Supply Chain Manager

Dee Cardile

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Boynton Beach, FL 33436

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SUMMARY

Experienced Financial Professional with over twenty year’s progressive experience in Corporate Retail, Corporate Manufacturing, Investment Banking and Insurance environments. Consistently produced exceptional results by designing and implementing innovative systems and developing synergy in existing operations. Data expert responsible for numerous special projects focused on retrieving information into easy to read reports for multiple departments. Capable of fostering and maintaining positive working relationships with all levels of management.

Project Management

Operations

Process improvement

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

Cognos Training and Reporting

Monthly P&L Forecast Analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Risk Management

Margin Analysis

External Reporting

Vendor Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dreamtex Home Inc, LLC, Boca Raton, FL – (April 2015 – Feb 2017)

Supply Chain Operations/Financial Analyst

Sound expertise in Supply Chain Management. Recognized as a creative and effective problem solver. Effective Team Player with outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Highly enthusiastic, able to prioritize effectively to accomplish multiple tasks and complete projects within defined timeline under pressure.

Solely responsible for the processing and execution of all daily incoming Purchase Orders across over 16 Vendor website platforms. Provided all orders to shipping personal.

Streamlined the daily inventory updates to all Vendors by creating Excel Template that utilized QuickBooks inventory download. Template created efficiency and uniformity.

Weekly reconciliation and resolution of all account receivables outstanding from all Vendors.

Day-to day resolution of critical issues affecting the Supply Chain by ad-hoc analysis, workable solutions and corrective actions.

Twin-Star International, Delray Beach, FL – (Feb 2014 – Sep 2014)

Financial Analyst

Supplied the daily analysis of the forecast, production and allocation of inventory that drove the manufacturing and distribution of quantities to specific distribution centers. Worked with Sales, Product Development and Operations domestically & in China to supply customers with product at the most efficient levels to achieve fill rate in excess of 98%.

Updated, maintained and generated the weekly Global Inventory Report to sales and customers. Report showed current foreign and domestic inventory levels, approximate lead times and product availability.

Analyzed domestic inventory levels and assigned domestic shipping records to minimize or eliminate domestic out of stock situations. Additionally, placed domestic product orders and tracked open purchase orders as well as OTD for warehouse orders. Communicated daily with International factories to ensure timely execution.

Pugliese Financial Corp., Coral Springs, FL – (Dec 2012 – Feb 2013)

Office Manager

Provided and posted daily asset pricing and downloading of asset data into office mainframe portfolio software.

Completed daily all end of day system backup procedures.

Performed all general office responsibilities.

Office Depot North American Headquarters, Boca Raton, FL – (2007 – 2012)

Manager, Supply Chain Finance

Supplied financial support to individual Business Units with information and direction necessary to achieve their Corporate Goals. Performed as Department liaison between Domestic North American Retail (N/A Retail) and Business Solutions Divisions (BSD) in Inventory Management, Control and Reporting.

Created and designed Cognos queries that identified the Top 100 & Top 10 most highly reserved rate discontinued inventory by SKU, Department and Store Location weekly. This list of EOL SKU’s were sent to weekly to Store Operations and Merchandising to place additional emphasis in order to minimize EOQ Inventory Valuation risk. This added store visibility, increased clearance events & reduced inventory valuation risk.

Created an Open to Buy (OTB) report for Inventory forecast vs. prior EOW and EOD in Excel. Cognos queries pulled current owned inventory by department for EOD and EOW. Reports were issued weekly to Inventory Management, Retail RVP’s, Planner’s and VP of Merchandising.

Assessed and assumed the monthly Inventory Forecasting model and process utilized by Inventory Management. Recommended and implemented changes to streamline that process by consolidating the actionable data, which resulted in providing sharper focus and minimizing the forecasting time in half.

Provided monthly the N/A Retail and BSD Inventory Valuation forecasts to gain insight to make knowledgeable business decisions, which diminished at risk clearance product and reduce inventory valuation expense exposure.

For Q2 2011 reduced On Hand reseravable inventory from $5.03M to $2.9M which reduced the reserve by $1.07M. The BSD Inventory Valuation was therefore $1.33M favorable to forecast.

Filled in as Senior Supply Chain Manager after his resignation. Took over all of his operational responsibilities, which included regular Business Units communications, reports to executives and strategic corporate cross-functional projects.

Took the lead in the rollout of Cognos over RDW reporting tool and addressed the user needs and requirements of all Supply Chain Business Partners and created automated and ad-hoc reports to meet their weekly/monthly timeframes. Team recipient of the Bravo Award for the creation, design and implementation of Inventory Reserves generated weekly in Cognos Reporting Tool.

Nutone Cincinnati Ohio – (2001 to 2007)

Purchasing – Inventory Control Manager and Analyst

Created department specific MS Access databases that utilized daily downloaded mainframe information that tracked and summarized approximately 130,000 finished goods and components into 60 categories. Additionally, budget plans and forecasts were uploaded monthly for variance analysis.

This resulted in new, understandable reports and graphs, which allowed Senior Management to track inventory, reduce costs and increase profits.

Designed and created Access databases for Sister Companies so that they could track inventory information to cut costs.

Designed and developed reports that tracked variances of purchased component costs year on year.

Provided numerous Access reports and information to Accounting and various manufacturing departments.

Star-Kist Foods Inc., Subsidiary of H. J. Heinz Company Newport KY – (1996 to 2000)Operations, Planning and Control – Senior Financial Analyst

Automated previously manual product cost, profitability and capital budgeting information using Access, Excel and Oracle mainframe databases. Created databases, financial reports and analysis of such reports, providing Senior Management on a monthly basis, previously unavailable detailed information.

Liaison between Heinz Pet Products nine manufacturing plants and corporate divisions for cost control over the manufacturing process.

Controlled plant standard cost sheets analyzing for plant synergies and other cost savings.

Coordinated, designed and consolidated plant budgets, business plans and forecasts for internal analysis. Liaison for other corporate departments needing such information.

Prepared monthly Board Reports and presentations for Senior Management. Presented status and various other reports to Senior Management.

Manufacturing Accounting - Senior Manufacturing Accountant

Evaluated current systems and p.c. applications designed and implemented automated processes, using Microsoft Access and Excel for more operation that is streamlined.

Initiated and completed various reconciliations of Heinz Pet Products and Star-Kist Foods raw materials sub ledgers and related production and accrual worksheets.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Dreyfus Corporation New York, NY

Corporate Accounting/Financial Planning and Analysis- Senior Financial Analyst

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company New York, NY

Financial Management & Analysis - Financial Analyst

Citicorp Investment Bank New York, NY

Mortgage Finance Department - Senior Accountant

Crossland Savings Bank Brooklyn, NY

Accounting Department - Accountant

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Extensive knowledge of operating systems and software applications which include, MS Excel (P-Tables,V & H Lookups, Macros, Sum(if), etc MS Access Advanced User, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Cognos/Expert User, Oracle, Essbase, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks, AS400, MAS200 and VM-SQL mainframe environment.

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