Christian Keast

• Develop Demand plans based on historical data to develop forecasts, for the Material Planners, and Supply base. • Aligned Sales forecasts, promotions, new products to future demand to accurately forecast Materials. • Maintained System data for MRP. • Incorporated Engineering changes for materials and new materials through demand planning by phasing in new and phasing out old. • Managed planned and prioritized materials for critical suppliers.

Demand Planning, Forecasting, Supply Plans, Production Plans, ERP Systems, MRP, Supply Chain Contracts.

• Develop Demand Forecasts from historical data for product coming from China. • Develop Demand Forecasts for “Finished Goods” at the distribution level using Sales Invoicing History to create a statistical forecast aligned with Sales Demand Plans and Production Plans. • Transitioned from Excel Demand planning to Blue Yonder a Supply Chain Planning tool that uses sales, marketing, and statistical data to create a consensus forecast for supply chain. • Processed Demand Planning forecasts to Supply Chain Planning for ORACLE system and MRP. • Create forecasts for new product lines that aligned with Sales and Marketing forecast. • Analyzed forecast accuracy to Sales Demand Plan. • Aligned finished good component inventory to the production plan. • Manage exceptions to historical data, to produce an accurate forecast.

• Analyzed inventory levels for the purpose of aligning materials and components with forecasted and actual demand created from customer release schedules and production scheduling. • Maintained right sized inventory levels based on demand and safety stock. • Maintained parameters (lead times, prep time and safety stocks), in AS400 software so that MRP accurately configured releases. • Created weekly production release schedules for all suppliers. • Managed logistics schedules and delivery days with suppliers and expedited when necessary. • Used risk management practices and established on time delivery KPI.

• Demand planning, forecasting & procurement of product that came from Shanghai China (a sister company of Bennett Pump called Bennett Machine) • Spearheaded a wide gamut of supply chain management disciplines for manufacturing entailing commodity planning, scheduling, sourcing, leveraging, negotiating, supplier development, quality improvement, cost reductions, inventory management and reduction • Responsible for the coordination of sales orders; materials, production planning, scheduling, capacity planning, and material planning to maximize alignment improve schedule adherence, minimize lead times and improve customer service, and delivery. • Rendered training & guidance for production scheduling, purchasing, manufacturing, quality and materials, to successfully meet customer requirements & production schedules • Designed reporting from standard software programs that provided more useful data to Operations, Production, Procurement and Materials Group • Maintained SOPs for Manufacturing Quality, Materials, Production Scheduling and Procurement • Significant contributions towards inventory reduction of 1.5M • Pivotal in acquiring cost savings by Domestic Purchasing of 5 to 8% for most commodities • Reduced costs by 10% for incoming freight and improved services • Successfully improved: o System parameters which reduced inventory and provided accurate information for MRP to calculate accurate planning information; reduced the number of parts shortages and improved on time production o On time delivery for Purchased Parts o Forecasting and planning practices o Reporting information for Buyers & Production regarding part shortages • Crucial role in obtaining ISO 2015 Certification for the company; met the documentation requirements • Optimized and improved supply base • Functioned as Team leader and trainer in ERP manufacturing system Syteline.

At Interior Concepts Corporation, I generated & executed purchase agreements emphasizing overall value, and also negotiated best cost, delivery, logistics, scheduling, and quality. I effeciently assessed the performance of the supply base and continuously optimized to improve quality, and lead times while developing adventagious long term supplier partnerships. Collaborated with suppliers, sales, marketing, engineering and production as team leader for new product development and implementation. S/OP capacity planning and scheduling of customer orders, as well as coordination of materials. Planned and forecasted materials for manufacturing to meet customer requirements while maintaining optimized inventory levels. Developed & implemented supplier programs including stocking programs, JIT, supplier managed, and while optimizing inventory levels. Achievements: * Reduced Inventory levels, right sizing inventory for seasonal business * Supplier Development programs to reduce lead time and inventory levels. Continually optimizing the supply base to be more efficient and providing increased value. * Product Development, successfully launched new products as well as incorporated new products into the product line. * Implemented lean JIT systems * Continual cost savings

At Eagle Ottawa, managed capital projects, and budgets. I adminstered procurement activities and budgets of capital investment projects, and construction projects, plant expansions and upgrades. Procurement activities included specialized machinery and equipment manufactured globally for the leather making industry. Other procurement activities involve contract development for software, marketing and advertising.