Stuart Dempster Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

• Responsible for Planning and scheduling the purchase of c.90,000 SKU’s for the global estate of Airport Travel Retail outlets within the ARI group globallyProjects & Achievements
• Designed and created Inventory Demand Planning tool
• Working with the Category Planning team to implement multifaceted Global financial stock forecasting
• Created a team specific, Weekly stock management reports
• Project collaboration with local and international stakeholders to develop the dynamic and seamless fluidity of generic cyclical events
• Using Lean methodology, to create and implement Business Improvements

• Responsible for establishing material requirements of over 700 raw materials and packaging to support the Production plan for 2 sites that manufacture up to 2 million finished goods per week applying Lean.
• Managed entire frozen, fresh and ambient supply
• Collaborated with key Stake Holders and actively involved in Product Improvement Processes to reduce costs
• Lean A3 Project to reduce the need to use materials under derogation
• Implemented improvements to the MRP system and the quality of the reporting and data analytics
• Worked closely with suppliers to understand their business constraints, identifying and implementing best practice

Ireland

• Managed over 40 international SKU’s; co-ordinating the movement and transportation of industrial food containers from supplier to multiple international production sites – based on variable supply and demand fluctuations
• Key support for Ireland, UK, and European production sites, including first point of contact for third party grower clientsKey Achievements
• Improved the stock tracking system to continually improve flow and process of company data, resulting in one file for multiple Stakeholders to have visibility of ongoing progress
• Managed the Group procurement process through the overseeing of Good-in and Goods-received
• Mitigated hire costs by working with supplier KPI joint-interests
• Reduced material losses by integration with production process and supplier availability

• Responsible for supply and demand for a Category controlling £100m of stock movement annually from UK Distribution Centres to the 450 stores across the national estate Key Achievements
• Integrating a major new acquisition, including business integration and phased roll-out of new store openings
• Mitigated significant logistical costs by working closely with parallel departments and wider teams
• Supported the wider trading team to help maximise departmental business results by designing a shared planning system

Education record

Gdl, Law

Bsc (Hons), Sound & Audio

Education record