Emina Hrnjic
Erie,PA
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Supply Chain Analyst
Parker Lord
01.2024 - Current
- Develop and maintain a monthly consensus forecast across multiple industry groups and manufacturing facilities
- Facilitate Demand and Supply reviews, participate in SIOP discussions and prepare meeting agendas
- Drive plant specific monthly labor and capacity reviews to help develop staffing plans to support demand forecast
- Use Logility MRP system to generate statistical forecast for customer demand
- Monitor, analyze, and adjust forecast inputs from sales, marketing and business unit promotions to ensure demand plans based on most current data
- Provide input on Annual Operating Plan(AOP)
- Analyze and provide guidance on the appropriate stocking strategies to support agreed upon lead times and targeted delivery levels
- Prepare and analyze inventory reports to guide in achieving defined inventory performance objectives
- Participate in any ongoing meeting discussions for obsolete material or new material onboarding
- Direct ongoing SI&OP process improvements through corrective actions and streamlining SOPs
- Provide demand and supply planning information to specific manufacturing facility
- Conducted demand planning exercises to accurately forecast future inventory needs based on historical sales trends
- Enhanced supply chain visibility, utilizing advanced tracking tools and real-time monitoring solutions
Supply Chain Analyst
Avery Dennison
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Provide daily, weekly, and monthly service metrics reports to leadership members along with participating in daily and monthly reviews
- S&OP analysis for demand and capacity—weekly and monthly Lead investigations to determine root cause and action items associated with service issues and plant performance
- Develop presentations for key engagements including supply chain reviews with leadership, meetings with suppliers, all-hands employee meetings, and department month end reviews
- Proactively communicate internally with sales, operations, and supply chain team regarding potential inventory issues, delays, or risks that could impact business operations
- Help manage external processing suppliers by issuing POs and tracking of domestic drop shipments
- Responsible for production planning on two key machine for top two customers
- Assist in carrying out the budget for the year by partnering with supply chain planning team
- Responsible for over 50 international buying of buy/resell items for top customers
- Design data analytics for inventory management and product-specific opportunities
- Design, build, and launch business solutions for Supply Chain Planning team
- Interpret data results and providing insights that will help members make informed decisions and optimize processes
- Coordinate, arrange, and track international logistics for inbound POs
- Provide support to sales with various operational and logistic tasks
- Successfully managed inventory reduction plan and reduced inventory by $2.5M in span of 6 months
Buyer
Haysite Reinforced Plastics
03.2020 - 01.2021
- Responsible for all indirect material and some direct material purchasing
- Conduct negotiations on materials, equipment, and supplies from various vendors
- Monitoring and executing daily reports to show new inventory and allocation across manufacturing.
- Drove and monitored inventory to targeted levels in support of corporate goals
- Achieved various cost savings across company, $50,000 YTD
- Ensured that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications
- Develop with finance and maintain compliant to an inventory control policy which includes regular cycle counts, approval process for inventory adjustments, as well as physical count process
- Initiated and managed in-house continuous improvement projects, while helping to design processes according to the principles of LEAN manufacturing
- Tracked and executed all CAPEX project spend in compliance with corporate approvals, forecasted over 1$ million spend in 2020.
- Liaise frequently with Expeditors, Inspection Leads, Receiving Department, and accounts payable/receivable.
- Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
- Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
- Reduced procurement costs through strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, and effective negotiations.
- Developed strong relationships with suppliers to secure favorable pricing terms and conditions for the company''s benefit.
Buyer
AirBorn Inc.
12.2018 - 03.2020
- Responsible for negotiating materials, equipment, and supplies from various vendors
- Managing and evaluating vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable vendor
- Maintaining inventory levels across three sites, using vendor reports, material usage reports and GLOVIA software in order to prepare for anticipated demand and recommend cost-reducing inventory level actions.
- Monitoring and managing supplier schedule to prioritize urgent needs based on open orders.
