Adam Digor

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Key Strengths

Strong P&L Management Excellent Planning and Organisation Skills Strong Leadership and winning team building Passion and curiosity for learning new developments in IT area and transform them to the business Out of box thinking Profound knowledge experience in supply chain operations and analytical.

Professional Experience

SharkNinja Operating LLC. (www.sharkninja.com), Montreal/Boston

Euro-Pro (creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®) which has sustainable growth of 20% plus for last 8 years have resulted in company revenues increasing from less than $300 million back in 2007 to over $2 billion today.

Director/Senior Manager, Logistics, Imports and APS 2010 – 2016/July

Logistics:

Collaborate with the origin supply management team, customer services team, DC/4PL teams and other relevant stake holders to develop, design, and implement logistics strategies, cost saving initiatives along with developing relevant comprehensive and clear SOP-s.

Collaborate with IT applications development team, consultants and finance team to design, develop and implement necessary applications to have high visibility on the movements of all kind of inventory, returned defective goods from the customers. cost of the freight, customer orders, fulfilment issues/rates and logistical matrixes.

Assist operation, supply chain and legal teams to develop freight contracts (approx. $30m USD) with the vessel owning operators, 3PL-s, drayage and cross boarder truckers by developing in detail comparison analysis about the market, benchmark, risks, benefits and cost saving opportunities.

Develop highly effective, accurate and user friendly customized reports/spread sheets with Macros/VBA direct link to the data warehouse, in order to give perfect visibility to internal customers on the movement of the goods - in stock and in-transit inventory status along with 4PL relevant cost of operations.

Verify, reconcile and approve periodically (daily/weekly/monthly) freight and freight relevant charges/invoices.

Control and assure suppliers, corporate DC-s, freight forwarders, 4th party logistics services are either compliant or in the process to be compliant with C-TPAT requirements.

Collaborate with all relevant stake holders to conceptualize, design, implement and analyse logistical KPI-s and periodically having consensus meeting pro-acting on foreseeable issues.

Daily communicate with logistics teams, and logistics service provider about all possible process enhancements, cost saving opportunities and planning.

Control and verify forecasts, open orders, available inventory to assure availability sufficient inventory for the strategic items and inform strategic sales team accordingly.

Imports:

Collaborate with packaging engineers, graphic designers, suppliers and the origin supply management team to assure master and gift boxes packaging are developed/engineered as per our customer requests, containers load optimization initiatives and possible cost of freight saving opportunities.

Overview customs tariffs regulations, customs draw backs, reverse logistics activities and assure best applicable Harmonized Customs Tariffs to the imported goods.

Manage cash flows projections for cost of the goods sold and make sure all suppliers invoices ($790m annually) are paid on due to time in orders to get the release of the OBL-s.

Provide expert advice to the senior management on long-term purchasing and forecasting strategies, risk management strategies, evaluating the status of the stock items at the end of the life cycle.

Advanced Planning System:

Act as project leader and Supper User for Demand and Supply Planning APS (Advance Planning Software - Logility) implementation.

Key member of implementation of ERP, WMS and associated software for procurement/supply chain, freight control, inventory control, tooling managements, and materials management and ensuring adherence to sound management practices.

Govern data and data analytical in master data warehouse; assure data reliability and integrity is high along with controlling data interferences among different platforms.

Elite Group Inc. (www.elitegroupinc.ca), Montreal

Elite Group services the following affiliated companies; Sensio inc, L’Image Home Products Inc., Star Elite Inc., DCore LifeStyle Inc. Each company is differentiated by their specific products lines which are from floor care appliances, small electrical kitchen appliances, lighting products to health care products.

Senior Manager, Procurement, DC/Logistics and Purchasing 2005 – 2010

Direct and control all orders receiving and entries to ensure timely shipments and resolve any issues are upholding shipments.

Coordinate communication among supply chain stake holders; control accuracy of information entered into the ERP system.

Prepare financial, master production and BMO plans. Update and revise them according to trends.

Manage manufacturing of the products with vendors in Asia by giving precise details about customers’ requirements including packaging, product testing, shipping marks, and applicable labels/tickets, social and legal compliances.

Train suppliers and employees about vendor management web environments for developing shipping copies and container booking, and required PSI inspections and listings.

Direct and control inventory, to make sure optimum inventory level is maintained.

