Guillaume Levrey

Experience

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  L'Oréal

  Jun 2004 - May 2005

  Logistics Administration

  • Assessed logistics and economics impacts of a European legislation change• Coordinated worldwide subsidiaries • Created and followed up KPIs• Created a decision tools to support product offering rationalization

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  Argon Consulting

  Jan 2008 - Jul 2012

  Responsibilities:• Communicating with the clients; understanding their needs and identifying their issues• Building business proposals: proposing relevant methodology, estimating workload, identifying required resources, assembling plan and creating the schedule• Organizing data collection and analysis• Developing business cases, business plans and ROI analysis• Preparing and conducting interviews, workshops and meetings with the clients• Delivering a turnkey solution to the clients (writing the specifications, identifying, selecting and if necessary coaching the suppliers)• Managing the projects to completion• Creating and conducting specific training for clients and coworkers• Managing consultantsKey assignments:• Express distribution (transportation and logistics company):- Identified and assessed the business opportunities and the impacts of merging three competing companies in the areas of logistics, organization, HR, IT and service offering- Wrote the master business plan and planned the integration map for an 18 month period- Result achieved: business growth of 20%, cost reduction of 7%• Ready to wear: - Redefined the distribution system to improve service while decreasing inventory- Automated the existing central warehouse (two requests for proposal, four streams, 7M€ capital investment)- Prepared and facilitated 9 workshops and participated to 2 executive committees at the client’s- Result achieved: cost reduced by 10%, productivity increased and working conditions improved• Ready to wear: - Selected a system to track the 85 activities of the company, from product development to warehouse delivery, aiming at reducing time-to-market and increasing visibility throughout the chain- Conducted workshops at the client’s to translate the desired processes into functional requirements- Developed a request for proposal and selected a software vendor (22 vendors identified, 7 consulted) Show less Key assignments:• Mineral waters: - Designed the European distribution network on a five year horizon (4 million pallets distributed per year, logistics cost of 250 M€) with the objective of increasing efficiency and reducing the environmental impact- Result achieved: number of distribution centers cut from 28 to 12, logistics costs decreased by 17%, and carbon footprint reduced by 30%• Department store:- Assisted with implementation of a new store replenishment tool (Oracle); synthesized and wrote procurement business procedures; analyzed and addressed malfunctions - Created action plans to reduce inventory and increase product availability - Re-defined the logistics master plan and the inventory set-up after the closing of a 1 million square feet warehouse, with 100 000 SKU and moving 50 million items per year- Result achieved: inventory decreased by 25% and cost reduced by 10% Show less

  • Senior Supply Chain Consultant

    Oct 2010 - Jul 2012

  • Junior Consultant, Supply Chain

    Jan 2008 - Oct 2010
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  Resolute Forest Products

  Feb 2013 - Mar 2018

  Responsibilities:• Managing the Commercial Printing network (5 mills / 9 machines / 4,000 MT per day / 400 products / 5,000 SKU), ensuring the correct orders vs capacity balance and solving daily operational issues to obtain the highest service and profitability possible• Strategically planning the mid term horizon based on forecast, capacity, and inventory levels (identify the needs for strategic inventory, order books balancing or temporary machine downtime)• Managing a team of 5 planners: recruiting, developing their skills, providing constant coaching, setting objectives, evaluating performances• Defining and optimizing process, identifying and pursuing business and operational optimization levers. Ensure the correct execution of the defined process• Planning weekly the paper planning team’s workload based on vacations and training and providing them with continuous support for SAP (10 associates in total)• Preparing, managing the transition period and supporting the SAP roll outMain achievements:• Prepared and transitioned smoothly 12 mills and the paper planning team from JDE to SAP• Designed new process and KPIs to improve efficiency and communication within the whole supply chain• Helped rebuild the planning team by recruiting 3 new planners, integrating 3 planners from another department and putting together a training plan and documentation Show less Responsibilities: • Defining and permanently optimizing the production plans of the paper mills to meet the customers’ requirements while achieving high profitability and taking into account the production constraints and the product transitions • Managing the order book; balancing the orders between the mills and the machines • Coordinating production, customer service, sales and logistics to meet customers’ requests; anticipating sales unusual situations and reacting to potential production problemsMain achievements: • Planned the production of four paper mills at the same time • Organized the startup of new paper mills and the closing of obsolete ones • Key contribution to the SAP implementation project: - Identified testing scenarios, conducted testing, reported and corrected defects - Wrote and created new processes - Developed training material and conducted new users’ training - Migrated production planning system to SAP • Took part in the recruitment process of new planners and managed planners • Exceeded management expectations at each yearly performance appraisal Show less

  • Manager - Production Planning

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2018

  • Corporate Production Planner

    Feb 2013 - Dec 2015
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  PwC Canada

  Apr 2018 - Sept 2020

  Digital Operations and Supply Chain Manager
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  IVADO Labs

  Oct 2020 - now

  Senior Director - Delivery of bespoke AI solutions for Supply Chain