A'Bryanna Smith

Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Excel reports supporting operational, labor, and cost-related decision-making. Validate data across ERP, Power BI, and Excel, identifying and resolving inconsistencies to ensure accurate reporting. Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports used by leadership for forecasting, planning, and operational reviews.

Supply Chain Analyst - Solvita - Kettering, OH

(2025-04)

• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Excel reports supporting operational, labor, and cost-related decision-making.
• Validate data across ERP, Power BI, and Excel, identifying and resolving inconsistencies to ensure accurate reporting.
• Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports used by leadership for forecasting, planning, and operational reviews.
• Investigate data discrepancies using root-cause analysis and collaborate with cross-functional teams to correct issues.
• Maintain reporting documentation and standardized workflows to ensure accuracy, consistency, and audit readiness.
• Provide timely and accurate data to operations, finance, and planning teams to support labor and cost tracking.

Buyer Planner - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY

(2025-04 - 2025-08)

Expanded role that combined all Production Planning responsibilities with new Buyer functions

• Added ownership of procurement functions, purchasing materials from Parker divisions and external suppliers to support production schedules.
• Negotiated tariffs and pricing agreements to reduce costs and strengthen supply chain resilience.
• Expedited material deliveries and sourced alternates to minimize shortages and prevent production delays.
• Allocated raw and finished goods across multiple production lines to meet delivery and customer targets.
• Maintained MBOM accuracy and revision control within ERP system to support engineering changes and production requirements.
• Processed and managed sales orders, manufacturing orders, and purchase requisitions/POs, ensuring timely fulfillment.

Planner - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY

(2024-04)

• Created and maintained production schedules using Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory methodologies to meet customer demand efficiently.
• Maintained effective cross-functional communication with customer service, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and leadership to align priorities and reduce backlog.
• Implemented stocking parameters and economic order quantities (EOQs) for high-run items to support lean planning, reduce rework for planners and manufacturing, and increase on-time delivery performance for stocked orders.
• Trained and onboarded new team members—including a senior planner with 35+ years of experience and an entry-level LDA—by teaching material flow, planning processes, and ERP system usage, demonstrating leadership early in tenure.
• Led cross-functional alignment between planning and manufacturing by fostering collaboration and co-developing build schedules, improving schedule accuracy and enabling more reliable customer promise dates.
• Supported Supply Chain High Performance Team (HPT) initiatives by documenting planning workflows and creating standardized work instructions, reducing process variability and expediting new hire onboarding.

Supply Chain Leadership Development Associate - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY & Jeffersonville, IN

(2022-06 - 2024-04)

• Completed structured rotations across core supply chain functions—including SIOP, procurement, production planning, logistics, and warehouse operations—developing a well-rounded understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Facilitated and managed intercompany transactions between the Parker IGFG division and other U.S.-based Parker divisions to ensure seamless order fulfillment and alignment across business units.
• Collaboratively implemented a Kanban process for buy-and-resell products using PFEP (Plan for Every Part) principles to optimize inventory levels while supporting the successful integration of KanbanBox as a new digital scheduling tool across the facility.
• Reduced logistics costs by supporting freight rate negotiations, lane bidding processes, and benchmarking activities to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Participated in cross-functional Kaizen events focused on continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to planning efforts that identified process inefficiencies and supported workflow enhancements.

Materials Co-Op - Emerson Climate Technologies - Sidney, Ohio

(2021-08 - 2022-01)

• Support Planners with material buying and planning requirements.
• Assist with issuing purchase orders for raw materials and components, expediting orders as needed, and verifying delivery dates.
• Identify and resolve issues that impact on-time delivery due to COVID-19.
• Work in conjunction with production, customer service, sales, suppliers, and procurement to meet customer requirements.
• Manage Kanban's to meet production and inventory targets.

Purchasing Co-Op - Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems - Elyria, Ohio

(2019-12 - 2020-08)

• Managed and maintained over 40 RFQs.
• Entered daily parts information into SAP IBP that totaled over 700 at the end of the Co-Op
• Created PPAP POs and Sample POs in SAP

BS - Business Administration - Bowling Green State University