SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
Digital or tangible, a supply chain needs three fit-for-purpose pipes in order to thrive and serve the rest of the organization—product, cash, and data. High-quality flows of data (and the capabilities needed to generate insights from it) are essential to optimizing the movements of product and cash. Ultimately, a healthy supply chain is a tool to shorten the cash conversion cycle to the extent possible.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nanoleaf, Toronto, Canada — VP, Commerce Operations
JAN/2021 – MAY/2024
Designed and implemented programs and repeatable processes to support business development, supply chain, and sales operations to the net benefit of end customers in 120 countries. Managed procurement and integration of third party technology solutions alongside in-house development of proprietary solutions. Staff complement : 20 FTE staff across five distinct teams in three global offices.
- Led the solution development and implementation of a hybrid API/EDI technology stack, significantly improving labour productivity in logistics operations ;
- Designed and implemented various business process automation projects which in aggregate improved gross revenue per labour hour significantly in logistics operations ;
- Streamlined integrated inventory management and forecasting processes, ultimately reducing global stock-on-hand requirements and improving free cashflow.
Professional experience abridged for brevity. Full chronology available at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwamenear/.
NOTABLE PROJECTS (ABRIDGED)
EDI Implementation — Various Vendors (2018, 2020, 2021)
Led the implementation of various EDI management solutions from SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce, and IBM Sterling in order to automate high-volume wholesale and dropship trading with a variety of national and international retailers. These retailers included : Best Buy (Canada), Best Buy (US), Apple Retail (US, Canada, UK, EU, Asia), Home Depot (Canada), Home Depot (US), Costco Wholesale (US), Walmart (US), Conn’s Home Plus (US), Urban Outfitters (US), Nebraska Furniture Mart (US), Indigo Books & Music (Canada).
ERP Implementation — Microsoft Dynamics (2021-2022)
Led the implementation of a cloud ERP to the benefit of the global group of companies at Nanoleaf (multi-tenant implementation including product localizations for Canada, France, and Hong Kong). Project involved designing and developing extensions for the ERP in-house, to micro-optimize for unique business process requirements in trading with global subsidiaries and diverse suppliers.
OM Integration Design — MS Dynamics (2022)
Led the scoping, solution design, and implementation of a bespoke handling layer in Amazon AWS which automates the bidirectional extract-transform-load functions required to transport payloads between an IMS or ERP system and external sales channels. The system was designed to handle connection points over RESTful APIs, SOAP-based APIs, or via flat files (sFTP, primarily).
Business Process Automation — Microsoft 365 / Power Automate (2023)
Led the solution design and implementation of a framework of automated business processes designed to reduce data entry and manual operation of repetitive work across supply chain functions. This work ultimately led to the technology scaffolding supporting an omnichannel sales stack capable of managing orderflow at the millions per month scale.