Consolidated Key Categories to individual planning units simplifying demand planning. Increased Vendor Managed Inventory Compliance by $114K freed up internal resources for Project Management.Automated Scheduling and Demand Planning by standardizing download input into planning module.

Pilkington North America | Northwood, Ohio A $1B (U.S. sales) glass manufacturing company, supporting the automotive and architectural/solar markets.Led the North American business strategy for all batch raw materials used in float glassmaking, including selecting/qualifying suppliers, contracting, pricing, delivery, and invoicing. Accountable for requests for proposals/quotes (RFP/RFQs), contracting, and supplier performance for new business. Managed high-level business relationships with over 38 vendors. Key Contributions and Accomplishments: Increased return rates from 50% to 67% after centralizing and standardizing cullet reporting across five OEM plants.  Renegotiated cullet contracts, reducing processing fees ($67k) while increasing sell price of outside cullet ($280k). Decreased proposed monthly fee for incumbent industrial gas suppler contract by 18% ($200k to $170k), with guaranteed 100% uptime for full contract length (15 years), after converting the contract to NSG terms and conditions. Reduced vendors from over 50 to a core 20 by expanding ‘one throat to choke’ initiative for indirect/site services. Successfully led the ongoing negotiations for over $100M of input materials including sand, soda ash, cullet, and limestone for float glass production.  Secured supply and mitigated price increases by effectively negotiating long-term (10+ years) onsite produced industrial gas supply, including oxygen and nitrogen as well as off-site produced/delivered gases such as hydrogen and helium. Cultivated strong diverse cross-cultural relationships, with both English and non-English speaking team members and vendors who supported increased spikes in domestic production demands.

Maintained vendor relationships to support ongoing asphalt modification. Secured new vendors and materials, for additional projects, working across all U.S. sites on inventory/replenishment levels and place POs including pre-buys for increased savings.Key Contributions and Accomplishments: Realized an initial $600k cost savings by utilizing advanced sourcing techniques that allowed for a broad use of cost-effective polymers from Korea.  Saved over $100k after increasing supply chain security and reducing costs by multiple key partner strategy, including identifying and qualifying additional key vendors for multiple raw materials. Identified and secured a specialized additive for increased performance of finished products, successfully executing a competitive contract with a new vendor. Standardized business reporting, utilizing Bloomberg terminal and Excel template, to effectively communicate with board members and OC stockholders. Saved over $300k by effectively coordinating the timing of winter buys of mineral spirits, avoiding spring price increases.

Served as a strategic partner for the insulation division ($1.5B in sales) to improve organic sales growth by increasing gross margin dollars per sale. Identified and secured vendors to manufacture and build products. Accountable for locating complimentary products to sell to OC customers. Key Contributions and Accomplishments: Saved $281k, within one year, after leading the RFQ for a $40M business segment, for a new machine manufacturer, from specifications through final vendor selection and signed contract. Generated an annual $2M+ cost savings by securing a new supply arrangement for a major product line, effectively negotiating the termination of an existing supply agreement. Increased top line sales by over $500k by creating and implementing a small package/LTL order fulfillment process for Home Depot; a special-order process to drop ship product from producing vendor directly to customer’s store. Successfully added three new products to the business portfolio, increasing from four to seven product lines.

Served as a subject matter expert in delivering customer orders on time at the most economical rate. Maximized carrier abilities to fulfill customer order demand through direct communications at the order entry stage.Key Contributions and Accomplishments: Realized logistics savings of $2.5M by effectively using SAP to clarify the business needs for all divisions, fully revamping the capacity management project at the ABAP level within one year. Saved $550k, within one year, by initiating reporting and improvement of vehicle utilization, resulting in an up to 2% increase in trailer utilization.

Led and motivated a diverse team of 16, with accountability for over 300,000 annual shipments and over $400M freight spend. Constructed and implemented new processes to ensure Sarbanes Oxley compliance, including control plans and reporting, achieving compliance goal of 98%.

Designed and executed the distribution and delivery platform for the mass merchant supply chain including Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Target, Kroger, and CVS as well as over 700 retail mall kiosk locations ($140M in total sales). Integrated a new web-based transportation management system (TMS) to control all outbound shipments. Executed contracts for truckload and LTL carriers, consolidating carrier base from over 130 to a core carrier base of 34 ($7M freight spend).

Supported the Transportation platform of the largest Roofing plant in Owens Corning by securing direct truckload and LTL shipments to customers and securing rates and confirmed capacity from carriers.