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FERNANDA DONATI

Huntersville,NC

Summary

Multinational and bilingual supply chain professional with 18+ years' experience specializing in leading international and diverse teams cross-functionally, supply chain strategy, industrial engineering, innovation and program management. Unique foundation in technical knowledge with skills in strategic planning, ultimately focused on cutting costs and improving efficiencies for organizations.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Supply Chain Strategy & Network Design Sr Director

Lowe's Companies Inc
Mooresville, North Carolina
07.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for Supply Chain Strategy:

- Spearheaded the annual strategic planning process for the Supply Chain function, connecting multiple cross-functional teams at various levels

- Managed executive communication, including preparing materials for board meetings

  • Responsible for designing future Supply Chain networks and delivering a flexible, customer-centered, omni channel fulfillment infrastructure - Advanced modeling capabilities and automation

- Transformed Network Strategy process annual to a bi-annual cycle, increasing agility and providing faster response to ever changing customer requirements

  • Managed a portfolio of 130+ Supply chain facilities:

- Sites acquisitions, relocations, closures
- Development of a robust Supply Chain Real Estate Portfolio report and status

  • Oversaw the development of annual network service area plans, aligning 1,700+ stores and 130+ facilities to optimize assets, service, and cost
  • Leadership scores: engagement & leadership effectiveness of 90%+

Supply Chain Network Design Director

Lowe's Companies Inc
Mooresville
05.2021 - 07.2023
  • Responsible for designing future Supply Chain networks and delivering a flexible, customer-centered, omni channel fulfillment infrastructure
  • Led the expansion of the Supply Chain network, transforming it from a store-replenishment model to an omni-channel network
  • Oversaw the development of annual network service area plans, aligning 1,700+ stores and 130+ facilities to optimize assets, service, and cost

Supply Chain Director

Walmart
Bentonville, Arkansas
01.2021 - 05.2021
  • Responsible for developing Supply Chain Network Strategies with International markets; optimization and decision support tools to supply chain functional areas

Supply Chain Director

Walmart
05.2019 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for developing Omni Supply Chain Network Strategies along with International markets by providing insights, guidelines, recommendations, and tools, enabling teams to respond with speed and adapting networks, assets, and distribution centers according to the ever-changing commercial strategies
  • Developed network configurations guidelines for B&M, e-com and omni operations, helping the Intl countries to adapt faster to new customers' expectations
  • Created set of tools (financials, inputs, playbooks) with cross-functional teams to run projects related to strategies and new DCs 50% faster
  • Established a governance process to align international executives and country leaders on new SC strategies and new distribution centers to be presented in executive committees
  • Established network strategy communities to share best practices and promote collaboration

SC Strategy & Innovation Director

Walmart
05.2018 - 05.2019
  • Responsible for developing along country cross-functional teams: supply chain strategies, new distribution centers business case as well as innovations and technologies for DCs to support business growth and commercial strategy changes
  • Developed and got approvals for new distribution centers, supporting the >5% CAGR and channel changes
  • Designed Innovation and pilot designs to gain DC space and productivity >5%

SC Strategy Sr Manager

Walmart
06.2015 - 05.2018
  • Responsible for developing supply chain strategies with country cross-functional teams to support business growth and changes
  • Supported a 10-year supply chain strategy design for a high growth market, resulting in a road map and future investments >U$1B
  • Developed a cost-benefit & IRR analysis for both manual and automated solution for a high labor & real estate market, ended up in a new DC approval

SC Network Strategy and Industrial Engineering Manager

Walmart (Brazil)
06.2014 - 06.2015
  • Responsible for all projects in supply chain related to network strategy, engineering, innovation and process improvement (>15 DCs)
  • Leading a team with 16 people
  • Developed a Supply Chain network strategy with cross-functional teams to support to reduce transportation costs and trapped taxes by 50%
  • Implemented a shoe sorter in a DC, which helped to gain capacity and increase productivity in 7% and improve service

SC Industrial Engineer Manager

Walmart (Brazil)
06.2012 - 06.2014
  • Responsible for all projects in supply chain related to industrial engineering, innovation and process improvement (>15 DCs)
  • Leading a team with 12 people
  • Gained 9% productivity in the DCs against previous years, through operations teams and MHE purchase, impacting also service level to customers
  • Implemented 'one-best-way' rankings to leverage best practices across DCs, helping to lower expense to sales %

Consultant

Instituto de Logistics e Supply Chain (Brazil)
, Brazil
01.2011 - 06.2012
  • Company Overview: Consultancy in Brazil
  • Supply chain consultant involving different types of project for large companies: order cycle review; capacity assessment and solutions during peak; network strategy
  • Consultancy in Brazil

Various Roles

Avon Cosmetics (Brazil)
, Brazil
02.2006 - 01.2011
  • Held different roles within Supply Chain and started in leadership positions
  • Key achievement was helping on designing a new 2.7M sqft
  • Technologically advanced fulfillment center, helping increasing capacity and reducing total order cycle time to customer
  • Positions: Innovation & Technology Supervisor | Apr 10 - Jan 11, Logistics & Engineering Projects Supervisor | Sep 08 - Apr 10, Projects Analyst | Jan 08 - Sep 08, Logistics Analyst | Jun 06 - Jan 08, Trainee | Feb 06 - Jun 06

Education

Business Administration - Post Graduation -

Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Brazil
01.2010

Industrial Engineering -

Centro Universitario do Instituto Maua de Tecnologia
Brazil
01.2006

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Executive Communication
  • Supply Chain Strategy
  • Network Strategy and Planning
  • Project and Program
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Innovation
  • Process Improvement & Continuous Improvement
  • Data analytics
  • Financial Accumen
  • Lean Belt

Timeline

Supply Chain Strategy & Network Design Sr Director

Lowe's Companies Inc
07.2023 - Current

Supply Chain Network Design Director

Lowe's Companies Inc
05.2021 - 07.2023

Supply Chain Director

Walmart
01.2021 - 05.2021

Supply Chain Director

Walmart
05.2019 - 01.2021

SC Strategy & Innovation Director

Walmart
05.2018 - 05.2019

SC Strategy Sr Manager

Walmart
06.2015 - 05.2018

SC Network Strategy and Industrial Engineering Manager

Walmart (Brazil)
06.2014 - 06.2015

SC Industrial Engineer Manager

Walmart (Brazil)
06.2012 - 06.2014

Consultant

Instituto de Logistics e Supply Chain (Brazil)
01.2011 - 06.2012

Various Roles

Avon Cosmetics (Brazil)
02.2006 - 01.2011

Business Administration - Post Graduation -

Fundacao Getulio Vargas

Industrial Engineering -

Centro Universitario do Instituto Maua de Tecnologia
FERNANDA DONATI