Supply Chain Scrum Master

Laura Volshonok, MBA, CSM

Cell: 562-***-**** / E-mail: **********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Finance-, analytics-, PMO-, risk-and-compliance-focused professional. Rich experience in global manufacturing, retail, distribution, and global supply chain arenas. Core competencies found in

• Analytics • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) • Forecasting

• Project & Program Management. • Process Improvement • Training & Execution

• Global Supply Chain • Contract & Vendor Management • Spend Management

• IT Compliance • Cross-Functional Team Development • Cyber Security

• Statistics (6 Sigma, Lean) • Solution Design & Build • Strategy

CERTIFICATIONS

SCRUM MASTER, MS EXCEL EXPERT 2013, MS EXCEL EXPERT 2016, ACCESS EXPERT 2013, ACCESS EXPERT 2016

EDUCATION & TRAINING

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Master of Business Administration 2006

Bachelor of Business Administration 2004

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stay Home Parent (actively seeking employment) 2024

Volunteer- Make a Wish

Remote Analyst (Project)

Sysco Corporation 2022- 2023

Developed DTC Executive Dashboard

Worded with DC to look at trucking maintenance flaws by vehicle type, year, make and model.

Data entry for all fault reports by trouble code for all Freightliner, Mitsubishi, Ram etc.

Consultant 2017–2020

Project Consultant (temp)

Te Connectivity, Marine Oil & Gas

Developed BI tool for executive management.

Worked on daily reporting requirements.

Created Dashboards for Executives.

Assisted in AR collections process.

Project Consultant DLC, Inc.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Los Angeles,

Filled in for Executive Director of Strategic Sourcing

Project Management Responsibilities:

Led courier outsourcing project for executive management that will lead to ~$1M in savings in 2018

Developed project strategy, project plan, risk log, and communication strategy.

Led current and future state process mapping workshops.

Developed future state inbound and outbound courier process.

Created and finalized contract inclusive of pricing and terms and conditions supporting business, legal, finance, and procurement executives.

Supported savings estimates of outsourcing vs. insourcing.

Deployed leadership transportation project that will lead to $300K in savings in 2018 and $1.2M by 2020.

Analyzed $30B+ in spend data.

Deployed carrier rationalization strategy and plan

Created RFP/RFQ pricing templates.

Led negotiations to onboard preferred carriers.

Created contract draft inclusive of pricing and terms and conditions supporting business, legal, finance, and procurement executives.

Led global savings initiative reporting to senior executives.

Created ground-up analytics providing current and outlook of savings and cost avoidance.

Worked with finance executives to validate savings and cost avoidance.

Created plan to clean up backlog.

Drove backlog savings bookings from $.5M to $6M in 3-week period.

Time Warner/Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, CA

Built ground-up reporting based on total year and YTD global spend.

Created the following from scratch:

oAutomated reporting and executive reporting deck

oTrending analytics

oDashboards (departmental and account outlooks)

oHeat maps (departmental and account outlooks)

oOpEx reporting analytics.

oForecast performance analytics.

oVariance waterfalls

oMonthly executive and YTD dashboards

Analyzed global spend using statistical methodologies to present to executive team opportunities for cost savings and avoidance.

BCBG, Los Angeles, CA 2014-2017

Senior Project Manager

Project Management Responsibilities:

Led disaster recovery project for mission critical systems from point of project initiation to deployment while managing in-house and outside personnel (~$4M in CapEx/OpEx)

Led PCI compliance audit and remediation project (224 controls; ~$6M in CapEx/OpEx)

Led contract management consolidation and storage project.

Management Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing oversight and status reporting to executive management for all PMO-led projects ($8–$12M in CapEx/OpEx)

Developed policies and corporate governance procedures for cross-functional organization alignment (finance, legal, IT, and business)

Developed and pitched QA strategies, testing plans, and PMO methodology and frameworks.

Led change management/quick win workshops to identify organizational opportunities for executive management review and strategic planning.

Developed steering committee templates and agenda and reported on project status reports.

US Foods, Rosemont, IL 2013–2014

Senior Logistics Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst

Process Improvement & Project Management Responsibilities:

Business Process/Visio process flow development, execution, and training

oFootprint/mapping, RFQ sub process, bid-or-no-bid decision-making process

Responsible for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of national accounts customers

Developed customized customer strategies and project plans to lead to reductions in overall cost to customers.

FP&A/Reporting Responsibilities:

With use of advanced statistics and analytics, developed, executed, and tracked predictive forecasting analytics methodology and reporting of future income; modeling resulted in 95% accuracy.

Developed FY14 annual operating plan (AOP) for logistics support/national accounts.

Conducted pricing audits for national account customers.

Developed, executed, and reported of actual vs. plan.

oNational-account-related pricing and sourcing deviation from vendor contractual agreements

oPlan vs. actual business results by distribution center.

oRoot cause deviation analysis

Molex, Inc., Lisle, IL 2011–2013

Senior Financial Analyst, Global Supply Chain

Process Improvement & Project Management Responsibilities:

Developed the corporate business process inclusive of Visio process flows and training for EDI deployment, global freight payments, monthly accrual, global forwarder payment audit, and GL posting of invoices.

Built GL payment posting logic and system infrastructure for global entity systematic freight payment.

Successfully completed 17 global EDI deployments in 2 months

Headed SharePoint supply chain finance website development.

Designed and deployed working capital payment business warehouse solution.

FP&A/Reporting Responsibilities:

With use of advanced statistics and analytics, developed and executed global and regional reporting for Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe

Developed and was responsible for supply chain warehouse global reporting.

Responsible for reporting over $100M value of inventory on monthly basis

Accountable for global freight and duty monthly expense and savings reporting

Developed global trade compliance savings and expense reporting for customs, duty and brokerage.

Implemented regional and plant reporting by business function.

Budget, Plan and Audit Responsibilities:

Responsible for global budget planning and development, business ownership alignment, and system budget loading

Accountable for freight forwarder pricing audits resulting in identification of over $500K in savings.

Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, WI

Senior Financial Analyst, Global Supply Chain 2008–2011

FP&A Responsibilities:

Gathered, analyzed, and managed $1.8B of global procurement spending.

Analyzed supply chain and logistics by category to support commodity global managers.

Researched and implemented cost-saving strategies, which led to $1M in savings.

Led Department of Justice audits of global ERPs

Responsible for commodity hedging reporting.

oFormulated statistical forecasting and historical analysis for hedging strategy development; reports included time-series modeling.

oManaged all third-party supplier hedging contracts, reporting, and payments.

oCarried out auditing of supplier contracts and due diligence roadmaps for on-boarding of suppliers.

Process Improvement & Project Management Responsibilities:

SME and business owner for SAP deployment and integrations of purchase-to-pay initiative.

Responsible for SAP system deployment of global manufacturing plants

Created all training materials for new SAP module implementation.

Led on-site training and system deployment in for Hong Kong, Latin America, and Europe

Consolidated monthly global supply chain reporting.

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