Jack Bernier

• Demand Planning

- Working with Sales to review the accuracy of the forecast, to discuss changes, and to identify nontypical demand signals.

- Review and make changes to inventory policies for replenishment and safety stock.

- Maximize inventory turn and fulfillment rates.

- Manage demand planning software.

• Supply Planning

- Creating purchasing plans based on demand, on-hand, and in-transit goods.

- Submitting purchase orders to FOB factories, and communicating about high MOQs and material lead times.

- Coordinating shipping and receiving with the logistics team.

• Inventory Management

- Syncing inventory across external and virtual locations.

- Providing inventory variance and valuation reports to Finance.

- Organizing projects with 3PLs to improve order lead times.

• Coordinated inventory activities across three third-party logistics providers and five domestic manufacturing sites.
• Worked with the Sales, Finance, and Product Development departments to meet quarterly target objectives for revenue and new product launches.
• Conducting inventory control testing of US warehouses for internal auditing purposes.

• Performed quarterly and annual physical counts of inventory items in North American warehouses and manufacturing facilities.
• Maintained and maintained inventory accuracy for over 2,000 finished goods SKUs across four product lines and over 500 domestic raw material SKUs.
• Managed demand planning of domestic manufactured product lines
• Ran on-site inventory accuracy testing at third-party logistic warehouses and domestic manufacturing sites with external auditors for financial purposes.

• Balanced inventory between wholesale and website/DTC sales channels for optimal fulfillment rates.
• Conducted analyses of U.S. order shortages to identify opportunities for shipping excess goods from overseas warehouses.
• Ran cycle counts for on-site warehouses to determine root causes of shortages for both raw material production and finished goods orders.

• Ran Supply and Demand reporting to identify back orders with no inbound stock.
• Created excel templates for reporting and communications with manufacturers and warehouses.
• Helped establish methods to running KPI metrics for Operations department.