• Recruited to Corporate Customer Journey & Aftersales (CJ&AS) Division to effectively forecast demand of service/spare parts supporting the North American roll-out of Canoo’s vehicles.• Developing forecasts for production and service/spare parts for Canoo vehicles while collaborating with various departments (purchasing, finance, manufacturing, engineering…) to ensure accuracy and determine optimal inventory levels.• Analyzing abnormal usages of parts and determining the root cause.• Managing purchase orders (utilizing Oracle)- from creation, through communication with various internal and external teams to ensure accuracy to ensuring delivery is coordinated with the logistics team.• Monitoring accuracy of PO receipt, inventory transactions and inventory levels. • Marinating various reports on daily/weekly basis with a focus on data validation to ensure data accuracy through analyzing substantial amounts of information.

• Created item specific forecasts in JDA to be used for ordering and inventory management purposes.• Reviewed and updated inputs to calculate safety stocks and inventory targets.• Utilized iSeries(AS400)/JDA (Blue Yonder)/SQL to review inventory projections & supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory as well as to support marketing team and category managers by providing in depth information regarding sales, promotions, expansions, new product launches.• Conducted root cause analysis for significant variances/out of stock situations or shortage and recommended corrective actions to mitigate the problem(s) and avoid re-occurrence.• Analyzed and made recommendations on slow moving inventory.• Coordinated projects, including new product launches, phase out of product, supersessions, expansions, promotions.

• Developed and maintained the master production schedule by combining the sales forecast, new product launches, backlog, capacity availability and lead time.• Managed excess/slow moving inventory process such as recommendations to sell inventory to secondary accounts, transfer inventory to alternate DC’s or to identifying product to convert to/from.• Managed large volumes of data.• Analyzed demand during lead time while identifying abnormal demand patterns and verifying the causes.• Prepared analysis on demand, supply, inventory, capacity and/or resources as assigned to support business decisions across supply chain• Maintained SAP master data as necessary to support materials management and production planning.• Monitored service levels and back-orders.

• Created weekly production schedules for a variety of products based on customer demand, material availability, men power and line capacity. • Managed promotional planning, coordinated cross-functionally with buyers and product managers to ensure sufficient inventory levels to support promotion.• Coordinated procurement of material to match demand, communicated with suppliers the requirements and forecast.• Developed and maintained weekly and monthly reports regarding constraints, schedule adherence and shipments of finished product to customers.• Produced regular KPI reports covering all performance metrics including supplier performance, highlighting areas for improvement and potential improvement activities.• Placed orders for raw materials and packaging to support detailed production schedule, managed exception messages, line stops & expedites.• Managed intercompany stock transports.• Maintained forecasts by meeting monthly with product managers reviewing past performance and future forecast.

• Scheduled production to maximize fill rates, productivity, minimize down time, and maximize inventory turns and efficiency.• Analyzed material and capacity constraints and developed alternative schedules to meet objectives• Managed daily, weekly and monthly reporting of service performance.• Managed finished goods inventory levels and maintained safety stocks to optimize inventory turns while supporting customer service level expectations• Tracked significant forecast to actual variance, performed root cause analysis and implement appropriate revisions• Managed NPI and phase out of products collaboratively with various departments.• Reviewed purchase requirements and issued purchase orders utilizing QAD.

• Established the optimal production volumes based on demand, analyzing rough cut capacity, resource planning and detailed equipment planning.• Scheduled production plans – aiming to optimize efficiencies.• Performed daily follow-ups for production status and progress.• Maintained daily fill rate reports, backorder reports, inventory reports and inventory coverage reports.• Developed ad-hoc reports to provide insights into operational problems.• Ensured all data set-up in SAP is aligned and maintained to support operational processes.