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Dylan Piskula

Chicago,IL

Summary

Experienced and proactive supply chain professional with experience in supply and fulfillment planning, data analysis, Oracle Netsuite and Microsoft Dynamics. Seeking positions in supply planning, demand planning, or supply chain analytics. Demonstrated strengths include meeting multiple shifting deadlines across teams, proactive data analysis, and strategic planning to ensure optimal business operations. Contributed significantly to previous roles by identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing effective inventory control strategies. Possess strong communication skills for collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Inventory Analyst

Cisco Meraki
09.2023 - Current
  • Manage inventory for 1000+ SKUs for the largest Meraki distribution center in the US
  • Maintain a 99.99% 24-hr SLA for inbounding truck to shelf with 3PL DC
  • Conduct bi-weekly reconciliation on sellable/non-sellable inventory maintaining a 99% accuracy for 4 quarters
  • Lead and manage yearly wall-to-wall inventory count maintaining 99% accuracy
  • Keep records of individual serial numbers for all hardware units and troubleshoot any serial issues with Meraki support, vendors and DC
  • Provide finance team a weekly overview of incoming shipments to reconcile receipts at end of month finance posting
  • Work cross functionally with allocations, demand, and supply chain managers to ensure inventory is supplied as needed between all 5 Meraki DCs internationally
  • Adhere to import/export documentation (creating and managing commercial invoices, accurate packing lists)
  • Create POs for international transfers between DCs
  • Identify and scrap SLOB SKUs while adhering to finance team's monthly scrapping budget.

Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Cisco Meraki
09.2020 - 08.2024
  • Develop supply and fulfillment plan for 1000+ SKU's across multiple RDC's within US
  • Oversee day to day warehouse operations and order fulfillment to ensure orders are shipped timely and properly and all KPI's are met (OTIF, SL, Fulfillment Rate, etc.)
  • Month end reconciliation and SOX compliance analysis of quarterly ledgers between the distribution center and finance to note and adjust variances within sales orders and purchase orders
  • Manages daily order release reporting, inventory backlog, and weekly KPI reports with the distribution center to improve accuracy, timeliness and process efficiency
  • Work within Microsoft Dynamics; from simple order detail changes all the way to fixing allocations errors, reporting quarterly order release forecasts, and weekly revenue capture
  • Worked closely with developers to integrate and simplify inventory and order projection reports across multiple distribution centers to better integrate and streamline SOPs among teams through Tableau
  • Problem solve any domestic fulfillment issues with carriers, parcel to FTL
  • Lead contact for fulfillment/shipping inquiries and issues for all international orders, from customer to carrier
  • Manage shipping quotes for LTL shipments and worked closely with dev team to automate the quoting process
  • Trained four new team members and created training modules and SOPs for reference.

Receiving Specialist II

Cisco Meraki
03.2019 - 09.2020
  • Lead for the transactional processing team, ranging from training, metrics implementation and follow-through, and go-to knowledge of our department and processes across other teams
  • Main contact for escalated return requests for Meraki's domestic warehouses
  • Worked closely with sales, inventory, and shipping teams resolving shipping/packing errors
  • Team lead for daily reporting using SQL and Excel to improve efficiency at returns warehouse and improve return receipt processing SLA to 48hrs.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Audio Engineering

Columbia College Chicago

Skills

  • Extensive Experience in JDE/Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and NetSuite/Oracle
  • Experienced in Tableau and Salesforce
  • Extensive experience using Microsoft Suite, Access, and Excel
  • Pursuing APICs Certification (CPIM)
  • Supply Planning
  • Fulfillment Planning
  • Data Analysis
  • Warehouse Management
  • Materials Management
  • Transportation Management
  • Process Improvements
  • Stakeholder rapport

Affiliations

  • Volunteered with multiple employee resource organizations for charity in office and offsite
  • Volunteer as a chef at the residency for the non-profit organization Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)

Timeline

Inventory Analyst

Cisco Meraki
09.2023 - Current

Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Cisco Meraki
09.2020 - 08.2024

Receiving Specialist II

Cisco Meraki
03.2019 - 09.2020

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Audio Engineering

Columbia College Chicago

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