Peter Kavanagh Email & Phone Number

West New York, NJ, US

United States

Piscataway, New Jersey

United States

• Responsible for operations planning, customer service, warehousing, and distribution of client branded products.
• Manage a team of 14 operations planners.
• Responsible for triangulation of in-stock inventory, production and procurement, and customer service for all client brands.
• Major clients include Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Coty and Wal-Mart (Hard Candy private label line of cosmetics).
• Established the supply model for the Wal-Mart exclusive range of cosmetic products. 278 items, domestic and international supply.
• Established a set of KPI measurements to enable continuous process improvement.

• Operations and Customer Services ManagerInterglobal SCS provides 4PL fulfillment services, packaging design, development and sourcing to luxury branded table top and consumer goods clients.
• Negotiated the service level agreements between strategic partners for clients offering 4PL solutions worldwide incorporating combined services covering fulfillment, packaging development, sourcing, and product.
• Responsible for compilation and analysis of client data to achieve total least cost solutions for 4PL models. Costing models included product costed BOMs, fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation.
• Developed and negotiated a 3-year contract with Mikasa for the provision of worldwide fulfillment and packaging requirements to support their crystal and ceramics source companies in Asia and Europe.
• Developed a European hub fulfillment solution model for Waterford delivering globally sourced packaging and components in kitted form to their source factories in Europe.
• Analyzed, developed, and implemented IT control systems to support client data processing requirements at the 4PL sites. Responsible for master data accuracy and control.

• Operations ManagerResponsible for the planning, procurement and control of client SKUs (approx 3000). As the primary customer contact, responsible for delivery and quality of client products and compliance with their.
• Establishment and control of client master data and control systems.
• Responsible for analysis of customer master data, item master files, vendor master files, BOMs, EDI and seamless integration with IPS ERP systems.
• Managed the supply/procurement of customers BOM products to support production schedules.
• Developed a set of operational key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of delivery performance vs. customer request dates.
• Managed client new Product development process.

• Supply Chain / Operations Manager 3PLPromoted from parent in Ireland to the U.S. operation. Responsible for managing all services of the 3PL provider as they related to Waterford Wedgwood. This included procurement of.
• Project lead in the development of an RFP for the contract to provide Waterford Wedgwood with a full turnkey service provision for outsourced products.
• Managed the re-engineering of planning, procurement, new product introductions, and inventory processes and the integration into 3PL provider systems and procedures.
• 3PL outsourced model identified as a key component in the Executive plan to double US sales.
• Appointed a new 3PL provider, yielding $3 million savings in 2 years.
• Developed set of Key Performance metrics to measure 3PL provider effectiveness.e 3PL provider.

• Senior Buyer / Planner (Jan 1995 – Apr 1998)
• Responsible for the purchase spend of $35 million USD of direct materials.
• Introduced a consignment stock policy enabling reduction of inventory by $6 million and decreasing the cash to cash cycle within the business.
• Introduced a vendor appraisal and measurement system aimed towards a ship to stock program reducing non value add QA inspections.
• Responsible for the identification and sale of $2 million of excess and obsolete inventory.
• Responsible for sourcing and price negotiation with key suppliers to achieve aggressive PPV targets and reduction in cost of purchase by $2.5 million.

• Project led the companies new forecasting systems (Lucas Bear) process design, selection, implementation, testing and interface to the central MRP system (BPCS).
• Responsible for generating the management forecast providing the annual budget, sales plan, inventory plan and manufacturing / buy plan totaling $40 million.
• Reengineered the internal budget / forecasting process to a business “one number forecast” to provide Sales and Operations planning methodology.
• Managed to cross functional interface between marketing, manufacturing, inventory and finance for the triangulation of the forecasts.
• Developed the forecasting month end process of forecast error measurement and management adjustment as well as overall impact of forecast error on S&OP.

Bsc, Information Technology And Business, 2:1

BSc Information Technology

Production And Inventory Control, Pass

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