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Shreveport, Louisiana

Efficient preparation of the production schedule, with the use of SAP, ensuring the balanced production mix for downstream processes and an optimal sequence to maximize output while managing delivery requirements. Create and optimize orders, through the optimizing of the standard calculations and material allocations; ensuring minimal yield loss and maximized throughput. Preform risk assessments, forecasting, and mitigation planning to facilitate the resolution of material and manpower shortages, backlogs, and other existing other existing or potential interruptions. Continuous communication, to provide daily and weekly analysis on critical metrics, with operations, sales, and supply chain teams to report and respond to any potential issues and recommended alternatives.

Develop strategic action plans, through collaboration, to increase the total business while decreasing cost. One major contributing cost reduction factor is inventory management focused around forecasting and just-in-time (JIT) inventory management. Total cost analysis is utilized to demonstrate to the stakeholders the financial benefit of proper forecasting and inventory management. With appropriate forecasting, supplier relationship management is critical to ensure JIT inventory management. By applying JIT to a supply chain, decreased carrying cost and shrink are outcomes reducing cost and maximizing profits. Developing relationships with customers to craft open and honest communication is important to advance need based selling in developing the root cause of an issue. Another job aspect of relationship building is with customers to effectively selling, executing, negotiating and upholding contractual requirements. We exploit our creditability, with stakeholders, to aid in marketing by preforming one-on-one customer engagements to educate adult tobacco consumers about RJ Reynolds’ brands and attributes.

Managed company assets to maximize the profitability of the company by reducing the cost while providing excellent customer service. Encouraged and trained employees how to improve the sales and reduce losses. Proper inventory management, JIT inventory strategy, was implemented to reduce excess inventory improving turns. By the implementation of JIT, losses and risk were minimized while profits and turns were increased.

Ruston, La

Performing best-in-class customer service while maintaining adequate inventory levels through proper inventory management and forecasting. In order to maintain adequate inventory levels, orders and POs were issued to vendors. Supplier relationship management was developed for 3 PL and reverse logistics, to maintain a JIT inventory strategy.

Ruston, La

Manage company funds and assets to ensure maximum profitability while communicating with higher management to maintain adequate stock. Managed and created multiple customer request.

Ruston, La

Communicated with Vice Presidents and Student Development Coordinators to regulate apartment residents and resolve issues that may arise. Worked with staff to coordinate resident programing and manage staff to engage with residents to create a living learning environment.