Director - S&OP Supply Chain

DAVID BUCHANAN

Raleigh, NC · 919-***-**** adiwcq@r.postjobfree.com · https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-buchanan-1b666124/

Supply chain and operations leader with over 10 years global experience in Technology and Retail industries. Proven track record of delivering results and taking on investment roles creating BMS from the ground up. Builds high performing teams through an empowering leadership style with constant positivity, motivation, and being intentional to balance positive reinforcement just as much as constructive criticism. Still maintaining a passion to be in the weeds and analytically validating data while leading people and businesses operationally.

EXPERIENCE

JUNE 2020 - PRESENT

DIRECTOR – SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS, TTI: Greenville, SC

•Lead global E2E supply chain operations team for Hart Outdoor products group

oEnd to end ownership of supply to customer, Walmart

oForecasting, planning, inventory mgmt and financial reporting are primary responsibilities

oResponsible for inbound and outbound execution at the DC level

MARCH 2018 – JUNE 2020

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER – S&OP, CISCO: Raleigh, NC

•Manage the WEB customer base of Cisco with S&OP engagement. Primary customers include…

oAmazon/Microsoft/Facebook/Google/Apple/SFDC/Dropbox/Uber

•Partner with customer to drive supply forecasts into the back end of Cisco for material planning

•Partner closely with Marketing BU for high level insights into supply chain planning

•Constant customer engagement sharing Cisco E2E supply chain capabilities to work on strategic initiatives/projects

•Manage all supply chain escalations for ship-date-improvements

•Keep constant tracking of S&OP metrics and identify new strategies and improvement opportunities from the analytics. Fluent in Business Objects, UOV, Tableau tools.

•Success #1 – As a new dedicated headcount/resource to our WEB customers, sentiment has drastically improved allowing our relationships to focus on strategic initiatives and increase market share

•Success #2 – Key stakeholder in developing our brand new “inventory reservation strategy” to execute binding forecasts with customers

FEB 2017 – MARCH 2018

BUSINESS OPS SENIOR MANAGER, LENOVO: Raleigh, NC

•Focal point for all business and supply chain operations of North America Tablet and Smart Device organization

•New role at Lenovo where I personally created and defined the necessary workspace against a very volatile, and new, tablet market to Lenovo

•Managed the entire retail customer portfolio operationally. Primary customers included

oWalmart, Walmart.com, Tech Data, Best Buy, Costco, Synnex CA, Best Buy CA

•Collaborate with customer to analyze the forecast and Lenovo’s supply commit abilities

•Drove the back-end supply chain preparations and timeline executions with our China factories

•SAP and ECC tools

•Owned the long lead time component part planning as well as production and replenishment order placing into NA DCs for finished goods

•Managed FGI excess in the warehouses with proactive analysis to set up customer bids.

•Maintained inventory/forecast knowledge as well as PNL impacts based on bidding.

•Understood TMC (P&L) by product in our portfolio and push an appropriate mix of products to our customers

•Drove new product launches. Ramped up supply and SKU setup within the customer portals

•Executed price enablement for new products and/or customers

•Was the operational lead for the fastest growing space at Lenovo for the 2017 calendar year

•Successes – Pivoted and managed the back end fulfillment operations to generate 3x the forecasted revenue prior to my placement within the role

MAY 2016 – FEB 2017

FINANCE ANALYST – S&OP, PENTAIR: Raleigh, NC

•New role at Pentair. Brought in to develop a SIOP process within the finance organization

•Created new tables, metrics, reports necessary to understand the state of our business

•Owned bi monthly stand up reporting of these reports to our CFO and President of the company.

•Managed and analyzed product sales and margins across the Pentair Water Purification Platform.

•Tracked daily sales and forecasts on a monthly basis using TM1 and Cognos platforms

•Collaborated with all manufacturing plants what the sales forecasts show to prep lean manufacturing practices

•Successes – Reduced bottom line expense by $2.1M in supply chain with much tighter, and cleaner, forecasting into the manufacturing plan

NOV 2011 – MAY 2016

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER – WW SERVICE PARTS, LENOVO: Raleigh, NC

•Held several R&Rs across our WW and NA GEOs

•Responsible for innovating new and very large scale projects within the company.

•Centralized Planning and Procurement Project Lead

•Focal point for a new, innovative global scale company project

•Brought service parts planning in-house to Lenovo from third party provider (IBM)

•Managed the data migration from IBM systems into Lenovo

•Oversaw the planning logic used by IBM and absorbed and improved it as Lenovo shifted to own all processes

•Became NA planning analyst for all Commercial Service Parts Planning at Lenovo 2014

•Success #1 – My in house planning project delivered Lenovo savings of $50M in year one followed by residual $20M/year after

•Success #2 – Won Lenovo Corporate award for “Company End to End Parts Improvement”

EDUCATION

MAY 2011

B.S. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT NC STATE UNIVERSITY – Raleigh, NC

MINOR - SPANISH

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