Supply Chain Manager Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Supply Chain Manager resume example
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Carlos Ortega
[email protected] • (555) 011-6845 • Atlanta, GA • linkedin.com/in/carlosortega
Professional Summary
Supply Chain Manager with 9 years of experience in demand planning, inventory management and sales and operations planning for consumer packaged foods, home goods and wholesale distribution. Leads planning for a $220M food portfolio of 850 SKUs made in two plants and shipped to retail and foodservice customers, with a team of four planners and an inventory analyst. Raised case fill rate from 94.1% to 98.3% while cutting finished-goods inventory by $5.6M, and lifted forecast accuracy from 62% to 74%. Runs the business on one agreed number: a monthly S&OP plan in Kinaxis and SAP S/4HANA that sales, finance and operations all sign off.
Skills
- Supply Chain Planning: Demand planning, statistical forecasting, sales and operations planning (S&OP), supply planning, new product launches, promotion planning
- Inventory Management: Safety stock optimization, reorder points, SKU rationalization, excess and obsolete reduction, days of supply, vendor-managed inventory
- Logistics & Fulfillment: Order fulfillment, OTIF, fill rate, lead time reduction, distribution center operations, freight mode optimization, co-packer management
- ERP & Planning Systems: SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Oracle E-Business Suite, Tableau, Power BI, Excel
- Analytics: Forecast accuracy and bias, inventory modelling, point-of-sale data analysis, cost-to-serve, KPI dashboards
- Leadership: Team management, cross-functional S&OP facilitation, supplier collaboration, executive reporting
Education & Certification
- Supply chain concentration; senior design project rebuilt warehouse slotting for a regional beverage distributor.
Work Experience
Supply Chain ManagerApril 2022 – PresentRedclay Provisions Co., Atlanta, GA
- Raised case fill rate to retail customers from 94.1% to 98.3% while cutting finished-goods inventory by $5.6M, by resetting safety stock for 850 SKUs on demand variability and supplier lead time.
- Improved SKU-week forecast accuracy from 62% to 74% by moving demand planning into Kinaxis RapidResponse and adding retailer point-of-sale data to the baseline forecast.
- Lead monthly sales and operations planning across sales, marketing, finance and two plants, turning a 13-week forecast into one approved supply plan.
- Cut expedited freight spend by 38% ($1.1M a year) by building a constrained supply plan in SAP S/4HANA that flags material shortages four weeks out instead of one.
- Shortened packaging lead time from 21 to 14 days by consolidating 12 packaging suppliers to five with procurement and setting up vendor-managed inventory at both plants.
- Kept on-time-in-full above the 95% retailer target for 10 straight quarters, ending compliance fines that cost $640,000 in 2021, through daily order-risk reviews with customer service.
- Manage four demand and supply planners and an inventory analyst, with weekly reviews on fill rate, forecast accuracy, days of supply and excess and obsolete inventory.
Senior Demand PlannerMarch 2019 – March 2022Halcyon Home Brands, Charlotte, NC
- Raised forecast accuracy from 58% to 69% across 1,400 SKUs in e-commerce and wholesale channels by building statistical models in SAP IBP and reviewing overrides monthly.
- Lowered excess and obsolete inventory by 32% by leading a SKU rationalization review with marketing and finance that retired 210 slow movers.
- Held e-commerce fill rate at 96% while orders doubled in 2020 by sharing weekly forecast updates with three overseas suppliers and pre-booking ocean capacity.
- Built a promotional lift model in Excel and Power BI from three years of promotion history, which sales used to size retailer promotions before committing.
- Coordinated launch forecasts, packaging lead times and initial distribution for 60 new SKUs a year with product development and supply teams.
Supply Chain AnalystJune 2017 – February 2019Brightway Wholesale Distribution, Savannah, GA
- Reduced stockouts at four distribution centers by 27% by rebuilding reorder points in Oracle E-Business Suite from 12 months of demand and supplier lead-time data.
- Found $310,000 in annual freight savings by analyzing fulfillment cost by lane and shifting regular LTL volume to multi-stop truckload routes.
- Raised inventory record accuracy from 93% to 98.5% across 9,000 SKUs by running cycle count reviews with warehouse leads and fixing root causes of variances.
- Replaced a day of manual Excel work each week by building inventory and fill rate dashboards in Tableau for the operations director.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- The first bullet pairs service and cash, fill rate up to 98.3% while inventory fell $5.6M, which is the trade-off every supply chain leader is hired to manage.
- Inventory, fill rate, lead time and forecast accuracy all carry before-and-after numbers, fixing the page’s top mistake of a supply chain resume with no inventory or cost metrics.
- ERP and planning tools are named where they were used (Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, Oracle E-Business Suite), so an ATS finds them and a hiring manager sees how deep the use was.
- S&OP is described as a process with an output ("a 13-week forecast into one approved supply plan"), showing scope beyond a single function.
- Analyst to senior demand planner to manager, backed by CPIM and CSCP, is the progression supply chain hiring managers expect for a 9-year candidate.
Common Resume Mistakes
- No inventory, fill rate, or cost metrics.
- Missing ERP or planning tool keywords.
- Vague "managed supply chain" without scope.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Supply chain
- Inventory
- Demand planning
- Logistics
- ERP
- Fill rate
- Lead time
- Fulfillment
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