Denise Vonbargen

Strategy-minded supply chain professional with extensive portfolio of success driving supply chain planning, purchasing, vendor relations, inventory control, forecasting, and analysis for soft drink giant, Coca Cola Refreshments. Instrumental in optimizing inventory levels, cutting costs, ensuring data accuracy, and generating forecasts. Finely honed skills including strategic & critical thinking, leadership, relationship building, negotiation, communication, training, interpersonal, technical, and issue resolution.

Assistant VMI Buyer - Empire Packing - Mason, OH

(2018-01)

• Cut Purchase orders for perishable meat product for all Kroger divisions.
• Update weekly pricing for Kroger Purchase Orders.
• Track Kroger store orders to ensure on time deliveries and 100 percent fill rate.
• Create forecasts using historical date and current market trends.
• Manage supply of materials to achieve inventory goals and quality assurance.

Demand Planner - Empire Packing - Mason, OH

(2018-01)

• Coordinate the arrival of pork raw material and production schedules.
• Interact with buying team to understand demand forecast drivers to ensure 100% fill rate for Kroger store orders.
• Negotiate with vendors like Tyson and Smithfield on cost and quantities of pork products.
• Manage inventory levels at the plant to ensure quality assurance.

Shipping Clerk - Empire Packing - Mason, OH

(2018-01)

• Filling out BOL, invoices and other records required for shipping orders
• Preparing documents such as, bill of lading, and shipping orders
• Dispatch trucks in and out of warehouse
• Keeping track of shipments and maintaining organized database

Supply Chain Planner II - COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS - Cincinnati, OH

(2009-01 - 2017-11)

• Drive efforts to maintain full goods inventory levels for assigned regional areas utilizing SAP Planning Modules for purchasing, sales forecasting, and inventory management.
• Optimize replenishment loads that minimize logistical costs. Conduct reviews of inventory levels and warehouse capacity, and coordinate necessary product movements, preventing out-of-stocks, out-of-dates, and overstock issues.
• Successfully maintain MRP settings of 10-day or less supply of 500+ materials of purchasing goods and produced items.
• Interact daily with approved vendors and suppliers. Conduct ongoing research, qualifying new vendor sources.
• Collaborate with leadership teams, supporting roll-out of new products, promotional packaging, and holiday inventory planning.
• Assist Demand Manager in identifying and introducing process improvements for Business Unit forecasting, ensuring the correct amount of product was received.
• Review and analyze year-round and seasonal sales, determining trends and purchasing requirements.
• Maintain SAP coverage profiles for each sales facility within assigned regional areas.
• Collaborate with Demand Analyst on SAP material set-ups and sourcing changes for purchased products.
• Generate reports on close dated inventory and lead efforts to reduce Breakage Damage and Loss (BDL) due to product age.
• Facilitate SKU analysis, identifying SKUs that are underperforming; deliver data to Business Unit for decision-making support.
• Facilitate new-hire training.

Supply Chain Planner I - COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS - Cincinnati, OH

(2007-01 - 2009-12)

• Drove purchasing for high volume of Rockstar products, Campbell's, and purchased goods of Coca Cola.
• Slashed expenses $50K per year by recommending Layer Pick Operations, preventing breakage damage and loss.
• Resolved all inventory receiving and quality issues as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Assisted with customer order requirements; advised on delivery dates, and status of open orders.

Full service Analyst Route Auditor / Full Service Dispatcher / Merchandiser / Accounts Payable Clerk / Route Settlement Clerk - COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS - Cincinnati, OH

(1995-01 - 2002-12)

Early career history

General Accounting Studies - Raymond Walters, University of Cincinnati