SUSAN L. PAEPLOW

Youngsville, NC ***** * 919-***-****

acrs2i@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Supply Chain professional offering 17 years of achievements and proven ability reducing cost and lead-time wherever possible. Demonstrated exceptional ability in development and implementation of Supply Chain, Financial Planning, and Procurement/Purchasing strategies that achieve organizational and operational business results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUPPLY CHAIN/ QUALITY MANAGER with AAR Corp, Goldsboro, NC 2013 – PRESENT

Achieve annually savings through cost improvement (reduction/avoidance), supply chain efficiency, and/or program support projects.

Analyze materials spend and actual/forecasted material demand and budget planning.

Interface with strategic sourcing teams to optimize vendor spend and drive timely delivery of results.

Assist in forecasting of material productivity plans/results.

Implemented auto replenishment process with lead-time and cost reductions.

Project leader of multiple productivity projects, working with cross-functional teams and using six sigma tools/methodology and appropriate business tools.

Responsible for monitoring status and facilitating multiple active Supply Chain projects, eliminating roadblocks and driving results to meet project implementation dates.

Continuous Improvement Program Manager

Main Point of Contact (POC) with the customer for the Supply Chain Operations organization.

Provide leadership of on-site personnel; prioritize workloads, delegate tasks, activities and lead internal audits.

Investigate, coordinate and communicate project changes or concerns.

Create and make revisions to project schedules, business cases, and mitigate risk.

Improve supplier quality by introducing new procedures and alignment to AS9100 and AS9102

Complete the renovation of First Article process review and supplier data delivery.

Successfully complete No Failure audits with DNV, Boeing and Airbus.

Insure subcontracts flow down mandatory requirements and data items required by the prime contract.

Generate and evaluate new ideas and opportunities aligned with program priorities and overall business strategies.

End to end supply chain responsibility and focus to include: planning, scheduling, shipping/receiving, purchasing and quality functions

GLOBAL INVENTORY MANAGER with Avaya, RTP, NC 2010 – 2013

Responsible for reconciling Avaya-owned inventory at primary distribution centers, repair vendors, forward stocking locations, contract manufactures, field inventory locations, reverse logistics and materials located at third party vendors.

Ensure all inventory processes are Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant and perform monthly/quarterly SOX testing that validates compliancy.

Developed process for singular methods to be utilized globally for inventory control. Providing analysis on demand levels, vendor consigned inventory and open commercial returns.

Manage cycle counting compliance and performance with all vendors and field which increased accuracy to 99.85%.

Certify cycle counts at each location to reduce physical inventory (PI) frequency. Data accuracy is vital to increasing Customer Requested Ship Date (CRSD).

Ensure effective communication with all levels of management as well as 3PL vendors, Finance, Planning organizations, SOX PMO, and internal/external auditors.

Manage, plan and implement activities related to Avaya’s global inventory.

Decreased payout of Excess & Obsolete (E&O) raw materials claims by over 45% which resulted in annual cost savings $8M.

SUSAN L. PAEPLOW

Youngsville, NC 27596 * 919-***-****

acrs2i@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED PAGE 2

DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS MANAGER with Jones & Frank, Raleigh, NC 2009 – 2010

Responsible to turn a profit in distribution that tracks project inventory. Resulted in an 11% increase to overall margin (per project) and reduced overtime by 50% with increased production by 18%.

Maintained procurement for overall corporate inventory levels.

Developed KanBan system.

Developed new methodology for Sales to Distribution that resulted in a seamless flow.

Increased inventory turns by reducing E&O materials.

Increased CRSD by 50% on-time delivery (OTD).

Ensured proper purchasing methodologies to manage project needs, scheduled commits and lead time reduction, effectively qualified vendor to dual source major commodities.

PROJECT MANAGER with ABB, Raleigh, NC 2008 – 2009

Planned major projects phases and analysis of new proposal requirements/specifications.

Arranged staffing for each phase of project and assigned responsibilities accordingly.

Determined most effective means to achieve objectives and developed supporting schedules that were in concert with customer and company requirements.

Approved Quality Assurance (QA) control requirements and administered change notices that ensured timely delivery of quality information.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1998 THROUGH 2008:

PROJECT MANAGER with Eaton, Raleigh, NC 2004 – 2008

MATERIALS MANAGER with Invensys, Raleigh, NC 2000 – 2003

LOGISTICS MANAGER with Tech Data, Raleigh, NC 1998 – 2000

FORMAL EDUCATION

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY RALEIGH, NC

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, 2006

COMPUTER SKILLS

RapidResponse-Kinaxis, SOX Express

Crystal Reports, Foxpro, Solomon, PRMS, MRP, EIS+, Metrix, QAD, Agile

Advanced user in Microsoft Office, Windows NT/XP/2000.OS/2 Warp, Quicken, Norton Utilities

Oracle, SAP, SharePoint, Project Insight, Primavera P3/ P3e/ P6, Access 97 /2000

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