Identify appropriate sources for both finished products and component parts and then work with operations staff to assure compliance with engineering and quality specifications, delivery plans, within cost parameters.

Lead in negotiating appropriate arrangements with the ‘right’ sources including pricing, terms and conditions, vendors and customers’ contractual agreements.

Prepare periodical financial and management reports about gross sales, gross margins, royalties, defectives, expenses, cash flows, sales performance as per items, vendor performances indexes, reverse logistics, cost of return goods, cost of China operation and cost of defective items.

Assist programmer to design, develop and implement ERP system as per the need of production, customer services, planning and logistics departments.

Develop integrated processes among Operations, Purchasing, Logistics, China Operation team, QC, Planning and identify possible issues might affect agreed on time deliveries, and quality problems.

GUESS? (www.guess.com), Montreal

Manager, Imports and Purchasing 2003 - 2005

Manage MEN’S and Denim production departments in conjunction with merchandisers, customer services, buyers, sales managers and designers.

Handle and manage seasonally more than 1000 styles from 30 different producers which are located at different countries (majority in Asia and Europe).

Negotiate with suppliers, forwarders and insurers in order to reduce the cost of the merchandises and increase the profit margin.

Track import production and shipments to ensure targeted deliveries.

Control and verify the cost of production operations and ensure proper means of transportations.

Prepare and execute production planning in conjunction with merchandising and sales executives.

Ensure suppliers got long and short terms forecast, readiness for production, raw material purchase commitment, capacity developments.

Evaluate performance of suppliers and issue debit notes for the delays and other operational problems caused by suppliers.

Develop and follow-up vendor agreements/contracts with suppliers and ensure adherence of agreed terms and conditions.

MDS PRAD (www.mdsaero.ca), Montreal

MDS Coating Technologies Corporation (MCT) designs and produces metallic-ceramic protective coatings for aerospace and industrial components, including erosion and corrosion resistant coatings for gas turbine compressor parts.

Manager, Process and Procurement 2000- 2002

Responsible for the overall financial oversight and assurance of compliance with group policy.

Report the results of operations of the business units, variance analysis, forecasting, and budgeting on Monthly and Quarterly basis.

Manage periodical counting and physical inventory verification and reconciliation.

Prepare monthly financial and operational reports regarding inventory and purchasing of goods.

Plan adequate production for necessary inventory in order to honour the requirements of the contracts.

Coordinate and validate information gathered during project reviews;

Ensure proper cost allowance for projects;

Analyze revenues and price margins;

Provide reports on the results of project analyses;

NEUTROGENA (www.neutrogena.com) – Istanbul/Madrid

Senior Demand Planner Supply Chain and Distribution 1994 - 1999

Achieve optimum supply chain (freight, warehouse & pallets) operation services for finished goods within all Spanish and Turkish business segments, which includes domestic, exports & imports.

Provide necessary transportation and warehousing info to sales, marketing, purchasing, customs compliance, customer service, efficient replenishment & finance to make correct business decisions.

Evaluate and analyze transportation & DC network and identify opportunities for continuous improvement initiatives.

Streamline processes and procedures and establish measurable KPI’s for each 3PL provider.

Lead logistics group in optimizing transportation and warehousing services for finished goods within all Canadian business segments.

Manage physical inventory integrity, reconciliation and process improvements.

Enhance and own the Aging Inventory reporting process.

Manage the DRP build and DC preparedness process.

Develop & initiate improvements to the freight & warehouse management process which will support least cost distribution (freight, warehouse & pallets)

Assist sales, marketing & purchasing areas by providing relevant supply chain information to support business decision needs.

Education

HEC Montreal (Montreal University), B.Sc.

HEC Montreal (Montreal University), Financial Management - Certificate

HEC Montreal (Montreal University), Logistics and Supply Chain - Diploma

Bosporus University, Econometrics and Physics

Language

Speak and write French, English, Spanish and German.

Computer Literacy

Highly proficient analytical skills with Microsoft Excel, SharePoint and Access. Advanced familiarity with PowerPoint, Words and Visio along with VBA programming knowledge and experiences (Excel and Access)

Extensive knowledge of ERP/APS systems; PKMS, SAP R/2, JDA, JBA, Accpac/Sage, MBI and Micros and Logility

Intensive implementation and project management experience in Demand and Supply Planning software, Logility and JDA.

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