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Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States

Morton, Illinois, United States

Brillion WI

Designed, organized, staffed, and launched AriensCo’s newest Division – RapidCare.RapidCare is AriensCo’s Service Brand with the mission to be industry leading in all customer experience touchpoints after the power equipment sale.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Area

• Leveraging over 35 years of supply chain leadership experience, TRW Supply Chain Services is able to provide value added practical and sustainable solutions. Our scope spans Customer Service, Planning, Logistics and.
• Improved Service Levels (On-time delivery)
• Improved Inventory Management (Days-of-Supply: Inventory Turns)
• Improved Logistics Spend (Freight and Warehousing as a % of Net Sales)
• Improved Materials Spend (Materials as a % of Net Sales)

Manitowoc WI

Responsible for all operations, profitability, employee and customer relationships for all four HMF Companies

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Area

Providing integrated supply chain consulting services spanning Customer Service, Planning, Logistics, and Global Sourcing.

• Reported to the CEO with direct accountability for global sourcing, new business development, demand planning, and scheduling for four plants. Led a team of seven direct reports including Director of Strategic.
• Created customer alignment teams focused on service and growth improvements. Impact: Improved on-time delivery from 70% to over 95%.
• Added three new strategic accounts. Impact: Increased total revenue by 40%.
• Created a new Supply Chain organization using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Return). Impact: Increased total cost productivity to >5%.

• Reported to the Vice President of Global Operations. Direct accountability for all Supply Chain departments including Customer Service, Planning, Logistics and Purchasing. Seven Direct reports including Director –.
• Developed and communicated a five-year Strategic plan for the Supply Chain function.
• Developed and gained approval for a re-organization of the Supply Chain function.
• Created the dashboard of metrics to manage the Supply Chain activities. Impact: Increase finished goods inventory turns from 6 to 11.
• Re-designed the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. Impact: Improvement in the on-time delivery from 75% to 98%

• One of three corporate officers reporting directly to the CEO. Direct accountability for Transportation, Warehousing, Customer Contact Center, and Service. Ten direct reports at Manager and Director level with over 500.
• Developed and executed the vision to be “World Class” in Big Box Home Delivery.
• Introduced network modeling and 3rd party logistics (3PL) providers as well as selected and improved the warehouse management and street level routing systems.
• Developed freight and warehousing measurement system and control process. Impact: Over 15% improvement in the freight and warehousing cost structure.

• Reported to the Senior Vice President of Sales and Distribution. Direct accountability for Order Mgt, Demand Mgt, Production Planning and Scheduling, Product Deployment, Transportation and Warehousing. Overall process.
• Developed and led the implementation of an “E-Enabled Supply Chain Strategy”. Impact:Reduced Finished Goods Inventory by 10 days (45 to 35 days of supply) while maintaining product availability in the 95+% range.
• Served on the Steering Committee for the SAP R3 implementation.
• Led a North American and European decision team to select an “Advanced Planning and Scheduling” (APS) system to compliment the new SAP R3 Order management system.

• Reported to the President of Whirlpool Asia. Direct accountability of all logistics operations within Asia including lanes to and from North America and Europe. Directs reports from each Asian Sales organization as.
• Developed and implemented an Asian Logistics strategy
• Rationalized the Indian distribution network from over 75 warehouses (godowns) to 20.
• Connected all 4 Chinese joint ventures via a demand forecasting and distribution planning system over a difficult and unreliable data network

Mba, Supply Chain

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