Ben Lane

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About Ben Lane

Experienced Buyer/Planner | Consumer Products | Manufacturing | Healthcare Products | Cross-Functional Collaboration| Data Analysis | Inventory Management | Capacity Planner | Inventory Planner | Trainer Experienced Buyer/Planner with 10+ years of experience in Consumer Goods, Manufacturing & Healthcare Products. Experienced in dealing with Domestic and Internarial vendors with lead times from 7 days to 9+ months. Adaptive to market trends, promotions and forecasts to help drive inventory needs to current planning cycles. Buyer/Planner/ Capacity Planning/ Inventory Management Email: balaneakpsi@gmail.com Senior Buyer/Planner excelling in capacity planning, logistics optimization and cross-functional collaboration to insure goals and yearly KPI's are hit to achieve best results for my team and the company. Expertise in inventory management by using shared information from sales & marketing, forecasting date and market trends to insure the correct items are available when needed while keeping holding cost's down. Experienced Buyer/Planner specializing in purchasing and inventory management, continuous improvement, risk mitigation and training/assisting junior planners. My experience in all my combined rolls allows me to think out side the box and come up, offer alternative solutions and bring new ideas to the team. Core Competencies: Capacity Planning Inventory Planning Inventory Management ERP Systems Expertise Logistics Optimization Training Sku Rationalization Raw Material & Finished Good Purchasing International Purchasing Cross-Functional Collaboration Vendor Relationship Management Process Improvement Data Analysis Software: SAP Concur Microsoft Office Power BI As400 JD Edwards Accomplishments: Managed multiple business categories totaling over skus across 6 different plants while maintaining a 97% fill rate and hitting inventory targets. Optimized inventory levels to ensure adequate stock while mitigating risks of overstock and obsolescence, resulting in a $2M reduction in inventory costs through strategic procurement planning. Point person for supply chain functions associated with moving a full business unit out of one system into SAP, which included all the sku validation, historical data conformation/clean up, product data, testing and initial order placement and delivery. Contact me at balaneakpsi@gmail.com or 704-860-5461 for any Buyer/Panner opportunities.