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Promoted to Inventory Control Supervisor, with responsibility for managing daily operations and six staff members involved in the shipping and receiving of educational materials between 11 warehouses and 20 international and domestic print vendors. Responsibilities also included providing support to five regional sales offices and the corporate customer service group. • Maintained a 99% inventory accuracy balance within corporate mainframe and physical inventory systems, which resulted in annual increased sales to meet the $400M budget. • Directed teams and analyzed over 175,000 schoolbook titles, efficiently distributing all products to owned warehouses and from international and domestic vendors resulting in the release of $10M worth of backordered product annually. • Worked closely with the corporate transportation department and tracked the delivery of international and domestic shipments. Resolved all issues ensuring timely delivery to locations nationwide.• Participated in monthly managers meeting, reviewed compliance with divisional strategic expectations and provided timely solutions for all deficiencies in work flow processes.• Selected to manage Depository Inventory Operations due to manager’s absence, resulting in business continuity, including order entry, depository returns and sales recognition of $87M in revenue.• Hired, trained and evaluated employees on an annual basis, highlighting performance levels and methods of recognizing above average performers or devising strategies for improving performance levels.• Participated in the initiating, generating, executing and tracking of Destruct orders during unprecedented Inventory reduction target initiative of $65 million for Harcourt businesses in 2008.

Provided support for several educational products from the ordering to the delivery process. Created and maintained 300 Bills of Materials for pending manufacturing or kitting projects. Prepared and executed sales plan for assigned subjects annually. • Consistently processed hundreds of stock transfers of educational material while updating mainframe system with all receipts from vendors and internal warehouses allowing $350M in sales and $10M in sampling activities.• Solicited and compared quotes from various manufacturing companies for upcoming manufacturing projects. Released and monitored projects and ensured timely completion.• Updated, published and distributed a detailed weekly manufacturing schedule of over 100 pending manufacturing jobs for five department managers.• Prepared and executed a $20M sales plan for a particular subject area and managed the performance, resulting in the overall 15% increase in sales over previous year.

Coordinated, directed and supervised 15 employees in a 197,000 square foot distribution center. Complete responsibility for all returns, receiving, locating and retrieval of all incoming product while maintaining 95% accuracy of the inventory.• Managed all employees and activities relating to the accurate receiving, locating and retrieval of product, as well as timely reporting of receipts via mainframe system to Corporate Inventory Control.• Supervised employees who processed all incoming returned products from customers, school districts and depositories, ensuring timely reporting to corporate customer service department and the appropriate crediting to client’s and sales representatives accounts.• Coordinated and supervised all activities relating to the manufacturing or kitting of sample kits and packages for sales, sampling and adoption fulfillment requirements.• Ensured the accurate recording of daily and cycle counts and the reporting to and adjusting by the corporate inventory control group.

Ba, Economics, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Economics Club, International Students Association, Founder - Intra-mural Soccer Program,

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