Susan Parrott, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Goleta, California, United States

Responsible for inventory management under the HOKA, Teva, Sanuk and Ahnu Brands for North America in the Wholesale, Retail and Ecommerce business channels. Manage inventory for a $1+ billion footwear & apparel business to maintain appropriate stock levels while ensuring on-time delivery to our customers.Utilize inventory management software/tools to analyze data and generate reports on inventory turnover, aging inventory, order fill rate, lead time variability and other key metrics. Proven track record of achieving revenue targets by refining reorder strategies to accomplish increased turns thru reduced inventory levels.Coordinated cross-functional teams to align inventory business objectives with revenue target by managing weeks of supply and meeting customer satisfaction : Finance, Regional Demand & Supply Planning, Global Supply Planning, Allocation Planning, Purchasing, Sales, Costing, Product Development and Product Line Management.Implement inventory management strategies to optimize inventory levels while partnering with Supply Chain and Global Planning to mitigate any capacity constraints. Partnered with factory planning on new vendor execution, level load and or pre-season program initiatives. Built custom reports and templates to conduct data-driven analysis to aid metric visibility from historical data, current sell-in, forecast, trends and inventory supply. Present to the executive teams inventory level projections, alignment to guardrails, gaps between finance & demand planning revenue targets with risk management in monthly S&OP meetings. Key team member of Deckers Brands continuous improvements projects in areas of Inventory Management, Supply Chain and PMO management initiatives. Assisted in outlining business objectives, identified gap analysis , participated in conference room pilots and ensured deliverable were met.Recognizied with the 2023 Teva Leadership Award

Goleta, California, United States

Responsible for inventory management for North America for the HOKA, Teva and Sanuk Brands

Responsibilities includes all Deckers brands (UGG, Koolaburra, HOKA, Teva and Sanuk) for all regions, domestic and internationally. Managed business processes with logistics trading activities related to cross-border trade and global compliance. Gained visibility and control over orders and shipments to ensure adherence to trade regulations. Gathered product & duty classification to ensure customs compliant with data management functionality to accurately estimate landed costs and to provide financial visibility into the extended supply chain costs.Streamlined global trade management processes by creating a new platform to store trade compliance data, duty and cost information. Improved supply chain efficiencies in a productive tool that automated routine tasks to improve data accuracy, reduce cost of good sold and mitigate supply chain risk and penalties. Created a simplified import/export capability to allow efficient uploads to Accounting and financial systemsPartnered with Finance, Accounting, International Trade Manager, Supply Chain leadership , Product Development, Material Product team and Product Line Managers. Utilizing the new platform with improved reporting capability enabled effective processes, allowed easy & quick turnaround to accurate data and assisted in more sound business decisions.

Responsible for the Teva Brand US inventory for wholesale and Ecommerce business channels for a $130M footwear retailer to maintain appropriate stock levels while ensuring on-time delivery to our customers.Improved US region’s inventory turns of 2.31 to 3.5 by reducing inventory levels by as much as 45% thru refining reorder strategies and achieving revenue targets.Coordinated cross-functional teams to align inventory business objectives with revenue target while minimizing capacity constraints: Finance, Planning, Purchasing, Forecasting, Sales, Costing and Product Line Management.Led the global buy execution by collaborating with the international regions, Asia, Europe, Canada and Latin America, to obtain monthly and seasonal buy plan alignment. Partnership with Supply Chain and Planning to evaluate any capacity constraints, new vendor execution, level load and or program initiatives. Built custom reports and templates to conduct data-driven analysis to aid metric visibility from historical data, current sell-in, forecast, trends and inventory supply.Key team member of Deckers Brands continuous improvements projects representing the Teva Brand in areas of Inventory Management, Supply Chain and PMO management initiatives. Assisted in outlining business objectives, identified gap analysis , participated in conference room pilots and ensured deliverable were met.

Managed and analyzed product selection, position and pricing to achieve profitability based on sales and profit plans by developing a one stop reporting tool, data visibility and team accountability.Developed a 1 year retail advertising roadmap to identify advertising strategies and opportunites.Increased sales during peak season by implementing new promotional marketing strategies.Acheived double digit comparable sales while reducing advertising cost by executing a proven marketing test; resulting in less promotional events.Reduced number of advertised items in a seasonal promotion while maintaining sales and increasing gross margin.

Planned and executed purchases to maintain optimal inventory levels for multiple distribution centers by managing inventory control and budget constraints.Re-engineered work flow processes with container tracking, international receiving and maintenance of negotiated costs.Increased inventory turns by providing better visibility to core items and product life cycle.Reduced back orders with improved efficiency in prioritizing receiving and real time visibility to on hand inventory.

Implemented and delivered projects within constraints to control cost and maximize business value; plan and managed project budgets.Lead a team of functional managers, team members, sponser, analyst, third party consultants and contractors; performed team evaluation, mentoring, training and supervision.Provided steering commitee with critical business data to improve efficiencies with work flow processes.Outlined business objectives, project management plan, assigned tasks, scheduled needed resources, managed and processed change requests, monitored and tracked deliverables.Documented data flow charts outlining work flow processes, constructed business test scripts and provided all training documentation.Increased productivity for 16 departments and 220 users by implementing Oracle Procurements and Inventory Management.Reduced inventory investments by improving quality of order approval with additional levels of review thru new implemented systems.Increased productivity by improving purchase order work flow with on line approvals, automating revisions and paperless purchase orders to suppliers.Automated inventory receipt and costing processes for all 3 distribution centers.Completed all projects on time and within budget; monitored all invoices of client billing and consulting service request.

Provided in depth analysis and database services for multiple departments. Managed database and data processes while implementing improvements and audits.Executed hygiene and data integrity. Corrected inaccurate data and assumptions contained in marketing executive reports. Increased turnaround of ad hoc reporting by 4 days utilizing MS Access importing data and table capabilities. Improved catalog gross margin by extracting cost data to use in marketing strategy recommendations.

Bachelor Of Science, Business

Minor in Marketing and an emphasis in Economics

Aa Degree, General