Global Supply Planner at Patagonia

•	Ensure that finished good receipt plans are created to best meet the inventory requirements of global customers across multiple selling channels. 
•	Interact and communicate with Forecasting, Finance, Product, and Production teams to identify inventory trends and constraints.
•	Analyze inventory trends and make suggestions to prioritize, expedite or delay open supplier Purchase Orders’.
•	Proactively partner with Production and Channel Teams to report product and material availability issues for an assigned subset of styles.
•	Support key stakeholders with weekly reporting.
•	Conduct ad-hoc inventory analysis as needed.
•	Determine global supply buy quantities using forecast, open orders, supply landscape and trend analysis for a subset of styles.
•	Support Sublevel Purchase Orders process for assigned categories.
•	Identify scenarios when it may be necessary to buy additional product to meet Minimum Order Quantities and advise product surcharge options.
•	Performs ad-hoc duties as needed to support the Supply Planning Team.
•	Partner with Social/ Environmental and Supply Planning Teams to ensure our production planning and purchasing practices do not negatively impact working conditions within our supply chain.
•	Monthly PowerPoint and data collection on fulfillment rates

On my own: Set up shadowing hours with Inventory Control, Quality Assurance and Material Development to learn more about the business and industry

Found mentorship with International Team employee

Womens + community Group leader and Membership Engagement role

Global Supply Planner

•	Manage supplier relations for three categories (Baby wipes, Diapers/Training pants and Feminine pads)
•	Plan/write and strategize production orders for key suppliers while maintaining low cost levels of safety stock/inventory
•	Collaborate with different teams within the company (demand planning, procurement, customer care, logistics, project managers)
•	Create/manage item setup for new launches and ownership of product transitions

Supply Planner

•	Analyze and gather market data to understand supply market dynamics and provide benchmarking exercises to save costs
•	Develop and execute material price forecasts in the BPC Process
•	Coordinate, collaborate and create cost savings projects
•	Contribute to the SVG product innovation process through Supplier engagement and identifying optimal supplier outcomes
•	Manage contract maintenance in SAP, focused on team organization (tasks, calendars and tracking contract updates)
•	Ownership of the PPV and DCIW processes, and completed 2017 and 2018 PPV backlog for key suppliers
•	Collected data for a Label eTender and worked with the Unilever Label team to execute a significant savings in 2019
•	Resolved miss payments to the wrong supplier, took all necessary steps to communicate and correct this issue

Assistant Procurement Manager

•Analyzed sales trends, sales history and promotional activity for top retailers and insured forecast is updated using Demand Planning best practices and documented forecast changes accordingly for all finished good items for the Cabot Cut & Wrap, Cultured and Butter manufacturing
•Maintained weekly statistical forecasts for a rolling 78-week horizon at the item- customer- location level as well as category, pack size and top account level
•Analyzed historical data for discontinued items at the retailer level to remove the items from history to generate more statistically sound forecasts
•Proactively developed and maintained cross-functional relationships with Sales and Marketing to collaborate on new item launches, new distribution, discontinuations and cannibalization 
•Consistently communicated business intelligence from Sales and Marketing with Production 
•Developed Excel based reporting structure for Demand Plan in comparison to Budget and Sales Forecast for monthly meetings
•Performed root cause analysis of demand issues and provide process resolutions
•Analyzed available capacity in relation to various forecasts( Budget and Forecast) to highlight any possible constraints 
•Developed/maintained KPI’s and success factors for Demand Planning accuracy, error and bias
•Utilized Nielsen data, IRI Data, Along with analyzing trends from multiple data sources and create/provide reports for various departments
•Managed 300 SKU’s, ran statistical models, analyzed data and shipment trends, proactively worked with Sales and Production resources, and maintained files in Excel with consistency in naming and formatting

Projects
•Organized daily/weekly and monthly tasks and meetings into a OneNote Calendar for four team members to collaboratively use
•Assisted in Budget 2018 volume and pricing, file creation and sales data
•Created whey operations inventory/sales tracker/capacity file
•Transportation and Cost per pound Data entered into PowerBI for trend analysis

Demand Planning Analyst

•Under general supervision, performed routine financial or accounting activities and data entry
• Executed accounting tasks with daily, monthly and quarterly deadlines
• Completed training courses to ensure continue industry and technical development
•Developed, implemented, and maintained appropriate internal controls and procedures to ensure compliance standards are met
•Prepared and engaged in monthly team and department meetings. Completed required monthly trainings to ensure continued professional and technical development
• Responded to clients and/or branch issues to ensure adherence to company policy and customer service standards


Projects
• Initiated a project proposal to develop a workflow improvement to completely paperless. Resulted in increased efficiency and enabled the company to save $12,000 a year
• Team member of project- created an on boarding handbook distributed nationally
• Managed and created a calendar rotation system of tasks for 20 people in our department

Accounts Receivable Specialist

•Focused on accounting related tasks such as entries in QuickBooks, bill paying, invoicing, payroll and scheduling
•Managed payroll for ten employees on a weekly basis
•Assisted with various clerical tasks, including data entry, report writing and answering phones

Internship/Administrative Assistant

•Worked with a team to coordinate responsibilities within the company while also creating a friendly atmosphere to ensure quality customer service
•Responsible for inventory, stocking daily shipments, and overall managed accounts

Seasonal Sales and Customer service

•Actively participated in the day-to-day CPA activities such as meetings and the analyzing of several financial reports
•Gained valuable exposure to various areas of the accounting industry such as needs of customers and efficient office structure

Shadowing

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Molly Fitzsimmons: Global Supply Planner at Patagonia in Ventura, California

Molly Fitzsimmons

Trinity College Dublin

SUNY Brockport

Swinburne University of Technology