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Portland, Or, Us

17.6% Improvement in transit time to customer (~3.5 days)44% Improvement in Employee Engagement Survey Score

Fremont, Ca, Us

Lead a team of global supply chain managers to oversee supplier management and sub-tier readiness activities.- $870M Annual Spend- 300+ Suppliers

Portland, Oregon, Us

Led a team responsible for the inventory optimization, purchasing, and planning processes that support more than $3 billion in COOP HVACR sales. The team is tasked with managing the inventory strategies, forecasting, purchasing, transfers, and customer returns for over 50K materials (300K SKUL), $180M in inventory across 6 US distribution centers supporting over 450 stores while maintaining a 98% fill rate.With a foundational redesign of processes, system/technology effectiveness, and professional development/upskilling, Johnstone Supply is positioned to achieve aggressive growth goals.

This Expat assignment at a lawnmower blade manufacturer in Civray France required an architect of the supply chain infrastructure aligning (production planning, purchasing, customer service, distribution, transportation) the daily tactical operations to the strategic company objectives including changes in culture, creation of a formal supply chain team, as well as leveraging the use of SAP in these disciplines. Optimized Fulfillment Operations - Improved customer fill rates from 44% to 82% - 24% reduction in inventory - 27% reduction in freight costs (%COGS) - 64% reduction in freight costs per KG - Initiated S&OP planning

The Supply Chain Business Integration Manager is responsible to analyze and propose strategy for integration of supply chain processes and systems across global locations and technologies. Key responsibilities include leading division focus groups in evaluating and analyzing business and program resources and processes, operation and business systems across supply chain disciplines; driving integration, process improvement, efficiency and alignment of all business segments in Blount’s unified supply chain philosophy.In this role, I was responsible to monitor and guide a variety of complex projects, including support for due diligence and integration of corporate mergers and acquisitions; adapting departmental plans to supply chain priorities, providing direction for bridging business units into SAP; leading projects in identifying, developing and testing the functional business process requirements for the SAP system within supply chain, manufacturing and quality management; developing the integration approach, communicating plans and tasks to division and global participants; guiding decision making per business objectives, corporate and supply chain policies, project timelines, to successfully achieve project goals.

Responsible creation and centralization of the global planning team at the headquarters supporting multiple manufacturing plants and distribution centers worldwide. This team's responsibilities were for all planning and procurement operations for production, inter-company, and externally sourced materials both domestic and international in addition to inventory management. Focusing on the development of a world-­class planning team, utilizing SAP as a primary tool for planning execution, across the three key disciplines allowed for organic skill growth respect for colleagues and individual management development. My goal was to develop the next group of leaders across the organization.

* Part of 6 person team responsible for global supply chain operations and inventory optimization for forestry, lawn, and garden division.* Global and local owner of security roles within SAP software.* Top organizational resource and mentor for all supply chain issues related to SAP MM/PP modules and how they relate to the FI/CO modules * Multi-phase global SAP 4.6D roll out and subsequent upgrades to ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 for all US locations and China* Functional liaison between system end users, management personnel, and information systems for SAP roll outs and system improvements by blueprinting, creating course materials, and delivering instructor‑led courses.* Responsible for post go live problem solving and support for Portland, Tennessee, Missouri, Canada, and China plants. This was obtained using remote assistance technology as well as on site support.

Portland, Or, Us

Teaching business forecasting 451 for the summer 2013 term. This course focuses on the managerial aspects of forecasting and the role of forecasting in predicting a variety of future events such as sales, labor force, units to be produced, etc.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

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