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Harleysville, Pa, Us

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Exton, Pa, Us

• Managed National demand forecast for 2,000 unique long lead time sku’s within 5 regional distribution centers• Improved stocking levels to achieve a 5million dollar inventory reduction, while still maintaining key metric goals of 95% fill rates.• Served as primary end user expert on Kinaxis Rapid Response, Oracle Demantra and ASCP software development and implementation project.• Conducted monthly cross functional forecast review with business leaders from Supply Chain, Marketing, and Sales.• Advised Purchasing team on PO priority during inventory constraint times, as well as advance placement of inventory for large deals.• Developed work instructions and provided one-on-one training for new employee during transition to a new product line.• Managed high frequency product introductions and phase outs in a two-year product life cycle environment.• Collaborated with Asian Factories in production planning and prioritization during global component shortage.• Served on Supply Chain projects including the reorganization of regional warehouses and the stocking parameters of each.• Managed creation of Supply Chain forecast documents with use of Power Bi, Access, and Excel based data sources. • Power User on global end to end Supply Chain implementation team working with manufacturing, supply planning, demand planning, and deployment operations.• Managed and maintained regional inventory settings in a pull environment to maintain customer service and inventory KPIs.• Participated in monthly supply planning reviews with manufacturing to identify gaps in the supply chain and opportunities to improve inventory availability

Exton, Pa, Us

• Managed 10 Million dollars in annual service part sales, which included 6,000 unique sku’s and an average of 1,000 orders per month.• Improved service parts on time delivery from 92% to 97% with personal process improvements and information sharing with management.• Scheduled several full trailer load shipments per week of service parts, based on weekly order volumes. • Provided coverage for sister plants planners, which included both domestic and international locations.• Managed order placement and scheduling using J.D. Edwards MRP system, slotting daily orders with use of capacity planning.• Answered daily MRP messages to plan and manage outsource paint sku parts used for both production and service parts.• Served on logistics process improvement team within the plant, lead and assisted on internal logistics flow lean implementation projects.• Implemented a Kanban pull system on a new robotic weld station to improve manufacturing efficiency by eliminating waiting for parts. • Worked in collaboration with other process improvement teams to complete a total major product line transformation.• Successfully managed service part initial stocking project for two simultaneous product launches.