- Working with management to implement a long-term strategy that focuses on Quality, Delivery and provide excellence in customer service
- Responsible for achieving targets for cost savings, supply base optimization, quality and delivery
- Analyze yearly usage of material to follow a trend in forecasting for next year usage, appropriate safety stock set, and price negotiations for blanket Purchase Orders.
- Coordinated with software team on developing a report to show three year average usage on component, to streamline buyer’s time spent analyzing data.
- Responsible for running daily reports to show new inventory and allocation across manufacturing.
- Streamlined daily activities for all buyers by combining reports used to analyze demand vs supply
- Managing inventory portfolio of over 3,000 individual connector shells along with needed demand for coating finish.
- Maintaining inventory records of ongoing cost savings for company, with plan on obtaining set cost saving goal.
- Responsible for the disposition process and disposition execution for expense items to ensure inactive items are removed from Inventory to maximize available center capacity
- Handling complaints and performed actions to resolve for quality or delivery failures
- Brought in a cost saving of ~$400,000 to connector shells within 6 month period based on new supplier relationship and addressing run rates with existing suppliers.
- Managed approval of new suppliers, tracking of supplier scorecards(OTD & QA), and supplier activity
- Coordinating with suppliers to ensure delivery and quality performance as needed
- Supporting Digital Transformation team in implementation of new software system and updating current system.
- Monitoring and supporting the execution of the inventory reduction program in compliance with Continues Improvement Process
- Responsible for position training on all new buyers and incoming interns in the connector shell department
- Part of team for Green Belt training in compliance of Six Sigma.
- Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
- Increased supplier efficiency by negotiating contracts and maintaining strong relationships with vendors.
Material Planner
Bay Valley Foods
04.2014 - 12.2018
- Maintaining inventory levels using physical counts, supplier reports, material usage reports and SAP software in order to prepare for anticipated demand and recommend cost-reducing inventory level actions
- Monitoring and supporting the execution of the inventory reduction program in compliance with Continues Improvement Process
- Managing component transition for Reformulations, New Product Introductions, and Discontinued Items through interaction with Category Managers, Marketing, Management, and business development teams
- Working with management to implement a long-term strategy that focuses on Quality, Delivery and provide excellence in customer service
- Responsible for achieving targets for cost savings, supply base optimization, quality and delivery
- Analyze quarterly scrubs by comparing previous year forecast vs. usage levels to determine appropriate safety stock is set
- Managing inventory portfolio of over 2,000 ingredients
- Maintaining inventory records to present trends and seeks opportunities for improvement in operations
- Responsible for the disposition process and disposition execution for expense items to ensure inactive items are removed from Inventory to maximize available center capacity
- Handling complaints and performed actions to resolve for quality or delivery failures
- Procure and responsible for over $20 million annual spend in commodities and inventory
- Cut distressed inventory by 5% in 2016 resulting in average yearly savings of $250,000 to the company
- Streamlining the process of identifying needs, arranging and allocating resources to improve time and cost efficiency
- Coordinating with suppliers to ensure delivery and quality performance as needed
- Responsible for managing communication regarding inventory and replenishment activities
- Responsible for contract compliance with established dispositions agreed upon corporate procurement and suppliers
- Supporting VMI implementations and self-billing process
- Coordinating and supporting transition of new company and customer acquisition
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Gannon University
Erie, PA05.2012
Skills
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Warehouse Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Forecasting Accuracy
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Materials Management
- SAP proficiency
- Capacity Planning
- Microsoft Excel Proficiency
Timeline
Sr. Supply Chain Analyst
Parker Lord
01.2024 - Current
Supply Chain Analyst
Avery Dennison
01.2021 - 01.2024
Buyer
Haysite Reinforced Plastics
03.2020 - 01.2021
Buyer
AirBorn Inc.
12.2018 - 03.2020
Material Planner
Bay Valley Foods
04.2014 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Science -
Gannon University
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