Christopher Burke
Peckville
Summary
Veteran Supply Chain Manager with over 10 years of experience in the field and an MBA level of education to support. I have tailored my skills to meet every aspect of the daily demands that the Supply Chain field entails and I have gained a large amount of knowledge during my time in the field. I am ready to take on a new challenge and help meet the goals of the organization.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Demand Planning Manager
Vaxserve, A Sanofi Pasteur Company
Moosic
01.2019 - Current
- Responsible for managing 150 Million Dollars in Inventory on a monthly basis across 3 distribution centers across the United States
- Working closely with large 3PL vendors to ensure a continuous flow of stock and creating purchase orders to replenish stock
- Responsible for implementing and monitoring forecasts and sales trends on a weekly basis and reporting on large variances vs forecasts
- Responsible for vendor controls, including ensuring reporting accuracy and reviewing sales and inventory metrics with all vendors
- Worked closely with all other teams to ensure all customer forecasts were captured and to prevent any stock outs during high demand times
- Responsible for setting up new vendors and new products in the SAP system and ensuring all business units setup the product according to the SOP
- Assembled end-of-month reports for SOX requirements, regularly participated in company audits, provided our financials, and participated in explanations to auditors.
- Run monthly SOP meetings with upper management and the head of Vaxserve.
- IBM Experience with EDI reporting to vendors, including diagnosing and fixing data issues and ensuring data is correct to comply with vendor contracts.
Demand Planner
Vaxserve, A Sanofi Pasteur Company
Moosic
08.2015 - 01.2019
- Worked closely with a large 3PL vendor to store and ship a large volume of medical products
- Placed replenishment purchase orders and ensured that all stock arrived, also dealing with discrepancies and reporting to vendors to ensure deliveries were accurate
- Analyzing reporting coming from the 3PL vendors system in regards to stock, deliveries and customer orders, and resolving any SAP issues regarding these orders to ensure customer invoices processed and stock was accurate
- Assisted in the implementation of DQSA standards as needed, eventually taking over and running this aspect of the business from an inventory and product perspective
- Worked closely with management to analyze dead stock, slow moving products, and potential additions to the portfolio as well as resolving issues regarding the product line
- Provided end of month financials in regards to the 3PL vendor and stock snapshots for SOX and audits
Assistant Supply Chain Manager
Comserve Systems
Scranton
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Assisted with all aspects of Supply Chain for Vaxserve as a contractor while gaining the experience needed to become a non-contracted Demand and Planning Manager
Vaccine Representative
Comserve Systems
Scranton
06.2012 - 03.2014
- Assisting Customers with flu vaccine reservations by answering all questions they had regarding presentations, shipping windows, availability, return ability, partners program benefits, and any other flu vaccine related questions.
- Confirming orders and scheduling ship dates
- Create accounts and update them as needed
- Worked with physicians to determine the correct flu vaccine for the specific patient, such as HD and PEDS.
- Managing a territory of customers to expand current vaccine portfolio via phone
Education
MBA - Operations Management
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA12.2019
BBA - Business
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA05.2012
Skills
- Highly proficient in the SAP ERP System Worked in SAP for 10 years in various aspects Currently working in S4
- Highly proficient in Excel, including Pivot Tables and Forecasting
- Knowledgeable with the IBM system, using it to push data to SAP for vendor reporting/pulling data to analyze
- Knowledgeable in OpenText for dealing with vendor invoices
- Completed the APICS course through Sanofi Pasteur, test pending
- Can adapt to any system and learn quickly, especially regarding ERP systems
- Ability to resolve complex issues with minimal guidance
- Experience with Audits and Sarbanes Oxley reporting
- Large amount of experience working with vendors and 3PL
- 10 years of experience dealing with inventory analysis and forecasting
- Ability to work cross functionally with other departments to ensure needs are met
- Supply Chain Management
- Demand Forecasting
- Supply Chain Distribution
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Demand Planning Manager
Vaxserve, A Sanofi Pasteur Company
01.2019 - Current
Demand Planner
Vaxserve, A Sanofi Pasteur Company
08.2015 - 01.2019
Assistant Supply Chain Manager
Comserve Systems
03.2014 - 08.2015
Vaccine Representative
Comserve Systems
06.2012 - 03.2014
MBA - Operations Management
University of Scranton
BBA - Business
Pennsylvania State University