Tracie Alberti
Bayonne,NJ
Summary
Accomplished supply chain professional with 20 years of experience in supply and demand planning. Proven track record of enhancing inventory management while minimizing non-quality costs and exceeding customer expectations. Demonstrated leadership in executing demand planning integration projects and a solid grasp of supply chain complexities. Committed to fostering collaboration among teams to achieve challenging objectives and optimize operational efficiency.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Mgr
Stryker 325
Mahwah, New Jersey
09.2023 - 02.2025
- Joint Replacement, Supply Planning
- Responsible for managing the end-to-end supply chain process to ensure efficient supply planning and execution while maintaining key supply performance metrics for over 560 items
- Lead supply steering activities, optimizing inventory levels, production schedules, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of goods and provide communication for any supply disruptions or issues impacting service
- Cross functional collaboration with operations, engineering, ISC, packaging, and logistics to achieve monthly supply planning attainment and supply planning mix attainment
- Worked closely with operations leads to reduce key backorders to achieve end of year targets of $500K in backorder reductions
- Present Supply Slides at monthly IBP, ESR, to inform commercial teams about products in short supply/backorder and provide updates as well as off backorder dates and full health dates
- Escalate needs for help during Tier3 process as it relates to down machines, production attainment, backorder recovery, and project timelines to minimize service interruption to our 1A customers
- Facilitate weekly reviews with cell leads to review priority items, excess inventory, address open issues pending resolution or escalations to achieve monthly supply commitments.
Sr. Demand Planner
Exemplis, LLC
Cypress, CA
01.2023 - 09.2023
- Responsible for forecasting the SOI, Ideon, and symmetry brand forecasting while incorporating the continuous engineering changes into the demand plan to decrease non-quality costs to meet business metrics
- Update weekly NPI report, highlighting items at risk for shortages by Brand and maintain active action items list
- Action all Engineering Changes by Brand, by reviewing bom matrix with proposals and updating demand system with all affected components and maintain tracking system of such changes for monthly review of impacted items
- Lead and facilitate monthly review of all Engineering Changes with Procurement and Demand Planning team
- Participate in the monthly demand review by reviewing demand trends as a team and updating forecasts respectively and preparing the monthly S&OP reports
Sr. Demand Planner
Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
, NJ
04.2020 - 12.2021
- Responsible for overall Demand Planning process for Lysol Core Disinfectants by supporting and driving the S&OP process to achieve accurate forecasting and cross functional alignment
- Improved Bias by 10% and reduced MAPE by 30% during the past 3 months by aligning with Sales partners on assumptions only and using POS as a tracking signal to improve metrics
- UAT tester for Kinaxis Rapid Response, as well as lead planner in testing the statistical modeling capabilities and successfully completed all training for June 22 go live
- Create a weekly bottom-up plan by item, customer, rolling up to Brand across all core disinfectant segments for the US business with annual GSV of about $1 billion
- Responsible to deliver all KPI metrics, such as Case fill, Customer Service, MAPE and Bias
- Lead and facilitate Customer Demand Alignment meetings
- Utilize customer specific analytics to drive collaborations, such as pos, case fill, on-hand inventories to align on the best demand plan
- Lead and facilitate cross functional Brand Alignment meetings incorporating latest Customer inputs, pos trends, growth rates, inventory reports and other inputs
- Roll-up inputs from multiple businesses teams such as GBS, Ecom, Club, OTG to include into the topline plan for alignment
- Prepare respective segment slides for Demand Review, Director’s alignments, IBP, and S&OP meetings
- Pre-alignment review with Directors/Marketing/Finance prior to Demand Review and IBP
- Interact with Project Manager and Marketing on all New Product forecasts and system life cycling planning
- Lead bi-monthly meetings with plant on priorities, upcoming changes to demand plan, production changes, new product forecasts, Co-Man items and other issues.
