JOSEPH SY

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EXPERIENCE

SOFINA FOODS INC. Markham, Ontario 2013-Present

CORPORATE SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST; SUPPLY PLANNER – US EXPORTS

Sofina is a $3 billion Canadian privately owned food conglomerate and a leader in the Supermarket and Food Service industries. Known household brands include Lilydale, Janes, San Danielle, Mastro, Lavazza, San Benedetto among others. It is also engaged in Commodity Trading of live and raw Pork and Poultry. Operations entailed 18 manufacturing plants across Canada and the United States and export partners in Italy.

Reporting directly to the VP of Supply Chain, this role is responsible for providing visibility to the CEO/Owner and Executive Management Team members on all areas of supply chain through the regular issuance of KPIs, Metrics and Scorecards, reports and analytical assessments of how each facility is performing and recommends courses of action for continuous improvement and network optimization.

To successfully carry out this task involving heavy usage of analytics, the Corporate Supply Chain Analyst personally wrote computer codes and excel macros to interface and integrate information from the company’s 4 different systems – 2 ERPs, 1 MRP and 1 AS400 – that came with the 4 groups of companies the owner purchased at various points in time since the 1990’s to form the Sofina of today.

Since October 2015, Supply Planning of Sofina US Exports was added to work portfolio

JOHNSON & JOHNSON INC., Markham, Ontario 2012– 2013

SUPPLY PLANNER, OTS (Contract – maternity leave replacement)

Portfolios handled: Listerine, Band Aid, Visine, Rembrandt and J&J Reach Floss. Duties and responsibilities included:

Meet/exceed Open Stock SKUs’ Unit Fill Rate targets for assigned brands and projects

Drives analysis, communication and corrective action for out of stock situations.

Develops adequate supply replenishment plans based on inventory position, supplier lead times, unconstrained open stock and promotional forecasts, supplier capacity, safety stock requirements. Issuing and managing of Non Stock P.O.'s to outside vendors.

Deploys inventory planning strategies to maintain and improve service levels and optimize inventory investment. Meets monthly inventory and DOS (days of stock) targets. Manages SLOB disposition on regular basis.

Actively seeks MOQs reduction opportunities across supplier base, put together business case and makes recommendations to the management team to drive and implement solutions.

Resolves exceptions to balance Supply and Demand; collaborate with relevant business partners in making decisions and tradeoffs that balance supply and demand; update, communicate and execute the agreed supply plan.

Collaborate with Marketing, Sales Strategy, Demand Planning, QA, Regulatory, Manufacturing Sites, Packaging Engineering to ensure on time execution of New Product Introductions, Promotional Activities as well as Discontinuations.

Leads Change Management and CIP (Continuous Improvement Process) initiatives with both internal and external stakeholders. Change scope includes Graphics, Packaging change; Reformulations; Re-sites.

Actively supports S&OP process; elevate unresolved supply planning issues; provide input, offer potential solutions and execute follow-up activities.

Establishes collaborative relationships with multiple functions: Internal and External Suppliers, Global Planning and Affiliate Management Group, Marketing, Sales Strategy, Project Management, Trade Customization Planning, Demand Planning, Customer Service, Material Master, Distribution and Transportation, Quality Assurance, Finance, US & Global counterparts.

Acts as the main point of contact for assigned domestic and global suppliers.

Accurately maintains SAP system parameters for assigned SKU's.

Communicates a 12-18 month rolling forecast to assigned suppliers on a monthly basis.

Highlights thus far:

97% year to date overall UFR. Brought Band Aid UFR to unprecedented 99% (7 point increase) while keeping inventory within entitlement budget (green lights on KPIs across the board).

Provided Supply Planning support towards YTD 100% On Time Project Execution on New Product Launches including Listerine Ultraclean introduction.

Wrote Excel Macro to track exact whereabouts and process status of Band Aids manufactured in Brazil, sea bound to US for sterilization then truck bound to Canada DC. Greatly facilitated supply planning.

Winner of Canada Quarter Two S&OP Award – Dental Floss Oral Care (Band Aid placed 2nd)

Winner of Canada Quarter Three S&OP Award – Band Aid Wound Care (Dental Floss placed 2nd)

Instructor of Excelerate –Microsoft Excel Training Program

Successfully handled affiliate plants’ NC/Issues/Crisis with minimal or no GTS impact.

