Shirley Lopez Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Accountable for securing supply to meet a sales demand of $101M representing 32% of the NAM vegetable business.• Managed a High-Performance team of three Supply Specialists and two contractors.• Instrumental in the launch and implementation of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) supply planning process globally.• Led the Supply Review Work Stream IBP implementation for NAM.• Anticipated and mitigated supply risks to meet financial commitments by prioritizing and communicating with key functional areas regionally and globally.• Recommended and implemented operational continuous improvement opportunities such as Inventory Health tracking, obsolescence inventory reporting among others.• Supply subject matter expert to support the yearly LRP and Budget exercise.• Collaborated with our QA team to document, standardize and train our supply team.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Managed a $32M product portfolio for De Ruiter brand in Canada, US and Mexico. • Created alignment and maintained strong communication with regional and global stakeholders regarding advancement decisions and supply visibility. • Implemented and organized the NAM De Ruiter Crop Team activities associated with life cycle management of the 100 SKU portfolio including manufacturing/production, trialing, marketing, QA, safety stock and regional crop strategies across all three crops.• Established the Launch & Execution team including Finance, Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain on the creation, presentation and commercialization of new variety introductions.• Developed and executed the annual marketing plan to define go to market distribution strategy, annual pricing review, market funding program management and promotion strategy.• Accountable for generating monthly forecast updates in accordance to specific planning periods based on growing cycles per area. • Led the Annual Crop Business Plan and the Annual Long Range planning process aligning regional & global teams.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Launched the new S&OP process for the Americas $384M vegetable seed business with dotted line to the global organization.• Streamlined communication and collaboration cross functionally among the regional and global Supply Chain, Customer Service, Finance, Marketing, PM and Sales.• Conducted the FY15 sales budget exercise for the North America commercial team.• Participated in the requirement building sessions for the implementation of the Integrated Business Planning process.• Implemented Portfolio Reviews with Product Management in preparation for IBP process roll out.• Collaborated in the Supply Visibility project implementation in Salesforce by testing data integrity and accuracy and disseminate findings with the IT team.• Standardized the regional S&OP meetings by developing a standard Excel template and format.• Designated as the primary point of contact with the IT function for requirement gathering, testing and implementing S&OP reports in SAP Business Objects.• Increased the visibility and awareness on the financial impact of aging and excess inventory by implementing new reporting tools.• Developed and implemented metrics and KPI’s to measure the success of the S&OP process.• Designed and launched a yearly survey to gather feedback from all key stakeholders on the new S&OP process to track progress, areas of improvements and accomplishments.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Managed the supply prioritization and communication for the $54M Americas De Ruiter Business. • Newly created role to strengthen the relationship between regional and global supply planning teams.• Led monthly S&OP meetings with Sales, Marketing, Quality, and Customer Service.• Collaborated cross-functionally and globally to mitigate risk, identify continuous improvement and best practice opportunities to achieve yearly budget goal.• Provided input on plant scheduling and prioritization of incoming crops based on S&OP agreement.• Selected seed material in accordance with quality specifications, customer/country requirements and in compliance with federal and international seed laws.• Developed a tracking Excel tool to measure daily order status to reduce processing lead-time and improve customer response.• Standardized all inventory management processes and SAP transactions by creating the first training manual for onboarding all new hires.

• Processed daily orders under minimum standard lead time• Selected seed material in accordance with quality specifications, customer/country requirements and in compliance with federal and international seed laws.• Developed an IM calculator tool to increase efficiency in the process order creation• Created a tool to measure daily order status to help improve customer service level• Worked in conjunction with other department analysts to supply timely and accurate inventory availability information.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Finished Product Transition Management- Responsible in delivering inventory build for new initiatives in order to deliver customer service results and minimize remnants.• Finished Product Inventory Management- Managed database for establishing days on hand target for all the products. Responsible for monitoring and controlling inventory as well as making adjustments to deliver monthly inventory targets.• Data owner for the monthly rough cut capacity plan.• Maintained a 99.75% case fill rate- Monitored daily production requirements in order to meet customer orders. Liaison between site planners and deployment planners in order to resolve customer service issues after hours and over the weekend.• Coordinated the 09-10 United Way campaign to raise $140K, the largest amount raised by the site.

• Utilized an MRP system based on demand and capacity to determine raw material requirements.• Improved working conditions by applying ergonomics concepts and redesigning facilities using AutoCAD.• Implemented the 5S philosophy in all production lines.• Established the new lead time to deliver the returned merchandise to customers. • Increased the returned merchandise on time delivery by a 47%.• Documented the new process established, also responsible for training.