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Robert ROWSOME

BIRMINGHAM

En résumé

Senior Manager – International Supply Chain and Sales Forecasting with extensive experience in multi-site Supply and Demand Management and world-wide sales forecasting. Accomplished global order desk manager. Currently Head of Operations managing multi-million shipments to over 50 countries. Completely bilingual French / English

Major Milestones
Identified as a critical key member of Sendo’s executive. Invited to attend weekly Sendo Management Team Meetings
Transformed Sendo’s operational efficiencies. Forecasting accuracy up from 0% to 60/70% consistently. Working inventories down to 4/8 days average
Completely constructed and obtained approval for Sendo’s entire sales budget. Performance was above 100% on all posts (sales / revenue / gross margin) for the first time in company’s history
Identified as “Platinum Top Talent” in Nortel Networks – part of a group of individually tracked best performers representing less than 1% of workforce
Integral GSM / UMTS inventory down to 45 days (factory / transit / finished goods). Best in class (70 days corporate wide) and lower than most “high tech” company quotations
Recognised by Nortel President Global Operations for the implementation of “Best in Class” Global Forecasting and Factory Load Planning process supporting Finished Goods reduction in GSM / UMTS from $10m to $200k within 12 months and Customer Service Performance consistently above 90%
Total financial stock reduction (Philips Consumer Communications) by more than $49 million within twelve months in 1998 at the same time as increasing External Customer Service levels
Recognised as Europe’s top Planning Manager during 1994 with an average planning precision on Monitors and Telephones of 95% on volume and 75% per product code (200 codes) – these product ranges achieved national market leadership during the same year
Reduced working stock levels (PC’s to two weeks rotation while improving customer service levels to 95% from 1991 to 1993

Mes compétences :
Approvisionnements
Gestion des commandes
Logistique
Prévisions
Production
Service client
Supply chain

Entreprises

  • Sendo - Senior Commercial Support Manager

    maintenant

  • Nortel Networks - Senior Manager EMEA Supply & Demand

    Toronto 1999 - 2002 Constructeur d'infrastructure de communications (GSM / UMTS / Optical / Switching / Broadband etc)
    Reporting to Vice President EMEA Operations
    Management of a team of 40 people covering the entire Nortel product portfolio & all EMEA clients (2000 revenue $6.4 billion)
    Management of Northern Europe / Cable & Wireless / BT Order House
    Fast track Regional Inventory & Procurement
    Integral Forecast management & factory load / planning
    World-wide UMTS & GSM forecasting responsibility (2000 revenue $2.6 billion)

  • Nortel Networks - Senior Manager GSM/UMTS Business Forecasting

    Toronto 1999 - 2002 Constructeur d'infrastructure de communications (GSM / UMTS / Optical / Switching / Broadband etc)
    Reporting to Director, Customer Operations EMEA
    Management of a team of 4 persons comprising Forecasting Managers / Logistics Analyst / process Engineer
    Responsible for World-wide forecasting of all Nortel’s GSM Networks material (2000 revenue $2.6 billion)
    Co-ordination of Goods Movement Planning across 4 factories based in Europe and North America
    Tasked with complete re-engineering of the forecasting and goods movement planning process in order to reduce stock rotation and customer lead-times by using retail best practices where relevant

  • Philips - EMEA Supply & Demand Manager / Business Group PCC Forecasting Manager

    Suresnes 1987 - 1999 Constructeur de produits éléctronique (TV / Video / Communications / Eclairage / Médical / Domestique
    EMEA Supply and Demand Manager
    Reporting to Vice President EMEA Distribution
    Management of a team of 15 persons comprising Forecasting Managers / Master Planners / Materials Planners / configuration planners
    Member of board committee overseeing the centralisation of all European distribution (more than 30 countries / 14 warehouses into one distribution centre near Paris)
    Member of SAP Implementation committee (definition and scope of functionalities / construction of blue print)
    Integral European stock responsibility (finished products and sub-assemblies – approx. 5000 references / turnover 1998 $858 million)

    1996 to 1996
    World-wide Business Group Forecasting Manager – Philips Consumer Communications (digital and analogue cellular / cordless and corded phones / pagers / fax products)
    Reporting to Executive Vice President, Marketing PCC
    Initiation and management of the sales forecasting process as the sole driver of BG’s production and procurement plans (8 million unit sales in 1996 – 400% progression compared to 1995)
    Confrontation and analysis of regional sales forecasts compared to market development and commercial policy
    Definition / implementation and development of unique global goods movement planning IT system
    Management of product requirements sourced from 5 factories based in Asia / Europe and N. America
    Construction of Job Definition / recruitment and review of 3 regional forecasting managers and 12 area forecasting managers controlling forecasts in over 40 countries
    1994 to 1995
    European Planning and Logistics Manager for Philips telephone products
    Reporting to the Head of Consumer Electronics Europe PCC
    Management and performance review of 11 country planning managers
    Sales forecasting precision was increased by 20% while stock rotation and customer lead-times were reduced
    1987 to 1994
    Different planning and logistics positions held at progressing levels in the French sales organisation
    Reporting to Managing Director PCC France
    Sales and Supply Management
    Stock Management

Formations

Pas de formation renseignée

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