Supply Chain Sales

Richard Wayne Herrin

Milton, GA *****

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Accomplished Supply Chain Professional

Drive Strategic Initiatives, Improve Efficiencies, Cost Savings, and Performance Enhancements

Highly focused with comprehensive understanding of sales and operations planning (SO&P), forecasting, inventory management, logistics, and procurement. Known for delivering desired results and building strong customer relationships, ensuring bottom-line company objectives are achieved.

Inventory Management / Data Governance

Demand Planning

Supply Network Optimization

Master Production Scheduling

Strategic Planning

Integrated Business Planning

Professional Experience

Beaulieu America. Dalton, GA 2016 – Present

Vice President Operations and Planning,

Provide leadership and direction to supply planners, inventory managers, and forecasters in order to achieve a high level of service while reducing inventory levels and maximizing turns by successfully implementing the Beaulieu Integrated Planning System.

•Standardize and automate the demand planning and demand management processes across all markets and regions.

•Implement one single master production planning process across the vertical supply chain that maximized throughput on bottle neck resources and that balanced work in process inventories allowing for increased response times with optimum working capital requirements.

•Optimally align supply and demand and enable cash flow forecasting through an iterative Sales and Operations Planning Process.

CSC. Falls Church, VA 2015 – 2016

Senior Business Consultant,

Transition legacy applications used for planning and scheduling at 13 US breweries to a sophisticated advanced planning and advanced scheduling solution.

•Created one single consensus brewery plan for both brewery and packaging across the brewery network.

•Optimized brewing cycles, increasing visibility of end-to-end cycle constraints.

•Enabled the reduction of administrative effort required to create production plans and raw material orders.

•Delivered new capabilities including scenario planning and ability to quickly re-plan complex resources to resolve disruption.

•Enabled flexibility to react quickly to supply chain changes.

AXIALL CORP. (formerly Georgia Gulf Corp.), Atlanta, GA 2011 – 2015

Director, Supply Chain Management

Develop and implement Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) function that serves entire corporation and customers.

•Built structured and data-supported process for gathering information that enables accurate demand forecasting, optimum supply planning, and better alignment to business strategy, improving fact-based consensus decision making in areas of production planning, raw material purchasing, and transportation.

•Created committee that directed all aspects of enterprise information management system including staffing data stewardship program, managing data quality, approving data architecture and security standards, creating data glossary spanning all source systems, and approving / prioritizing data warehouse and data mart project work.

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•Constructed operational model of enterprise value chain that clearly identified bottlenecks, automated simulation of cost-to-source and support of new business, enabled on-demand running of sensitivity and what-

if analysis of supply strategies, constraints and disruptions, and identified longer-term strategic improvements to the global supply chain network.

•Defined and implemented efficient and effective standardized demand management policies, procedures, and tools that drove supply and financial plans across enterprise.

•Implemented organization-wide infrastructure for dynamic, collaborative planning that brought business groups in sync with consensus demand plan that has been top-down and bottom-up reconciled.

•Designed and implemented monthly S&OP process that drove improved forecast accuracy, optimized inventory investment, reduced obsolescence, improved customer service, and improved portfolio management.

•Participated in enterprise roll out of ERP systems (JD Edwards and SAP), Oracle Supply Network Optimizer, and IBM Cognos resulting in increased efficiency and reduced costs by aligning and optimizing transactional and planning processes.

TREDEGAR FILM PRODUCTS, Richmond, VA 2007 – 2011

Manager, Global Sales Operations and Inventory Planning

Designed, implemented and led global sales and operations planning process for manufacturer of cast, extruded, and aperture plastic films in Asia, Europe, India, North and South America.

•Implemented standard ERP platform, collaborative forecasting and rough cut capacity planning system, and business intelligence system on global basis resulting in asset utilization optimization and aligning supply and demand processes.

•Drove collaborative forecasting and rough cut capacity planning processes that reduced order lead times from 90 to 30 days, global inventory 15%, and total transportation costs 10%. Reduced total cash-to-cash cycle 10%.

•Executed enterprise-wide data governance process encompassing data quality, data architecture, metadata management, data stewardship, metric definition, and balanced score carding providing single source of truth and increasing management’s visibility and control of key result indicators.

•Oversaw global implementation of JD Edwards ERP system and Oracle Business Information Systems and alignment of all production plants through global material master configuration and manufacturing execution standardization.

SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC., Greensboro, NC 2002 – 2007

Manager, North America Planning & Forecasting

Administered accurate, timely, and efficient flow of business planning and product forecasting information between Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain and S&OP leadership for US, Canada, and Mexico. Owner and champion of all business planning and forecasting processes and systems.

•Developed and managed annual and monthly forecasting and planning cycles, milestones, requirements, and performance measures aligning all sales and demand planning activities and ensuring accurate demand plans over 18-month forward horizon.

•Took lead in initiating continuous improvements to global tactical and strategic forecasting and demand planning processes reducing forecast error and stabilizing operational plans.

•Designed and implemented best practice forecasting and demand planning processes across North America ensuring optimally balanced supply and demand plans and alignment to financial targets.

•Implemented statistical and collaborative forecasting tools (John Galt Solutions, and Cognos) that increased forecast accuracy from 80% to 95%+ at aggregate planning levels.

•Reduced forecasting workload and forecast error by implementing analytical baseline, and assumption and event management process across sales force.

•Reduced lead times and working capital requirements with strategic customers by implementing VMI and collaborative planning processes across North American supply chain.

•Created demand management group that drove design and implementation of SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer / Demand Planning (APO DP) module enabling consolidation and alignment of all demand planning activities.

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Additional Relevant Experience

SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC., Greensboro, NC

North America S&OP Head / Demand Manager

NOVARTIS CROP PROTECTION, INC., Greensboro, NC

Sales and Operations Planning Manager

CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION

Contract Manufacturing Field Supervisor, Greensboro, NC

Senior Engineer, Production Engineering, St. Gabriel, LA

Senior Engineer, Process Engineering, St. Gabriel, LA

Education & Professional Affiliations

MBA, Supply Chain, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL

Board Advisor, Institute of Business Forecasting, 2010 – Present

Certified Professional Forecaster, 2005 – Present

Instructor, Supply Chain & Marketing, University of North Carolina Bryan School of Business, 2007

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