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Patricia Griffin

Supply Chain Specialist & Data Analyst

Supply Chain Specialist having 25+ years of experience working in multiple Supply Chain roles. Specialize in Lifecycle and Working Capital Management. Proficient in building reliable and accurate Planning, Budget Projection and Forecast Models. Enhancing efficiency by generating and maintaining Supply Chain KPI Dashboard by utilizing SAP BI and Power BI applications. Improve internal collaboration by building and strengthening relationships between Supply Chain and Sales and Marketing. Aligning overall business objectives within multiple departments by facilitating S&OP (Sales and Operational Planning) meetings. Support ongoing SAP education by facilitating large SAP training courses to small or individual courses. Testing and piloting SAP system during SAP implementation phase. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2022 – Present

ASCENT-SEQIRUS, Holly Springs, NC

Material Planner and Data Analyst

• Building Supply Chain Dashboard (KPI Metrics) from ground up utilizing data in TEAMS, SAP, and SAP BI reports

• Working with Global IT Team to enhance SAP BI reports and to create robust KPI metrics.

• Support TEAMS KPI data by monitoring accuracy and or finding root cause of inaccuracy and implementing corrective action.

• Built refreshable planning model that provides current stock levels and twelve-month outlook on expiry materials, MTD consumptions, historical consumptions, system demands and preliminary forecasts.

• Supporting three business teams by procuring materials within twelve-month production horizon including ordering and expediting materials to minimize inventory and risk to manufacturing shutdown.

• Ensures GMP materials are received, tested, and released as needed by manufacturing or quality control based on the production schedule.

• Effectively manages surplus and obsolete inventories to reduce inventory carrying costs and overhead by monitoring inventory turns.

• Collaborates with Material Risk Team to implement mitigation strategies with the supplier to avoid supply disruption.

• Reconcile past due Purchase Orders and Invoices

• Processing and follow up on purchase orders.

April 2021 – August 2022

ASCENT-SEQIRUS, Holly Springs, NC

Material Planner

• Managed procurement plan for three businesses by building refreshable planning model that provides current stock levels and twelve-month outlook on expiry materials, MTD consumptions, historical consumptions and system demands.

• Supporting three business teams by procuring materials within twelve-month production horizon including ordering and expediting materials to minimize inventory and risk to manufacturing shutdown.

• Build three-year projection model for highest purchased items to provide business and supplier with detailed long term procurement plan.

• Establishes safety stock, reorder point, purchasing info record, and other master data requirements for all assigned materials in SAP by invoking EOQ (Economic Order Qty) review to generate optimal order quantity in SAP.

• Ensures GMP materials are received, tested, and released as needed by manufacturing or quality control based on the production schedule.

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April 2021 – August 2022

ASCENT-SEQIRUS, Holly Springs, NC

Material Planner (Continued)

• Effectively manages surplus and obsolete inventories to reduce inventory carrying costs and overhead by monitoring inventory turns.

• Collaborates with Material Risk Team to implement mitigation strategies with the supplier to avoid supply disruption.

• Provided training to two Material Planners

• Reconcile past due purchase orders and invoices.

• Processing and follow up on purchase orders.

September 2020 – Present

GRACE HOMEMADE INTERNATIONAL LLC

Business Owner

• Officially Joined the family investment project.

• Found willing CPA that would review several years of records for tax purposes.

• Procured two properties adjacent to initial investment property.

• Meet with town planning department and proposed business ideas to help promote economic growth within the town of Smithfield, NC.

• Built two business plans including pro forma figures, site plans and budget projections.

• Co-Owner of half a block in Downtown Smithfield, NC.

• Our GH Intl. LLC site is now listed for ground lease. January 2017 – September 2020

BAYER CROPSCIENCE

Global External Demand Planner and Material Buyer

• Built custom refreshable demand planner tool using SAP BI report that identified business priorities based on forecast accuracy, demands and current stock levels.

• Managed external capacity constraints, internal business priorities, material allocations at eleven external manufacturing plants with multiple production lines.

• Managed up to 150 finished goods (domestic and foreign) between three businesses and managed an average of eight hundred production components.

• Generated and provided a detailed twelve-month rolling production schedule to all eleven sites.

• Purchased all packaging and raw materials for production.

• Managed all printed components to ensure correct revisions are applied during production due to marketing and regulatory changes.

• Facilitated meetings with external manufacturing sites.

• Worked with Sales team to understand impact to sales pertaining to promotions and new product launches.

• Maintained working capital budget utilizing strategic purchasing plans and managing slow-moving inventory levels.

• Reported stock levels to quarterly to business heads.

• Initiated disposal process for slow moving or obsolete materials. 3

January 2012 – January 2017

BAYER CROPSCIENCE

Forecast Manager

• Managed forecasting for two businesses within Environmental Science.

• Created monthly SOP (Sales, Operating, Planning) deck and facilitated meetings with department leads (Sales, Marketing, Regulatory, label graphics and demand planning.

• Challenged sales and marketing teams forecast numbers pertaining to new launches and prior months actuals vs. projected figures. Provided five-year budget data to controlling team quarterly.

• Alerted business leads pertaining to any type of needed allocation pending supply shortages.

• Managed and facilitated allocation efforts pending supply constraints.

• Aided in consumer divestment.

• Managed cost savings initiatives pertaining to divestment and professional businesses.

• Evaluated and recommended corrective action pertaining to Supply Chain to cost variances. December 2005 – January 2012

AVENTIS CROPSCIENCE

Global Demand Planner

• Built two refreshable demand planning models for the Environmental Consumer Business and one for the Specialty Active Professional businesses. Models included current stock levels and twelve rolling months of demands, forecasts, sales assumptions based on new launches and promotions, etc.

• Maintained accurate demand plans pertaining to sales and marketing business plans.

• Facilitated Forecast Meetings with Marketing

• Maintained twenty-four month forecast for Consumer Business.

• Created Life Cycle Management process.

• Implemented Life Cycle Management process into both our consumer and professional businesses.

• Built SAP BI risk model planning tool to indicate when items deviate from forecast allowing me to adjust demand plans without major production disruptions.

EDUCATION ADDITIONAL SKILLS

July 1991

Northern High School

(Concentration: Economics)

(GPA: 3.7)

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Outlook, MS Project, SAP, SAP APO, SAP BI, Power

BI, TEAMS.

• Inventory Reconciliation, Process Order

Reconciliation,

• Project Management, Process Creation, Process

Improvement, Analysing Big Data, Flexible in

changing environments, Ability to prioritize, Thrives in a fast-paced environment.

879 Airedale Trail, Garner North Carolina, 27529 • adywx8@r.postjobfree.com • 919-***-****

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