On Hurt Free site change from Rand to Dukal, called US project team’s attention to required SAP Mercury parameters, MRP areas and shipping lane changes to ensure hassle free first delivery from new supplier.

Documented Best Practice Articles with illustrations for future users’ reference.

FENWICK AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS (FENCO), Toronto, Ontario 1994 – 2011

(Reason for leaving: Fenco was sold in late 2011 and outsourced to Mexico)

Fenco - TS16949, ISO9002 & QS9000 certified - is the leading supplier of retail aftermarket Automotive Parts (CPG) in Canada with annual revenue of over $200 million. Customers include Canadian Tire; PartSource; AutoZone; ACDelco

Reported directly to the GM, general responsibilities included:

Hiring / mentoring / training of all direct reports. Performance reviews / discipline

Direct reports consisted of 7 Production / Inventory Planners and Schedulers; 1 Forecasting Assistant; 2 Department Supervisors of Receiving and Shipping.

Dotted line reports made up of 6 Buyers from Purchasing; 15 receiving / shipping employees.

Job title specific responsibilities included:

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER (2003–2011):

Serve as Fenco’s Supply Chain Representative in business collaborations with major customers. Hold regular conference calls; go over KPIs and Scorecard Metrics.

Access via internet Customer’s CPFR system, advise/assist customers on Forecasting, Store Stocking, DC Transshipment, New Product Launching and Promo decisions.

Devise Product Replacement Plan and provide customer with guidance on switching from manufactured to more economical imports from Asia.

Write Excel Macro routine to regularly check for and stop erroneous orders and prevent future returns. Negotiate and establish Return Policy with major customers.

Conduct short notice Feasibility Studies for top management on new business offers from customers (usually involving buying back entire inventories as start up condition)

DEMAND FORECASTING AND PLANNING MANAGER (1998-2011):

Designated provider of accurate, timely and strategic information and solution suggestions reliant upon which Fenco top management business decisions are made

In charge of Forecasting, Production Planning and Master Scheduling of all manufactured / repackaged finished goods in 250,000 sq.ft. facility.

On monthly basis, prepared next 12 month Demand Forecast, Manufacturing Projections, Inventory Movement Plan used by Marketing, Finance, Accounting and other departments for planning, budgeting, sourcing, costing and evaluation purposes.

Continuous comparative study of Fenco vs. competition’s catalogs and part numbers; write macros for across industry product information matchmaking and analysis.

Compile and manage information database related to business history, trends, seasonality, product life cycle, Fenco SKUs internal substitutability and Bill of Materials.

Supply management with product popularity ranking on quick notice.

Undertake special project studies and assignments mostly initiated by the GM and required by the flexible way Fenco conducts business.

MATERIALS AND INVENTORY CONTROL MANAGER (1994-2003):

In charge of Materials Planning and Inventory Management of 11 Manufactured and 5 New product lines covering 30,000+ SKUs of Finished Goods and Raw Material Parts.

Routinely setup and review Target Inventory Levels, Supplier Lead Times, Reorder Points (ROP), Economic Order Quantities (EOQ), and Electronic Kanbans.

Advise Purchasing on Materials Procurement Plans and required arrival dates.

Dealt with 6 3PLs in Canada contracted by Fenco. Dealt directly with Autozone DCs

Responsible for VMI (vendor managed inventory) arrangement with major customers.

Member of Lean Manufacturing team for Continuous Improvement (Kaizen). Constant involvement with Engineering Department on Lean Kaizen projects to allocate limited physical space and manufacturing constraints to the growing business demands

Accomplishments included:

Personally designed and developed Fenco’s flexible Demand Forecasting tool, incorporating Historical Trends, Seasonality, Market changes with Statistical Regression Techniques. Wrote macros to provide Business Intelligence required to communicate with customers’ ERP systems including SAP, JDE.

Overseen company’s seamless growth from $40 million in 1994 revenue to over $200 million in 1998, accomplished in the same facility with minimal workforce increase.

Increased A & B items’ inventory turns from 19 turns in 1994 to 50 turns since 1996.

Improved PO fill rate from 89% in 1994 to as high as 97.3%.

Negotiated a better PO fill rate penalty computation method that resulted in fewer fines.

Lean implementation reduced inventory to 82% while sustaining 100% business volume.

Responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating and execution of the 9 month phase by phase moving of machineries and facilities from Toronto to Mexico while simultaneously keeping manufacturing going and ensured no service disruptions.

