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Greenville, Pa, Us

Greenville, Pa, Us

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Work with key business leaders to identify, define, and implement new goal to actual KPI measurements in PowerBI.Continued to drive maturity in IT Processes, within the BI and broader IT team. Implemented Sprint Planning to the BI team, contribute to CAB review process and discussionProject Manage BI and ERP related projects, including business process changes.Key driver for changes within the business to become more data driven and efficient. Continually take off-line analytics and moved them into PowerBI as repeatable, dependable processes. Skilled at finding ways to overdeliver and provide analytic tools beyond what the user groups have asked for.Ability to identify waste in a process, and opportunities where technology can be leveraged.

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Led transformation of BI Teams work planning from ad-hoc to a KANBAN board system utilizing Azure DevOps.Setup, implemented, and maintain Azure DevOps for our BI backlog management.Assisted with rollout of DevOps to other portions of the IT team after the success in our team.Business Liaison, and primary intake point for BI enhancement requests.Manage prioritization, grouping, assignment of BI development tasks.Key contributor to discussions involving IT and Operations projects.Implemented and led daily update meeting with the BI development team to discuss new actions, recent accomplishments, and remove obstacles.Built some Power BI reports, basic dax, security management, user testing etc.Advocate and key leader in the business’ transformation to a truly BI driven, data driven organization.Implemented standardized actionable reporting across various business functions to drive a data driven organization.Replaced Microsoft Access and IBM Cognos reporting solutions with PowerBI

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Manage a team of Analysis and Demand Planners, covering both Supply Chain and Customer Care, to ensure we are operating efficiently and providing excellent service. This includes inventory, transportation, cycle time, service, cost, and call center metrics. Leader in development and implementation of new metrics. Leader for New Product introduction from the Supply Chain perspective, ensuring product launches on-time , within budget, and within service expectations.Manage project oversight (X-Matrix) for Supply Chain and Customer care, focusing on process improvement.Manage our demand planning/forecasting function, establishing both SKU level and financial level forecasting across multiple warehouses and customers.Functional responsibility over SI&OP process, contributed to two significant SI&OP process reworks over 2 years.Managed activities related to quarterly Supply Chain, transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing quarterly budgeting process.Manage and implement aggregate planning (Supply Planning)/capacity modeling tools to give our manufacturing plants direction on production and identify potential capacity issues well in advance. Implemented capacity modeling over a 5 year window giving us longer term visibility.Provide leadership and oversight to our sourced finished goods procurement.Key Supply Chain contributor during integration of acquired business, leading Demand to Build work stream, and key contributor to Order to Cash work stream among others.Key contributor to major Supply Chain initiatives, including Warehouse Consolidation, Freight optimization, inventory reduction, service improvement, reporting improvement, RMA process changes, Call Center processes, Salesforce implementation, planning software design and implementation.Work closely with our IT department to prioritize system enhancements, EDI projects, among other initiatives.

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Manage a team of Analysis and project leads, covering both Supply Chain and Customer Care, to ensure we are operating efficiently and providing excellent service. This includes inventory, transportation, cycle time, and call center metrics.Work on various New Product Development teams to ensure successful launches of new products to both our Professional and Retail channels.Work closely with our IT department to ensure the Supply Chain and Customer Care teams are getting the support we need, and prioritizing enhancements.Manage and implement aggregate planning/capacity modeling tools to give our manufacturing plants direction on production and identify potential capacity issues well in advance.

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Inventory Analysis, Transportation Analysis, Transportation freight rating, cycle time analysis.Worked on New product Development teams to launch new products in the Climbing/Fall protection/ and Jobsite storage categories.Redesigned and implemented entire freight rating JDE structure improving rate and accrual accuracyManaged item master data entry and maintenance in our ERP system.

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Managed inventory levels in a third-party warehouse network by monitoring sales, forecast, and inventory positions to identify optimal time to release container PO’s from suppliers in China.

Worked very closely at a large industrial customer in efforts to reduce one-off purchases, reduce materials cost, reduce duplicate items, etc.Entered orders into Prophet21, Purchased materials, learned warehouse practices.Developed many Ad-Hoc and scheduled reports utilizing Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel. Including On Time and Fill Rate, Purchasing Reports, an Inventory Search Tool, a backorder report, and more.

Akron, Oh, Us

Managed long-term materials contracts for various safety and MRO supplies for Nuclear and Fossil generation plants, with an approximate annual spend of $5.5 million.Saved over $600,000 during the first half of 2009. This was accomplished by working with the plants to switch to alternative products, bidding items and moving suppliers, or negotiating either flat discounts or payment term discounts.Traveled to plants and vendors to understand everyone's needs, capabilities, and limitations. Translated this knowledge into successful strategies.Participated in training events, including Payment Information, Supplier Maintenance, PO Creation, ASL, Cyber Security, Inventory Management, FENOC Stock Plan, RAPID, Business Continuity, Code or Business Conduct, etcWrote/Presented training for PEF's (Procurement Evaluation Forms), FME (Foreign Material Exclusion), and Counterstock, to the Strategic Sourcing TeamAssisted management with automation of additional suppliers. This generally resulted in a dollar savings, and a time savings for plant personnel.Worked extensively on metrics and reporting for Supply Chain Management, using SAP, Quickviewer, Bex, Excel, Access, etc.Used my analytical skills to “mine” data out of SAP for various Ad-Hoc requests, such as finding spend by commodity, vendor, contract etc, finding commodity groups that were good candidates for contracts, material master searches/fixes, resulting in improved automation, dollar savings, and time savings.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Assisted Customers in Hardware, Electrical, and Tool Departments. Used Genesis computer system, based on Linux, to process punch cards, special orders,inventory checks, run/print reports, print labels, and various other tasks.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration; Management Information Systems

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