Leading a team of 8 Demand Planners managing a $1.7B forecast for Grocery and Drug customers.

-Ownership of the financial inventory plan, including target setting and analysis ($400M+)-Development of asset utilization models through collaboration across Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain Strategy across the Strategic Plan horizon to plan capital expansion.-Joint responsibility for delivering the Annual Plan process-Mentoring and developing Supply Planning team

-Responsible for the overall health, discipline, and evolution of the S&OP process-Implemented productivity enhancing tools at the Executive S&OP review meeting-Jointly managed the demand consensus process with Demand Planning Sr. Managers

-Functional lead for implementation of JDA Fulfillment and PSO in version 7.8-Joint ownership of the Supply Planning process with the Supply Planning Director / Sr Managers. -Ownership of global JDA Fulfillment parameters and centralized QA function for Supply Planner specific parameters, model logic, and system settings. -Diagnosis, correction and testing of technical problems with the SP model. These technical problems include data, application, reporting or upgrade issues that may occur. -Development of a continuous improvement program for the JDA Fulfillment application to drive better decision-support functionality.-Cross functional project management.

Production planning and master scheduling utilizing Manugistics based on parameters defined for specific products. Maintained accurate production information in Manugistics and SAP to ensure product is available to support prescribed customer service levels. Working on cross-functional seasonal execution teams to ensure sales goals and other key metrics across the corporation are met.

Monitored inventory levels to achieve proper balance across a multiple distribution center network. Analyzed product freshness and provided disposition on products nearing the end of shelf life. Maintained proper settings within Manugistics to achieve prescribed deployment techniques and case fill metrics.