Brad Grover

POSITION OVERVIEW: As part of North America Supply Planning organization, responsible for the development, planning, and implementation of the S&OP Supply Plan for a complex and/or high volume portfolio, including the balancing and management of inventory, customer service requirements, and total cost to meet finished goods demand with optimized total delivered costs [TDC]. Managing inventory for new product launches, managing of disposition of slow moving and obsolete finished goods, and developing and driving continuous & process improvement initiatives across Supply Chain that creates capacity, reduces inventory and/or improves service.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development, planning and implementation of the supply plan to meet finished good demand at optimized TDC

• Develop production (rough cut) & inventory plans to meet finished goods demand via internal & co-pack operations network

• Evaluate slow moving materials and excess inventories and recommend and implement corrective action plans

• Daily management and problem-solving of supply and inventory plan variances, including unexpected demand, to ensure appropriate communication and actions with customer service, sales planning, marketing, operations, and the customers as appropriate

• Serves as the Supply Chain lead on cross-functional customer/business teams charged with business development, operational excellence, and capacity development; recommends, leads and operationalizes process improvements and cost reduction opportunities

•Proactively participate and engage in driving supply planning execution of new business opportunities, including new products and product discontinuations, and identify process efficiencies and improvements to optimize these opportunities

• Other duties as assigned.

• Built comprehensive inventory systems to track current supply chain data.
• Suggested improvements to cut costs and improve the supply chain process, incorporating asset utilization, performance measurement, and outsourcing approaches.
• Improved forecasting systems to maintain adequate materials and supplies.
• Implemented best practices and process improvements to boost supply chain performance.
• Manage Redeployment processes and PO management.
• Manage two portfolios: Omni Channel (Amazon), and SWI Sub contractor (French's and Franks Items)

• Controlled daily business operations by devising and deploying short and long-range strategies to grow profitability and accomplish objectives such as our yearly 120 Million Pound production goals, and our commitment to 0 quality and safety incidents
• Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
• Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
• Spearheaded department training for appraisals of new components.
• Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications and missed deadlines.
• Collaborated with process owners to refine procedures, devise best practices and correct quality audit findings.
• Advanced productivity KPIs by leading trainings on procedures and safety practices.
• Formulated processes to improve assistance to support groups, resulting in reduction of downtime and financial loss.
• Direct report of 4 Crew Leaders, 56 Technicians, 1 Process Engineer, 1 Process Tech, 2 Blending Analyst, and 1 Manufacturing Coordinator
• Responsible to ensure blending team meets our targeted KPI's of 6 blenders including 13 Million pounds a month

Currently lead a team of 20 technicians to provide exceptional results at a quality standard while capturing on cross functional abilities.

• Maintain production machine's equipment
• Identify Debug problems in processes, product's, equipment to work for a solution
• Sound understanding of stress response/method's to ensure personal well being
• Month's worth of material processing experience to better understand the full theory of operation through the plant

• Blended raw materials from a compound stage to a ready to release recipe by using knowledge of SAP, the appropriate documentation & functionality of all the blenders

• Coordinated auction car pick up's from all Manheim Locations (NC,PA,NJ,NY)
• Ordered all GM vehicle's to the exact specification requested by the General Manger
• Did Inventory on all auction car's delivered; Wrote any necessary work order's (Dent Repair, Paint Repair, Interior Repair and bumper repair) before vehicles were to go on the lot
• Coordinated all dealer exchanges
• Handled all after-sale customer related issue's