.• Creating standardized reporting to keep all stakeholders engaged and aware of material status throughout the project life cycle.• Worked with 30+ suppliers, purchasing and logistics to establish business continuity plans and develop metrics for Just-In-Time delivery• Ensured daily production requirements are achieved to meet the Master Production Schedule• Supervised the planning and ordering of critical materials to support manufacturing while maintaining optimal inventory levels ~90m. • Managed the largest client on site with reporting and mitigation support to adhere to schedule and realize revenue

Somerset, Nj, Us

• Led the P2E pillar as the business lead and SME.• Developed and delivered all training required for the planning and scheduling teams.• Created detailed work instructions and updated SOPs to support the implementation of JDE• Refined requirements and executed all system validation testing pre implementation• Identified gaps and proposed solutions in functionality pre and post implementation• Completed data validation and reconciliation tasks• Executed all validation scripts

Somerset, Nj, Us

Review material requirements to support production of client product in all phases; upstream, buffers, solutions, downstream and fill finish. • Creating partnerships with cross functional teams to ensure the best possible execution and clear communication throughout the process. • Translate BOMs and load into QAD to support production and tracking within the facility.• Work with manufacturing teams to ensure material availability and manage the IRF/QAD process to ensure billing is correct.• Create and maintain material dashboards for each client project that are leveraged to place orders and update triage file to project material requirements and releases.• Create and maintain 4-blocks and Client facing Dashboards track project issues and concerns for Client teams• Partner with PMs to keep clients informed of material status, issues and mitigations.• Identifying root cause of issues and following thru to resolution.

Review material requirements to support production client product in all phases; upstream, buffers, solutions, downstream and fill finish. • Creating partnerships with cross functional teams to ensure the best possible execution and clear communication throughout the process. • Identifying root cause of issues and following thru to resolution.• Reviewing IRF documents and ensuring material availability.

New Britain, Ct, Us

As a Demand Planning Manager. I lead a team of Analysts/Sr. Analysts that are accountable for executing inventory planning and coordination within HTSG for Global Tools and Service for all brands. This includes forecasting domestic SKUs as well as Long Range Planning. Tracking KPIs and working to define best practice for processes across all of demand planning. Have held positions within GTS with varying responsibilities and customer groups: Ecommerce, COOP, CPG and currently HTS. Drive monthly S&OP planning process with sales to report to senior leadership.* Defined New Item/New Listing process and distributed to demand team.* Collaborate with other team members to define best practice and drive for consistency. * Created process to convert customer POS forecast into PO forecast to increase forecast accuracy and reduce excess inventory.* Developed relationships with sales and supply to align customer demand to production.* Report out monthly to Sr. Management on adherence to KPI’s.* Developing team of analysts to perform in a fast paced challenging environment.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Leading a team of 5 associates to manage inventory, and turns in the Furniture and Rugs businessDeveloping process to improve performance and achieve goals in a challenging business environmentWorking closely with Merchandising and Finance to develop Sales and Inventory annual plans

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Working for Homedepot.Com managing inventory across both stocked and vendor shipped channels to support sales of $300M with over 230 vendors in the online space and maintain 96% in stock. * Beat planned turns goal by 234bps by completing analysis to determine sales forecast, inventory levels, and turns for SKUs in my assortment both direct import and domestically sourced.* Working with highly seasonal categories to maintain inventory during sales spikes, promotions and storm/hurricane response.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

 Leveraging relationships with Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, Store Operations, Vendors, Merchandise Execution, and IPR to achieve Major Ad Event in stock to a minimum of 99% of assigned allocation. Leading a team of associates across Events with 200+ SKUs, a store base of 2000, and a total buy of +$800M. Develop and improve processes to achieve the highest level of supply chain execution Create databases and reporting to streamline processing , automate tasks and drive consistency across the team  Train and develop individual skill sets across team of 5 to support growth and a dynamic working environment Work on cross functional teams to develop IT solutions to support business requirements

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

 Events managed with 100+ SKUs, across a store base of 2000, and a total sales in excess of $200M.. Managed supply chain to achieve store in stocks of 99%+ through interactions with vendors to ensure proper packaging and inventory availability to meet shipping schedule. Including shipping, delivery and receipt to our DCs and distribution to our stores Analyzed data pre event to find opportunities and develop strategies to support ad in stock. Provide post event analysis to determine root cause of less than 100% in stock for event; including pre event sales, execution failures, vendor inventory availability issues, and supply chain challenges.  Served as Business Champion responsible for defining business requirements, testing, documentation and training for entire organization on a major IT initiative that delivered cost saving of $10M.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

  Developing relationships with Merchandising, Assortment Planning, Merchandise Services, and IPR to manage sell through on transitional inventory and execution and performance for new allocations and manage inventory lifecycle with markdowns reduced by 30%. Measured the execution of new inventory allocation by segment within delivery window. Reported on performance of reset and recommend changes to the allocation to deliver a 50% improvement in SKU availability.  Work within cross functional teams to direct process improvements where applicable. Develop project plans to track projects and create process flows to document/refine current and new processes.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Developing relationship with the field executive group (Regional V.P., Regional Managers, and District Managers) to identify issues.*  Delivered excellent customer service to deliver in stock and sales goals for the Field by coordinating projects and driving to completion. Analyzing data to determine shortfalls and implement solutions.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

 Management of various projects to maintain and enhance the demand forecast and inventory plan.  Determining the forecast for assigned classes to within 15% accuracy.  Managing inventory turns and in stock percentage for skus that represent 1.5B in retail sales annually.  Developing tools in Access to provide better and more efficient access to data to make decisions.  Aiding in the selection of best practice within inventory planning and replenishment.  Providing one on one training and facilitating formal training for less experienced and new associates.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Manage various projects within the Material Support group. * Responsible for providing support for Xelus and SAP to the user group. * Working varied other projects from inventory programs to process audits. * Leading cross functional working groups to develop business solutions for effective problem resolution. * Additional responsibilities include creating and maintaining metrics, ad-hoc, and financial reports for management.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Inventory control through scrap, purchase, and deletion of parts from inventory with total on hand assets valued at over $30M and $15M in annual spend. * Coordination throughout the supply chain to procure parts on an expedite basis from OEM, surplus, or PMA suppliers to support engine and aircraft requirements. * Data and financial analysis to support inventory reduction goals without sacrificing logistical support. * Daily interaction with suppliers, shop mechanics, and management to provision material in the most efficient manner. * Utilizing SAP R4 to use MRP II in a LEAN environment using Kanban, JIT, and TQM principles. * Creating and maintaining BOM’s for material manufacture and convenience assemblies. Implementing LEAN to convert the shop floor from a push to pull system. * Checking blueprints to ensure compliance to the latest Engineering order for parts manufactured in house. * Using ERP and demand planning to maintain optimal spares levels with Xelus.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Responsible for the management of up to twenty supply attendants on a given shift. * Making the work schedule, granting time off, and supervising the daily stores operation servicing the entire Delta system including ATL base maintenance. * Certified as a special agent responsible for the certification of dangerous goods shipments for air travel.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Responsible for receiving, stocking, issue, and shipment of parts throughout the Delta system. * Proficient in the use of forklifts and standing stock pickers to pull parts and unload trucks. * Received specific training in the shipment of dangerous goods and the preparation of international paperwork. * Shipped orders using FEDEX, UPS, EMERY, and other carriers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Working in a warehouse environment accepting cargo from outside customers, sorting by city code, and loading flight line delivery containers. * Also was responsible for delivery and pickup of freight on the flight line and to the customer.

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