Tori Vaughn, MBA
Foristell,MO
Summary
Results-driven Management professional with over twelve years of experience in financial analysis, supply chain operations, merchandise planning, and sales forecasting within the CPG and retail industries. Highly adept in planning, coordinating, and executing successful business strategies. Track record of improving operational stability, efficiency, and profitability.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Distribution Functional Analyst
Bayer Crop Science
Creve Coeur, MO
03.2021 - Current
- Gather, analyze, and interpret large sets of supply chain data to provide actionable insights.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all constraints (internal or external) are handled and documented within models to ensure transparent and accurate network solutions.
- Support the development and configuration of what-if scenarios to understand, analyze, and improve supply chain operations, designs, flows, and processes.
- Support adhoc analysis and optimization within current operational constraints throughout the network in order to mitigate short-term disruptions and potential impacts to customer service.
- Maintain a consistent pipeline of opportunities and assist as needed in execution to achieve savings goals.
- Lead and develop Network Optimization analysis of the current supply chain network to identify opportunities for optimization. Evaluate transportation, distribution, and inventory strategies to enhance overall efficiency and service performance.
Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (Contract)
Rose International - Onsite at Mastercard
O'Fallon, MO
06.2020 - 03.2021
- Supports budgeting and financial planning to align business strategy with proper investment to fund activities that drive the business.
- Build and manage monthly capital expenditure tracking process and own achievement of the budget/forecast.
- Provides variance analysis of actual vs forecast capital expenditures.
- Assist in development of capex project financials including depreciation, amortization, and annualization.
- Responsible for working with teams that create Purchase Requisitions for Statements of Work (SOW) to ensure appropriate coding to correct projects and document approvals for audit purposes.
- Creates adhoc financial reports using Oracle Hyperion / Essbase financial reporting software.
Category Analyst
Save-A-Lot
Saint Louis, MO
10.2019 - 02.2020
- Collaborated with Category Managers in preparation and evaluation of seasonal buy plans and developed category fiscal plans to increase profitability.
- Evaluated the impact of retail pricing strategies in the form of billing margins and item profitability.
- Assessed category level financial results to identify opportunities to improve financial performance by developing and evaluating weekly reports.
- Created sell-through reporting on given categories.
- Assisted in the management of excess inventory including identification and resolution of slow moving items, out of stock issues, and replenishment problems in order to increase sales.
- Produced ad-hoc analysis as requested by Senior Category Leadership to aid management in making fact-based decisions that yield superior financial results.
Forecast Analyst
Energizer Holdings Inc.
Saint Louis, MO
02.2018 - 09.2019
- Developed monthly forecasts by SKU and by channel for a rolling 12-month period based upon market dynamics, customer specific POS trends, new or lost business, constraints and promotional opportunities to enable recommending a demand plan with insights from cross functional teams.
- Analysis of store and DC level data to develop and communicate recommendations to customer that drive continuous improvement in the form of in-stock trends, recovery tactics, forecast adjustments, and inventory analysis.
- Researched and analyzed syndicated POS data (84.51 and IRI) and recommended strategies for assigned retail accounts.
- Defined and measured metrics (KPIs), such as forecast accuracy, inventory level, weeks of stock turn, and absolute variance.
- Drafted reports and presentations to illustrate research findings.
Supply Chain Services Analyst
Nestle Purina Petcare Company
Saint Louis, MO
12.2015 - 02.2018
- Develop short and mid-term strategies to support co-pack planning and promotional product.
- Coordinate just-in-time delivery to support launch date with Marketing, Master Data, Procurement, and Logistics to facilitate planning, production, and execution of finished goods inventory as well as promotional and sample activities.
- Assess customer impact, identify potential product shortages and communicate supply interruption risks and impacts (short and long term) to market by DC location. Developed plans to expedite co-pack production and mitigate customer impact due to shortages.
- Analyze and reconcile cycle count accuracy and weekly inventory for all co-packing warehouses.
- Maintain 20-30 monthly trade events in Trade Management Tool.
- Enter display ready unit commitments in tracker and update shipper forecast.
- Report and analyze on planned versus volume variances by utilizing trade event analysis reporting.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Maryville University of Saint Louis
Saint Louis, MO05.2017
Bachelor of Science - Management Emphasis in Human Resource Management
Missouri State University
Springfield, MO07.2010
Skills
- Project Management
- Promotional Planning
- Sales Forecasting
- Competitive and Trend Analysis
- Inventory Management
- Financial Budgeting
- Vendor Relations
- Account Reconciliation
Software Expertise
- SAP
- Kinaxis
- Salesforce
- Seedbin
- Microsoft Excel (V-Lookup, Pivot Tables, Formulas)
- Microsoft PowerBI (Reporting, Data Visualization)
Timeline
Sr. Distribution Functional Analyst
Bayer Crop Science
03.2021 - Current
Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (Contract)
Rose International - Onsite at Mastercard
06.2020 - 03.2021
Category Analyst
Save-A-Lot
10.2019 - 02.2020
Forecast Analyst
Energizer Holdings Inc.
02.2018 - 09.2019
Supply Chain Services Analyst
Nestle Purina Petcare Company
12.2015 - 02.2018
MBA - Business Administration
Maryville University of Saint Louis
Bachelor of Science - Management Emphasis in Human Resource Management
Missouri State University
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