Rebecca Niese

• Manage inventory levels for major retailers including Walmart, Target, and Meijer, ensuring optimal stock availability. • Analyze sales data to determine effective store assortments, enhancing product placement and productivity. • Lead meetings with Buyers, Planners, and upper management, both in-person and virtually, to align on strategies and forecasts. • Create and maintain production forecasts to ensure internal inventory levels are sufficient to meet retailers' demand. • Create and maintain monthly gross shipment projections for CEO. • Collaberate monthly with retail Planners on sales and receipt projections. • Provide weekly/monthly reports to retailers, as well as ad-hoc requests.

• Create monthly order/demand forecasts by account/SKU based on sales trends, order trends, and seasonality. • Create purchase orders to send to suppliers to maintain proper warehouse inventory levels based on my order forecasts. • Travel to accounts to meet with Planners and/or Buyers to discuss inventory levels, new product performance, order forecasts, trends, etc. • New style performance tracking. • Recommend assortment adds/drops based on sales performance. • Maintain monthly gross shipment plan by account for internal financial tracking. • Create and maintain internal sales performance reports to present weekly to CEO.

• Create and monitor sales and receipt plans within Vanity Fair Brands in order to better forecast shipments and coordinate retail inventory plans. • Monitor and adhere to refined account initiatives to ensure that the combined objectives of Vanity Fair Brands and Wal-Mart are met, including agreed upon inventory, sales, and open-to-buy strategies. • Identify trends and communicate those with the Forecasting team to ensure timely adjustment of production forecast. • Point of Sale & Inventory Analysis – Manage over 1.8 million store/SKU combinations • Create CPFR Policies to Reach Account’s In-stock & Turnover Goals • Formal and Informal Presentations to Customers and Internal Management • Create a Receipt/Shipment Plan Based on Arthur Sales Plan and Excess Inventory Assumptions • Recommend Assortment Adds/Drops Based on Sales Performance

Responsible for managing inventory levels for four brands in 3,100 Wal-Mart stores using CPFR system through Wal-Mart’s Retail Link. Responsibilities included: • Point of sale & inventory analysis – Managed over 1.8 million store/SKU combinations • Create CPFR policies to reach account’s in-stock & turnover goals • New style performance tracking • Formal and informal presentations to customers and internal management. • Create a receipt/shipment plan based on Arthur sales plan and excess inventory assumptions. • Write orders for fashion goods based on stores’ propensity to sell color • Recommend assortment adds/drops based on sales performance • Cluster stores by volume based on sales performance • Responsible for managing two direct reports • Received an Excellence Award in 2006 for my contribution to our company’s winning the “Supplier of the Year” Award at Wal-Mart.

Responsible for managing inventory levels for three brands in 1,038 JCPenney stores, as well as three brands in 250 Mervyn’s stores. Ensured meeting account-specific goals relating to sales, receipts, in-stock percent, inventory turnover or sell-through percent and presentation levels. Responsibilities included: • Point of sale & inventory analysis • Maintenance of system parameters • Formal and informal presentations to customers and internal management • Manage orders to a receipt plan supplied by the account • Write and book orders for new product and fashion. • Recommend assortment adds/drops based on sales performance -- Worked with Account Manager to revise Mervyn’s pant assortment leading to a 15% sales increase year over year. • Clustering stores by volume based on sales performance -- Previously worked with Kmart account. Successfully re-clustered stores and re-allocated inventory to boost fashion sales by 25%.

Ran data analysis to support Forecasting team. Prepared reports to send out to upper-management weekly/ monthly. Assisted in allocating fashion goods to stores based on propensity to sell color for Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, and various regional accounts. Updated forecasting records in Logility. Pulled sales and inventory data from Retail Link to support Wal-Mart sales team.