Stephan Boutin Email & Phone Number

Wake Forest, Nc, Us

Riverside, Mi

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Purchasing Agent (2009-2011)/ Grower Service Manager (2011-present)Materials Supply Chain and Manager for international agribusiness operations within a network of 50 fresh food processing plants throughout North America, Mexico, and South America. • Negotiated and awarded several multi-year sourcing agreements with key National and International suppliers to optimize surety of supply. All combined agreements represent over $10 million in spend.• Project Manager for all new packaging initiative. Successfully coordinated the rollout of over 50 new packaging items in the past 9 years through effective cross-functional teams leadership and project task prioritization. • Project Manager for companywide traceability process overhaul. Optimization of reporting process and system resulted in impressive increase in efficiency, reducing reporting time from 2+ man-hours to 3 minutes. In addition, the creation of the improved case-level identification system gave all production locations access to Real-Time Data (RTD) for GTIN/GS1 standard compliance for over 25,000 SKUs• Coordinate Company-wide vendor relationship management and contract management activities. • Currently managing product lifecycle for over 500 different SKUs.• Integral team member of the Company’s ERP implementation team. Accountable to develop several BRDs for materials management processes applicable for production environment and financial reconciliation. • Developed several domestic and international sourcing programs designed to optimize surety of supply.

Responsible for all aspects of materials management for the Company including vendor negotiation, purchasing, and inventory management.

Led a complete business transformation for regional agribusiness operation. Full P&L responsibility for entire operation.• Spearheaded Change Management process that led to complete business transformation. Changed company strategy and increased market share by 60% within 5 years.• Diligently studied market dynamics to develop and implement new business concept that resulted in peak-season gross sales increase of 200% over a 4 year period. • Successfully created and implemented domestic sourcing strategies that reduced costs by 20% in the first 2 years and increased cash flow.• Facilitated training programs and processes optimization. Developed, implemented, and monitored standard operating policies and procedures that resulted in increase of product quality and value.• Performed root cause analysis and applied corrective actions to improve point of use product availability within our internal supply chain.• Successfully planned and executed a joint marketing venture with local businesses, leading to 15% increase in gross sales.

Quebec, Canada

Managed a $2.5M inventory of travel insurance documents, supplying over 500 customers in Canada, USA, and Europe. Oversaw material production for quality control and managed department P&L. Reported directly to VP of Marketing and had matrix reporting relationship with VP of Operations and VP of Finances.• Established SOPs to resolve escalated component shortages through active communication. Resulting in increased customer retention by 75% the first year and maintained at 95% the following years.• Led change of of component allocations and supply-demand matching to ensure customer delivery performance.• Conducted root cause analysis revealing internal process breakdown. Created and implemented new SOPs resulting in timely production improvement by 12%.• Created and implemented SOP for warehouse management enabling us to effectively supply over 500 customers with 99.5% accuracy. Estimated savings of over $100,000 annually.• Negotiated and locked-in multi-year sourcing agreement with a major shipping carrier, thus reducing our shipping costs by 87% on the first year.• Production costs were renegotiated and resulted in 8% saving in the first year with a total savings of 15% over a 3 year period.• Planned and flawlessly executed the relocation of a 100,000 square foot inventory warehouse without affecting day-to-day operations.• Monitored customers’ inventory levels and identified optimal inventory levels needed. Actively worked to drive the days of inventory to the optimal levels.• Integral part of the ISO 9002 certification committee (certification in 1999).