Carter O'Sullivan
Greenville
Summary
Results-oriented Procurement and Inventory Manager with extensive experience in overseeing raw material inventory, procurement, and stock management. Proven ability to lead teams and use analytical skills to optimize inventory strategies, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency. Skilled in strategic material stocking and inventory turnover improvements that directly enhance on-time delivery (OTD) and customer satisfaction. Strong communicator with a history of successful collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet organizational goals.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Inventory and Procurement Manager
Cytiva
Greenville
04.2024 - Current
- Led a high-performing team of material buyers by setting and measuring precise expectations, and fostering collaboration that resulted in achieving site objectives.
- Designed a data-driven raw material stocking strategy, which took our MTO business from having an average OTD of 60% to 90%.
- Applied analytical skills to develop KPIs for the team that focus on forward-looking inventory health and OTD performance, which generated necessary actions to close gaps.
- Spearheaded continuous improvement activities that led to improved internal material flow in the building by deploying point-of-use materials from the warehouse to the clean room, which resulted in improved productivity.
- Implemented supplier scorecards and targeted suppliers with long lead times, and poor performance. Improvement initiatives resulted in a 25% improvement in inventory design by reducing lead times and MOQs with the most advantageous vendors.
- Improved our custom product lead times from 12 weeks to 7 weeks by reducing vendor lead times and deploying strategic stocking strategies, while improving inventory turns by 2 points.
- Worked closely with operations, finance, and engineering to achieve shared objectives, such as a transfer of work project spanning 15 months, while managing capital purchases and raw material launch purchases that satisfied timeline deadlines.
Supply Chain Analyst
Cytiva
Greenville
06.2023 - 04.2024
- Applied data-driven insights to the startup site to have a deeper understanding of our operations, and provide improvement insights.
- Created harmonized planning and purchasing processes to satisfy the complexities of our MTO business, with thousands of raw material SKUs and thousands more finished good SKUs.
- Measured OTD, inventory turns, and managed continuous improvement efforts, and identified actions to improve both.
- Oversaw a transfer project that consolidated production lines from several sites into one, while improving OTD, and inventory performance.
- Managed monthly KPIs and forecasted inventory performance to support financial planning.
Operations Leadership Associate
Danaher
Greenville
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Warehouse Manager Rotation
- Supply Chain Analyst Rotation.
- Buyer/Planner Rotation
- Continuous Improvement Leader Rotation
Education
Bachelor of Science - Supply Chain Management And Information Systems
Penn State University
State College, PA05-2021
Skills
- Supplier relationship management
- Procurement
- Data Analysis
- SAP / ERP Systems
- Planning
- Project Management
- Planning
- Inventory forecasting
- Demand forecasting
- Trend analysis
- Financial analysis
- Inventory management
Certification
- APICS Certified in Planning and Inventory Management (CPIM)
Timeline
Inventory and Procurement Manager
Cytiva
04.2024 - Current
Supply Chain Analyst
Cytiva
06.2023 - 04.2024
Operations Leadership Associate
Danaher
06.2021 - 06.2023
Bachelor of Science - Supply Chain Management And Information Systems
Penn State University
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