Lacey Johnson
Clovis,CA
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Buyer/Freight Coordinator
iLoveToCreate
11.2010 - Current
- Cost effective purchasing and continuous cost savings initiatives
- Effective vendor communication – internationally and domestically
- Buy and track all new products, expedite, prioritize and coordinate international and domestic deliveries of freight with internal team to ensure on time deliveries to customers
- Freight contract negotiations
- Coordinating all international freight/containers shipments
- Management of both internal and external customer expectations
- Support the development of new product launches
- All other duties as assigned in support of the future growth and success of iLoveToCreate
- Traveled to China for factory visits and sourcing.
Senior Supply Chain Analyst
iLoveToCreate
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Identify, research and validate inconsistencies in planned purchases including timing and/or planned purchases to drive sales through accurate purchase quantities and maximize inventory dollar ownership
- Drive steady flow of inventory that supports company priority objectives
- Identify and make recommendations for opportunities in supply chain to other departments in order to achieve sales and inventory objectives
- Recognize supplier challenges and make strategic recommendations that translate to company reduction of total cost of ownership
- Prepare analysis and recommendations for action and root cause analysis on inventory opportunities
- Recognize, analyze and eliminate costs and/or inefficiencies
- Responsible for analytical integrity
- Assess and make recommendations for modifications to improve processes as business environment changes
- Train and support new hires on ERP system, role in inventory management and impact of inventory decisions that support their goals
- Achieve optimal mix of inventory levels to achieve target inventory turns and support customer service levels
- Identify and limit factors that create excess and obsolete inventory
- Traveled to Walmart Corporate USA and Canada.
Assistant Manager Retail Replenishment
Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Office
10.2003 - 04.2024
- Responsible for managing five Replenishment Planners which included training, monitoring forecasts, holding weekly meetings and annual reviews
- Department liaison between Advertising and Purchasing to ensure department forecast were on target with advertising and shipping goals
- Published department reports to upper management with advertising results every 3 weeks
- In charge of all hiring for entire department which included reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, and managing paperwork with Human Resources
- Responsible for all tab concerns such as questions from Purchasing regarding forecast issues, distributing new tabs to the department, and informing planners of all tab changes
- Allocate and manage skus by door based on sales history and trend using tools such as American Software Inc
- And Access, as well as continuing to forecast the second highest number of tab skus in the department
- Responsible for reporting on the status of skus that were an issue at tab review and attends the meetings with management
- Train new planners on how to analyze business, forecast, and allocate skus
- Allocate and manage skus by door based on sales history and trend.
Store Analyst - Merchandise Planning
Gottschalk’s Corporate Headquarters
04.2001 - 11.2001
- Distribute purchase orders based on store need, advertising calendar, and assortment planning
- Store visits to assist in identifying store volume with fixture fill presentation
- Assist Planner in accessing historical data for assortment planning and buy plans for the buying office.
Assistant Buyer - Junior Division
Gottschalk’s Corporate Headquarters
10.1999 - 04.2001
- Communicate with vendors, advertising, planning, and price management
- Analyze sales reports and track current sales/trends
- Assist buyer in evaluating assortment plans and unit buy plans per door based on planned stock levels
- Selects merchandise for assigned buying responsibility and assists with negotiations for advertising co-op, gross margin, and markdowns
- Determines items to be marked down and POS price changes based on plan markdown money.
Education
Bachelor of Arts – Sociology -
California State University, Fresno
Skills
- Excel
- Word
- Power Point
- Access
- ERP
- IDF
- Infor
- Retail Link (Walmart)
- DSFM (demand planning)
Timeline
Senior Buyer/Freight Coordinator
iLoveToCreate
11.2010 - Current
Senior Supply Chain Analyst
iLoveToCreate
01.2010 - 01.2013
Assistant Manager Retail Replenishment
Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Office
10.2003 - 04.2024
Store Analyst - Merchandise Planning
Gottschalk’s Corporate Headquarters
04.2001 - 11.2001
Assistant Buyer - Junior Division
Gottschalk’s Corporate Headquarters
10.1999 - 04.2001
Bachelor of Arts – Sociology -
California State University, Fresno