Supply Chain Sales

DANIEL BRIGGS

DANIEL

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Experienced in supply chain management, financial analysis, forecasting/budgeting, general

accounting including A/P, A/R, reconciliations, and month end reporting activities.

Versed in manufacturing processes including quality assurance, inventory control, production

planning, and materials management.

Strong quantitative, analytical, project management skills with the ability to prioritize conflicting

demands and communicate effectively to multiple stakeholders.

Strategically led sourcing events contributing significant cost savings to organization’s bottom-

line profits.

Ability to Initiate, foster and manage positive relationships with internal/external customers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Epson America Inc. Long Beach, CA

Supervisor Supply Chain- Latin America May 2011 – Present

• Manage all operational aspects of supply chain including: production/demand planning,

inventory control, purchasing, receiving and product shipping.

• Responsible for the development of annual operating plan, inventory analysis, cost variance

analysis, financial modeling, ad-hoc analysis and decision support for Executive Management.

• Create and maintain KPI’s for Executive Managements monthly business review meetings.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Inventory Planning, Internal Distribution Centers and

External Manufacturers to support sales requirements by establishing delivery targets,

monitoring delivery schedules, and phase-in/phase-out SKU’s.

• Drive the monthly forecasting process by engaging the North America and Latin America Sales

Operations cross-functional teams resulting in a detailed full year consensus demand plan.

• Responsible for developing logistic distribution and shipping strategies for transit time

efficiencies and minimizing operational costs.

• Operate within budgetary constraints by participating in the development of annual budget

forecasts and reconciling operating budget plans as required.

• Manage forecasts, procurement and allocation process for Latin America to optimize inventory

stock levels.

• Developed and implemented systems, processes and tools to enhance the quality and

availability of information for direct reports to make sound supply chain decisions.

• Measure and report on inventory turnover ratios, forecast accuracy and DOS versus annual

targets.

• Motive and build a high performance team by communicating job expectations; planning,

monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and enforcing systems, policies,

and procedures.

Senior Supply Chain Analyst Oct 2008 – May 2011

• Perform inventory forecasting and management of Consumer Ink (i.e., safety stock modeling,

minimization of obsolete inventory, and support builds for new products and phase-in/phase-

outs for existing SKU's).

• Review and provide senior management with key performance indicators such as inventory

days of supply (DOS), inventory turn over ratios (TOR) monthly forecast analysis, sales

analysis, and tie ratios.

• Prepare and present monthly financial variances analysis by product line and sales regions.

• Prepare sales trends analysis and identify demand cycles.

• Determine and constantly monitor product hierarchy based on sales volumes, inventory levels,

and lead times.

Mattel Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Senior Finance Analyst Jan 2007 – Oct 2008

• Perform financial analysis including budgeting, trend analysis, forecasting and financial

modeling.

• Prepare and review direct material forecasts/actuals for exploring buy-forward and hedging

opportunities of key commodities for senior management.

• Prepare and present a wide scope of financial reporting, detailed analysis and

recommendations to identify critical risk and opportunities for direct materials in order to assist

senior management in driving business decisions and long range plans.

• Develop key commodity schedules to track assumptions and provide flexibility to do what-if

analysis.

• Developed a comprehensive quarterly direct metals analysis to assist senior management in

driving appropriate business decisions in support of the finance commodity committee.

• Analyze market conditions and trends for direct materials. Educate management by presenting

latest market information in monthly operations finance meetings.

• Provide financial support to Global Procurement by analyzing spend, developing RFP

templates, and performing bid analysis.

• Prepare analysis of final cost savings, TCO, and supplier scorecards for indirect sourcing

activities.

• Participate in Lean Kaizen events.

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix; Philadelphia, PA

Masters of Business Administration; MBA

Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ

B.A. in Economics

PERSONAL

Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, Oracle and SAP. Basic understanding of grammatical

and conversational Portuguese and Spanish.

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