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Senior Procurement Consultant

Logistics, Shipping & Operations

• Responsible for maintaining inventory levels to support global sales for all DIRECTV CPE, annual spend of
$500M and annual volume of 14M set top boxes
• Manage relationships with 5 international OEMs, 2 reverse logistics vendors for recovery and repair and 2 VAR operations
• Successfully achieve spend to budget targets, drive process improvements in forward and reverse logistics
forecasting and identified daily process automation opportunities to increase purchasing team efficiencies
• Collaborate with sourcing, engineering and marketing to understand long range strategy and capacity plans and develop actions to address constraints and ensure successful sales promotions


Senior Quality/M&P/Process Manager
• Manage and document projects, analyze data and create reports for senior leadership; to drive change and obtain alignment between legacy AT&T & DIRECTV processes and procedures to support overall business strategy
• Direct APICS SCORMark end-to-end supply chain benchmarking study for legacy UVERSE, DIRECTV and AT&T mobility businesses with PwC
• Create and manage $20B annual inventory plan for AT&T mobility business: host monthly reviews with tactical purchasing teams, as well as monthly and quarterly review with Executive Leadership team
• Develop and own database of high level and tactical operational metrics to monitor progress towards goals and provide a feedback loop to drive improvement - presented results at 2018 National APICS Conference


Senior Quality/M&P/Process Manager

• Lead planner for 6 planner team - responsible for maintaining inventory in 220 DIRECTV field warehouses to optimize customer install success rate while managing to lowest total inventory cost in the network
• Planning lead for AT&T/DIRECTV global supply chain merger activities, loaded ~750 AT&T field locations and 24,000 AT&T technicians with DIRECTV inventory with 65 days to complete. Total of
940,000 units, 5,400+ pallets and 135 full truckloads of material
• Analyze data to identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy and drive corrections with demand, sales and marketing teams
• Supply chain lead for new product introductions including load in strategy plans, quantity determinations, post launch reviews and forecast revisions

Senior Planner, Regional Inventory, DIRECTV

• Build, manage and own supply chain financial reporting and analytics related to cost and efficiency
• Collaborate with customer teams to lead forecasting, order/replenishment frequency and quantity reviews to optimize inventory levels and increase order efficiency for customers and ConAgra
• Partner with marketing and customer teams to create and maintain retail assortment plans, review point of sale data and provide post-mortem analysis, including: regional trends, lift volumes, seasonality and future recommendations
• Work cross-functionally with sales, planning, customer service and transportation to identify opportunities to reduce cost to serve, streamline processes and grow top line sales

Senior Analyst - Customer Supply Chain - Consumer Foods Division

St. Paul, MN
Supply Chain Analyst - Construction & Home Improvement Markets Division
• Responsible for managing forecasting and supply requirements between multiple international manufacturing, direct purchase and subcontract vendor locations to support $10M monthly sales for business unit with 96.7% on time to customer
• Lead the execution and facilitation of the monthly S&OP activities and process for product line: including agenda, data, materials and communication/follow-up of key messages, and tracking.
•  Coordinated cross-functional teams with marketing, engineering, quality, sales and customer service on contract adherence, new product launches, pricing, product obsolescence, forecast accuracy, inventory targets, quality issue resolution, supply chain re-designs, and manufacturing and capacity constraint resolution
• Supply chain lead for Holmes Workwear (TM) and 3M Tekk Protection (TM) product launches

Supply Chain Analyst - Construction & Home Improvement Markets Division

•Provided analysis and reports to support activities and initiatives of other functional groups within Rockwell Automation that impacted the global supply chain
• Identified, defined and implemented supply chain best practices to drive cost reductions, service improvements and productivity improvements
• Managed inbound cost reduction project for 2 Mexico facilities: reviewed logistics contractual agreements, purchasing ordering behaviors, supplier shipment schedules and implemented new best practice: resulting in
estimated $900K yearly logistics cost savings.


Logistics Analyst - Global Supply Chain Improvement

• SAP super user: provided training across multiple supply chain teams company wide
• Managed receiving incident reduction team for FTZ DC - major issues addressed and resolved were past due PO's, duplicate SAP part numbers, packaging damage, transportation inefficiencies and duplicate shipment issues
• Managed pricing and negotiations for 30+ Europe and Asia based suppliers

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Erin Korpela, MBA, CPIM: Senior Procurement Consultant in Denver, CO

Erin Korpela, MBA, CPIM

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