Strategic Procurement Pricing Analyst
The Wenger Group
Rheems, PA
03.2021 - 01.2022
- Increased efficiency by developing knowledge of the entire Wenger organization and the complex inner workings of the company.
- Identified millions of dollars in operational inefficiencies and strategies to correct them to create more value for customers.
- Created data visualization dashboards with actionable insights for C-level executives giving them the confidence to make informed decisions that positively impacted the business.
- Consulted Wenger on all areas of futures trading, risk management, and hedging strategies to improve their competitive edge.
- Facilitated data analysis, search query mining, and the development of ad hoc reporting saving time finding needed data and boosting productivity.
- Created demand forecasting models for millions of dollars of formulation ingredients facilitating best pricing for those ingredients and the confidence to not under or over buy.
- Ran statistical analysis and optimization with clustering and classifying on thousands of feed formulation models, helping gain a competitive edge.
- Created geospatial analysis of thousands of suppliers and customers. This project eliminated the need to manually search for suppliers and customers and increased sourcing efficiency. This project empowered buyers with a single, centralized tool and added to optimal procurement efficiency.
- Responsible for evaluating and implementing various software systems for procurement and feed formulation that enabled the company to make better decisions.
- Introduced machine learning techniques into analyzing feed formulation models and eliminated the need to hire more people.
- Created detailed analysis of various areas of operational optimization, including transportation routing technology and real time, on-line FT-NIR analysis that would allow Wenger to transform their business with cutting edge technology.
