Kristin Bauer

Lead the Supply Planning and Sourcing Operations function across the Footwear product categories. Delivering capacity planning, inventory management, purchase order execution, Factory allocation Reviews, Product Transfer Management and Tooling Planning Management.  Optimize product flow to balance service, inventory targets, warehouse capacity and vendor efficiency.  Plan and execute capacity plans to utilize agreed vendor capacities (T1, T2, Tooling) Delivery of shoes to support $1 billion+ in revenue. Roughly 40M units per year, 18,000 Sku’s.  Establish and implement reporting for key KPI’s and consistently challenging internal and external partners to achieve targets: Vendor On Time Delivery, Customer Service On Time In Full, Manufacturing Lead Times, Capacity Utilization  Actively involved in End to End Global Planning Transformation: Implementing S&OE, Transforming Demand / Consensus Planning Organization and a restructure of our Product Supply Organization  Working through complete digital transformation for Demand and Supply Planning. Focusing on revamping the Supply Planning role, and systematic abilities. Transforming to managing by exception and leveraging the software through upgrades and training.

 Ran Monthly Open to Buy Meeting for Global Sales Planning, Product line managers and Supply Chain leaders  Monthly Reviews with factory leadership and Supply Chain leadership to review factory capacity utilization, align on short- and long-term plans and ensure risk mitigation measures are in place for production.  Managed all purchase order creation, maintenance and navigated an SAP implementation with the team ensuring minimal business risk  Cross Functional Process Creation to ensure products are buy ready and confirmed in alignment with the supply plan.  Revamped many manual processes including PMA’s (Production Mold Authorization for tooling),  Established a roadmap for critical fields and processes needed in our PLM System for the future to enhance Footwear Planning.

 Led and created the content for monthly Open to Buy Cycle  Executed all purchase order creation, maintenance and tested/ managed to prep for an SAP implementation  Cross Functional Process Creation to ensure products are buy ready and confirmed in alignment with the supply plan.

 Team leader as we embarked on a planning software transformation (transitioned from internal BI MRP calculations to a software platform – Logility)  Executed all purchase order creation, maintenance for 50% of the Footwear business  Planned Logistics, worked with sales on order creation, worked with product line managers to compile global buy

 Led analysis of multiple inbound freight negotiations and RFP’s  Coordinated and Prioritized container deliveries into all Baltimore warehouses (grew to 2 warehouses during this time)  Led the implementation of a vendor and purchase order software management system (EEM) to streamline ASN creation for manufacturing and distribution partners  Managed and approved freight invoices and audited vendor payment invoices