As an accomplished Manager in Supply Chain Replenishment, I have consistently demonstrated my ability to lead diverse teams, drive process improvements, and foster cross-functional collaboration, resulting in exceptional outcomes. Here are some key highlights of my contributions:Leadership and Team Development: Led the Canned/Baking and Ethnic/Offshore Grocery teams, guiding them through training, mentoring, and providing ongoing support to boost their performance and meet critical KPIs, including service level, inventory ONH, and overall availability.Collaborative Planning and Execution: Worked closely with the SCA, vendor and category team to ensure optimal availability of Canned and Baking MCH sku, maintaining store availability at an impressive 98% to 99%, despite enduring challenges such as prolonged vendor strikes.Process Improvement Initiatives: Led the development and implementation of the PACT tool for the replenishment team, streamlining planogram approval processes and enhancing replenishment KPI tracking. Additionally, established a benchmark within the COS team by creating a tracking report for canned/baking APT, earning recognition as the "Gold Star Team" for commitment to continuous process enhancement.Team Empowerment: Established an inclusive environment where team members feel valued and empowered to openly share their thoughts. Conduct regular biweekly one-on-one sessions to proactively address performance challenges. Additionally, provide leadership and mentorship to buyers, assisting them in achieving business KPIs and personal development goals. Offer coaching on leading business calls and provide training and tools to enhance decision-making in their daily responsibilities

 Lead Ethnic team, providing leadership, training, and development focusing on improving processes that will enhance the team KPI like service level, inventory ONH, days ONH, and availability. Work with transport daily to improve the offshore priority report, offshore backlog report, storage and detention report Trained and mentored Supply Chain Analysts and advised the Supply Chain Senior Manager regarding coaching and training progress of colleagues. Lead and collaborate with the Category Management team to resolve promotional activity, data, and vendor-related issues. Manage the planogram process to ensure launch and exit strategies are in place and provide the analytics for flowing items through our network. Collaborated and trained vendors on optimizing vendor tools such as Vendor collab, LVRP portal, EDI 830, and Vendor Scorecard to improve vendor service level, quality of data, and better replenishment. Acting as the supply chain point of contact for daily operation within the Category Management team. Produce ad-hoc reports for senior management when needed Successfully executed and managed the Lunar New Year rice program worth $16M Lead interbranch transition from SDM to LCL

 Manage and produce product level forecasts in JDA for both the Demand and Supply-side of the inventory flow processes.  Review & analyze historical buying practices, seasonal spikes, and market trends data to validate and adjust based forecast accordingly in JDA/SAP. Defined adequate forecast and replenishment parameters and any exceptions in JDA/SAP. Manage inventory at the Stores and DCs to achieve the turn and fill rate objectives of 97% shelf availability. Implement a BU strategy that impacts order placement, MOQ, and financial matrix. Maintain BMAP/WMAP error below 15%, sustain service levels higher than the budget throughout the year, and address any issues with critical items daily Manage key vendor portfolios like Mars, Lindt, Campbell, Bonduelle, Conagra, Dole, B&G, E D smith, BCI, Maple leaf, Kraft, Unilever, and Peter Igel.

 Analyze Vendor store Items relationships and set replenishment parameters in JDA and SAP to optimize assortments. Review and manage availability issues daily and address any gaps that may impact the ability to meet inventory commitments.  Ensure all forecast and flow requirements are accomplished to define targets/standards of Loblaw by managing the vendor, transportation, distribution, and sourcing team tactfully. Undertake process improvement efforts, primarily with vendors, derive insights from large data sets, and make recommendations to improve key supply chain metrics such as opportunities to improve Service Level, Weeks of Supply, Excess, Code date, and Fill Rate. Provided recommendations to senior management based on findings from a blend of business analysis, item sales contribution, space planning, lift analysis, and vendor scorecard. Identify process gaps and work with cross-functional teams to improve process flow. Train and mentor new hires on supply chain processes. Perform complex analytics and deliver recommendations based on sound Supply Chain principles. Scheduled weekly meetings with the various stakeholders to review overall status, confirm demand/supply planning, and review store product allocation. Track purchase order movement through supply chain pipelines.

 Partner with the cross-functional team weekly for better Ad execution. Responsible for verification of sales forecast and reviews initial sales forecast with category and communicating the foundation. Provide feedback to a Category team on forecasted quantity discrepancies and advise estimated sales for ad activity based on pre-and post-promo sales activity. Ensure that promotional information is accurate and entered into the system promptly, and do the post-mortem evaluations after the Ad is complete. Conduct weekly meetings with a regional specialist for their expertise for local product requirements and any special watch-outs for the given week items.

 Responsible for weeks of supply, age of stock, and stock to sales to maximize growth, profitability, and sell-through of category strategies. Provide inventory analytics to the category management team with information to maximize sales and profit. Determine optimal store by store allocation/distribution strategy based on merchandising plan, store size, and sales performance. Determine inventory management of the inventory processes for all seasonal and promotional products to achieve planned financial objectives.

 Responsible for creating, updating, and analyzing weekly Leisure, Home, and Electronics business units, sell-thru, PDP, Ad Planer, Shipments recap summary reports for Senior Directors, Planners,Category Managers, Vendors, Distributors, and Stores. Created YTD sales data, Sales Index, Banner Split, Real Estate, POS, Sell Thru, Vendor Score Card, and Weekly Sales update reports for Category Manager.