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Johnson City, Tn, Us

Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Area

Kingsport Tennessee

Greater Atlanta Area

Business Process Improvement consulting with various client companies.

Greater Atlanta Area

Business Process Improvement consulting with various client companies.

Greater Atlanta Area

Provide leadership and direction to Residential and Raw Material planners, inventory managers, and forecasters in order to achieve a high level of service while reducing inventory levels and maximizing turns by successfully implementing the Beaulieu Integrated Planning System.

Greater Atlanta Area

Implementing advanced planning, advanced scheduling, and metrics management solutions with Anheuser Busch / In-Bev

Greater Atlanta Area

Develop and implement Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) function that serves entire corporation and customers.Built structured and data-supported process for gathering information that enables accurate demand forecasting, optimum supply planning, and better alignment to business strategy, improving fact-based consensus decision making in areas of production planning, raw material purchasing, and transportation.Created committee that directed all aspects of enterprise information management system including staffing data stewardship program, managing data quality, approving data architecture and security standards, creating data glossary spanning all source systems, and approving / prioritizing data warehouse and data mart project work.Constructed operational model of enterprise value chain that clearly identified bottlenecks, automated simulation of cost-to-source and support of new business, enabled on-demand running of sensitivity and what-if analysis of supply strategies, constraints and disruptions, and identified longer-term strategic improvements to the global supply chain network.Defined and implemented efficient and effective standardized demand management policies, procedures, and tools that drove supply and financial plans across enterprise.Implemented organization-wide infrastructure for dynamic, collaborative planning that brought business groups in sync with consensus demand plan that has been top-down and bottom-up reconciled.Designed and implemented monthly S&OP process that drove improved forecast accuracy, optimized inventory investment, reduced obsolescence, improved customer service, and improved portfolio management.Participated in enterprise roll out of ERP systems (JD Edwards and SAP), Oracle Supply Network Optimizer, and IBM Cognos resulting in increased efficiency and reduced costs by aligning and optimizing transactional and planning processes.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Implemented standard ERP platform, collaborative forecasting and rough cut capacity planning system, and business intelligence system on global basis resulting in asset utilization optimization and aligning supply and demand processes.Drove collaborative forecasting and rough cut capacity planning processes that reduced order lead times from 90 to 30 days, global inventory 15%, and total transportation costs 10%. Reduced total cash-to-cash cycle 10%.Executed enterprise-wide data governance process encompassing data quality, data architecture, metadata management, data stewardship, metric definition, and balanced score carding providing single source of truth and increasing management’s visibility and control of key result indicators.Oversaw global implementation of JD Edwards ERP system and Oracle Business Information Systems and alignment of all production plants through global material master configuration and manufacturing execution standardization.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Administered accurate, timely, and efficient flow of business planning and product forecasting information between Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain and S&OP leadership for US, Canada, and Mexico. Owner and champion of all business planning and forecasting processes and systems.Developed and managed annual and monthly forecasting and planning cycles, milestones, requirements, and performance measures aligning all sales and demand planning activities and ensuring accurate demand plans over 18-month forward horizon.Took lead in initiating continuous improvements to global tactical and strategic forecasting and demand planning processes reducing forecast error and stabilizing operational plans.Designed and implemented best practice forecasting and demand planning processes across North America ensuring optimally balanced supply and demand plans and alignment to financial targets.Implemented statistical and collaborative forecasting tools (John Galt Solutions, and Cognos) that increased forecast accuracy from 80% to 95%+ at aggregate planning levels.Reduced forecasting workload and forecast error by implementing analytical baseline, and assumption and event management process across sales force.Reduced lead times and working capital requirements with strategic customers by implementing VMI and collaborative planning processes across North American supply chain.Created demand management group that drove design and implementation of SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer / Demand Planning (APO DP) module enabling consolidation and alignment of all demand planning activities.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Directly responsible for leading the S&OP process for the entire North America region. Accountable for ensuring monthly balancing of supply and demand across NAFTA (approx. $1.5B annual net revenue), alignment of the NAFTA S&OP with global S&OP, management of finished goods range and channel inventory, management of product launches and phase outs. Designed, implemented and managed the monthly collaborative forecasting and demand management process. Responsible for selection, installation, and support of web based software that supported collaborative forecasting and monthly S&OP process. Key objective was the development of demand and supply plans that maximized customer satisfaction while minimizing working capital requirements. Accomplishments:Successfully implemented S&OP processes across all of North America and aligned North American S&OP with global S&OP processes. Reduced working capital requirements by 10% each year and reduced re-planning cycle from months to days. Through improved planning, global supply chain inventory values were reduced by $100MM over two years. Implemented best practices in production scheduling and MRP processes through global implementation of SAP R3 ERP system. Implemented a global BI and reporting system (IBM Cognos) providing balanced scorecard metrics which increased the efficiency of the monthly S&OP process. Reduced planning and supply lead times for strategic and “A” products by more than 10% annually.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for leading and management of sales and operations planning cycle for US Fungicide, Insecticide, and Professional Products Business Units (approx. $500MM annual net revenue). Accountable for maintenance of sales forecasts and supply plans and determination of finished good stock levels based on economics and customer service implications. Managed the new product introduction and portfolio management processes. Primary contact between Marketing, Supply Chain, Technical and Production departments on issues related to supply and demand management. Other responsibilities included Supply chain optimization, implementation of performance measurements specific to Business Unit and Supply Chain activities, reduction in working capital requirements, and product portfolio range management. Accomplishments:Implemented an S&OP process that aligned commercial, supply chain, research and development, and financial business units across the US. Reduced average inventory value.Improved order to cash cycle 15%.

Mba, Business Administration

Masters in Business Administration

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering

Bs, Chemistry

Bachelors in Chemistry