Experience

Eltek AS

• Norway
• Telecommunications
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sr Demand Planner

  • Jan 2007 - Present

   Responsible for forecasting electronic parts and components with annual sales of $100M  Developed Access databases to measure inventory changes, weeks on hand, excess materials, delivery performance, forecast error, cycle count and scrapping activities to measure daily, weekly and monthly KPI’s  Organized and led a process to identify and target excess material that was also utilized by our global parent company, which led to a reduction of inventory by $20M  Created a template to gather forecast information from regional sales team to measure sales by customer and SKU. This process was further developed into our North American S&OP meetings with Senior Management  Reduced forecast error by 50% through product rationalization, historical accuracy measurements and monthly feedback and conference calls with regional sales managers  Coordinated purchase quantities and inventory levels of all finished goods produced from our overseas vendors equal to 80% of our annual sales. Show less



Mohawk Industries

• United States
• Textile Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Forecasting & Manufactured Planning

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2007

   Forecasted demand for 22,000 SKU’s with annual sales of $1.6 billion across 260 company stores, 5 distribution centers, 10 manufacturing facilities and international suppliers Implemented a new forecasting system, Demantra’s Demand Planner that generated a forecast to a customer level Developed an MRP system using a Bill of Material for samples production plant Created process to convert high level annual plan into detailed SKU-work center-service production/purchase requirement  Maintained, reported and improved monthly S&OP reporting to the executive team for manufacturing plants with annual volume of 700 million square feet Analyzed inventory requirements of SKU’s at 95% and 98% service levels for customers including The Home Depot and Lowe’s Coordinated an NPI process with Marketing to determine inventory levels, stocking locations, annual sales and production requirements which helped reduce overall inventory levels while maintaining high service Worked with regional sales managers to develop strategic inventory levels to increase service, stocking profiles and customer specific demands Executed processes to continuously identify excess/obsolete inventory, allocate corporate reserve relief and coordinate efforts to reduce excess with sales and marketing Built databases to provide daily and weekly reports providing information such as in-stock measurements, unallocated inventory, service levels, hold orders and historical forecasts Managed a team of three resource planners and three planning supervisors Show less

• Resource Planner

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

   Scheduled production for manufacturing plants and purchasing for international vendors Developed and reported KPI’s including service levels, schedule adherence, SKU rationalization, forecast error and inventory changes