Supply Chain Manager

Summary – Proven supply chain leader with a broad range of functional experience including, S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, and logistics, as well as experience implementing technology solutions and process improvements in support of supply chain functions. My diverse back ground includes industry experiences in: CPG, beauty/cosmetics, & life sciences.

Education:

Penn State University

BS Quantitative Business Analysis

December 1992

Technical Competencies:

Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Power Point, Access, Visio

JDA /Manugistics - Fulfillment, Master Planning, Demand Planning, and Collaborate Modules

Oracle/JD Edwards Enterprise One

Infor/BPCS – ERP LX

SAP – ECC

Logility - Demand Planning

Business Experience:

BP Lubricants – 01/16 to present

America’s Process Standardization Lead 01/16- present

Lead a team of 8 BP associates and 6 Accenture consultants in developing a training program to enable the implementation of the SAP for BP Lubricants Americas solution across the entire value chain (Record to Report, Purchase to Pay, Demand/Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Order to Cash, & Lead to Contract

Establish Business Stability Metrics that will be used to measure the return to business as usual in the post implementation

Manage the team project plan to ensure that milestones and deliverables are attained

L’Oreal – 08/15 to 12/15

AVP Demand & Supply Planning International Designer Fragrance Collection

Led a team of 3 demand and supply planners

Responsible for ensuring service, inventory, SLOB, and forecast accuracy targets were met

Led monthly S&OP Demand Review with Marketing VPs, Sales VPs, Finance and Business Unit President

Assa Abloy - 08/13 to 07/15

Director of Supply Chain & Indirect Sourcing

Developed and implemented Demand Planning & Inventory Planning process improvement strategies for the America’s division (23 sites)

Actively lead pricing and service negotiations with indirect materials suppliers by leveraging the spend volume of 23 separate Assa Abloy companies $60M annual spend

Led a project to roll out the use of purchase cards to pay for indirect & direct materials leading to a $750k annual savings and extension of payment terms of up to 60 days

Nice-Pak - 11/11 to 06/13

Director S&OP

Led the demand & supply planning teams in implementing process improvements including; consensus demand planning, statistical inventory targets and establishing supply chain KPIs (4 direct reports & 6 indirect)

Implemented an S&OP process to facilitate collaborative decision making

Led the monthly consensus meetings with Sales, S&OP Demand Review as well as S&OP Supply Review sessions

Collaborated with Sales team to ensure impact and timing of promotions, new product rollouts, and discontinuations were accurately represented in demand plan & supported by supply plan

Led cross functional collaboration to identify and implemented strategies to reduce inventory by 25% in 12 months, while improving service to top 5 customer from 96% to 99%

Collaborated with mfg to determine production strategies to improve cost while supporting inventory and service targets

Avon Products Inc. - 02/03 to 11/11

Senior Manager Americas Supply Planning Strategy – 10/09 to 11/11

Managed supply planning project team in designing & implementing an integrated global supply planning process

Partnered with key stake holders to establish KPIs to manage 3rd party & cross regional manufacturing

Collaborated with other supply chain functions, IT, and finance to ensure the successful regional transformation

Recommended and managed the implementation of technical changes to JDA/Manugistics, JDE E1 and local WMS

Senior Manager Supply Chain S&OP – 04/08 to 10/09

Reduced inventory days by 37% from 104 days to 65 days while holding service levels at target

Served as supply chain liaison to S&OP category teams Marketing, Forecasting, Finance & Executive Leadership

Led supply planning teams in several Beauty and Beyond Beauty Categories

Collaborated with commercial marketing leadership to ensure that merchandising plans could be met without creating excessive risk to the demand/supply balance

Manager North America ERP Inventory Management – 01/07 to 03/08

Led the Inventory Management work stream during the North America Implementation of JDE E1

Managed a team of 6 internal associates and 3 consultants in designing, developing, and implementing the required business process and technical interfaces.

The solution was rolled out to 8 sites 2 Avon owned mfg sites, 4 DCs, & 2 third party DCs (3PL).

Developed and executed strategies to prepare the supply chain organization for the process & technology changes, including end user & stakeholder feedback during design, road shows, and end user training

Manager North America Deployment - 04/05 to 12/06

Managed a team of 5, in deploying finished goods inventory throughout a network of seven distribution centers, two –3PL’s, & two manufacturing sites in support $2.2B North America annual sales

Implemented process improvements that increased trailer utilization resulting in a $500K annual savings

Manager Global Supply Chain - 02/03 to 3/05

Led the implementation of Manugistics Fulfillment (DRP) and business process in Argentina which supported the supply planning operations of 5 Latin American countries.

Led a Manugistics DP implementation in Mexico Reduced average forecast error by 8 percentage points

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting - 07/98 to 01/03

Life Sciences Client – 08/01 to 01/03

Led the demand planning process team (3 consultants) as part of a supply chain project

Designed & developed process improvements for a collaborative demand planning process that involved 40+ external agents and 20+ company owned subsidiaries worldwide utilizing Manugistics Demand Planning & Collaborate

Beauty Care Client 2 – 07/99 to 06/01

Conducted a “post implementation review” of the client’s Manugistics and SAP implementation including the evaluation of the demand & supply planning business processes & technical implementation

Led the client in developing and re-implementing a demand & supply planning solution

Beauty Care Client 1 – 09/98 to 06/99

Developed Manugistics Demand Planning solution configuration to best fit the client’s business requirements

Identified KPIs to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the supply chain planning process and software solution

Calvin Klein Cosmetics Co (Unilever) - 10/96 to 07/98

Senior Global Forecasting Analyst (Super User) – (New York)

Implemented Manugistics Demand Planning & developed collaborative forecasting business processes

Utilized system algorithms to developed statistical forecast for four global brands representing 50% of total corp. revenue

Kimberly-Clark - 02/93 to 10/96

Senior Inventory Planning Analyst (New Milford Mill - 02/93 to 10/96)

Ensured finished goods availability ($680mm annual revenue) while maintaining a 99.2% customer service level

Provided production planning and logistics support for two internal packaging departments and one contract package

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