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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Lead 15-member material planning team for the North America supply chain. Manage team performance, mentor and provide support to enhance teamwork between cross-functional supply chain and manufacturing teams. Provide communication to senior supply chain leadership. • Consistently provided effective guidance, coaching and motivation to ensure performance excellence and developmental growth with all team members.• Developed, facilitated and provided supplemental training on SAP/APO to maintain supply chain business policies and meet supply chain goals.• Assisted SAP implementation team in verification of master data and various systems’ Testing and Go Live training. • Identified and drove process improvement opportunities within SAP and implemented solutions to increase planning efficiency. Reduced overall planning time by 30%. • Served as the focal point with supply chain management for all concise, cross-functional communications associated with the master schedule, on-time delivery, production capacity and planning and sales forecasts based on the master production schedule.

Huntersville, North Carolina

Balance service, cash and cost by managing sku level inventory based on forecast and sales while managing MTO production orders. Meeting quarterly operation plan, balancing DIOH; preventing aged inventory inflow. Strategically work with S&OP team to develop operations plan and manufacturing to devise master schedule considering manufacturing constraints. • Analyzed weekly planning results from SAP/APO module and confirm appropriate order packages to manufacturing, balancing against known manufacturing constraints and monthly S&OP production plans.• Maintained stockouts less than 2% target, managing inventory below target, despite key raw material shortages and unplanned plant outages.• Led aged inventory reduction efforts, reducing aged to less than 3%, totaling 700MT of aged inventory reduction. Proactively pursued opportunities to sell custom inventory before becoming aged. • Achieved and maintained 95% on time, reliable delivery to customers, collaborating with manufacturing, logistics and warehousing.

Huntersville, North Carolina

Drive key metrics for multiple product lines, forecasting over 500 skus, to include fulfillment life cycle time, stock out/fill rate, customer date changes, churn costs, days-of-inventory on-hand, and forecast accuracy (MAPE and bias). Refine forecasting models and apply market intelligence while reviewing monthly S&OP demand case to ensure adequate inventory/supply plans to service all demand. • Managed over 600 skus, optimizing planning strategies to achieving 96% accuracy, improvingorder fulfillment rate by 15%, while maintaining inventory levels within business target.• Identified opportunities to reduce aged inventory resulting in 17% decrease of total cost value.• Developed tools and reports and led weekly meetings with global S&OP leadership, supply chain management and commercial leadership to review forecasting metrics and performance. • Completed ISO Internal Audit certification in 2008, conducting internal audits quarterly of all supply chain functions in preparation for annual BSI audit, resulting in successfully maintaining ISO certification.

3Rd Infantry Division - Fort Benning, Georgia

Manage all battalion logistics in a 480 soldier Forward Support Battalion. Advise senior leadership on all logistical planning, procedures, policies and budgeting for over 500 pieces of equipment valued at over $10 million. Responsible for maintaining ten office buildings and three housing units in compliance with government regulations. Directly responsible for resourcing all training events and deployments. • Successfully coordinated and executed movement of over 800 pieces of unit’s equipment and 400 people by land, air, and sea during deployments and training exercises, recognized as the Division standard.• Led eight people and successfully managed the unit’s budget of $2 million and five contracts.• Awarded the Army Commendation Medal for outstanding planning and organizational skills during combat in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.