Rachelle Rist
Durham,CA
Summary
Dynamic Materials Planning Manager with a proven track record at Truroots, adept in leveraging NetSuite and Project Management skills to streamline operations and reduce costs. Excelled in fostering teamwork and collaboration across departments, achieving significant improvements in inventory management and vendor relations. Demonstrated expertise in negotiating and implementing efficient supply chain strategies, contributing to robust sales growth and operational excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Materials Planning Manager
Truroots (R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organics)
Chico, California
06.2023 - Current
- Works with the Demand Planning Team to create production schedules that have adequate material requirements.
- Manages, plans, and orders over 80 imported and domestic raw materials for two factories, one on each coast.
- Tracks imported raw materials by container number for up to 200 open purchase orders at one time.
- Manages and ensures all paperwork for imported and domestic raw materials is accurate and received on time. Paperwork, which includes COA, NOP Organic Certifications, BOL, and Delivery Orders and weight certificates.
- Orders, plans, and manages juice tankers into both factories for multiple raw materials. Working closely with plant managers to ensure timely delivery of live offloads.
- Working with cross-functional teams, such as Quality, Receiving, Executive Leadership, and Planning, to ensure the smooth execution of new material planning processes.
- Minimizing costs while ensuring optimal inventory levels when transporting goods from plant to plant.
- Works with the finance team to track and control material costs. Responsible for approving all invoicing to ensure timely payments to vendors.
- Creates strong relationships with vendors and provides forecasts from a 30-day view up to 1 year to maintain inventory levels.
- Works closely with Sr. Procurement Manager to maintain and approve all Blanket Purchase Orders in NetSuite.
- Strategically pulls from blanket purchase orders to maintain inventory levels for two manufacturing facilities.
- Collaborates with Quality and R&D teams to create BOMs (Bill of Materials) when using new countries of origin and new raw materials. Responsible for ensuring that correct BOMs are being used in Work Orders before being sent to the plant floor.
- Uses my 6 years of working in the plant to help corporate employees understand the limitations and capabilities our manufacturing facilities have.
- Solely manages our last co-packed items, Santa Cruz Organics applesauce line. Works with two manufacturing facilities to produce eight SKUs of applesauce. Works include forecasting, ordering, arranging freight to each plant in truckload quantities, and managing inventory levels of packaging.
Co-Pack Manager
TruRoots (R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organics)
Chico , CA
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and establishing long-term relationships with existing and new manufacturers/private label partners, such as Target, Trader Joe's, and Tree Top.
- Successfully launched and manages six new SKUs as a partner with Target under the Good & Gather label.
- Identifies a new co-packer to support innovation and strategic development.
- Negotiate and administer co-packer contracts, forecasts, and purchase orders.
- Analyze contract manufacturers' capabilities, qualifications, and negotiate co-pack costs.
- Responsible for ensuring co-packers are adhering to all food safety and quality requirements from federal and state guidelines, as well as TruRoots standards.
- manages all certification requirements
- Coordinate production scheduling and planning for all co-pack requirements to ensure inventory meets customer demands.
- Manages and monitors the inventory of all raw materials, WIPs, packaging supplies, and finished goods inventories.
- Review and resolve operational forecast issues, and communicate the resolution throughout the Supply Chain and Customer Logistics.
- Responsible for co-pack KPIs' performance.
- Build positive working relationships with internal and external customers.
Logistics Analyst
The J.M. Smucker Co.
Chico, CA
08.2021 - 07.2022
- Daily production reporting of finished goods while analyzing batch sheets and BOMS, material usage variances yields and formula details
- Scheduled and managed incoming deliveries of raw materials after participating in demand planning process
- Manage inventory reconciliation processes.
- Month-end production close and reporting.
- Responsible for raw material inventories at onsite and offsite warehouses
- General accounting, and cycle count coordinator
- Received in tankers of juice, truckloads of fresh fruit such as apples, pear, and cherries
- Tracked all bins used in the transportation of fresh fruit.
- Responsible for receiving all raw materials into the Oracle platform and organizing paperwork for possible audit needs.
- Create and track participation in our safety and quality trainings plant wide
- Plan and advise on new training opportunities for our Maintenance and Operations Team
- Participated in state audits and yearly inventory processing
Senior Coordinator, Operations Support
The J.M. Smucker Co.
