Sales Supply Chain

Christopher J. Chrisinger

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SKILLS SUMMARY

Highly effective communication, organization, and presentation skills

Creative problem-solver who quickly adapts to changing demands

Self-directed versatile team player

Outstanding productivity and procedural compliance

WORK EXPERIENCE

Blip Toys

Sales and Forecast Planning Manager August 2012 - Present

Manage the overall process of the supply chain

Oversee all domestic Vendor partners including pricing negotiations, special projects, and performance

Work with Vice President of Sales to create product forecasts for 6 different brands, totaling over 5000 SKUs

Communicate forecasts and purchase order release strategies daily with Hong Kong office to schedule production

Create forecast, order, and POS reports for upper level management with Excel

Analyze POS sales to help maintain acceptable inventory levels for Blip Toys retail partners

Supervise all operations associated with Blip Toys warehouse

Syngenta Seeds

Operational Planning Analyst November 2011 – August 2012

Controlled allocations to prevent a negative inventory position, and to ensure the right product goes to the right sales territory at the right time

Used SAP to schedule production for corn from fall harvest for conditioning at plants

Analyzed inventory levels to make decisions on re-work, substitutions of orders or cut orders

Assigned corn seed sizes to orders to help reduce inter-plants and make orders shippable

Best Buy

Demand Forecast Analyst April 2011 - November 2011

Completed 6 weeks of Retail Demand Forecast training

Forecasted over 200 SKUs by week for 1100 retail stores

Communicated sales trends to vendors

Gave presentations to vendors on Best Buy’s forecasting system

Worked closely with Demand Planning Analyst to ensure there are sufficient inventory levels at warehouse and store levels.

Syngenta Seeds

Demand Analyst April 2008 – April 2011

Controlled allocations to prevent a negative inventory position, and to ensure the right product goes to the right sales territory at the right time

Assisted Demand Lead in making packaging, seed treatment, and supply transfer decisions.

Mentored other Demand Analysts in resolving supply issues, reporting issues, and confirmed order issues.

Created reports to help the demand planning team compare orders to supply

Created Shipping Goals for District Managers and Territory Managers so the Supply Chain department could easily see the future demand that would be shipping from each location throughout the Country using Microsoft Excel for all three seed brands

Used SAP to review customer orders, production orders, shipping schedules, and review inventory

Palco Sports

Forecast Analyst August 2007 to April 2008

Communicated with 18 overseas suppliers on product specifications, pricing, packaging, and production schedules

Analyzed product history and trends monthly to help decide when and how much inventory to purchase

Manually created and emailed purchase orders for overseas suppliers

Communicated daily with sales team to ensure customer satisfaction

Monitored inventory levels for 1150 items including Licensed Airsoft Guns, Airsoft Accessories, and various toy items.

Created a company budget of $12.2 million and monthly sales goals for 7 territory managers

Created a variety of company sales and inventory reports upon upper management requests, using excel spreadsheets, utilizing pivot tables to organize data, and graphically showed trends with charts

Introduced a new and more efficient way to create several different reports to easily monitor the rapidly changing demands of all Palco’s 20 different product lines

Ashley Furniture

Demand Planner – Team Lead June 2004 – August 2007

Forecasted 95 SKU’s at 5 different locations totaling over $100 million worth of product, using a statistical forecasting program

Created forecasting spreadsheets to improve efficiency and accuracy of monthly forecasts to consistently meet the companies’ goal of a 30% forecast error

Oversaw the installation process of new product into our system

Analyzed inventory levels; then determined if purchase orders from overseas vendors should be created, expedited, or delayed

Trained new employees to use Ashley Furniture’s forecasting programs

Managed and analyzed product history to create an accurate monthly forecast

Transferred product from five different distribution centers around the country to ensure product availability and to help maintain a 99% customer satisfaction rate

Successfully completed Achieve Global Management training

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin

-Business and Finance, 2001-2003

Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin

-Business Management, 1999-2001

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