MBA graduate with experience in Fortune 100 as well as the largest private firm. Proven track record of being able to assess and improve a business across all functions. Experienced in large-scale business transformation, ERP system implementation, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, supply chain execution, manufacturing operations, forecasting, planning and replenishment, and project management.
Specialties: Business Turn-around, Business Improvement, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Sales Inventory Operations Planing (SIOP), Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Demand Planner, Forecasting, Supply Chain Improvement, Warehousing, Distribution, Production Planning, Production Scheduling, Purchasing, Buying, Assortment Planning, Merchandising, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Direct Import, Global Sourcing, SKU Rationalization, Lean-Six Sigma Certified, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
ERP and Reporting Systems: SAP ECC, SAP SCM (SAP APO SNP, SAP APO DP), Business Intelligence, Oracle Demantra, Oracle Retail Planning Suite (Advanced Inventory Planning, Item Planning, Retail Demand Forecasting, Financial Planning (ORP)), Business Objects, Manugistics, E3, JDA, i2 SCEM, CRT and Impas as well as other in-house spreadsheet-based planning tools.
Supply Chain Leader @ Energy, Transportation & Metals
-Setting the vision to build and transform the Metals business into an integrated organizational structure with coordinated processes to enable growth.
-Enable enterprise coordination with strong local execution across demand and supply planning, logistics and transportation, production planning and inventory management while integrating with our procurement and origination team.
-Building out advanced analytical capabilities to utilize data for key decision making and critical processes.
-Creating stronger linkages to Cargill shared services in Cargill Transportation and Logistics group and Strategic Sourcing to leverage resources and scale.
-Assembling supply/demand management, transportation/logistics management, production/inventory management and data capability teams to align with strategic vision. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSupply Chain and Customer Service Manager @ Cargill Industrial Specialties (CIS)
-Managed 25+ member North American supply chain, customer service, transportation, logistics and production scheduling teams
-Supply chain integration owner for acquisition
-Responsibility for 3rd party manufacturing, capacity and supply planning, S&OP implementation and process lead
-Managed team through 12 month SAP implementation
-Member of North American Leadership Team and Business Transportation Leader within Cargill's Corporate Transportation and Logistics (CTL) group From July 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 3 months) Hopkins, MinnesotaSenior Supply Chain Planner @ Cargill Horizon Milling, Joint Venture
Bread manufacturing product line, 3rd party manufacturer of well-known private-label brands of major grocery chains, S&OP process owner, SAP Implementation, SAP Process improvement projects to stabilize the business after implementation, APO Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning From January 2013 to July 2013 (7 months) Wayzata, MinnesotaSenior Supply Chain Planner @ Cargill Texturizing Solutions (CTS)
Global operations leader for large-scale international divestiture of business. Responsible for all supply chain, quality assurance, procurement and product line activities across multiple continents and dozens of countries. Managed an operational business-turn around project to prepare the business for sale. Improved customer service level by more than 15%, increases in product availability drove 20+% increases in sales. Sustainable changes became part of everyday business and operational rhythm. Implemented S&OP Process. I received the Cargill Star "Unsung Hero" Award for my work in this position. From July 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 7 months) Wayzata, MinnesotaOptimization Planner- Demand Planning Operations @ Oracle ERP optimization, Turning supply chain business strategy into results by working across business units to understand, advise, and manage internal resources to execute the strategy. From April 2011 to July 2011 (4 months) Richfield, MinnesotaSustained Learning Planner- Demand Planning Operations @ Oracle ERP implementation, Sustained Learning, Demand Planning Operations Team
Training lead on suite of Oracle forecasting, planning, and replenishment systems
Training and Lab Lead for Training Deployment for 120+ users/trainees
Managed projects to implement large-scale supply chain strategy From November 2009 to April 2011 (1 year 6 months) Senior Demand Planning Analyst @ Successfully managed 10+ categories: printers, consumables, laser, blank digital media, blank video media, office electronics, compact refrigeration, scanners, PDAs, phones, phone accessories, and FRS radios showing positive results and meeting supply chain and financial objectives in all categories
Key contributor to an 18 month Green Belt merchandising project that right-sized and re-merchandised phones category. From October 2006 to November 2009 (3 years 2 months) Demand Planning Analyst @ Managed Home Theater, Mobile Electronics, Music categories while opening 200+ stores
Worked extensively with logistics, field execution teams and space management to drive results
Gained technical understanding of SCM systems and devised unique ways to problem solve From September 2004 to September 2006 (2 years 1 month) Media Specialist- Contracted @ Music and Movie Merchandising Team- helped execute the merchandising strategy in Media From May 2004 to September 2004 (5 months)
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing and Supply Chain @ University of Minnesota - Carlson School of ManagementB.S., Marketing, Management, Sociology @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Greg Mueller is skilled in: Demand Planning, CPFR, Supply Chain, Global Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, Forecasting, Purchasing, Logistics, Direct Import, Six Sigma, Assortment, Project Planning, Management, Project Management, Inventory Management, Inventory Control, Supply Chain..., Demand Forecasting, Merchandising, Business Turn-arounds, Business Process..., ERP Implementations, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Operations, Pricing, Operations Management, SAP, MRP, People Development, 3PL, Retail, Cross-functional Team..., ERP, Warehousing, Strategy, JDA, Leadership, SAP APO
Websites:
http://www.cargill-etm.com/