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Responsibilities:- Monthly Integrated Business Planning - IBP- Consensus order & shipment forecasting- Ending inventory projections- Open to buy purchase orders- Production forecasting - Production prioritization - Data analytics- Replenishment- SAP MRP SME- Coach the Supply and Demand Planning teams

Asheboro, North Carolina, Us

Hold the end-to-end responsibility to manage the on-time and in-full product replenishment to MAS ACME customers through efficient forecasting and product replenishment, to achieve forecasted revenue with minimal chargebacks. - Ensure that all customer orders are fulfilled using forecasting and demand planning- Manage accounts- level load fulfillment to result the accurate dispatch of goods from the company's distribution center- Lead the monthly S&OP reviews- Create the 24 month sales budgets- Generate purchase orders based on target service levels and projected ending inventory goals- Plan and execute new product rollouts.- Lead and maintain talent of the replenishment planning team- Lead implementation of advance forecasting applications - Interduce new inventory policies to reduce excess inventory- Manage the Data Analytic team

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Support the development, implementation, and management of the strategic vision and execution of XPO’s demand planning, supply planning, and data analytics organization. XPO offers these services to clients who prefer to outsource those core business functions. • Guide and drive the development of a roadmap, solutions, and resources necessary to deliver demand and supply planning solutions for XPO’s clients in the technology, retail, and manufacturing industries.• Responsible for customer service level agreements, developing inventory policies, forecast management, supply plans, and managing resources to maximize service levels while optimizing cost.• Collaborate with regional partners and lead the monthly demand review meetings to form a consensus on a rolling 18 month forecast. • Manage the strategic relationship with the clients and XPO’s tactical Planning and Data Analytics team. Motivate the team to find ways to go over and beyond in servicing our client base. • Improved confidence in the clients supply chain by implementing key performance metrics (KPI) used to increase in-stock percentages, fill rates, and measure inventory turn rates. • Partner with clients to develop standard operating procedures to streamline order management for inbounds, transfers, and customer orders within the warehousing network.• Optimize inventory assets of the business units by balancing maximum customer service with minimum inventory investment, ownership of system parameters and purchasing policies as required to achieve EBITDA goals.• Developed teams of Planners to manage the demand and supply planning responsibilities for new XPO clients outsourcing their planning functions.

Greenwich, Connecticut, Us

The spin-off of GXO from XPO was final in August 2021.The site planning and analytic organization functions to create demand planning solutions, forecasts, and replenishment models that drive optimization of the site function to maximize production and order fulfillment. The organization supports customer facing interaction and integration with the customer and operations to drive very specific deliverables. This team is the face of the demand planning and analytics to operations and GXO customers at the site level. This role coaches and manages the Data Analyst Managers and Demand Planning Leads on site within North America who support the below responsibilities.• Develops and implements forecasting processes specific to the book of business. Conducting demand reviews with operations and clients forming a consensus daily forecast of supply for both inbound and outbound volumes. Establish month to date forecast consumption metrics and forecast accuracy reporting.• Incorporates the forecasts into the capacity and labor models to project production capacities on value added services, kit to order, engraving, and UPH for picking and packaging orders. • Coordinate the development of appropriate operational analytics necessary to both ensure customer alignment, but also to ensure alignment to contractual obligations (ensuring alignment to contractual commitments) service level agreements. This includes report creation, data validation, and automation.• Ongoing development of planning solutions driving continued improvement and application of the solutions across the different sites. For example, replenishment of back stock to forward stock and pick face zone slotting analysis.• Liaison between the Customer and warehouse Operations for business intelligence. Serves as a point of contact for NPI launches, and promotional event activities that impacts the operations and order patterns.

Stockholm, Se

Managed the inventory planning of the regional distribution centers for finished goods, service parts, and accessories within a global supply chain. Annual Revenue of $800,000,000. Item count 650 finished good items and 65,000 service parts. • Implemented strategies to keep the Dealer channel appropriately stocked while maximizing sales, optimizing inventory, improve on-time shipping, and maintained corporate EBIT targets.• Ensured the right people, processes, structure, and support were in place which delivered team objectives. Managed a team of eight Supply Planners and one Supervisor. • Monitored market conditions, POS data, and promotional activity to anticipate customer sales trends. • Acquired the planning responsibility of 11,000 additional wheeled service parts. Established best practices for service parts exception management which increased fill rates and improved customer satisfaction. • Removed $8M of excess inventory in service parts by implemented the stock high stock low purchase order exception management tools. • Change agent / subject matter expert for the new forecasting & replenishment software Logility implementation 2018.• Implemented a safety stock strategy for seasonal items that increased service levels to match company fill rate targets which supported annual sales growth.• Led weekly collaboration meetings with Supply Planners, Warehouse Managers, and Transportation which ensured month end shipment goals were achieved. • Improved product availability and reduced excess inventory by participating in S&OP monthly demand review meetings. Provide factories with Production requirements monthly.• Department lead on reporting analytics, and in-house tool development designing the regional distribution forecasting tool which contributed to record high sales in Q1 2016. • Created automated standard reports for KPIs, forecast accuracy and fill rates, utilized by the Supply Planning team.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Managed the operational forecasts for all customer premise equipment. Annual budget 1.3 billion. • Established relationships with Marketing & Finance which incorporated multiple data points into the JDA statistical forecast. Subscriber base forecast, competitor pricing, and products lifecycles.• Monitored KPIs which ensured replenishments from the regional hubs to the tier warehouses to support customer demand. Communicated risk to replenishment and supply planning.• Managed staff which reached professional objectives and departmental goals by coaching and evaluation to enhance performance. • Partnered with the JDA implementation team to build out JDA instance for TWC. • Trained three Analysts in JDA Demand, DFU setup, algorithms, and exception management.• Designed and built the forecast exception management processes at TWC. Built and maintained the centralized database that stores all forecasting metrics for reporting.

Columbus, Oh, Us

• Lead executive blue chip projects related to the Demand & Deployment sector at Victoria Secret’s brand.• Responsible for specific global Demand & Deployment reporting tools. Duties include updating, troubleshooting, and enhancements related to the critical tools.• Enterprise Data Warehouse system matter expert for Demand & Deployment.• Designed and developed a store size selling productivity model which is used to influence the Bra size run buys.• Created a store forecast exception database for the Cotton Panty Demand team. The database identifies DFUs that are bias high or low through user defined thresholds. The tool manages 300 cotton panty colors at 1000 stores.

Columbus, Oh, Us

• Demand team lead in Victoria Secret’s (VS) Panty Department which contributes 650 million to VS total revenue.• Lead and assist a team of five Demand Forecasters on management’s strategies.• Data mine to analyze products demand and past sales trend to accurately forecast future trends.• Conduct monthly sales consensus meetings with cross functional partners to align on future inventory buys.• Responsible for assigning the appropriate forecasting model for unique products to maximize inventory turns.• Manugistics Demand Super User.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Responsible for performing the demand forecasting and replenishment planning processes for specific subdivisions. This includes forecasting demand, establishing inventory targets for stores and distribution centers, establishing replenishment methods, collaborating with the top volume vendors within the specific subdivisions monthly on forecasting and replenishment issues, and monitoring metrics for continuous improvement.