Logistics and Supply Chain

Summary of Qualification

I have over six years experience in Material Forecasting, Purchasing, Production Planning, Warehouse Management and Transportation planning

Have over five years in leadership and Logistics operations management.

10 years’ experience in SAP in addition to business process tools such as MS Project, Excel, Access, and power point.

Have over 5 years’ experience in operation improvement

Have 5 Years’ Experience in Budget management and spend control.

Have 4 years’ experience in project management.

Skills

Forecasting/Consumption Planning, Purchasing, Operations planning, Inventory management, Project management, Budgeting, SAP MM, SAP WMS, Transportation planning, Time Management, Critical Thinking.

Professional Experience

Rolls Royce Crosspointe, Richmond, Virginia June 2011 - Present

Logistics & Supply Chain Analyst.

Worked cross functionally toward planning and improvement of forecast accuracy and improve the error rate below targeted levels of Weighted Mean Absolute Percentage Error/ Forecast variability.

Responsible for generating an analyzing MRP data for accuracy in addition to procurement proposal initiation, and expediting materials to support production requirements.

Responsibilities for supplier problem solving and monitoring of supplier delivery.

Responsible for Maintaining appropriate balance of inventory level Days Consumption Inventory to support On Time Delivery goals to the customer.

Conducts root cause analysis and recommends corrective actions for late deliveries.

Regularly review inventory turns in order to identify slow/dead stock requiring forecast/reorder level adjustment.

Initiate the periodic review of Kanban levels, min/max levels, Heijunka, etc. and lead times and make appropriate changes to increase inventory efficiency.

Responsible for managing, Identifying and implementing inventory cost cutting initiatives through the use of inventory management best practices i.e. VMI, Pull, ABC, JIT, etc.

Address goods receipt discrepancies in addition to invoice verification issues.

Manage critical material supply risk though quota arrangements allocation.

Analyze sourcing rules and Supplier lead times for direct Raw materials and Consumable tools to support risk mitigation strategies.

Responsible for enforcing accountability and monitoring of supplier performance based established evaluation criteria (qty reliability, quality, price variance and on time delivery)

Create and present weekly performance indicators (fill rate, on time delivery, damages/spoilage, FIFO/LIFO, average shelf life on receipt, receipt errors spoilage rate, mock recall performance, weeks / days on hand worth of inventory).

Analyze suggested system configuration changes and customizations to help SAP team understand the potential impact to the system, users and organizational ROI

Hauni Korber Solutions, Richmond, Virginia Feb2007-Jun2011 MRO Logistics Analyst

Manage Vendor consignment parts and subassembly inventory in order to ensure 100% service level.

Create procurement proposals and suitable sourcing determination based daily parts requirements.

Create and monitor the production schedule to ensure on time delivery to customers while maintaining optimum machine utilization standards.

Maintain oversight on production progress and other factors affecting schedule.

Prepare analysis and provide production plan as needed in order to adapt to changing conditions (new products, etc.)

Develop a monthly preventative maintenance plan and corresponding parts/subassembly requirement based on contract run hour’s intervals.

Review periodic ABC analysis reports in order to determine inventory turns by sku requiring forecasting/reorder level adjustments and fixed bin coordinate changes.

Review daily inventory stock out reports resulting from reactive/planned maintenance in order to identify root cause and address with Production and purchasing departments.

Oversee all parts inventory Management responsibilities i.e annual cycle count, continuous inventory, Internal Movements in addition to Reviewing, researching reporting and addressing variances accordingly.

Perform SAP Master Data (Material and Vendor master) and BOM maintenance.

Develop new and review existing logistics business processes to ensure process efficiency.

Sabra Dipping, (PepsiCo), Richmond, Virginia Oct2005 – Feb2007 Logistics 3 PL Planner

Create a master production schedule in order to rebalance consignment material supply relative to existing requirement.

Review and ensure that replenishment parameter maintenance is consistently updates with all new items maintained by 3PL facilities.

Review and verify 3PL’s accrued freight, storage and handling charges for accuracy prior to end of month posting.

Formulate an inventory deployment plan and work closely with Transportation partners to ensure inventory in deployed from the sourcing centers to all 3PL location to support demand.

Analyze forecast, sales and marketing data in order to plan for future requirements in support of major events i.e. product launch, promotions, and new customers.

Identify SAP inputs from cross-functional teams impacting inventory fulfillment that require further updates to optimize flows.

Review and analyze weekly 3PL performance (fill rate, on time delivery, damages/spoilage, FIFO/LIFO, average shelf life on receipt, receipt errors spoilage rate, mock recall performance, weeks / days on hand worth of inventory).

Analyze demand history in order to identify trends and patterns necessary for min/max levels revisions.

Sabra Dipping, (PepsiCo), Richmond, Virginia Feb 2003 – Oct 2005 Finished Goods Inventory Analyst

Maintain site inventory integrity through regular cycle counts and SAP inventory reconciliation processes and ensuring adherence to FIFO rotation.

Analyzing sales orders and purchase orders reports Versus Production planning forecast to ensure sufficient on hand inventory necessary to maintain 100% fill rate.

Develop aged inventory reports in order to identify potential spoilage.

Responsible for managing site capacity by closely monitoring inventory D.O.H and recommending acceptable inventory levels necessary to stay within capacity while maintaining 100% fill rate.

Maintain ABC analysis reports in order to determine inventory turnover by SKU necessary for min/max adjustment and Warehouse layout changes.

Researching and correct all inventory variances as needed.

Work closely with Quality Assurance, customers and carriers in order to coordinate product recall.

Plan and coordinate end of month inventory cycle count. Ensuring less than 2% item level variance, 1% overall variance and less than $3000 absolute variance targets are attained.

Closely Monitor Breakage and damages in order to mitigate potential losses at the same time ensuring that the department stays within BDL budget plan.

Review SAP inventory Supply reports for either low or out of stock risks and communicate potential risk to production Planning.

Working closely with Accounts receivable and customer service to research and process all customer returns while ensuring customer credits and carrier claims are issued on a timely fashion.

Education

Strayer University, Bachelors Business Administration

Maseno High School, Certificate General Studies, 1999.

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