Sr. Brand Demand Planner
Mars
12.2018 - 04.2020
- Multi-Seasonal skus, Combos, Munch, Goodnessknows, KIND BARK, KIND BAR
- Responsible for creating a weekly bottom up demand plan by item across multiple brands and highly seasonal pack types for the US business with annual GSV of about $500M while achieving target FA and Bias metrics
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional Brand Alignment meetings gaining consensus with cross-functional partners, including all cross-functional inputs, brand growth rates, customer events, financial plans, distribution changes, pos trends, inventory, and any other inputs relative to create a solid demand plan
- Lead new partnership with KIND BAR
- Develop framework for monthly cross-functional collaboration meetings with KIND NY office
- Create weekly demand plan for 28 key items, lead monthly collaboration meetings with KIND demand planners and MARS cross-functional leads, lead monthly sales insights meeting; aligning on demand plan vs Sales LE
- Partner with the Seasonal team and Supply lead on all OSFS items within the Halloween timing window to ensure all customer checkpoints are accounted for and properly phased and appropriate safety stocks are built to deliver 98% customer case-fill for the biggest season for MARS.
Sr. Demand Planner-Intergration & Testing
Mars
08.2017 - 12.2018
- Key associate in Demand Planning on the Wrigley and Chocolate integration project team which involves; process development, system integration, testing, training, change management, etc
- Demand Planning lead for all testing; such as creating the testing plan, and scenarios, uploading the scenarios and testing scripts, coordinating the resources for testing, updating the testing status, logging defects, creating testing scorecards, creating the enter and exist testing strategy
- Successfully led the testing work stream which involved getting buy in from demand planners to free up time to test new system functionality along with new BW Reports
- Liaison between the end users and the consultants to filter the high priority issues for testers and see through until resolution
- Created demand planning functional and process training materials related to new system upgrade and ways of working
- Facilitated training for end users focusing on the restructure of demand planning and new system upgrade: new processes, ways of working, functional training, and step by step day in the life documents
Sr. Customer Demand Planner, Easter Seasonal Planner
Mars
01.2015 - 08.2017
- Assume Responsibility for Mixed Brand- Brand Demand Planner 12/16
- Drive the collaboration process for CVS aligning to one forecast
- Create a full year forecast analysis, promotion’s review, carry forward, cannibalization analysis, gap analysis, forecast accuracy
- Work with Cross functional team on short-term and long term planning for the Easter season
- Monthly maintenance on statistical models, in order to generate a reliable seasonal model for the Mixed Brand items
- Prepared the Drug Channel rollup for the monthly sales alignment meeting
- Work with Customer Demand Planner to ensure the account slides along with key drivers, gap analysis and assumptions are completed on time and accurate in order to provide visibility to entire Drug Channel and align with Sales
- Improved bias by 10% in 2016 vs 2015
- Developed an offline tool to streamline the forecast process in the interim prior to the go live of a new system upgrade and new add on in JDA
- This tool created efficiencies for all the Customer Demand Planners until the new forecasting upgrade was in place
- Key user in Apollo Market Manager for Apollo as well as mentor for junior Customer Demand Planners
- Responsible for training other Customer Demand Planners in the system such as creating their own user views, system shortcuts, planning methodologies, such as portfolio segmentation and other training presentations in order to create efficiencies among other junior planners.
Sr. Customer Demand Planner
Mars
03.2014 - 01.2015
- Prepare slides for Sales Alignment Meeting for McLane while rolling up all indirect forecasts and their key drivers, identifying risks and opportunities
- Facilitate and lead key meetings with all indirect Customer Demand Planners on forecast changes and assumptions that drive the total roll-up for the McLane forecast
- Worked with the project consultant prior to go live of our new JDA system upgrade
- Created new dfu’s and forecast splits by customer based on distribution and history of like items resulting in all item’s being set up prior to go-live with default splits.
GtM Special Pack-Promotional Planner and Project Leader
Unilever United States Inc.
06.2010 - 03.2014
- Execute the SC planning process of special pack planning including: Project timeline creation and management of key milestones leading to on time and in full special pack delivery
- Key interface between Supply Planning, Brand Building, Supply Management, Contract Manufacturing, Customer Marketing, Warehousing, and Packaging Development to ensure timely delivery of special packs
- Identify creative solutions to prevent or correct for unplanned events in the supply or customer side of the business
- Eliminated $130,000 in waste by repacking excess special pack item into regular retail cases
- Manage and communicate changes to promotional requirements while maintaining customer service, working capital targets and minimizing waste
- Used problem solving methodology to implement a new procedure at the copacker to eliminate waste by ensuring only freshest product is used to pack out special pack items
- Estimated yearly waste reduction of $300,000.