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Daily production reporting, report and analyze material usage variances yields and formula details
- Manage inventory reconciliation processes
- Month-end production close/reporting
- Responsible for over 400 Raw materials and the locations and quantities in onsite and offsite warehouses
- Monthly reconcile of petty cash and deposit, general accounting, and cycle count coordinator
- Create and track participation in our safety and quality trainings plant wide
- Participated in state audits and yearly inventory processing
- Received in tankers of juice, truckloads of fresh fruit such as apples, pear, and cherries
- Tracked all bins used in transportation of fresh fruit
Manufacturing Account Manager
Grainger
09.2018 - 12.2018
- Maximize revenue for designated account package by growing sales within existing accounts, expanding customer contacts, identifying, and developing new opportunities at a level consistent with or exceeding company expectations
- Understand customer needs and objectives and remains alert and responsive to changing customer needs
- Demonstrated knowledge of market data and access to resources to quickly respond to new developments in the customer’s business
- Demonstrate consistent focus on actions and tactics that will produce positive sales results
- Demonstrate appropriate knowledge of the customers’ products and services to formulate business strategies to drive
- Document, analyze, and understand impact of customer focused activities to increase productivity and sales within assigned market
Account Manager for Outdoor/Sports Channel
ChicoBag
01.2015 - 05.2018
- Acquired sales with major retailers, such as REI, Ace Hardware, Orchard Supply Hardware, Maui Jim, and Patagonia
- Created a group buy program that successfully landed products in the top National Parks in the United States
- Created successful business relationships with the parks such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, Denali, Zion, Canyonlands, and Hawaii Pacific Parks continue to flourish with record sales year-round
- Made outbound cold calls to gain new business
- Maintain customer relationship after sale had been made
- Provide channel direction to company for continued sales growth
- Upsell to existing customers into new product collections
Sales Associate
ChicoBag
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Took incoming customers placing order over phone, upsold
- Maintained outbound stock check calls average of 30 per day
- Responsible for 10% of Sales Managers quota
- Helped customers on companies E-Commerce website
- Various other Office related tasks, answering front door, planning office parties, ordering supplies, etc
Inside Sales/Purchasing Assistant
S&L Food Service
01.2010 - 12.2012
- Responsible for the order processing of 3 to 5 routes daily
- Contacted 20-40 customers a day; took large volume orders, entered data into multiple systems, and prepared routes for drivers
- Wrote orders for 6 vendors, tracked all items, negotiated prices with suppliers, submitted orders, and monitored order deliveries
- Also helped warehouse in monthly inventory counts and breaking down and distributing pallets of products to customers
Document Delivery Specialist
Research Solutions
01.2011 - 10.2012
- Promoted to delivering regular orders to the high paced, very demanding position of rush orders
- Delivered requested documents to clients in timely manner
- Attention to detail was extremely important while verifying documents accuracy and ensuring copy quality
- Communicated with various 'runners' located at National Library of Medicine, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UCLA, and University of Michigan libraries
Purchasing Assistant
The Danielsen Company
01.2005 - 01.2010
- Prepared and executed food service bids for 60 to 80 school districts
- Delivered requested documents to clients in timely manner
- Made company aware of lost income, and created system to track 'bill backs', recovering $50,000 - $100,000 in monthly revenue
- Corresponded with suppliers and requesting product quotes, negotiated prices, entering and verifying product costs, and finalizing bid paperwork for submission
- Also responsible for the entire inventory of the Cash & Carry retail store, and database maintenance on market priced items
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration and Management
California State University, Chico
Chico, CASkills
- NetSuite
- Demand Caster
- Salesforce
- Oracle
- Microsoft programs
- Outlook
- Multiple EDI Order Processing Web Platform
- Project management
- Document control
- Problem-solving
- Scheduling and coordinating
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Schedule oversight
- Multitasking
- Negotiation
- Task prioritization
Additionalinformation
Over 17 years of experience successfully executing a wide range of office responsibilities, both in Sales and Purchasing., Participated in launching new ERP system (Net Suite) for TruRoots company., Increased sales from 68% of quota to over 95% of $850,000/year in 2016., Increased sales from 95% of quota to over 115% of $875,000/year in 2017., Last 5 months of sales were at 150% of $950,000 quota in 2018.
Timeline
Materials Planning Manager
Truroots (R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organics)
06.2023 - Current
Co-Pack Manager
TruRoots (R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organics)
07.2022 - 06.2023
Logistics Analyst
The J.M. Smucker Co.
08.2021 - 07.2022
Senior Coordinator, Operations Support
The J.M. Smucker Co.
01.2019 - 08.2021
Manufacturing Account Manager
Grainger
09.2018 - 12.2018
Account Manager for Outdoor/Sports Channel
ChicoBag
01.2015 - 05.2018
Sales Associate
ChicoBag
01.2013 - 01.2015
Document Delivery Specialist
Research Solutions
01.2011 - 10.2012
Inside Sales/Purchasing Assistant
S&L Food Service
01.2010 - 12.2012
Purchasing Assistant
The Danielsen Company
01.2005 - 01.2010
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration and Management
California State University, Chico
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