David Averill

Experience

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  SC Johnson

  May 2009 - Jul 2009

  Intern, Customer Supply Chain

  Worked on various cross-functional projects within the North American SCJ supply chain. Projects focused on joint-shipping, reverse logistics, third-party reporting, secondary market sales, and outsource feasibility. Deliverables include recommendations leading towards annual financial savings and improved procedures of reporting & communication.

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  SC Johnson

  Jul 2010 - now

  - Drives globally led innovation projects within Air Care, ensuring Supply Chain teams are coordinated and prepared to deliver projects on time, on quality, and on cost. Prior experience supporting battlegrounds in Home Cleaning, Home Storage, and Shoe Care.- Identify risks to NPD success criteria, ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place, and ensure project stakeholders are aligned and engaged as appropriate.- Demonstrates portfolio management by being part of Category Leadership Team, working to govern projects through the E2E process & deliverables, and ensuring the project portfolio is well-aligned with brand & GCB strategies. Show less o Manages a team of seven direct reports supporting special packs in US & Canada.o Fosters relationships with internal & external stakeholders to drive business process improvements and problem solve the constraints that drive service & inventory risk.o Created capacity modeling templates used across strategic 3PMs to drive short-term collaborative planning & risk mitigation and longer-term planning through S&OP. o Supply Planning Subject Matter Expert on bid of Special Pack direct material and converting spend. Ongoing engagement to implement new shortened development timeline. Show less - Represented North America in the development of global initiatives to ensure compatibility and applicability to North American supply chains.- Led regional deployment of global initiatives, including the Global Playbook, Day-In-The-Life, Supply Planning Information Management, and ad hoc projects.- Demonstrated initiative by representing global supply planning in large-scale projects on end-to-end data quality and SAP access re-design.- Provided first-level support to users by training & troubleshooting systems and process.- Enabled process improvement by collaborating on best practice creation & documentation. Show less • Served as a North America representative on the global team co-located in Manila, Philippines for the 3-month active phase, followed by local implementation activities• Applied lean methodology & tools to map current operating models and identify/quantify waste and opportunities in our processes• Coordinated with other global representatives & on-site consultants to design a single standardized supply planning operating model to globally replace the regional operating practices• Defined roles & responsibilities of a new organization archetype, documented consistent KPI metrics, and identified information flows across levels of the organization (internal supply planning, internal supply chain, and S&OP)• Created a detailed implementation plan for use in the enrollment of regional directors, management and peers during the subsequent roll-out phase Show less • Supporting the production planning of select OFF, Raid, and Glade product lines for primarily US and Canadian markets. Consults on global teams to leverage wins in North America on rollouts to international markets.• Planning in SAP systems using purchased finished good, WIP/NFG, and subcontracting profiles.• Leveraging supply chain efficiencies while managing the volatility of seasonal demand against staunch inventory productivity goals.• Regularly works with colleagues of various functions and levels, both internal and external, domestic and international, at varying tiers of the supply chain.• Key role in project management to maintain timeline commitments, minimize obsolescence, and mitigate supply failures & risks.• Deepening understanding of activities involved in import & export, product registrations, and new product commercialization.• Influences business actions with sound analytics as part of S&OP and end-to-end engagements.• Serves as SAP department super user, supporting primarily ECC & SCM environments, with a strong working knowledge of the PLM environment as well. Role entails training, best practice development, and troubleshooting. Show less • Supported the Drug class of trade in US markets.• Worked with internal & external cross-functional teams to manage the inventory replenishment to customer distribution centers using a robust CPFR design.• Planned inventory levels around promotions, launches, exits, and transitions using (primarily) SAP & JDA systems. Additionally leveraged industry & retailer portals.• Customer lead for a priority account, with accountibility for flawless communication and consistency across planner desks.• Key player in piloting consolidated shipping ventures, as well as integrating acquired brands into the customer's VMI portfolio.• Utilized advanced analytics to drive value-added data mining to forecasting, scorecarding, and seasonal planning processes• Demonstrated skills in waste elimination, data streamlining, and process documentation• Served as SuperUser for Business Warehouse reporting in the department (encompasses training & enrichment responsibilities). Show less

  • Global Commercialization Project Manager, RD&E

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Global Supply Chain Innovation Lead

    Oct 2018 - Apr 2022

  • Associate Manager, Supply Planning Team Lead

    Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Associate Manager, North America Supply Planning Center of Excellence

    May 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Special Project - Supply Planning Business Process Redesign

    Oct 2014 - May 2015

  • Senior Supply Planner

    Aug 2012 - May 2015

  • Senior Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Planner

    Jul 2010 - Jul 2012