Demand Forecasting Specialist-GtM, Support/Demand Excellence
Unilever United States Inc.
11.2007 - 06.2010
- Responsible for supporting the demand planning community consisting of about 50 demand planners, identifying demand planning process improvements and ultimately striving to improve forecast accuracy
- Initiated a “net negative” report for automatic distribution to create visibility of negative forecasts among demand planners and mgrs which affected supply forecasts and the Terra demand sensing signal
- Results gave immediate attention to issue which resulted in fewer negative forecasts among the demand planners.
Sr. Demand Planner
Revlon, Inc
Piscataway, NJ
03.2005 - 10.2007
- Responsible for the development and timely flow of monthly regular business forecasts of over 225 sku’s for the Revlon Eye and Nail categories with Gross Sales of $150MM
- Review parameters on monthly on statistical models in Manugistics to incorporate the effects of actuals to generate a revised 12-month rolling forecast
- Reduced WAPE (Weighted Average Percent Error) for Revlon Eye category 10% YTD 06 and Nail category 9% YTD 06 vs
- YTD 05.
Category Financial Analyst
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
08.2003 - 02.2005
- Responsible for the forecasting of all fresh and frozen seafood for 7 US divisions.
Administrator Planning & Analysis -Grocery
The Great A&P Tea Co
Paterson, NJ
08.2003 - 02.2005
- Responsible for the execution and accuracy of the weekly sales promotion ads for the A&P, New England and Waldbaums Banners.
Analyst/Specialist- Project
New York Dept of Mental Health & Hygiene
Broadway, NY
08.2002 - 08.2003
- Responsible for the allocation of $112MM (FEMA grant) to over 80 Mental Health Providers’ budgets/contracts and allocation of over $80MM grant to over 20 Dept
- Of Education district budgets utilizing several cost allocation methodologies.
Buyer/Planner
GlaxoSmithKline, Block Drug Co
Jersey City, NJ
07.1989 - 10.2001
- Operations Planning
- Responsible for the materials requirements planning and procurement for primary and secondary packaging with annual volume of approximately $16MM for Over-the-Counter products.
Education
Masters Business Administration -
Centenary College
Hackettstown, NJBS Business Administration - Finance
NJCU
Jersey City, NJSkills
- Kinaxis
- Rapid Response
- Power BI
- Project management
- Results analysis
- Operations management
- Institute of Business Forecasting-Certified Professional Forecaster
- MS Office Suite
- SAP APO
- SAP R/3
- Manugistics 614
- JDA Market Manager
- S&OP workbench
- BW Reporting
- Star
- Tableau
- In-house APICS and CPM training
- Project Management workshop
- Internal Analyzer
- Experienced with Nielsen Nitro
- Customer focus
Timeline
Associate Mgr
Stryker 325
09.2023 - 02.2025
Sr. Demand Planner
Exemplis, LLC
01.2023 - 09.2023
Sr. Demand Planner
Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
04.2020 - 12.2021
Sr. Brand Demand Planner
Mars
12.2018 - 04.2020
Sr. Demand Planner-Intergration & Testing
Mars
08.2017 - 12.2018
Sr. Customer Demand Planner, Easter Seasonal Planner
Mars
01.2015 - 08.2017
Sr. Customer Demand Planner
Mars
03.2014 - 01.2015
GtM Special Pack-Promotional Planner and Project Leader
Unilever United States Inc.
06.2010 - 03.2014
Demand Forecasting Specialist-GtM, Support/Demand Excellence
Unilever United States Inc.
11.2007 - 06.2010
Sr. Demand Planner
Revlon, Inc
03.2005 - 10.2007
Category Financial Analyst
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
08.2003 - 02.2005
Administrator Planning & Analysis -Grocery
The Great A&P Tea Co
08.2003 - 02.2005
Analyst/Specialist- Project
New York Dept of Mental Health & Hygiene
08.2002 - 08.2003
Buyer/Planner
GlaxoSmithKline, Block Drug Co
07.1989 - 10.2001
Masters Business Administration -
Centenary College
BS Business Administration - Finance
NJCU
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