Manager Supply Chain
Resume:
Sandra Adams
Email: abpsa3@r.postjobfree.com
Address: **** * ******* ****, **** D
City: Chicago
State: IL
Zip: 60610
Country: USA
Phone: 312-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $130,000
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Job History / Details:
SANDRA J. ADAMS
1418 LaSalle Boulevard, Flat D
Chicago, Illinois 60610
abpsa3@r.postjobfree.com
Summary of Experience
Multifaceted background in Finance, including experience in budgeting, forecasting, acquisition integration,
capital forecasting and procurement, and supply chain management. Demonstrated success in utilizing various
software to model and provide solutions to problems, developing and automating pivot tables and reports to
support management goals, and provide answers.
Budget Development Forecast Modeling & Analysis Pivot Tables Variance Analysis System Implementation ERP Implementation
Data Mining Dashboard Development Financial Reports
Presentations Financial Standards Development Training
Capital Expenditures Proposal Development Auditing
1987 to EXOPACK, LLC (Formerly International Paper & Union Camp), Spartanburg, South Carolina
2012 Manufacturer of industrial and consumer packaging, revenues in excess $800,000,000.
Business Unit Controller: Chicago, Illinois (2009 to 2012) Responsible to the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer with dotted line responsibility to Business Unit President to manage all financial aspects for various divisions for up to 10 plants including supervision of up to 6 Plant Controllers to ensure timely, consistent, and compliant monthly closing and financial reporting. Provided key reports for financial bridges and variance analysis to both plan and forecast.
Key Results:
aaa Retrieved data from disparate sources to produce critical reports using Excel pivot tables, often under very tight time constraints.
aaa Participated as team member to successfully shutdown and transition business from underperforming plant in 60 days. Achieved savings of $1,800,000.
aaa Continued to provide corporate reporting as developed in my previous position to all 5 business divisions.
aaa Developed corporate training material and provided training for Excel, Pivot Table development, and analysis and global software for JD Edwards.
Director of Financial Analysis and Planning: Spartanburg, South Carolina (2007 to 2009)
Responsible to the Chief Financial Officer for creating and disseminating monthly reports for up to 7 business units. Developed additional ad hoc reports for specific management inquiries.
Key Results:
aaa Streamlined monthly reports process, resulting in reports distributed on fourth workday vs. previous third week.
aaa Promoted to Business Unit Controller
Director Strategic Sourcing Manager: Spartanburg, South Carolina (2005 to 2007) Responsible to the Director of Procurement for oversight of the strategic direction and day-to-day purchases of over $500,000,000 of material. Negotiated capital equipment purchases and monitored acceptance processes and prepared post closure audits.
Key Results:
aaa Managed supply chain for polyethylene resin during Katrina/Rita hurricane crisis. Exopack was one of the few flexible packaging suppliers to avoid an outage during this period.
aaa Provided supporting documents and participated in business interruption claim for Katrina/Rita, which resulted in a business interruption claim settlement of $1,900,000
aaa Aligned supplier base, reducing the number of suppliers from 8 to 4. Negotiated new contracts saving approximately $700,000.
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Acquisition Integration Manager: Spartanburg, South Carolina (2003 to 2005) Responsible to the Chief Executive Officer to manage the integration of 4 purchased facilities encompassing 3 American and 1 Canadian manufacturing facilities, all of which were subject to bankruptcy proceedings.
Key Results:
aaa Worked with acquisition team to identify and achieve $5,800,000 in synergy savings.
aaa Ensured that the 500 employees at the 4 facilities transitioned to new payroll on the first day after the acquisition.
aaa Established open terms with all vendors on the first day, despite bankruptcy filing.
Instrumental in developing turnaround plan for underachieving facility.
aaa Promoted to Director Strategic Sourcing Manager.
Centralized Pricing Manager: Spartanburg, South Carolina (2000 to 2005) Responsible to the Vice President of Sales for developing and implementing a business plan for centralize pricing for 9 plants.
Key Results:
aaa Hired and trained a staff of 2 to respond to pricing request, from single request to reverse auctions and global RFQaaas.
aaa Developed customized on-line request for quote process, resulting in quote turnaround reduction from 7 to 9 days to 24 hours. Successful bids resulted in the award of sales in excess of $50,000,000.
Supply Chain Manager (International Paper): Spartanburg, South Carolina (1999 to 2000) Represented the Flexible Packaging Division in the corporate supply chain project.
Key Results:
aaa Designed and presented 4 quadrant customer segmentation analysis resulted in the elimination of a significant portion of our aaADaa quadrant customer while increasing our sales to our mid-tier customers.
Operations Manager (Union Camp Corporation): Spartanburg, South Carolina (1997-1999)
Responsible for Purchasing, Customer Service, Logistics, and Scheduling for $90,000,000 paper converting operation.
Controller (Union Camp): Spartanburg, South Carolina (1994-1999) Responsible for financial operations of a $90,000,000 paper converting operation including reporting, budgeting, capital expenditures, billing, payroll and accounts payable.
Held various financial positions of increasing responsibility with Union Camp progressing from
General Accountant to Controller. (1987-1994).
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration Degree with honors aaa Auburn University aaa 1990
Bachelor of Science in Accounting Degree with honors aaa Auburn University aaa 1988
Bachelor of Science in Management Degree with honors aaa Auburn University aaa 1985
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Managed Projects including:
Selection and Implementation of Travel & Expense Software
Development of Sales Data for Sales Incentive Plan
Corporate Training for Excel, Pivot Table Development, and Analysis and Global Software for JDE
SOFTWARE
Excel including Pivot Tables Hyperion JD Edwards Word
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