Anthony Perfetti

Responsibilities

• Defined purchasing strategy for 86M dollar spend category for North America Market.
• Conducted several RFP's resulting in 6M dollar spend reduction.
• Developed budget for spend category bi-annually.
• Optimized safety stock planning resulting in 4M dollar reduction of warehousing and logistics annual spend.
• Recruited, interviewed, and managed team of associate strategy managers.
• New vendor onboarding
• Launched internal co-packing operation to support category demand
• Created business case analyses'

Responsibilities:

• Execute role out of indirect procurement for North America for categories of IT, Human resources, and Workplace Management.
• Built project pipeline for IT, Human resources, and Workplace Management through stakeholder engagement to forecast future North America cost saving opportunities
• Lead transition from purchase order creation to purchase requisition creation for IT department.
• Conducted market research and vendor selection for IT, Human Resources and workplace management categories
• Manage RFP and RFQ process for IT, Human Resources and Workplace management
• Built excel reporting to track category spend and purchase order creation for indirect procurement for North America
• Manage vendor relations for all categories including but not limited to facilitating vendor setup and ensuring on-time payment to invoices based on payment terms.

Responsibilities:

• Managed at risk product processes for Supply Chain, Collaborating with Sales, Trade Marketing, Finance, Quality and demand.
• Managed fill rate meeting for Supply chain to validate all product shortages.
• Achieved case fill rate of 98.6% with our top 15 customers
  
• Managed flow of finish good products from all of North America production sites
  
• Collaborate with customer service to manage order demand and evaluate direct shipment opportunities

Responsibilities:

• Managed deployment of finish good products from Co-Packaging facilities to the network
• Achieved case fill rate of 98.6% with top 15 customers
• Led RFP, development and launch of Truck load building software for US supply chain
• Developed and maintained reporting for historical product splits, Inventory deployment, material master data and truck load saturation tracking

Responsibilities:

• Developed Product level performance reporting for ecommerce channel
• Optimized NSV Demand planning process for ecommerce channel
• Created Operations Demand/Shipped model for ecommerce channel production facility for 2018-2021
• Launched external manufacturing business for M&M's Retail which included converting Sales forecast into a demand forecast, scheduling material deliveries, and scheduling production.

Responsibilities:

• Optimized inbound supply chain by negotiating cost of materials and minimum order quantities
• Reduced total inventory holding from 2.2 million dollars to 1.4 million dollars
• Created reporting to show full historical data on all base materials and provide full transparency to inventory holdings
• Responsible for purchasing 7 million dollars of materials across multiple categories such as Raw, Candy, flexible packaging, corrugated and merchandise
• Created forecasts for all replenishment of base materials and Finished good made to stock products
• Indirectly managed 2 inventory associates