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Richmond, Va, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Leading a Global Team in creating an S+OP process from the ground up. Using a Global Sales Estimation process to coincide with a Global Calculated Demand System to come up with an Integrated Estimate for Finance and Operations Planning.Planned, Opened and Leading a 3PL Warehouse in Shanghai to realign product distribution globally to reduce global inventories and also raise competitive position in smaller global markets.

Huntersville, Nc

Global Demand / Supply Planning, Inventory balance management, master data, claims / fines / deductions, investigating and correcting the operations issues that cause the claims. Customer Service issues. Investigating issues behind customer service data and scorecards to find common ground and / or corrections to systems to achieve common goals.

Winchester, Va

Responsibility for 400 associates on continuous operations schedule. These associates have the responsibility for inspecting / packing parts to production schedules, material handling in and out of department and 5S system for department. Lead via 8 supervisors.Achieve direct labor efficiency targets, manage total labor spend, lead safety culture development and continue to raise the bar on 5S principles and practice. Review the full time and temp staffing plan to meet the production requirements and ensure staff is deployed appropriately to achieve stated production plans. Prepare development plans to fulfill succession and contingency planning.

Manage Scheduling Staff planning 60+ molding machines and 3 pack centers, purchase 150M+ of materials consumed in production. Domestic and International purchased materials.Cut FG and Raw Inventories, Revised Production Lot Sizes for EOQ on production equipment, Maintain Service and Attain Absorption Targets, Revised Production Planning to raise operations efficiency and raise labor utilization, operating efficiency gains raised capacity.

Demand Solutions and SAP / APO experience in leading a $500M Domestic Demand Plan with additional requirements for international shipments, $100M. Lead S+OP Demand and Supply phases, build Executive Summaries; Develop scenarios for decision making. Responsible for inventory balance, inventory accuracy and shipping service for product lines assigned.Build Global Demand picture from summary information from various systems deployed in separate regions of the world.Develop Demand signals for acquisition product lines.

Positions held prior to Demand Management:Quality Technician: Quality Auditing, Testing and Assessment, Publish Quality Standards, and Write Engineering ChangesManufacturing Finance: Material Spend Planning, Price Variance Analysis, Inbound Freight Anaylsis, Plant and Distribution Budgets, Overhead Rates.Production Supervision: lead a staff of 60+ Full Time Hourly in a 24/7 production area; meeting budget, making schedule and reaching for productivity.

Mba, Business Management

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