Eliminated “won’t be missed” loss leaders from the catalog.

Negotiated down one customer’s merchandise return tab from $4.5 million to $390,000.

For inventory purposes, implemented space saving narrow aisles and flow rack stocking.

Introduced Finished Goods stocking by A,B,C popularity rankings.

CANCOIL THERMAL CORPORATION, Kingston, Ontario 1989 - 1994

MANAGER, PRODUCTION AND MATERIAL PLANNING

This position reported directly to the General Manager, duties and responsibilities included:

Production / Inventory planning, scheduling and control in the manufacturing of Air Conditioning / Refrigeration Coolers, Condensing and Evaporating Units, Coils.

Coordinating work, setting priority sequence and monitoring progress among manufacturing departments.

Liaison between sales and manufacturing departments.

Materials and Logistics management: Forecasting, Budgeting, Planning, Scheduling, Purchasing, Stocking and Distribution of materials/parts, semi-processed and finished goods. Expediting Bill of Materials.

Regular review and maintenance of useful data on MRP II computer system.

Member of management team for Productivity and Methods Improvement.

Accomplishments included:

Joined Cancoil during its rapid growth stage, introduced measures that restored control over deteriorating situation.

Responsible for transformation of company information system from ragtag-manual to semi-automatic (Lotus) to MRP II systems.

Played the key role from MRP software selection to installation, implementation.

Streamlined item master down to a third - consisting of really useful items only.

Developed and implemented many useful PC based applications using a series of inter-related Macro-augmented Lotus spreadsheets.

Significantly improved average job completion time thru better work coordination.

Significantly lowered inventory carrying cost and increased turnover rate.

Successfully applied Just-In-Time concept with major materials and parts.

Helped supplier obtained refund for inappropriately imposed Ad Val Orem tax and got back incremental portion of price increase passed on to Cancoil.

Cancoil was an exceptional small business success story in the 1990’s and was selected as a member of the entourage of Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s state visit to India in 1996. http://www.tcm-mec.gc.ca/96_01_13_TCIndialeg-en.pdf

J & P COATS (CANADA) LTD., Kingston, Ontario 1987 - 1989

PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY PLANNER/COORDINATOR

Worked directly with the Materials and Logistics Manager, Duties and responsibilities included:

Periodic capacity planning based on sales forecasts and allocated financial budget.

Hands-on production/inventory planning and scheduling of industrial sewing threads.

Analyze raw/packaging materials consumption patterns, forecast requirements and submit purchasing plan/schedule to the Materials and Logistics Manager.

Conduct process evaluation, production cost analysis; compile data; set standards.

Responsible for product distribution, transshipments among 5 depots across Canada.

Regular liaison with territorial sales representatives and production foremen.

Accomplishments included:

Was one of the pioneers who started Kingston plant when company moved here from Montreal in 1987, served as acting M & L manager during the first three months.

Conscientious and rational approach to ROPs, ROQs setting resulted in very good availability versus Stock Carrying Cost ratio, low rate of thread obsolescence.

EDUCATION

B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, University of the Philippines. Cum Laude

M.B.A., University of the Philippines. Class Valedictorian.

Member, C.A.P.I.C.

LANGUAGES

Fluent - spoken and written English and Mandarin-Chinese. Understand Cantonese

TECHNICAL/COMPUTER BACKGROUND

Extensive experience using Supply Chain interactive programs and tools like CPFR, VMS, KPI (Key Performance Indicators), GotoMeeting, Global Video Conferencing.

Extensive experience using SAP ERP, MRP II, Cognos, Ariba, Symphony, cMat, Sharepoint and Electronic Kanban materials replenishment systems; Advanced user of Microsoft Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Word, other Windows applications.

Knowledge of Visual Basic programming, writing Advanced Macros to run automatic routines in Microsoft Excel. Expert in using all advanced Excel worksheet functions and making data from different sources compatible with each other.

Knowledge of Six Sigma; Demand Forecasting Statistical Regression Techniques and Exponential Smoothing Methods; BOS chart; Pareto Chart

Work interaction and basic exposure to MS Dynamics ERP, MS Project.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Rotary International Group Study Exchange Scholar. Represented the Philippnes as Ambassador of Goodwill to the Rotary Group Study Exchange Program in San Joaquin Valley, California. Conducted process studies of area industries (Gallo, Hershey's, Campbell etc.)

Member, International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Louisiana, U.S.A.

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