Supply Chain & Operations

G R E G O R Y P I G N A T E L L I

Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003 856-***-**** ************@*******.***

A leader who leverages extensive Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and business knowledge, along with broad strategic insights, to maximize profits through state of the art operational excellence, techniques, and experience.

SCRUB DADDY

PENNSAUKEN, NJ

FEBRURARY 2022 — AUGUST 2024

Director of Corporate Ops / Supply Chain / Sourcing & Special Projects

*Oversaw Procurement, Operations, & Production of business Sales growth that tripled in my time with the company along with ensuring the infrastructure to support was present.

*Created the Supply Chain Dept from the ground up; hired 2 forecast analysis, 4 buyers, & SC Manager. All processes were created to ensure on time & complete POs while addressing inventory overstocks.

*Vetted new suppliers to allow for multiple sources thereby decreasing costs & preventing out of stocks. First year savings of $3M with second year savings of $7M.

*Guided multiple moves from warehouse to warehouse due to explosive growth. Final oversight of three warehouses.

*Instrumental in the vertical integration of purchase of Rosmarin in Hungary; one of the largest suppliers to Scrub Daddy.

*Created process flows in the Production process with an average gain of efficiency in the 10-20% range.

*Ensured optimal customer service experiences by ensuring a 99% + fill rate (on time & complete).

*Instituted a home grown forecasting & MRP system to alleviate Purchasing issues. Reports moved from measuring inventory in months of supply to weeks of supply.

*Member of New Product Development team; skus that I spearheaded/created netted $25M in sales over the past year.

*Maintained a 5S environment in all warehouse locations.

*Conducted a daily OPs call setting the table for Receiving, Shipping, & Production over multiple locations.

*Acted as a liaison between Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, & Finance.

BLINDS TO GO

PARAMUS / LAKEWOOD, NJ

AUGUST 2018 -- JANUARY 2022

Director of Supply Chain & Forecasting

*Instituted the rollout of John Galt Atlas MRP software which had been under-utilized over the prior 24 months.

*Decreased inventory $3M over first 15 months; $15M to less than $12M.

*Reconfigured WIP inventory to present movement savings per blind / shade in work centers.

*Headed up a Logistics program to increase container utilization and institute the use of better trade routes.

*Increased customer service levels from less than 80% to over 98% while increasing on time & complete.

*Lead the forecasting department in reviewing demand over a rolling twelve-month time frame.

*Headed up the Purchasing Dept of seven domestic & international buyers with strategic oversight.

*Oversaw the product roadmap being away of the life cycle with many of the products as they changed with styles.

QUICKIE MANUFACTURING CORP

CINNAMINSON, NJ

MARCH 1997 -- JULY 2018

Director of Operations & Supply Chain

*Directly oversaw production and inventory of Quickie Manufacturing with $250M per year sales & Lehigh Group with $60M per year sales with a combined work force of over 750 employees across six distribution centers / manufacturing locations. Product line roughly 70% manufactured in house with 30% direct imports.

*Created daily, weekly, & monthly master production plan for all three manufacturing locations ensuring Production was level loaded and capacity constraints were eliminated. Better planning of resources, i.e. machines, materials, & employees were all a by product of strides made implementing the best practices regarding MRP/ERP planning.

*Sourced finished goods/subassemblies/raw materials globally from China, Italy, Poland, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Canada, Mexico in addition to the domestic US.

*Lead / participated in Kaizen events within Quickie in addition to other Jarden entities.

*Orchestrated all promotional opportunities / execution via homegrown processes that reviewed the request, material lead times and manufacturing capacities that account for $30-40M annually.

*Responsible for inventory level reductions of more than $2M on subassemblies, raw materials and finished goods across three American locations and two Mexican plants in 2015.

*Instituted Kanban inventory system in wet mop / corn broom factory located in Mexico resulting in yearly savings of over $800K.

*Steering Committee head for Supply Chain in converting from JDE to SAP in 2017. Data mining, part number, router and BOM set up.

*Provided expertise in manufacturing with regard to 16 staple set machines and 18 injection molding presses to multiple production facilities including institution of lean manufacturing.

*Presided over the Production Planning department with a keen awareness of fill rate requirements of over 98.9% and the maintaining of appropriate safety stock levels.

*Analyzed OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) & PMP (planned maintenance percentage) for all locations. Ran load profiles 12 – 16 weeks out to explore machine & employee capacity.

*Monitored forecasts to identify changes and determine the root cause with regards to Sales & Supply Chain activities that resulted in an increase in WMAPE of over 79% lead time adjusted. Quickie's forecast accuracy had been the highest of any Jarden / Newell owned company. Instituted collaborate processes with top customers.

AUBURN UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Business / Operations Management, Dec 1993

APICS member since 1991

CERTIFICATION & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

·Recipient of the Scrub Daddy Employee Appreciation Award for outstanding contributions May 2024

·The Home Depot Einstein Product Award winner 2016

·Quickie Valuable Performer QVP March 2015

·Certified Professional Forecasting CPF Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning Jan 2014

·MGI Management Institute certification Material & Capacity Requirements Planning 2011

·JARDEN CORPORATION Chairman's Award of Merit finalist Oct 2015

·Fluent in utilizing JDE 9.1 ERP system

·Demand Solutions forecasting software expertise

·Experienced with High Jump warehouse inventory system

·Auburn University football program 1988-1989

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