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Pawtucket, RI, US

Atlanta, GA, US

• Managed a center of excellence team of 15 to drive standardization with industry best practices and leading initiatives focused on People, Process and Technology.
• Led SAP IBP implementation for North America business units. Modules included Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization and S&OP.
• Developed global technology roadmap for demand and supply planning to support continual improvement in planning functionality.
• Created process playbooks, training documents and certifications to establish a unified approach for demand and supply planning across the multiple business units at Newell.
• Established a centralized Statistical Forecasting team to maximize value of a statistical modeling baseline. Resulted in a 10-point improvement of Statistical WFA year over year (2022 – 2023)
• Led Supply Planning initiatives that included Long Range Supply Planning capabilities, Statistical Safety Stock implementation and Distribution/Deployment functionality in SAP APO. Efforts contributed to 10% reduction.

Downers Grove, IL, US

• Led initiatives to drive down unproductive inventory 25% by collaborating with Sales to find potential customers, consolidating inventory, and repacking into alternate products.
• Raised on time delivery (Fill Rate) percentage above goal of 95% by implementing root cause analysis combined with targeted resolutions to eliminate repeated barriers to customer service.
• Managed technology upgrade for Purchasing Planners from legacy Manugistics software to JDA Fulfillment version 8.0.
• Integrated a newly acquired business, Chemical Associates, into the Univar supply chain processes and tools by training the new employees, and building their supply chain environment in the planning tools (JDA).

Atlanta, GA, US

• Designed and implemented Dixie Food Service Executive S&OP process to strategically balance the supply & demand drivers, while launching key initiatives to close the gaps. i.e. capital investments for additional.
• Configured and installed statistical safety stock tool to reduce working capital by $6 million and meet the business goal. Safety stock results imported into JDA fulfillment to drive planning decisions
• Drove 4% reduction in total delivered costs for retail consumer products by reducing the total miles and optimizing our distribution network using a network strategy tool (JDA). Sourcing recommendations implemented in.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Lead Project Manager (2007-2009) - $7M project to implement JDA Supply Chain software; Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Fulfillment, Strategy, and Reporting. Project resulted in working capital savings of $6M.
• Led Inventory Optimization project to implement Tools Group DPM software to integrate statistical safety stock parameters into Manugistics software, resulting in a $3M reduction in working capital for Dixie Consumer.
• Project lead for implementation of Manugistics CPP (Constrained Production Planning) tool, which provided functionality for strategic long-range planning, all in effort to build Sales & Operations planning process.

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• Generate production schedules for 3 manufacturing locations while collaborating with Customer Service to meet a 98% customer fill rate.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to build a consensus forecast for planning with forecast accuracy goals of 75% at the item/location level.

• Generate weekly production schedules and monthly capacity plans for 4 manufacturing facilities, while balancing inventory within the network using inter branch transfers.

• Planning lead and super-user for Manugistics 6.x implementation.
• Generate production schedules for 3 manufacturing locations in U.S.s

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics - Operations Research

Mathematics