Heather Boggs, BBA

Create sales and inventory plans by store and manage to a total store capacity. • Drove monthly reforecasting by analyzing sales trends, inventory positions, and capacity needs across 18 categories, ensuring optimal in-stock levels while overseeing a $526M, 7M + unit business. • Supported 135 Midwest stores by partnering with Planning, Allocation, Stores Operations, and Buying to analyze store callouts, adjust plans, and align changes with cross functional partners. • Shaped seasonal strategy by producing hindsight analyses for key events (Father’s Day, Back-to-School, Holiday) and delivering insights to buying team and upper management. • Build tools to track store feedback and trend history, maintained core planning files and led monthly cross functional reviews with Merchants and Planning directors to align on strategy and store-plan adjustments.

Supply Chain Planner-Repair Parts Forecasted parts demand and usage, purchase parts and maintain a minimum WOS to eliminate back orders. • Owned procurement and inventory coverage for 4,000+ repair parts, reducing backorders by over 80% through analysis of usage trends, run rates, repair versus replacement costs. • Streamlined repair parts operations building advanced Excel reporting for order and inventory visibility and partnering with Supply Chain and DC teams to implement processes for tracking safety stock and minimum quantities across all vendors. • Led cross functional communication with vendor partners and 25 repair technicians to ensure timely parts availability, while driving monthly New Parts meetings with Supply Chain and DC leadership to accelerate readiness and alignment.

Senior Replenishment Analyst, May 2017 - June 2020 Forecast needed inventory based on sales trend and WOC needed to maintain in stock for Stores and DC. • Controlled forecast creation & distribution process for 1,000 everyday products that needed to be constantly stocked across all 1,400 store locations. Drove over $360M in sales. • Executed sales & inventory analysis across 11 volume band groupings as well as weekly reporting in MS Excel, Relex and SAP to maintain a clear view of the supply of each product from warehouse to store shelf. • Achieved consistent result of 90% or better fill rate across the chain in 4 high volume categories. • Collaborated with marketing, allocation, purchasing, and distribution center teams across each of the four departments I managed, necessitating clear communication with dozens of colleagues in multiple locations.

Generate category forecast to send the right products to the right place at the right time. • Allocated Seasonal bath & body/Suncare, special buys, and close-out merchandise from five regional distribution centers to 1,400 store locations. • Performed seasonal analysis to improve sell thru of the Suncare business from 54% to 82% by reserving product for early selling hot zone stores as well as later selling East coast stores to maximize limited inventory. Sales increased by over $900K for the season. • Reviewed store sales data to create reports supporting cross-functional product acquisition and distribution teams. Compile hindsight information to present to upper management and the executive team. • Honed technical skills with clear communication to make rational, data-driven decisions as a team ranging from senior vice presidents to warehouse managers.

Create new items, enter all purchase orders and maintain database to send POs to vendors. • Managed database of key vendor and product data to facilitate order fulfillment and store inventory management. • Specialized in detail-focused preparation of purchase orders that enabled senior colleagues to focus on product acquisition negotiations. • Cultivated relationships throughout corporate supply chain and studied the big picture of how products were acquired, distributed, and priced.