Raymond Atiata
Houston,TX
Summary
Results-driven Supply Chain and Inventory Management Professional with expertise in demand planning, inventory optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. Skilled in data analysis, process improvement, and problem resolution to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Adept at aligning inventory strategies with business needs while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational excellence.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Clinical Supply Specialist
ImmunityBio
Houston Texas
08.2022 - Current
- Demand Planning: Utilizes demand forecasts and sales trends to create and maintain demand plans, capacity plans, and master production schedules.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interfaces with manufacturing, materials, logistics, technical support, commodity managers, and R&D to ensure the availability of necessary raw materials. Escalates to commodity managers as appropriate for critical path issues, obsolescence, or pricing disputes.
- Raw Material Management: Ensures that raw material shortages are identified and resolved in a timely manner.
- MRP Exception Handling: Drives the resolution process of MRP exceptions, and resolves MRP discrepancies.
- Shipment Commitments: Provides Order Management and Sales with shipment commitments.
- Order Fulfillment: Reviews open order reports and other indicators to ensure the timely delivery of finished goods to support customer demand.
- Conflict Resolution: Identifies, negotiates, and resolves conflicts with respect to material availability, capacity availability, and order-promising.
- Shipment Risk Mitigation: Notifies Order Management, Manufacturing, and other internal stakeholders whenever an existing shipment commitment is in jeopardy, and recommends alternatives on how the requested demand can be satisfied.
- Demand Prioritization: Assists Order Management, Sales, and Marketing in setting priorities when demand exceeds supply.
- Inventory Control: Maintains inventory levels within established goals and guidelines, and recommends adjustments in stocking levels.
- Scrap Reduction: Monitors and implements actions to minimize raw material and finished goods scrap.
- Bill of Materials (BOM) Management: Helps maintain Bill of Materials (BOM) structures as required.
- Engineering Change Process: Participates as a reviewer and approver in the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, and sends ECO data packages to suppliers as required.
- Inventory auditing: Reviews cycle counts and/or physical inventory records, and resolves any discrepancies.
- Scheduling parameters: Maintains scheduling parameters such as lead times, lot sizes, scales, safety stocks, and other item attributes for all planned items.
- Production Planning: Ensures the completion of manual product system planning and associated documentation for production, as required.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Manages the tactical business relationship between the supplier and Luminex, and ensures that communications are clear and appropriate.
- Supply Risk Mitigation: Notifies the commodity manager of supply risk exposure, and participates in risk mitigation measures as needed.
- Material Review Board (MRB): Participates in MRB as needed while executing material dispositions involving the return of materials to suppliers.
- Problem Resolution: Investigates and drives corrective actions for receiving and accounting problems related to purchase orders.
- Work Coordination: Collaboratively manages the scope of work and actions with the supervisor.
- Process Compliance: Ensures that all processes are conducted according to approved procedures.
- Issue Resolution: Works closely with manufacturing, quality, and engineering to resolve issues for current sourced solutions. Helps facilitate initial contacts between site technical SMEs and the current supplier, as needed. Escalates to the commodity manager for unresolved items, slow responses, or recurring concerns.
Clinical Inventory Specialist
AstraZeneca
07.2019 - 08.2022
- Field Inventory Management: In conjunction with the Supply Chain and Customer Service groups, we executed processes and developed tools to manage field inventory, including transactional processes, documentation and reporting, and training and support for application tools.
- Inventory Optimization: Focused on optimizing inventory levels and minimizing expenses (scrap and freight).
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partnered with sales management, sales representatives, and internal leadership to ensure cross-functional buy-in and alignment on the execution of consignment inventory target setting, product rerouting, and the successful execution of phase-in/phase-out projects.
- Field Engagement: Regularly spent time in the field with sales personnel to understand business needs, and observe the current state firsthand.
- Sales Communication: Ensured that sales representatives were informed of consignment return procedures, organizational policies, and processes associated with inventory management.
- Inventory Monitoring: Proactively monitored and maintained inventory in partnership with the sales team and internal parties.
- Error Resolution: Resolved errors and discrepancies related to inventory with customer service, distribution teams, and customers as needed.
- Data Extraction and Reporting: Extracted data from internal systems to create various Excel spreadsheets used to identify inventory management issues, expired inventory, stock rotation initiatives, and other inventory and stocking issues. Ensured the accuracy and completeness of the information entered in the ERP system.
- Problem Solving: Utilized problem-solving techniques when handling interactions with sales representatives, sales managers, and customers, and negotiated to consensus.
- Cycle Count Coordination: Coordinated cycle count activities with sales representatives, and researched and resolved various discrepancies that arose in the cycle count reports.
- Company Initiatives Support: Supported all company initiatives as identified by management, and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
- Regulatory Compliance and Communication: Complied with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintained positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
Education
Master Of Science - Supply Chain & Logistics Technology
University of Houston
Houston, TX05.2024
Bachelor of Science - Maritime Business Administration
Texas A&M University
Galveston, TX05.2019
Skills
- Demand Planning and Forecasting
- Inventory Management and Optimization
- Supply Chain Coordination
- Order Fulfillment and Logistics
- Data Analysis and Reporting
- Process Improvement and Efficiency
- Cross-functional collaboration
- ERP Systems and Excel Reporting
- Problem Resolution and Decision-Making
- Regulatory Compliance and Risk Mitigation
Certification
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
Tools And Systems
- SAP
- IVRS
- IRT
- QMS
- Power BI
- Excel
- Oracle
- Plateau SOP
Timeline
Senior Clinical Supply Specialist
ImmunityBio
08.2022 - Current
Clinical Inventory Specialist
AstraZeneca
07.2019 - 08.2022
Master Of Science - Supply Chain & Logistics Technology
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science - Maritime Business Administration
Texas A&M University