Experience

World's Finest® Chocolate

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Deployment Manager

  • Mar 2009 - Present

  Responsible for the deployment of Fund Raising chocolate products from factory and vendor locations to the company's 12 third party warehouses. Develop the appropriate reports and other system tools to automate and streamline the product transfer process in SAP. Manage the product aging process within the distribution network. Work with the Queen Anne and Personalized Orders coordinator to efficiently build trucks and maximize warehouse space utilization. Assist in system upgrades--testing and documentation.



Footprint Solutions

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Inventory Coordinator

  • Mar 2006 - Mar 2009

  Oversee third party warehouse operations. Coordinate serial number program across four major customers at warehouse and 89 depot network. Enhance reporting and assist in systems upgrade implementations including scanning and physical inventory processing. Administer and audit depot quarterly physical inventories and annual warehouse physical counts--one company, three separate buildings. Oversee third party warehouse operations. Coordinate serial number program across four major customers at warehouse and 89 depot network. Enhance reporting and assist in systems upgrade implementations including scanning and physical inventory processing. Administer and audit depot quarterly physical inventories and annual warehouse physical counts--one company, three separate buildings.



Brach's Confections

• Inventory Control Manager

  • Jun 1979 - Oct 2005

  In charge finished goods inventory deployment from multiple factory sites and vendor locations to anywhere from 3-6 warehouse distribution network. This included managing seasonal build inventories as well as year round product. Other management activities inclueded directing the activities of 3-7 inventory analysts who deployed and transferred product, built/entered truckload transport orders and arranged transportation, coordinating the company's annual/semi-annual physical inventories, developed inventory control procedures and cycle count programs and assisted in two major software implementations/upgrades--identifying needs, scripting as-is and to-be documents, unit and integration testing, creating training documentation and training end users and providing post-implementation support. SAP was the larger of the two software conversions. Allocation of product to customer orders and investigating and providing product availabilty information among various supply chain departments were other key responsibilites.