Matthew Cox

Leading new department assigned to manage replenishment activities for Tier 1 National Chain accounts

Currently oversee RSC Grocery replenishment for the Metro NY area. • Identified & addressed need for enhanced communication with Metro NY & cross-functional areas by establishing process and routine around problematic areas including inventory, backhaul, receiving capacity, and Friendly’s. • Drove accountability both internally and externally to foster trust between RSC, Markets, and cross-functional areas improving culture and preventing escalation. • Key member of project teams such as deck specific buyer goals establishment, Category Management POC, Tableau dashboards UAT • Committed to staff personal & career development by providing honest feedback early and working to ensure employees are prepared for the next step in their career.

• Established an inventory budgeting process that properly maintained raw material and finished good inventory levels to meet seasonal demand, while minimizing the cash flow impact of increasing aluminum costs. • Diagnosed need for an enhanced system based forecasting process, driving pre-implementation readiness with required forecasting levels, tool functionality, staff training, consensus frequency and required KPIs to validate success. • Integrated forecasting metrics into all aspects of the planning process both internally and with external suppliers ensuring material availability, and short term/ long-term capacity sufficient for seasonal demands. • Identified and implemented multiple productivity initiatives ranging from master case consolidation, to optimized customer shipments directly resulting in COGS improvement, and reduced plant labor requirements. • Redesigned Oracle (MRP), and manufacturing reporting process that involved material movement, consumption, and production leading to increases inventory accuracy, and eliminating the tracking requirement in off-line Access databases.

Working with the company founder/CEO, provided end to end leadership of Supply Chain & Operations across disciplines of; Import, Production Planning, Co-manufacturing, Materials Management, Forecasting, Distribution, Procurement, and Quality Assurance. • Appropriately scaled Supply Chain to meet the growing customer base and aggressive volume growth projected to triple by year-end. • Improved forecast accuracy, material availability, and customer service through the implementation of a cloud-based ERP/MRP system integrated with Salesforce CRM tool to provide premier visibility to field sales initiatives that impact product demand. • Authored and completed a co-manufacturing RFP to establish a strategic meat processor partnership and infrastructure to support a national finished good Supply Chain for a perishable category. • Led transition with awarded processor including comprehensive cut-over scheduling to maintain production without a black-out period or service interruptions of customer orders. • Set contracts and developed KPIs for transition and ongoing business parameters to ensure productivity, product quality, availability and continuous improvement metrics.

• Primarily responsible for end to end Supply Chain leadership encompassing Materials Management, Distribution, Customer Fulfillment, Warehousing, Production Scheduling, Co-manufacturing, and Forecasting • Established a companywide consensus forecasting process, as an input into Sales & Operation Planning (or IBP) • Responsible for developing FG & RPW inventory management strategy for production scheduling & Materials Management. • Focused on enabling production flexibility through material inventory strategy & supplier selection, resulting in maximized service levels, while minimizing the risk of obsolescence

• Managed team of direct/indirect employees responsible for production planning, fulfillment, and materials management within the Food Service Business Unit • Responsible for driving initiatives that maintain appropriate customer service levels above 98.5%, while achieving a BU monthly cash-flow metric through inventory reduction strategies • Support BU Productivity targets by partnering with Manufacturing L6S resources focused defect reduction • Successful in driving cross-functional KPI ownership by establishing regular business reviews with Marketing, Sales, and plant Manufacturing (internal & external) focused on secondary metrics (plant attainment, master schedule quality, forecast bias & customer inventory levels) • IBP accountability through KPI reporting, action plan development, rough cut capacity planning, and scenario modeling within the monthly Executive Supply Review • Committed to staff development, and advancement planning through regular goal review, development plan discussions, and stretch assignments when appropriate

• Responsible for developing, and leading the Grocery Sector materials management group. This group determines, and maintains the inbound supply strategies required to support Commercialization activities and general business needs for various categories exceeding $2 B in annual sales. • Responsible for developing the Annual Operating Budget for inbound supply, and reporting performance against established KPIs to senior management. YTD exceeding a target cash-flow monthly savings of 5% vs. 2010 ($5MM/month in on-hand inventory). • Focused on improving procedures for planning, procurement, supplier replenishment strategies, shortage situations, and communication. • Established improved linkage with Marketing, Sales, sector production facilities, Procurement, HQ Finance, and suppliers by having a thorough understanding of the S&OP process. • Strengthen linkage with Quality regarding Supplier Quality Audits and develop contingency plans with R&D and Procurement for key ingredients. • Attentive to the career development needs of direct reports, and providing opportunities for growth.

• Primary Forecasting responsibility for categories accounting for 839 MM lbs of volume & $932 MM in marginal contribution. • Tasked with driving & coordinating forecasting processes, leading Category Consensus Meetings, driving S&OP processes, ensuring data quality from Field Sales Forecast team is high, and assessing/implementing process changes to ensure forecast improvement. • Responsible for driving cross-functional business team members to align on monthly Category sales forecast for production & long-term capacity planning, and successful in driving teams to concentrate on higher levels of granularity. • Validate field sales forecasts weekly based on consumption, trade inventory levels, sales events, seasonality, and marketplace factors. Identify opportunities and risks to HQ Business teams to ensure Gap closure.

• Acted as Supply Chain functional expert for special project during pre-launch Regional test market. • Responsibilities included the capacity planning, scheduling, and inventory planning for two Co-manufacturers, and 15 raw/pack suppliers for FGs with 11 days of shelf life, and components with 45 days of shelf life. • Supported distribution/ transportation redesign programs • Able to drive out costs by achieving Cash Flow, FG inventory, and Waste targets by establishing raw/pack ordering parameters for Comans and suppliers. Weekly review of WIP inventory, FG targets, and obsolesce risk.

Supervised and managed the scheduling, raw/pack receiving, and FG distribution activities of 20+ hourly employees. Responsible for all warehousing activities supporting the fulfillment of ICS shipments, DC shipments, and route sales orders. Managed workload capacity planning weekly for a 3-shift operation to ensure order fulfillment was achieved on a timely basis. Instrumental in Sussex MATRICS install by providing site leadership, commitment to positive results, and instilling passion in surrounding team members.