Product Delivery / Inventory Manager

Logistics, Shipping & Operations

Provide leadership and coaching to Assembly, Planning and Logistics departments using collaborative team approach.  Accountable for customer order fulfilment - from providing price and delivery lead time to Order completion and shipping.  Responsible for demand planning and inventory management.

Notable Accomplishments:
? Created a sales forecasting program in cooperation with sales team
? Work closely with Sales, Manufacturing and Engineering teams to forecast, plan production and fulfill customer demands, reduced shortages by 25% while reducing inventory.
? Lead bi weekly S&OP meeting with senior management to discuss plant capacity, Manufacturing jobs, inventory, customer orders, upcoming shipments and Engineering upcoming projects
? Defined and implemented a strategy to optimize Finished Goods and raw materials inventory and improve accuracy
? Led department managers to establish a companywide Complete-On-Time KPI and department specific "lead" KPIs
? ERP / MRP implementation champion
? Plan and oversee purchasing of raw materials, spare and consumable parts.
? Heavily involved in establishing order fulfilment and warehouse management processes in USA - newly acquired branch
? Created a tool configurator - VBA, MS Access, ODBC, ERP and PLM.  The configurator is widely used by Sales team and Product specialists, it improved accuracy and reduced Estimate and Customer Order creation time by 80%
? Created numerous BI - Business Intelligence tools using Excel and Tableau
? Data extraction, database and dashboard design, quantitative analysis - Statistics, Trends, etc. and synthesize findings

Held responsible for handling all Sales and Operation planning - S&OP meetings and overseeing overall company assets management function. Tasked to produce master schedule for all active projects.

Notable Accomplishments:
? Planned and coordinated bi-weekly S&OP meetings
? Analyzed Company-wide capacity and efficiency - Engineering, Manufacturing and Installation
? Developed asset management and asset audit programs - Ms Access
? Planned and project-managed a physical audit of 6000+ individual fleet assets in 50+ locations

Efficiency Planner / Asset Manager

Tasked to consolidate products by performing vigorous data analysis for each European region. Initiated the development and implementation of KPI for chemical manufacturing plant by facilitating regular meeting with finance, planning, and manufacturing managers. Carried out an depth analysis of inventory status, inventory turns, days in inventory - DII, sales, sales rep numbers and performance for each European country.

Notable Accomplishments:
? Drove all effort to analyze data and propose innovative recommendations to senior managers, in terms of reducing inventory, consolidating products, and cutting costs
? Expedited set up time on a chemical production line by 40% by organizing a SMED event
? Slashed discontinued inventory by 70% within 3 quarters by effectively managing the European multinational marketing group

Supply Chain Project Manager

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Mehrzad Rahmanfard: Product Delivery / Inventory Manager

Mehrzad Rahmanfard

MIT

Ryerson University

Schulich School of Business-York University