W. Scott Chrane Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

• Demand planning and procurement for over 900 footwear models, with annual sales in excess of 2 million units.• Development of management reports to forecast monthly sales, work-in-progress, and inventory levels as well as seasonal inventory turns.•Identifying obsolete and close-out opportunities to increase sales and reduce inventory levels.•Development and maintenance of testing report database for all footwear models to ensure chemical content levels meet federal regulations.•Reduced finished goods inventory YOY by 3% while increasing sales volume by 19%.•Led initiative to streamline factory PO upload processing into company mainframe.

Stratham, Nh

•Reduced production reporting time by 75-100 hours per person (yearly) by developing advanced Excel macros.•Managed a task force to trouble-shoot and optimize purchase order software interface issues.•Responsible for seasonal setup of 2,500 new footwear models annually in all corporate planning systems and for creating and maintaining databases utilized by supply planning teams and management.•Created and communicated $3 million in seasonal footwear sample buys annually with sourced vendors and assisted in the development of tracking reports used by global teams to track sample footwear production. •Coordinated transfers for 5.5 million pairs of production footwear annually with four country offices to mitigate factory capacity constraints as well as to achieve any identified cost savings.

Stratham, Nh

•Responsible for supply/demand match analyses for North America, Europe, Asia, and Canada business units with recommendations/actions for cost-effective improvements, and researched root causes for unmatched issues. •As part of a cross-functional team, restructured supply chain to reduce air-freight expenditures by $8.7 million, a 71% reduction by improving raw material delivery and improving buy-readiness.•Performed Open-To-Buy (OTB) tracking to ensure that weekly product buys did not exceed financial performance targets. •Interacted cross-functionally with Sales and Customer Operations teams to improve customer order fulfillment and product availability. Helped improve supply/demand for Womens footwear product from 89% to to 95% over a two-year period, and improved "at-once" availability for Mens core footwear product from 80% to 93% over a three year period.

Stratham, Nh

•Coordinated with Customer Fulfillment and Distribution teams to improve vendor compliance for Direct Ship customers, reducing customer chargebacks by $10,000 annually. •Created databases and macro-driven spreadsheets to assist in production and factory capacity planning.•Analyzed monthly buy confirmation performance with sourced factories and reported findings to senior management with recommendations on how to improve performance to meet corporate lead time targets.•Performed financial analyses on capital expenditures for new tooling requirements.

Mba, Business, 3.5 Gpa

Bachelor Of Science, Wildlife Management And Environmental Conservation

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Rho, Marching Band

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