Michael Lyons

• Prepare and present monthly IBP process on the largest portfolio within the company. Including building blocks and IBP presentation to senior leadership for US & CA.
• Collaborated closely with sales and marketing teams to incorporate market insights into demand forecasts accurately.
• Streamlined the S&OP process, effectively aligning supply and demand plans.
• Championed a data-driven culture within the company, emphasizing evidence-based decision-making as a core value.
• Aligned product launch strategies with broader organizational goals by incorporating forward-looking intelligence into long-range planning efforts.

$22B consumer packaged goods company with a product portfolio including Loctite glue, Dial soap, Persil, & Snuggle.

• Prepare & present monthly S&OP presentation.
• Category optimization project lead using analytics and PowerBI.
• Prepare & present monthly S&OP presentation.
• Create a 12-week schedule at production plant in SAP APO ERP.
• Cross-functional alignment with sales, R&D & finance teams.
• Maintain goals for production service level, sales service level & inventory management.
• Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
• Implemented inventory-management strategies to maximize availability and decrease waste.

• Forecast a 12-month demand plan.
• Run weekly plant production calls.
• Participation in S&OP alignment between sales, supply chain, and finance.
• Schedule a 12-week schedule at production plant using material requirement planning.
• Maintain 26-week plant production capacity charts.
• Create plant to DC deliveries with DC rebalancing.
• Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
• Tracked and monitored purchase orders, deliveries and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance.

• Create & maintain daily, monthly, and quarterly sales reports.
• Ad hoc reporting for department VP.
• Drafting distributor sales agreements.
• Deduction management.
• Demand planning.
• Preparing and presenting national sales meeting presentation.
• Enabled sales operations to run smoothly through effective management of department's workflows and processes.
• Collaborated with sales executives to determine sales areas that could be improved.

• Audits of freight forwarders.
• Export license drafts for ITAR orders.
• Draft Certificate of Origin for exported shipments.
• EAR compliance with legal control and release of export orders.
• Maintaining commodity codes and country of origin.
• Screening end-user certificates & Visitor screenings.
• Produced and filed reports to inform senior management of current activities and progress with investigations.