Caleb Jones: Director of Operations

Managed the day-to-day operations with our internal teams consisting of planning, logistics, receiving, shipping and order fulfillment personal. • Lead product development with internal team as well as domestic and foreign factories from concept to production while finalizing specification adherence and costing. • Lead yearly cost negotiation with all suppliers for carryover items of 3000+ sku's. • Manage all purchasing of inventory while achieving Open to Buy, Turns, and Average Inventory • Defined Sales and Operations Planning with ownership to validate inventory to sales goals are in line. • Managed the Demand Planning of company's inventory based on historic sales data, future sales targets and customer forecasts. • Budgeting annual purchasing of inventory to align with KPI's for all channels of business. • Primary contact with brokerage group and supply chain partners to achieve on time and in full delivery of incoming and outgoing freight. • Management of supplier group communication on all Operations details. • Achieved improvement of 10% in fill rate while maintaining on target turns goal.

Lead yearly apparel cost negotiation on $50M+ seasonal revenue goods with production factories for Cabela's branded product. • Lead on operational side of the product development calendar each season from conception to commercialization with internal stakeholders, Hong Kong office, raw material and finished goods suppliers. • Managed cross department communication to ensure on time development and delivery of product while achieving cost targes associated with each product. • Partnered with the technical design team on product development with total cost of goods, manufacturing functionality and quality as the end goals. • Point of contact with suppliers and fabric mills in multiple countries on capacity, future production, and COGS reduction by consolidation.

Analyzed 3000+ sku's equating to $100M in sales to partner with Merchandising to decide on best overall buying plan for all channels of business. • Forecasted total demand of assortment, both branded and private label goods, for multichannel retailer that reconciled with top-down financial plans. • Partnered with retail counterpart to ensure inventory availability of 95% fill rate in goods for retail stores as well as website and catalog sales. • Managed the Demand Planning of company's inventory based on historic sales data, future sales targets and internal channel forecasts.