Sebastian Van Eck Email & Phone Number

Westport, Connecticut, Us

• Oversee end-to-end Supply Chain processes (Demand Planning, Freight, Warehousing, Inventory, Purchasing), supporting a portfolio of 4000 skus sold to 1000 customers. • Manage a direct report and relationships with 4 material vendors, 1 warehouse, and 3 freight brokers. • Moved sourcing of high-volume product line to vendor’s North Carolina plant, one hour away from our warehouse. Reduced annual inbound freight costs by 16%. • Partnered with Freight Forwarder to bypass our warehouse and ship material directly to customers, resulting in savings of $10K per year on inbound freight costs. • Led research project into remodeling industry to determine adjustments to forecasts needed in a post pandemic business environment. The outcome led to a 46% reduction of inventory ahead of industry slow down and maintained service levels.

Westport, Connecticut, Us

• Developed Supply Chain processes in Demand Planning, Inventory Management, and Purchasing from company’s launch in March 2018, and led projects for multiple process improvements.• Spearheaded project to develop a customer Inventory Protection Program in Netsuite in order to improve company’s service levels. By stocking more material in our warehouse, customer lead times were reduced by 70% on average.• Orchestrated the implementation of a Cloud-based demand planning software that reduced forecasting workload by 90% and increased order fill rate by 20%.• Streamlined ordering process to consolidate vendor productions runs and make shipping more efficient. Resulted in 80% fewer orders submitted each month.• Developed Supply Chain Dashboards tracking key metrics around excess inventory, vendor performance, and purchasing trends that helped organize efforts to reduce excess inventory by 40%.• Coordinated monthly meetings with vendors to review key performance metrics and initiatives to further develop relationship.• Developed vendor performance metrics around on time delivery and lead time accuracy.• Analyzed customer demand to create personalized stocking plans and address fluctuations in demand.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managed inventory valued over $90M and coordinated multiple stakeholders to action on opportunities to reduce excess inventory.• Received Excellence Award for co-organizing and presenting Business Intelligence tool to over 100 people in Mexico facility, to demonstrate benefits of utilizing visualization tools in operations.• Reduced memory supply requests for test process by identifying on hand inventory that could be used instead. Avoided producing another $500K of memory.• Acted as Poughkeepsie site lead for Inventory Management and presented quarterly status updates to Executive and Finance teams. • Saved 2 hours a week by automating inventory reports to efficiently track and action on obsolete parts.• Conducted analysis on defective parts to identify opportunities to rework parts, so they could be utilized for customer orders.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for forecasting mainframe demand and over 300 features built into the mainframes.• Received Excellence Award for streamlining and innovating Global Sales Execution Management System that reduced sales team’s workload by 12 days per year.• Incorporated efficiencies into Master Scheduling role that reduced workload by 10 days per year.• Acted as team's Subject Matter Expert for analytics tools such as Cognos, Watson Analytics, and Excel.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Integrated a Post Announcement Support Team into the Product Introduction organization• Worked with team leaders to understand their team’s processes• Evaluated possible points of integration between the new team and our organization• Provided recommendations to managers that would increase collaboration between the teams• Managed the organization newsletters and updated their informational Wikis

• Aided local companies with acquiring patents, trademarks and other intellectual property components• Consolidated and organized data on businesses vacancies in major commercial locations• Visualized business vacancy data into reports that clearly identify areas of focus

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Enrolled hundreds of Integrated Supply Chain team members into mentor program• Tracked and reported enrollment progress through Excel charts• Assisted with hosting an event to boost participation in the programs• Aggregated information on various social collaboration programs for executive showcases

Delivered boats, paddle boards, and equipment to customers. Repaired rental boats and customer boats.

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Fitted customers for ski or snowboard rentals during the winter season. Assisted in the sales of paddle boards, canoes and kayaks during the summer season. Aided customers with kayak and paddle board demonstration events.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), International Business: Global Supply Chain Management

High School Diploma