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New York, Ny, Us

White Plains, New York

Lead Capacity planning yogurt team for short and long-range plans. Interface with plant and corporate personnel at various organizational levels such as supply planning, demand planning, plant manufacturing, co-manufacturing team and leadership. Support fill rate targets and growth plans by ensuring capacity. Operational excellence and evaluate the supply plan.● Achieved productivity savings of $3.6 million through cost analysis by influencing cross functional teams and total cost assessment in reevaluation of co-manufacturing contract.)● Established onboarding training process by finding key area for process improvement, elevating people management.● Hired direct report increasing customer service responsiveness, department stabilization, and increased well-being.● Development of direct report through process efficiency and increased responsibilities lead to their promotion to manager.● Evaluated & adjusted trials process resulting in decrease of short leads and tracking evolution of projects.● Elevated supply chain management end to end through sourcing change process by changing time horizon from 3 months to 12 months through people management

Austin, Texas Area

Solely responsible for supply plan, service levels and safety stock for consumer-packaged bone broth company in retail and direct to consumer channels. Supply Chain subject matter expert that supported internal and external customers through sharing expertise. Minimized negative impact by actively engaging and effectively communicating to persuade when critical decisions needed to be made.• Continuously improved and elevated almost non-existent supply chain processes in production, logistics, and fulfillment.• Developed a metric tracker which improved outbound accountability and resulted in product to warehouse improvement by 3.84 days, 30% reduction.• Elevated co-manufacturer to 14-day locked schedule thereby stabilizing service.• Created Inventory Production Demand tool to prioritize service needs and elevate the deployment process.• Drove co-manufacturer material visibility on exclusive ingredients which were critical to business planning.• Improved packaging material visibility and eliminated manual keying system report tool.• Reduced raw material lead time by implementing supplier relationship process and forecasting tool.• Developed a project timeline tool to identify key objectives and effectively manage deadlines for cross functional departments.• Defined resource loaded plan necessary to for continued supply chain success

Austin, Texas Area

In charge of production schedules that service demand to support high growth in North America and Canada. Accountable for the execution of platform capacity modeling. Led the demand review process to develop volume forecasts and define demand plan. Contributed in the monthly S&OP process. Coordinated and scheduled 6 co-manufacturers to maximize efficiency, reliability, and cost through finite scheduling.• Honored to be hand selected to co-locate into a GMI acquisition.• Created 18+ month schedule in APO SNP (SAP) driving inventory and production strategies. • Defined pivot strategies for unplanned demand requests. • Controlled inventory risks with mitigation plans of semi-finished and finished product. • Lead resolutions of supply gap due to capacity and semi raw material to meet growth that exceeded demand forecast and maximize utilization at plants. • On-boarded two new co-manufacturers as a result of high growth platform.• Transitioned products seamlessly from co-manufacturers to multiple new co-manufacturers without service disruption and increase total capacity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for interpreting results and material flow between suppliers, sourcing, and business units in order to provide recommendations to reduce cost and improve service to production facilities. Developed and optimized inbound supply chain networks. Implemented inbound replenishment strategies to drive holistic value chains and risk reduction.• Company promotion to department that lead projects and interfaced with Mumbai global team. • Innovated maximum capacity forecast tool, supply chain network integration. Enabled agility as volumes increased to $100MM in the first 52 weeks.• Facilitated the largest yogurt launch in the United States, Oui! • Standardized film strategy with supplier, realized $645M savings through order consolidation.• Implemented raw material program with film supplier, reduced lead time.• Empowered Raw Material Analyst total cost savings through raw material standardization.• Mentored Logistic Management Associates.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provided operational support and business process execution to each GMI business unit. Responsible for supply chain financial control over information systems, finished product inventory, and raw material inventory. Interacted with the cross functional groups including Marketing, Sales, Promotions, Finance, Operations, and Quality. Assisted in developing new products, executed product promotions, and ensured success of Business team. • Collaborated with Quality on plans and timelines for product reformulation.• Drove new pallet configuration of products to reduce cost and increase sales for entire category. • Chosen to lead process improvement team for internal supply chain standardization among brand and raw material planners.• Elevated vertical communication through business execution status and project metrics.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Responsible for leadership in logistics production. Oversaw raw material planning, transportation, customer service and warehousing.• Accepted into a 24-month GMI leadership and project management rotational program.• Embedded at a high performance manufacturing production plant. Independently managed and conducted production planning for a twin-screw raw material production facility. • Successfully recovered schedule and achieved on-time start ship of Halloween promotion. This was at risk due to sole supplier inbound supply and delivery issues.

Tempe, Arizona

Ensured best combination of product placement, drove company standards/brand, executed procedures per vendor agreements, and had transitions of >97%. Ensured new product was on the floor and met standards on time. • Lead 7 Team Leaders as direct reports, implemented merchandise transition strategies which improved metrics on a failing store.• Identified team service strategy in electronics and increased attachment rate by >15%.• Increased sales mix by >2% through auditing of soft lines product.• Elevated Guest Service Debit/Credit solutions from <0.4% to >2% resulting in increased repeat business of >10%.

Bachelor Of Science, Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Golden Key International Honour Society, Supply Chain Management Association Member

Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing

Activities and Societies: American Marketing AssociationMinor in Design Studies