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Summary
The food and beverage industry integrated supply chain expert consultant is a supply chain design leader who has led large and complex organizations in CPG including food and beverage, to deliver transformational performance and cost savings. With strengths in forecasting, production planning and scheduling, inventory management, and synchronizing the supply chain from raw material procurement and delivery to finished goods production. She has collaborated across many facets of operations from warehouse management, logistics and operations management to create a smooth flow of materials resulting in finished goods on time, and at cost. This expert has used SAP as the ERP platform for supply chain management and has implemented various strategies such as level scheduling, KanBan systems, Value Stream Mapping and has utilized a variety of LEAN tools to deliver cost savings. Envisions what is possible and develops a partnership across and within the organization to deliver new capabilities. Accountable, analytical, and collaborative leader with proven track record in strategic planning and operations.
Highlights
- 20+ years of experience
- Multi-site operations experience
- Complex logistics expertise
- CPG including food and beverage
- Forecasting expertise
- Production part planning expertise
Relevant Accomplishments
- Led logistics organization for mega-site (3 business units) with customer service > 99.5%. FDA regulated site. This included leading supplier capacity analysis, operations capacity analysis, raw and packing material delivery synchronized with production needs, production scheduling for 24×7 making and packing operations producing over 2000 skus, and inventory management
- Led logistics organizations for organic food/spice company including scheduling for 24×5 production operation, finished good inventory management, capacity analysis for processing and packaging, customer service and 5 year master-plan to support year on year double digit growth.
- Implemented innovative business model in customized supply chain to deliver $2M in annual savings through consolidating contract packing operation in house and leveraging packing material suppliers to reduce lead times and cost
- LEAN supply chain tools implementation of level scheduling, just in time materials, and kanban systems delivered $13 million in supply chain savings.
- Developed and qualified tools to deliver best in class product conversion capability which decreased obsolescence and resulted in several conversions with ZERO scrap
- Led value stream mapping and end-to-end supply chain tools to reduce both raw and packing material inventory while decreasing production cycle time.
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