Ronak Patel Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Head of Supply Chain for Lactalis Heritage Dairy, a Groupe Lactalis subsidiary created by the $3.2Bn acquisition of Kraft Heinz’s Natural Cheese business ($1.4b revenue). Member of the executive leadership team and responsible for building a team of 50+ employees covering various disciplines including Supply Chain Planning (Demand, Supply, Materials Management), Order Management, Customer Supply Chain, Supply Operations and Commercialization.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Responsible for coordinating and leading the end to end supply chain planning processes (Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Material Planning) to ensure achievement of the Integrated Business Plan for the region. Full organizational accountability for 115 salaried employees, supporting $8b Biscuits/Confectionery Business (primarily DSD)

Schlieren, Zurich, Ch

Accountable for Product Supply Planning for North America, inclusive for developing and progressing a full transformation agenda across people, process and tools. Upgraded processes and capabilities for Demand, Supply and Network Capacity planning. Implemented organization redesign inclusive of restructuring the planning team, re-defining/upgrading roles, and recruiting high caliber talent. Reset key customer demand collaboration processes, formalized manufacturing capacity review cadence, and established foundational network supply planning capabilities working across a network of 21 bakeries. Delivered results in key metrics inclusive of service, demand plan accuracy and waste.

Chicago, Us

Led the Demand Management Center Team, directly managing an organization of 17 associates (combination of Capability Managers and Demand Planners) as well as provided functional leadership across six business unit demand planning teams (22 managers and planners). Progressed process improvement initiatives working across Business Unit Product Supply and Sales teams while improving utilizing of demand tools (JDA, Terra Technology). Delivered 9 point improvement in statistical forecast accuracy and 3 point improvement in total forecast accuracy. Lead various process transformation initiatives for Demand Management to enable implementation of SAP APO and roll out of S&OP / IBP. Streamlined processes that were previously complex and non-standard.

Chicago, Us

Led the Customer Supply Chain team for Kraft’s second largest account with annual revenue of $2B and year over year growth rates of 5%+ (’09 – ’12). Managed a high performing team of 19 associates inclusive of Team Leaders, Order Management / VMI analysts, Demand Planners, Development Managers and Project Analysts.

Chicago, Us

Led development of multi-year roadmaps across 8 key markets to bring key initiatives to life across customer service, supply planning, and logistics. Focused efforts to build the leadership and functional capabilities. Supported Route-to-Market initiatives across South East Asia Markets:o Partnered with Global Logistics Procurement to restructure the 3PL ocean freight service agreements. Improved service while reducing costs.o Instrumental in establishing the Supply Chain function for emerging Business Units (India). Import processes, network design to support growth plans, and organization roadmap. o Distributor model transition (Indonesia). 3PL selection and distribution center start up. Evolve planning processesLead various aspects of organizational development, including leading workshops, liaising with Centers of Excellence on global priorities, and assessing appropriate organization structures for local markets.

Chicago, Us

Selected from a group of peers to start up a new organization focused on Customer Supply Chain Strategy. Instrumental in shaping long range plans to enable a Demand Driven Supply Network, inclusive of demand signal integration, collaborative customer planning, and enabling tactics to improve speed to shelf. Led engagements with select key customers to evaluate the full plant-to-shelf supply chain and identify joint collaborative initiatives for efficient product flow through the combined network.

Chicago, Us

Led the northeast area demand planning and merchandiser planning functions, directly managing 3 managers and 5 planners. Served as product supply functional lead for the northeast area manufacturing plants and liaison with field sales and customer service relative to developing their role in the field demand planning process.

Chicago, Us

Led the supply planning and logistics function for a powdered beverage manufacturing plant inclusive of finite production scheduling across 12 manufacturing lines, raw / packaging MRP, and distribution facility operations. Managed a team of 4 salaried and 25 hourly employees.

Chicago, Us

Responsible for master scheduling, consensus forecasting and commercialization activity for the Jell-O Dry Packaged Desserts Category. Served as the supply planning lead on the Category Business Team, linking marketing and sales strategies with operations to achieve sales, service and inventory objectives.

Progressed through a variety of Logistics and Product Supply roles in manufacturing and HQ Operations Planning. Roles inclusive of Plant Logistics trainee, HQ Inventory Planner, and Operations Planning Manager for a plant startup operation (Master Production Planning, Finite Scheduling, Materials Planning)