SUMMARY
Supply Chain Professional with experience in Materials Planning, Forecasting and Product Lifecycle Management. Broad experience base in New Product Development, Production, Quality and Marketing in addition to strong business analytical skills.
Major Areas of Expertise:
Planning and implementing Supply Chain requirements for New Product Development.
Management of product life cycle and its resource impact on the Supply Chain.
Quantifying and minimizing inventory risk in product migrations.
Evaluating Forecast Accuracy to improve product forecast.
Integrating Engineering and Supply Chain on New Product Development Teams
Skilled at analyzing and summarizing detailed information for executive decision making.
Microsoft Access, BW, SAP and DB2 Power User and SPSS.
ACE and Six Sigma Experience.
EXPERIENCE
PRATT AND WHITNEY 2012 - PRESENT
Industrial Manager, A320 Externals Design Organization
Member of the A320NEO External Engine Development Team. Supported all program activity by coordinating and maintaining the program Industrial Plan to ensure timely delivery of parts for Development Engine Build.
• Support Program Management Team with strategy and procurement of over 700 parts used in New Engine Development Program.
• Interfaced with Design Team to ensure correct product configurations.
• Worked with Suppliers to resolve design conflicts and negotiate lead times and to ensure timely product delivery.
• Weekly Executive level reporting on part status to program schedule.
PITNEY BOWES 1986 – OCTOBER 2011
Manager, Supply Chain Product Lifecycle (2008 – October 2011)
Responsible for quantifying the Supply Chain related risk associated with Product Lifecycle Changes.
• Designed an Excel-based model that was the basis for a multi-million dollar decision on product purchases, supplier actions and product availability for the migration of a current product line to a newly developed replacement product
o Model development integrated and quantified knowledge of Demand Planning, Procurement, Materials Management, Marketing and Engineering.
• Led a cross functional team to address issues in end of life planning for a major produc t.
o Gained agreement to extend support for a limited number of lease customers to ensure customer satisfaction, while enabling scrap of all excess WIP and Finished Goods
o Managed through uncertainties to ensure both the customer and business needs were accommodated.
• Developed a central database for cost of service support data for use by product line management and customer service to manage product life cycle decisions.
Manager, Demand Planning/Life Cycle Management (2004 – 2008)
Managed the Demand/Supply Plan for inserter and shredder products for US, Europe, Canada, Asia Pacific and Latin America, based on sales forecasts and historical customer demand while driving to inventory goals and maintaining product availability.
• Drove the end of service support decision on over 300 product codes, resulting in identification of $637,000 in spare parts scrap opportunity.
• Modeled and managed the migration of a tabletop inserter product to identify the optimum build versus scrap quantity resulting in over $1 million in scrap avoidance.
• Led the design review and timely procurement of Beta build parts for three new printer products, ensuring product delivery to successfully meet Beta build schedule.
• Led monthly marketing planning and cross-functional supply chain m...
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