Scott W. Knick
Fuquay Varina, NC *****
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sknick *********@*****.***
Director of Supply Chain Demand Planning S&OP
Executive level experience with business process, software, and ERP
operating system integration and implementation experience within scope of
Global Supply Chain Management, with Business Modeling focused on People,
Process, and Systems.
Responsible for the optimization and harmonization of the global strategic
and tactical planning activities synchronizing volume and value planning
within the scope of the S&OP function, in addition to driving cross-
functional life-cycle management processes.
Develop, implement, manage, analyze, and present strategic as well as
tactical business and financial plans for multiple business units, programs
and projects, as expert business leader.
Professional Experience
TELEFLEX MEDICAL, INC., Durham, NC 2007 - Present
Senior Director, Demand Planning
Deliver world-class demand management leadership, practices and results
across Teleflex medical global business units, for products manufactured or
procured within North America, EMEA, Asia, and Latin America.
. Lead and facilitate global and collaborative S&OP process, as well as
direct leadership for team of analysts and planners.
. Spearhead demand planning and supply chain execution requirements
process.
o Define MRP execution strategy engineered to support customer service
goals and achieve operational metrics.
. Develop and execute supply chain plans enabling Teleflex medical to meet
sales and service objectives, defining business requirements and
developing system strategies to support execution.
. Achieved corporate objective of maintaining 80% forecast accuracy at sku
level, achieving FG asset management stability for $170M across several
locations.
LORD CORPORATION, Cary, NC 2005 - 2007
Manager, Forecasting
Directed global forecasting cycle for all business value streams, utilized
as foundational element of financial and manufacturing planning. Integral
participant within Sales and Operations planning rollout, formalizing
existing processes into cyclical actions.
. Built business confidence across functions, supplying analytics to
support decision making, "putting to paper" executive S&OP presentations.
. Drove forecast performance accountability, developing solid forecasting
processes, including key performance indicators (KPIs), actionable
reports, and continuous business review and communication, in
collaboration with marketing and sales groups.
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UNDER ARMOUR PERFORMANCE APPAREL, Baltimore, MD 2003 - 2006
Senior Manager, Demand and Sales Planning
Developed and directed statistical, consensual and collaborative demand and
retail planning, and forecasting process, across all functional supply
chain areas, including Sales, Apparel, Production Planning, Sourcing, and
Logistics.
. Directed demand planning software selection, integration, training, and
implementation.
HAMILTON BEACH PROCTOR-SILEX, INC., Glen Allen, VA 1995 - 2003
Manager, Corporate Forecasting and Customer Communications
Managed and developed global corporate forecast, more than $525M per annum,
within competitive retail / vendor market segment of small appliances.
. Integrated and implemented business standards, designed to support
corporate and departmental goals and objectives, within scope of supply
chain management.
o Modeling emphasis on people, process, and systems.
. Focused collaborative business practices within retail industry with
market leaders such as Target, Wal-Mart, and Kmart; Home Centers such as
Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards, Grocery Channels, and other international
trade partners.
. Managed reverse and direct logistics, and customer compliance, meeting
and overcoming challenges within supply chain partnership. Provided
vendor performance analysis and key account supply chain development.
Education / Professional Development
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration, Accounting and Business
Management, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Demand Solutions - Crystal Ball Award recipient
Reverse Logistics Conference - Speaker / Moderator
President and Vice President of Fuquay Varina High School Athletic Boosters
Club
Coach - Youth / Teenage Basketball and Soccer
Systems
Demand Solutions Software, QAD, SAP, Business Warehouse (BW), i2 Demand
Planner, Manugistics, Logility, COGNOS, Hyperion, AS 400, JD Edwards,
Microsoft Office Suite