Ross Hughes, MBA

Experience

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  R&N Landscaping

  Apr 2006 - Sept 2011

  President & Co-Founder

  • Created and co-founded a sole proprietary company to provide exceptional and prompt landscaping and home outdoor maintenance services.• Developed, designed and released innovative advertising in local media and business cards. Initiated personal contact with potential customers explaining our broad services and dedicated work ethics to grow the business.• Expanded customer base from 2 households to a full-service company servicing 25+ customers throughout the Metro Detroit area through advertising and references from satisfied customers. Show less

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  Kalamazoo Wings

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Game Operations Intern
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  Kellogg Company

  Apr 2011 - Oct 2023

  ● Improved relationships with core suppliers and plant directors to provide a more efficient production and distribution for our North American Frozen Foods network. ● North America Supply planning lead for creating a more efficient end to end process between commercial and demand by creating tableau reporting tools that will support organizational goals and initiatives of reducing inventory annually. ● Negotiated with co-manufacturers to identify internal storage to give Kellogg the ability to mix SKU’s on stock orders resulting in better case fill rate service for customers & reducing redeployment Show less • Manage the production schedule for six Eggo production facilities. • Assisted and trained the dry side of the business Supply Network Planning, a new supply planning and deployment system and was considered a TLB specialist during training. • Collaborated with Transportation, Finance, and Customer Service on how to reduce our redeployment spend and identified opportunities for cost saving projects within the Frozen Network. • Identified additional inter-modal lanes in the Frozen network that contributed our IM utilization to be under budget. • Created a more efficient bypass transit lane between our plants and DC’s, this included developing new reports and changing the deployment schedule. Case Fill has increased 4% since these practices were introduced. • Improved efficiency by optimizing UL’s on stock orders, as frozen plants were favorable at $.98/UL and 1.3UL/truck to budget. Show less • Manage deployment and SPOC for Snacks Central and Southern regional distribution centers. • Utilized deployment tools such as SAP and Manugistics to maximize Product Availability metrics (case fill, space utilization, network capacity).• Created a new order writing process for deployment orders at 4 co-manufacturing facilities. This new process gives our co-mans more time to secure a carrier, quicker deliveries to NSD’s, and has reduced transportation costs.• Identified and directed creative solutions and re-deployments across the DSD network by managing an “A” item inventory report at all DSD locations. This report helped drive the DSD network Case Fill above the 96.5% network goal. • Developed relationships with DSD personnel and used problem solving skills daily for 9 DSD facilities while maintaining a 97.7% case fill in P11. Show less • Assisted in the implementation of DSD Customer Service group from start-up pilot phase into an established group that now services all Kellogg DSD Distribution Centers. • Implemented Best in Class customer service practices that resulted in a decrease of 10% in refusals. These practices were used for Kellogg Distribution Centers, DSD Sales Representatives, and DSD Drivers and provided quick, reliable solutions that maximized sale opportunities and profits by eliminating waste. • Used SAP to manually create special add-on orders for stores, which created unexpected additional revenue for the company. Show less

  • Director of Innovation

    Aug 2023 - Oct 2023

  • Sr Mgr Supply Chain Buisness Partner - Salty Snacks

    Oct 2021 - Jul 2023

  • Sr. Mgr. Supply Chain Business Partner - Kellogg Canada

    Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Canada Supply Chain Business Partner

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Manufacturing Reliability Resource

    Jul 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Supply Chain Planner-Veggie Frozen Foods

    Jan 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Supply Chain Planner-Eggo

    Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Logistics Supply Chain Planner

    Jan 2013 - Mar 2014

  • Business Expansion Gatekeeper Intern

    Apr 2012 - Jan 2013

  • Direct Store Door Customer Service Intern

    Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
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  Kellanova

  Oct 2023 - now

  Director of Innovation