University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Director of Product Management at Scopely

Scopely

Senior Director of Product Management

Director of Product Management

Lead Product Manager

Pocket Gems

Del Monte Foods, Inc.

Senior Associate Product Manager

-Facilitator for Integrated Business Planning process for Del Monte's largest category. 
-Generated and maintained statistical forecasts, while identifying the business drivers of historical and current demand. 
-Created the standard work process and documentation for Demand Planning within the new IBP/Consensus forecasting process. 
-Maintained item level forecasts and mix %s within JDA i2 Demand Manager, and in SAP APO after company wide SAP implementation. 
-Constant communication with supply team on production planning and material availability.
-SAP Super User for Demand Planning department.

Demand Manager

• Responsible for all demand and forecast related issues for flooring product in US.
• Direct manager for forecast analysts supporting currently assigned product division.
• Create seasonal builds, product load-in and promotional buy plans.
• Monitor and adjust safety stock levels and smooth RDC flow plans.
• Routinely engage in vendor CPFR process and PO forecast creation meetings.
• Cleanse historical sales data based on lift and impact analysis to aid statistical forecast creation.
• Identify forecast improvement areas through MAPE, Bias, Service Levels and In-stock % reporting.
• Lead financial forecasting process with supporting merchandising directors/VPs used for labor model planning and public financial guidance.
• Identify, model and implement sales profiles/ seasonality for both new and inline items.
• Perform vendor preparation for large item resets and provide weekly new item trending/monitoring.
Key Achievements
-Collaborated with contracted programmers as a forecasting SME to create the design and models for a rolling 52 week forecast creation system in TM1 to use throughout the company for financial and store labor planning. Worked as SME representing forecasting in solutions and requirements gathering/validation for further companywide implementation of new JDA demand and fulfillment systems.

Lowe's Home Improvement

• Streamline inventory and maximize sales potential by maintaining accurate system level sales forecasts for lighting merchandise division (3000+ skus).
• Hold regular CPFR meetings to plan forecasts, inventory pipeline, promotions, and other concerns.
• Educate vendors on proper pipeline planning and Lowe’s replenishment planning and systems.
• Collaborative root cause analysis, plan incremental and promo buys, and optimize system settings.
• Preemptively identify shortages by comparing forecasts and pipeline reports to correct problems.
• Responsible for 1700+ US store’s and DC forecasts.
• Team based environment where communication and organization is vital.
• 10% Job time allocated to Forecast Projects team working on Forecasting systems and databases.
• Participated in monthly merchandising financial forecast meetings with merchandising directors.

Forecast Analyst

• Daily coordination with RDCs, Regional Trans-Managers and DC Coaches on transportation issues.
• Developed and authored new OJTs (On The Job Training documents) for initial load planner training.
• Innovative large scale projects involving consolidation and operation’s processes.
• Managed vendor and carrier relations for all concerns regarding inbound transportation.
• Managed inbound transportation for Lowe’s inbound west and southeast transportation teams.
• Worked daily with JDA Imports Implementation Team on many aspects of daily import operations

Ryan Ridenhour