Erik Nickel

- Lead North Americas $2.2Bn [55% COGS] Metal Supply Chain, an organization of 8 professionals across the United States and Mexico. P&L responsibility of $180M+. - Established S&OP business process through strategic and master planning tools, inventory target optimization, network optimization tools, IT infrastructure, and key service metrics resulting in 0 material stock-outs or lost sales. - Lead Reverse Logistics operations consisting of 130k+ truckload shipments per annum, and 20+ 3PL locations with 200+ employees across North America - Principle team member on numerous M&A, restructuring projects, strategic sourcing, and commercial negotiations resulting $80M+ of annual cash flow improvement. - Drove turnaround of reverse logistics operations resulting in $24M+ of annual savings.

-Regional finance leader responsible for the execution and improvement of standard cost/ inventory processes of a $4+ billion dollar manufacturing business -Partnered with Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain/Logistics, and Procurement leaders in the development of the AOP, explanation of variances, inventory/capitalization methodologies, and CI of margin visibility by SKU. -Collaborated with cross functional Engineering and CI teams for BBP analysis, BOM and routing reviews/updates, planned and communicated impacts to relevant Commercial/Operating teams -Lead import operations; took $80M+ AR/AP out of balance and $3M+ PI loss to $0, designed/implemented a SAP WMS, drop ship program, and consolidated warehouse footprint resulting in $1M+ annual logistics savings -Wrote business plan for new distribution model that decoupled final production processes with logistics, enables batch processing/advanced automation resulting in $2.5M+ manufacturing savings and improved OTIF

-Plant finance leader of $250M P&L, responsible for GAAP and SOX compliance, financial reporting, annual budgeting and forecasts, and weekly outlooks -Visible plant leader, across all departments, with heavy involvement in CI/BBP workshops as part of the budgeting cycle to ensure buy-in/ownership of financial goals, resulting in the plant achieving conversion cost/CAPEX targets and YOY cost reductions -Gained knowledge in operational activities by job shadowing production supervisors, executing operator tasks, participating in Total Preventive Maintenance interventions, conducting weekly safety audits, and supervising operator High Performance Team meetings -Achieved passing internal and external audit evaluations throughout tenure -Supported deployment of plant standard costing, and developed regional MRV reporting strategy

-Held procurement workshops to align internal processes with GAAP resulting in the shifting of spend controlling from timing of receiving to the issuance of purchase orders -Cleared internal audit findings related to aged GRIR, aged CIP, and Physical Inventory Loss -Managed forklift fleet strategy with input from staff and warehouse employees; including vendor relationship, maintenance, and new equipment sourcing

- Created a global month end close consolidation process and workbook for the validation of procurement savings and trade working capital projects resulting in a single source for monthly management reporting - Lead a project team that created a bottoms-up method by to forecast AP balance by vendor and bridge variance by commodity category, production volume, and inflation - Reconciled project savings to purchase price variance, conversion cost, and commercial margin - Responsible for the department SG&A budgeting, outlooking, and variance explanations - Work with IT to align ERP systems with current compliance and compliance reporting requirements

-Responsible for Leading a diverse organization of 150 personnel -Drove continuous improvements in safety, training, personnel management/strength and organizational readiness -Influenced junior leader development to build depth, self-efficacy and sustainability through implantation of on boarding procedures, decision empowerment and a quarterly goal reporting program -Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran