Laura Ward
Assistant Vice President Information Systems at Mother Murphy's Labs- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Mother Murphy's Labs
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant Vice President Information Systems
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Feb 2022 - Present
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Director of Information Systems
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2005 - Present
• Leverage understanding of ERP systems to drive functional improvements and identify areas of process improvement/development with a focus on Manufacturing, R&D, Regulatory, and Purchasing • Create test scenarios and develop test plans to be used in testing the business applications when verifying software upgrades or verifying client requirements during system design or report changes or upgrades• Act as liaison between SME/business users and IT developers to deliver projects that improve business process and quality• Responsible for planning and directing strategic initiatives and implementations that impact the entire organization• Translate customer needs into new products and services to increase productivity• Identify, redesign, and replace time consuming manual processes• Provide one on one training, group training, as well as create training materials and tools Environment: MS Dynamics SL 2011 (AP, AR, GL, IN, OM, PR, PO, &SI), Vicinity Manufacturing, Dynamics 365, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2019 (SSRS) Crystal Reports XI, MS Visual Studio 2008. Show less
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Graybar
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United States
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Wholesale
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Manager
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2003 - 2005
•Trained as SAP Super User responsible for training other Financial Managers of the East Coast as we moved from legacy AS400 based system to new ERP software. •Responsible for financial management for receivables representing $23 million in annual sales.
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Business Development Manager
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2000 - 2003
•Managed business driven by Graybar’s largest customer, Lucent Technologies, representing $110 million in annual sales from the Southeast territory •Developed new relationships and built upon existing relationships with “C” levels in customer locations across the country •Analyzed inventory items for appropriate stocking levels, and made recommendations to purchasing based on customer’s demand needs resulting in more on time deliveries. Saving both Graybar and the customer money •Lead Quality Improvement Teams, Branch Steering Committees, Management Reviews, and ISO 9001 audits as means to measure results driven initiatives•Evaluated and adjusted team’s service offering to ensure it met or exceeded the customer’s expectations. Including monitoring service failures on customer’s EDI orders•Measured delivery performance and inventory levels using internal data as well as customer provided data to meet KPI’s•Applied Kaizen methodologies as facilitator of quality improvement teams •Investigated root causes and developed solutions for service failures resulting in more on time shipments•Major accomplishments included coordinating cross-functional team and maintain project plan for the opening of a new 300,000 square foot distribution center in Nashville, TN Show less
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Sales Representative
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1999 - 2000
•Grew sales 26%, achieving $2million dollars in sales •Sold to Comm/Data accounts in the Triad as well as to onsite contractor at the Department of State in Washington, DC
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Graybar
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United States
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Wholesale
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700 & Above Employee
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Sales Representative
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1997 - 1998
•Exceeded sales budget by selling products and services to Comm/Data contractors and end users, finishing at 122% of budget. •Exceeded sales budget by selling products and services to Comm/Data contractors and end users, finishing at 122% of budget.
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Education
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University of Florida
BA, Education -
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Information Technology and Management