Zak Binns

Worked as Senior Manager, Supply Chain Network Strategy and Optimization at Vital Farms.

• Developed and implemented effective production planning
process by balancing plant utilization/cost and inventory while delivering superior
customer service.
• Led Supply Planning improvement initiatives (schedule optimization) and proactively
manages projects (timelines and delivery) to improve efficiency and longer-term planning
• Identified supply risks and developed mitigation plans and reco

•Proactively analyze and enhance the model performance of SAP APO Heuristic and Optimization in the Supply Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning space (new and existing cost model structures, network structure changes, advanced modeling of networks, simulations of business changes, and new planning system implementation)
· Subject matter expert for supply, distribution, and demand planni

· Analyzed product and customer performance to develop demand forecasts for Chameleon, Paper and Supplies categories in Nestle Coffee Partners Solutions Lab
· Launched first standardized S&OP Demand Review process for Chameleon and Paper segments resulting in enhanced strategic planning and significant DPA and Bias metric improvement during COVID-related business transformation

· Supported GLOBE integration of Nestlé Coffee Partners through the Deployment, Demand and Supply Planning, Transportation, and Warehouse Operations work streams to build and execute Business Design Review
· Created network design and SKU-detail forecast used to source transportation and staffing for Ambient network
· Provided support on integration activities and day-to-day NCP operations as a r

Manage inventory and distribution requirement plans to maintain customer service level while reducing working capital and distribution, redeployment and overflow cost through coordination with Supply Planning, Demand Planning and Warehouse Operations.

Develops and drives long term strategy to support growth plans of company and divisions by setting inventory targets, improvement opportunities, a

· Executed deployment of finished and semi-finished goods from plants to distribution centers, resulting in $80K YOY reduction in redeployment and payload costs
· Developed and implemented deployment dashboard tool to provide decision support and improve efficiency across all NUSA deployment teams

· Developed Tableau dashboard enabling purchasing teams to manage vendor lead time. Pilot testing resulted in $3.8 million reduction in inventory and 90% overall reduction in lead time error
· Queried and analyzed large sets of data (1 million+ rows) to gain insights that drive business value by reducing inventory and improving the ability of customers to get products
· Consolidated and evaluated

May 2016