Invetory supply planner WM specialist

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE & RELEVANT SKILLS

 Highly accomplished and motivated service professional with proven track record of rapport-building, resourceful problem-solving and communication skills.

 A self-motivated and goal oriented professional with successful experience in developing positive growth results through leadership and team efforts

 Strong Knowledge of SAP (R/3, APO, WM, BI, BW,) PIMS Legacy System, Vista, Windows O/S, Power Point, Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes, DBMS, SQL Server 2005, Unix/Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2008 Everest Technology Columbus, OH

Contractor

Hired as a consultant to fulfill a contract with the Kohls.com company located in Cincinnati, OH. As a WM expert, assist with system flow, and system administration for Manhattan WMS. Contract fell through for Kohls.com.

May 2008 – October 2008 ConAgra Snack Foods Marion, OH

Supply Planner

Supply planner-Planned production for over 100 SKUs for multiple manufacturing sites, and under different product lines. Saved millions of dollars, with the ability to maintain lower levels of inventory nation wide, worked with procurement to supply materials in time for production runs. Worked with customer service and sales to utilize the lines to capacity and meet deadlines for promotions. Worked with deployment to ship intermodal as oppose to trucks, and help eliminate any need for redeployment.

 Identify near term capacity versus demand imbalances

 ERP, MRP, CRP (Enterprise, Material, and Capacity) practices used

 Analyze and interpret materials management data and logically deduce the intended outcome to support production initiatives utilizing JIT philosophy and principles

July 2003 – May 2008 The Dannon Company Minster, OH

Implementation Project Specialist – Project Lead, Inventory January 05 – May 2008

Worked with Dannon business partners and contract workers to design and implement WMS systems. Functions included transferring product from site to site, or site to customer more efficient with better accuracy. Completed 7 project life cycles. Met with Steering committee and reported on updates under my domain, and kept project on time by meeting or beating deadlines.

 3 Plant SAP WM Upgrades

 2 DC 3PL sites implementations for Red Prairie

 2 DC 3PL sites implementations for Power

 New User Training – Trained Legacy users on SAP

SOP Documentation

 Updated standard process to match new user environment and demonstrate how SAP worked in line with 3rd party WM system

SAP system upgrade

 SAP R/3 and SAP APO upgrade from 4.6 to 6.4 using GUI 7.1

 Test and validate current state of system and how users perform day to day jobs.

 Test and validate new version of system and be sure users could perform same tasks, and made changes where needed to allow for more accurate batch jobs to account for changes from previous projects. This produced better numbers for deployment and planning and cut back on shorts as well as loss and destroy at distribution centers

Supply Chain Inventory Administrator – Minster OH January 2005 – May 2008

Reporting to Director of Supply Chain and Logistics, performed IDOC management to insure data accuracy from legacy system, Power (a Third Party System), and Red Prairie to SAP. Verified the integrity of the inventory between SAP, and the WM/legacy systems through performing stock pictures weekly, and reconciling any differences in the system leaving no more then a +/- 50 case balance when booking was complete for the month. Provided accurate numbers for planning of production and for the inventory deployment team to accurately place product at the DC with limited loss or damages.

 Reconciled unexplained variances in inventory between legacy systems and SAP.

 Managed and Resolved approximately $2 million in OS&D deductions annually.

 Coordinated end of month inventory closing.

 Audited and managed inventory process for three manufacturing and four distribution sites to insure corporate wide compliance.

 Key SAP contact for international division (Paris, France) regarding issues, questions and changes.

 SAP APO planning and deployment vacation back up

 IDOC management developed an in-depth understanding of the complete flow of product from creation to shipment, to insure proper fix when any failure occurred.

Accounts Receivable – West Jordan UT - July 2003 - January 2005

Performed document control for the Accounts Receivable department. Reconciled bank statement for all Dannon customers. Worked with a team of 16 employees to provide documentation for customer account reconciliation

 Managed approximately $2 million in OS&D deductions annually.

 Investigated and resolved all issues concerning approximately 800 retail and 400 foodservice customers.

 Balanced customer accounts, and assisted in customer collections for all accounts.

October 2002- July 2003 Zero Manufacturing, Inc. North Salt Lake, UT

Quality Assurance

Quality Administrative Assistant, worked with the sales team to insure manufacturing met customer specifications outlined in the contract. Also responsible for final inspection, receiving inspection, and in process inspection.

 Technical Writing

 Contract Review

 Maintained ISO 9001:2000 standards

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix Online

 BS in Business Finance

Princeton High School Cincinnati, OH

 High School Diploma

Others

 Eagle Scout

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