COREY KUNZ

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SUMMARY

Award winning professional relied upon by senior executives to develop and implement operation and supply chain strategies within diverse matrixed reporting environments, while aligning key business partners and maximizing global sales opportunities for World Class Organizations.

SKILLS

Team Training and Development Navigating Risk and Uncertainty Leading Diverse Matrixed Resources

Collaborative Strategic Planning Cross-Culture Communication Process and Operations Strategy

Analyzing Complex Situations Sales & Operations Planning Cross-Functional Process Change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Great Western Malting Company (A GrainCorp Business), Vancouver, Washington

Program Manager (Consulting) May 2016 to Current

Retained to recover, accelerate and lead the implementation of Country Malt Group & Brewcraft USA’s new warehouse management system across 11 Domestic and Canadian warehouses, while simultaneously guiding cross-functional programs and operational improvements by connecting Sales, Procurement, Operations, Finance and IT.

Maximized teams of 10 Subject Mater Experts and 6 Department Directors within the Country Malt Group & Brewcraft USA divisions to solidify business requirements and restructure the WMS project in 30 days.

Integrated Accellos One WMS with Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP, designed and facilitated end-to-end User Acceptance Testing and achieved the first WMS managed warehouse deployment in under 3 months.

Orchestrated and aligned Country Malt Group & Brewcraft USA’s three tiered product classification logic and enabled new lot and expiration tracking features to eliminate $300K of expired product write-offs.

Framed a strategic pricing model to improve integrity of item cost, customer price and promotional discounts by 19% and eliminated 90% of sku touch points required to maintain future pricing updates.

VTech Communications, Beaverton, Oregon

Director of Process & Operations August 2014 to April 2016

Identified and executed strategic cost reduction initiatives while promoting continuous process improvement through leadership and management of 20 cross-functional project teams, mentored stakeholders, influenced VPs, and aligned contributing multinational resources to successfully manage VTech’s US Project Portfolio.

Closed 61 cross-departmental process improvement projects in 21 months, increasing the close rate by 117% and generating a combined value of $3.5M in cost savings and EBITDA revenue.

Engineered and directed VTech’s eCommerce Audit, identifying performance gaps in search engine optimized (SEO) content across external retail sites and improved eCommerce sales revenue by 15%.

Designed and implemented VTech’s Fiscal & Month-to-date Sales Forecasting Logic, reduced monthly forecasted sales revenue error by 75% and cut weekly report preparation by 37%.

Restructured the B2B website to optimize customer engagement and streamline ordering time by 25%.

Director of Sales Support October 2012 to August 2014

Demand Requirements, Inventory & Production Planning, B2B & B2C Websites, Customer Allocations, Order Fulfillment & Sales Support

Leveraged unique abilities of 8 Sales Support Account Managers and inspired collaboration & partnerships between Retailers, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing and Sales Operations, to increase visibility and predictably of the monthly S&OP process, align go-to-market deliverables and facilitate successful contract reviews.

Co-created VTech’s next generation S&OP process and reporting, reduced executive review time by 80% and to decreased demand errors driving overseas production facilities by 17%.

Designed a new cross-functional key performance indicator (KPI), tracking and driving an average reduction of end-to-end customer order fulfillment lead-times by 16%.

Recruited by the Chairman of North American Operations to diagnose the order fulfillment process for VTech’s Toy Division; in 3 days uncovered process deficiencies and new system requirements to reduce order processing time by 30%.

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Senior Supply Chain Manager May 2011 to October 2012

Demand Requirements, Inventory & Production Planning, B2B & B2C Websites, Customer Allocations, Order Fulfillment & Sales Support

Optimized and mastered VTech’s high mix production and inventory planning, product allocations and order processing of $450M in addition to driving 97% on time complete (OTC) for direct customer and distribution deliveries, while producing the company’s highest inventory turn results to date (6.8).

Center Stage Award: “Corey was responsible for driving the annual average Day of Sales Inventory (DSI) down to 53.3 days - VTech’s lowest levels ever. This achievement was truly impressive considering the high volatility of our customer orders and their lack of execution” - Ernie Levenson, VP of Operations.

Designed a store specific ordering tool and process to forecast weekly VMI orders at the sku*store level and improved Walmart’s in stocks from 87% to 98% without exceeding previous 7.5 weeks of supply.

Initiated production and maintenance of standard operating procedures for 56 key customer accounts and improved OTC deliveries by 3% by fostering account ownership, cross-training and employee on boarding.

Supply Chain Manager February 2008 to May 2011

Demand, Inventory & Production Planning & Customer Allocations

Directed US Demand Requirements Planning for VTech’s China manufacturing facilities, developed and guided end-to-end Global Supply Chain Strategies through VTech’s executive-level Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, successfully driving new product launches, retail store sets and holiday promotions for both low and high volume production items to support $500M in annual sales.

Center Stage Award: “VTech incurred a component shortage, threatening short term sales by $10 million dollars. Corey revamped the production schedule to shift focus to high margin low volume exclusive retail models, allowing our high volume low margin models to be delayed. Lost sales were limited to $1 million and the net revenue impact was held to $200K” - Kedar Kulkarni, Director of Supply Chain.

Redesigned and implemented VTech’s inventory Demand Requirements Planning tool, the core of VTech’s ERP system, in 8 months utilizing a contract IT professional and eliminated 100% of previous system derived demand signal errors and failures.

Petco Animal Supplies Incorporated, Portland, Oregon

North West Regional Inventory Manager October 2004 to February 2008

Focused perpetual inventory accuracy within 124 stores, 11 districts and 8 states; driving $7.2 million in average weekly sales. Interpreted customer-buying patterns and adjusted store specific inventory levels on 7,500 sku base. Provided cross-functional field staff training, coaching, and mentoring in all aspects of inventory management procedures, physical inventories, and inventory reporting systems.

Designed, developed, and delivered proprietary Automated Sales Exception System to identify skus running out of stock and increased revenue by $11.2 million annually.

Improved integrity of executive new store reporting for all out of stock items, improved store fill execution, and accurate in stock representation, resulting in driving grand opening in stock levels from 91% to 99.7%.

West Coast Regional Inventory Analyst April 2001 to October 2004

Uncovered hidden sales opportunities for $776 million region made up of 260 stores with a combined inventory cost of $351 million. Developed and analyzed reporting metrics on consumer buying trends and event triggers through relational data base ad hoc queries to support supply chain and sales initiatives.

Increased West Coast Region's annual revenue by $3.7 million by optimizing service fill levels through out of stock exception reporting.

Initiated proprietary sales tracking records including; product in and out of stock dates, monthly promotion activity, and secondary override indicators; increasing visibility 100% and capitalizing on sales opportunities.

EDUCATION

Improving Your Project Management Skills, American Management Association, Portland, OR

Strategies & Leadership in Supply Chains, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA

Bachelor of Arts, Marketing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

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