Andrea Ferraro
East Windsor,USA
Summary
Accomplished Supply Chain Professional with a proven track record at Mondelez International, adept in Strategic Production Planning and enhancing operational efficiencies. Demonstrates exceptional leadership in collaborative problem-solving, ensuring seamless distribution and product launches.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Innovation Supply Planner
Mondeléz International
East Hanover, USA
09.2019 - Current
- Align allocated demand and production needs to launch all innovative biscuit items throughout the network to meet launch date requirements
- Coordinate between sales planning and production planning
- Control release of product
- Review waste
- Allocate quantities for PRD and repack requirements
- Ensure WIP product is available and delivers to production sites
- New item set up
Biscuit Network Fulfillment and Production Planner
Mondeléz International
East Hanover, USA
03.2015 - 09.2019
- Ensure that all Pallet Ready Displays are produced through a third-party company and correctly deployed throughout the network to meet customer promotions
- Manage production schedule and timelines with the repack site
- Utilize PAS (Product Allocation System) daily and communicate with teams to ensure correct deployments while maintaining 97% CFR
- Responsible for New Item set up in both SAP and APO
- Including creating production versions, extensions, transportation lanes, and planner codes
Confections Location Demand Forecasting
Mondeléz International
East Hanover, USA
10.2012 - 03.2015
- Responsible for forecasting Trident, Stride, and Dentyne at a sku level for all of US, this is 180 skus over 3 locations
- Maintain and review statistical models, and analyze brand and sku trends; volume, location, pacing, promotions, and discontinuations
- Work with cross functional partners to reach a consensus on the amount forecasted and align on weekly pacing
- Reduced forecast error by 20%
- Lead collaboration calls with Wal-Mart and other key customers in which promotional activity is discussed, tracked, and entered
- Created a new method for customer data organization with excel files which bring new intelligence into a spreadsheet and then compares actual results to previous estimates
- Co-lead an initiative to increase engagement of larger demand planning group with great feedback from peers and management
Biscuit Distribution Planner
Kraft Foods
East Hanover, USA
05.2011 - 10.2012
- Vehicle sizing and load planning from the warehouse to the branches to meet case fill rate objectives
- Primary contact for two sites, Morris and Ft
- Worth, representing 60% of RDC network
- Forecast capacity of DC and calculate the number of outbound loads needed for optimal space utilization while balancing operational efficiency
- Actively managed deployment allocations for limited inventory/ new product to meet branch needs for successful launch dates and to protect CFR
Nabisco Production Supervisor
Kraft Foods
Richmond, USA
01.2010 - 05.2011
- Lead and managed 12 employees on multiple shifts in a union environment for packing production of Chips Ahoy! and Chunky Chips Ahoy!
- Understanding and ability to run cookie, cracker, and snack production (Oreo, Ritz, and Wheat Thins)
- Active participant in bringing lines to 3 Sigma: Developed document template that is used across all bakeries as a basis for control plans
Nabisco Production Supervisor Intern
Kraft Foods
Richmond, USA
05.2008 - 08.2008
- Trained on production lines and solved issues on quality, maintenance, and safety
- Created home setting documentation of critical parameters needed to regain control of a process if lost
Education
Bachelor of Science - Agribusiness Management
Pennsylvania State University
01.2009
Skills
- Strategic Production Planning
- Supply Chain Management and Distribution
- Allocation Analysis
- Demand forecasting
- Scheduling optimization
- Cost reduction strategies
Training
- Front Line Leadership: Methods for problem solving, conflict management, coaching, and goal setting.
- Managing for Impact: Developing employees through engagement, motivation, and communication.
- Business Basics: Balancing resources and building a holistic view of financial movements within companies.
- Lean Six Sigma White Belt Seminar: Gained knowledge on L6S objectives and learned problem solving methods.
Timeline
Innovation Supply Planner
Mondeléz International
09.2019 - Current
Biscuit Network Fulfillment and Production Planner
Mondeléz International
03.2015 - 09.2019
Confections Location Demand Forecasting
Mondeléz International
10.2012 - 03.2015
Biscuit Distribution Planner
Kraft Foods
05.2011 - 10.2012
Nabisco Production Supervisor
Kraft Foods
01.2010 - 05.2011
Nabisco Production Supervisor Intern
Kraft Foods
05.2008 - 08.2008
Bachelor of Science - Agribusiness Management
Pennsylvania State University
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