Rachael Burden Email & Phone Number

Montgomery, Tx, Us

Working in a global team supporting commercial Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient as well as Drug Product facilities in inventory optimization, capacity planning and KPI management.• Collaborate with 10 manufacturing sites across the globe on 3 ERP systems to establish consistent planning tools & processes for inventory, supply, demand and capacity planning.• Continue to oversee global inventory of over $300M across ten manufacturing facilities; collaborate with each site to identify and mitigate risks throughout the inventory life cycle- proper planning & forecasting, monitor DOH levels, and finally manage excess by working to reposition across the network, return to suppliers, resell to outlets or dispose.• Continue to support the supply chain planning tools-MPS, MRP, Production Scheduling & Rough Cut Capacity Planning; challenging the last few sites to fully embrace the new tools & processes.• Maintain KPIs – On Time & In Full, Delivery to Promise, Schedule Adherence, Inventory Days On Hand, & Late Order Reporting; performing root cause analysis in collaboration with the sites to develop actions plans for any metrics falling below the established target.• Continue to support getting all sites onto the cycle counting program and away from the annual physical inventory counts.

Remote

• Managed global inventory of $300M across ten manufacturing facilities; collaborated with each site to identify and mitigate risks throughout the inventory life cycle- manage excess by working to reposition across the network, return to suppliers, resell to outlets or dispose.• Supported the implementation of supply chain planning tools such as MPS, MRP, Production Scheduling & RCCP.• Helped establish and maintain KPIs – On Time & In Full, Delivery to Promise, Schedule Adherence, Inventory Days On Hand, Late Order Balance & Execution and Forecast Accuracy in preparation for the monthly S&OP meeting.• Worked to implement cycle counting at 5 SAP sites; helped 1 Oracle site get certified negating the need for the annual physical inventory count in Q4 '22

The Woodlands, Tx

Drove utilization of $115M fleet of rental tools through examination of the tool life cycle and process improvements. Managed $60M of global inventory across 9 regions, identified reduction opportunities, presented findings / recommendations to senior level operations leaders and persuaded to execute.• Established KPI reports for North America fleet profitability & utilization.• Identified the use of an internal tool (Gemini) for intelligent netting to find existing, similar substitute tools before placing new orders to mfg; estimated $760K savings.• Challenged Operations, Repair Centers and MFG to repurpose, reposition or scrap slow moving inventory items.

The Woodlands, Tx

Managed key supplier relationships to maximize value; Managed ~$150M of spend, with positive savings during 3rd consecutive year of negotiated price reductions.• Balanced raw material safety stock levels to meet demand while minimizing inventory.• Monitored on time delivery levels for all suppliers, engaging with any supplier falling below 95% on time delivery to develop an action plan.• Negotiated over $1M of cost avoidance in Q1 2018 with the 2nd highest spend supplier.

Led sales and operations workstream for the Halliburton divestiture team.• Gathered, reviewed and analyzed customer contracts to determine market value.• Provided operational facility information to satisfy regulatory and potential buyer requests.• Worked to document Day 1 operations procedures / playbooks to ensure smooth transition after purchase.• Identified gaps and work-a-rounds in procedures due to systems or data that would not accompany the purchased portion of the business.

The Woodlands, Tx

Consolidated multi product line commercial tenders for clients valued up to $462M (240 Lump sum turn-key wells over 5 years).• Developed a new commercial model allowing each product line to enter cost items in desired unit of measure- tools, footage, hours, resources, etc.• Modeled profitability scenarios for proposals to aid in negotiation decision making.

Collaborated with operations to validate demand changes, recognize trends, monitor tender activities, and model what-if scenarios.• Facilitated monthly S&OP process by aggregating, validating, analyzing and challenging regional demand data.• Performed demand and supply balancing for each product family.• Worked with Manufacturing leaders to establish global capacity plans.• Project manager for the implementation of Steelwedge planning software.

Implemented the demand planning process for the Drill Bits division globally across 9 regions. Instituted forecasting by product families to enable forecast accuracy above 80% with special focus on critical new product roll-outs.

Gathered business requirements, compiled functional requirements documents, liaised with both internal customers and technical programmers to deliver technical solutions. Project manager for the Account Planning Tool & Business Analyst for the Account Plan Design Tool.

Houston, Texas Area

Analyzed financial trends, researched root cause using data analysis, performed monthly closing entries and account reconciliations, as well as balance sheet and income statement variance analysis.