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Fontana, California, United States

Anaheim, California, United States

• Managed and coached a team of seventeen (17) planning professionals between two facilities (Anaheim, CA and Gardena, CA).
• Responsible for overall planning of production, inventory management, capacity planning, meeting company financial goals and meeting customer delivery dates.
• Coordinated with Program Management, Operations, Purchasing and Quality to identify and resolve capacity/material issues on a daily basis.
• Analyzed MRP variance issues with Production Control and made appropriate schedule adjustments while monitoring schedule attainment on a daily basis.
• Collaborated with stockroom manager to confirm finished goods inventory strategy supported customer and company objectives.

Geneva, New York

• Managed and coached teams in two facilities (Geneva, NY and Richburg, SC) responsible for developing weekly production schedules that balanced customer service, inventory levels and plant efficiency goals.
• Implemented planning/scheduling best practices to reduce out of stock fails which contributed to an OTIF metric consistently greater than the goal of 96.5%.
• Maintained the master production schedule with a rolling 12-month view of demand, production and inventory required based on the latest forecast and inventory position, escalated any concerns to senior management.
• Collaborated with manufacturing, scheduling, sales and customer service to develop and grow strong working relationships.
• Updated and monitored the supply chain dashboard for sales, production, inventory and customer service.

West Henrietta, New York

• Supervised, coached and motivated a team of seven (7) planning professionals.
• Responsible for developing a monthly D&OP to help meet cost goals and labor requirements; this plan was reviewed with senior management.
• Led a weekly service level meeting with members of the executive management team to review current backorder levels, recovery of backorders, service levels and inventory levels.
• Development of best practices within the planning team to meet and exceed service level goals, this initiative has resulted in record service levels of greater than 99%.
• Partnered with various departments to rapidly respond to changes from the norm in order to minimize disruption to daily activities and service levels.
• Point of contact for internal and external audits, including FDA audits.

West Henrietta, New York

• Planning of various products spanning CooperVision’s portfolio (some with SKU counts in excess of 19,000) with responsibilities including: replenishment orders for silver stock/finished goods, vendor managed inventory.
• Developed a monthly D&OP plan by analyzing forecast and sales data to ensure inventory levels would support customer demand and maintain service levels of 98% or greater.
• Managed several new product launches for both existing and new products, ensuring project milestones were met per the established timelines.
• Key member of an integration team for a corporate acquisition, with responsibilities including: determining optimal inventory levels for each SKU, identifying when product could be transitioned between the two.
• Proactively analyzed various inventory/exception message reports and adjusted inventory levels to minimize/eliminate customer backorders.

Painted Post, New York

• Supervised and coached a team of three employees responsible for scheduling, inventory management and logistics.
• Analyzed sales and customer forecasts to develop an inventory strategy ensuring the correct product families were in inventory at the optimal levels; reducing customer lead times.
• Implemented, tracked and reported ship-to-request metric to management in the daily production meeting; this metric increased 5% year-over-year from 2008-2012.
• Collaborated with various departments including: operations, commercial, quality, corporate transportation and engineering to expedite orders and meet tight customer deadlines.
• Revised standard operating procedures (SOP) and documents related to planning on an annual basis in order to keep in compliance with ISO/TS requirements.

Painted Post, New York

Painted Post, New York

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Organizational Management

Associate Of Science - As, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies