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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

- Deliver 18mo scheduling & capacity plan in APO, adjusting and flexing with demand trends. Provide finite scheduling oversight including but not limited to SKU prioritization, escalation for material shortages and/or plant downtime. - Run ad hoc scenarios based on capacity, net requirements, inventory targets, segmentation strategies and volume plans across locations based on cost-benefit analyses. - Owner of Supply inputs for strategy decisions to optimize service and cost, and drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver business objectives. Partner with Network Management and Deployment to support mid- to long-term distribution strategies. - Execute in-depth supply and capacity models on monthly cadence; facilitate issue resolution across regions, segments and brand unit projects. - Owner of DD&F budget and responsible for flagging age risks and driving mitigation efforts.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

- Provide supply input into supply chain strategy decisions to optimize service and cost, and drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver business objectives.- Deliver 18+ month scheduling and capacity plan in APO and provide finite scheduling oversight, including production prioritization and escalation for material shortages, tie-outs or plant downtime.- Evaluate feasibility of volume and unplanned demand changes, execute age mitigation efforts and manage short and long range service process. - Execute in-depth supply and capacity scenarios on a monthly cadence and facilitate issue resolution across regions, segments and brand unit projects.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Partner with cross-functional teams to support product reformulations, new product launches and discontinuations. - Liaison between project teams & logistics cross-functional teams (demand planning, scheduling, customer service, etc.).- Coordinate ingredient tie-outs involved in projects and discontinuations; maintain ownership of Raw Material Write-off budget and minimize financial risk through extensions, exceptions, cross-platform usage, etc.- Manage the setup, ordering and flow of new materials into SAP / ERP to support plant production. - Coordinate communications with plants, vendors & sourcing regarding packaging & promotions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Primary point of contact for co-packers and customers; manage inventory of finished goods, coordinate communication regarding production issues, shortages, etc., and process all customer PO's. - Coordinate freight and logistics needs on all orders that are not customer-delivered; serve as point of contact for partner carrier companies. - Supervise and train our inventory specialist, who tracks in-house warehouse inventory and processes all online orders and field sales sample requests. - Pull daily and weekly reports summarizing sales and order statuses, and distribute to marketing and sales teams. - Complete all customs documentation required for international orders, assist marketing team in keeping certifications up to date, and handle a wide variety of additional coordination and communication needs between customers and WBS. - Created and implemented a new system of process documents for all customer service and logistics-related tasks.

Eden Prairie, Mn

• Handle daily client interactions regarding all Costco produce freight.• Provide Costco with issue resolution, propose improved freight route efficiencies, and troubleshoot bid and contract loads. • Spent a three-month period splitting time between Costco and Amazon accounts, providing support in onboarding a new outbound Amazon contract to our branch. • Serve as a coach for the Accelerator Program, a training and mentorship platform for new employees.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Purchased and tracked all specialty produce items, maintaining a well-stocked set with a variety of options.• Responsible for training all incoming produce team members as well as conducting departmental retraining when necessary. • Assisted in stocking and maintaining of produce displays when shorthanded.

Minneapolis, Mn

• Interacted and communicated with partner farms and organizations.• Assisted in the procurement of produce from local farms to source into MPS cafeterias.• Helped to organize and conduct in-school taste tests; organized and provided guidance to volunteers at MPS events.• Led the organization, implementation and planting process of starting a 2500 square foot garden at the Nutrition Center.• Provided farm to school educational outreach to participating schools.