Randall H. Willson

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Atlanta, GA. 30342

404-***-****

ac4j6k@r.postjobfree.com

Experienced supply chain executive with a well-rounded background in production planning, inventory management, demand planning and project management. A twenty year track record of success in the consumer products industry leading initiatives to optimizing supply chain costs while providing value added service to customers.

Skills

JDA Supply Chain – Manufacturing Planning and Fulfillment

SAP – Order Management System (OMS)

Qlikview Analytics

Tools Group DPM – Inventory Planning

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

Experience

MARCH 2015 – CURRENTLY

Planning Manager / Univar USA, Doraville, GA

Drove down unproductive inventory to 9% of total working capital by collaborating with sales to find potential customers, transferring to alternate locations, and repacking into alternate products.

Raised the on time delivery percentage above goal of 95% by implementing weekly root cause meetings to identify and eliminate barriers to customer service.

Coach & mentor team of 10 employees to exceed their potential and meet career goals using bi-weekly one on ones and semi-annual performance reviews, all while focusing on corporate safety and compliance.

Successfully migrated team of 27 purchasing planners from a legacy system, Manugistics Fulfillment to JDA Fulfillment version 8.0.

Integrated a newly acquired business, Chemical Associates, into the Univar supply chain processes and tools by training the new employees, and building their supply chain environment in the planning tools (JDA).

DECEMBER 2011 – MARCH 2015

Senior Manager Supply Chain / Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA

Designed and implemented Dixie Food Service Executive S&OP process to strategically balance the supply & demand drivers, while launching key initiatives to close the gaps. i.e. capital investments for additional production equipment.

Configured and installed statistical safety stock tool to reduce working capital by $6 million and meet the business goal.

Piloted a new concept, "Hybrid Supply Chain Planners", combining responsibilities of demand planning and supply planning into one role for a business unit, leading to a reduction in workforce and annualized savings of $140,000.

Managed team of 8 supervisors and planners to follow the company guiding principles, meet their individual goals and expectations through one on one's and coaching.

SEPTEMBER 2009 – DECEMBER 2011

Senior Manager Distribution Planning / Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA

Drove 4% reduction in total delivered costs for retail consumer products by reducing the total miles and optimizing our distribution network using a network strategy tool (JDA).

Implemented a Least Cost Option capability within SAP to automatically select the lowest cost distribution center to service a customer order, based on the order mix, leading to 5% savings on customer freight deliveries.

SEPTEMBER 2007 – SEPTEMBER 2009

Lead Project Manager / Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA

Project Lead for a $7 million project to implement JDA Supply Chain software, business components: Demand, Supply, Fulfillment, Strategy, Master Planning, and Reporting

Successfully completed project within spending budget of $7M, in the allocated time of 18 months while delivering functionality to realize working capital savings of $6M annually, transportation/distribution savings of $500K and a 1% improvement in On Time Delivery to customers.

DECEMBER 2003 – SEPTEMBER 2007

Production Planning Manager /Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA

Spearhead Inventory Optimization project to implement Tools Group DPM software to apply statistical safety stock levels to Manugistics planning tools, resulting in a $3M reduction in working capital for Dixie Consumer Products.

Project lead for implementation of Manugistics CPP (Constrained Production Planning) tool, which provided functionality for strategic long range planning, all in effort to build Sales & Operations planning process.

JUNE 1998 – DECEMBER 2003

Production/Demand Planner / Bic Corporation, Milford, CT

Generate production schedules for 3 manufacturing locations while collaborating with Customer Service to meet a 98% customer fill rate.

Collaborate with sales and marketing to build a consensus forecast for planning with forecast accuracy goals of 75% at the item/location level.

MAY 1996 – JUNE 1998

Production Planner / James River Corporation, Norwalk, CT

Generate weekly production schedules and monthly capacity plans for 4 manufacturing facilities, while balancing inventory within the network using inter branch transfers.

OCTOBER 1989 – MAY 1996

Production Planner / First Brands, East Hartford, CT

Planning lead and super-user for Manugistics 6.x implementation.

Generate production schedules for 3 manufacturing locations in U.S.s

Education

MAY 1989

Bachelor of Science / Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

Major in Mathematics with concentration in Operations Research, 3.7 GPA

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