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.

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

Education record