Michał Pawlak

Head of Planning Team in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Directly reponsible for distribution, inventory level and products availibility in the Region
Cosmetics and non-cosmetics products

Strategy and Operations Team
Supply Chain Management Consultant

PROJECTS
Customer: Energy Distribution Company., Poland – 2010

Role Description
For one of the biggest energy distributor in Poland my team delivered solution in scope of Investment,
Procurement and Logistics functions restructuring and development. During the project I was personally
responsible for Supply Chain Model redesign in scope of warehouse structure, information and goods flow, and
new organization design.

Customer: Gas Mining Company., Poland – 2011

Role Description
Warehousing policy and supply chain goals optimization for major gas mining company in Poland. The project
encompassed review and optimization initiatives definition for internal audit structure. Main areas of the project
was drilling pipes inventory policy optimization and drilling spare parts inventory management.

Customer: Steelworks., Poland – 2011

Role Description
Processes and organization structure optimization for one of the biggest Ukrainian Steelworks in Poland. The
project encompassed review and optimization initiatives definition covering all major functions in the organization
– production, supply chain, purchasing, sales and administration.

Customer: Shipyard, Poland – 2011

Role Description
My team delivered multifunction restructuring project for one of the biggest polish Repair Shipyard. During that
project I was responsible for production reorganization stream on the project including structures and processes
creation for redesigned organization.

Customer: Bridgestone, Inc., USA – present:
Customer: Frito Lay (PepsiCo), CEE – present:

• POSITION DESCRIPTION
Multi-location and international team manager for functional and technical JDA Environments support and improvement. Responsible for local and remote operations across borders and functions (SCM functional and technical skills team).

o Since 2006 I have successfully managed and taken care of professional development of my six-member team located in Poland and US. That scope of my responsibility includes team’s daily operations supervision, familiarizing the team with the customer’s needs and providing guidance to the team based on principals direction.
o Support management for Advanced planning systems and processes – JDA Manugistics SCPO & Fulfillment 7.4 (Frito Lay) & 7.2 (Bridgestone) and Transport 7.2. (Both). User’s daily operations assistance and improvement. Working offsite and onsite from Warsaw, Poland and Muscatine, Iowa, US.
o Expertise role as a functional supply chain specialist on customer’s side, responsible for continuous improvement on supply chain processes.
o Business requirements analysis and BRS (Business Requirements Specification) process management. New solution design architect responsible for system reconfiguration model based on customer business requirements.
o In charge of solution prototype and pilot functional development & configuration. Solution test process and execution and deployment.
o Responsible for tool integrations with other business systems and processes within most effective utilization of the supply planning solution (Manugistics)
o Risk assessment management for new functionalities and changes
o Customer relationships management, new SCM Sow’s design and pricing.

• ACHIEVEMENTS
o Successful implementation of direct delivery project for Frito Lay Poland. Changes of supply chain network and setup that my team designed and deployed allows my customer to reduce central warehouse inventory level by 50% and the whole chain inventory by 20%.

o Being for the last 3 years in charge of CFT SCM department, I have successfully managed service team located in Poland and US. We deliver high quality, 24/7 maintenance for our customers; working within SLA restrictions and in close cooperation with JDA Support team.

o My team designed and successfully delivered software and process migrations for our customers. As a vendor project manager I was responsible for all deliverables in the following upgrade projects: JDA Fulfillment 6.1. to 6.1.8 (Europe), Note: go-life 2007. JDA Transportation 6.2 to 7.2 (Europe) Note: go-life 2008 and 7.1 to 7.2 (USA) Note: go-life Nov 2009.

o My long-term experience within the supply chain area allowed me to join the JDA certification track and successfully pass Recognition of the Completion of JDA Fulfillment 7.5 exam in JDA Training Center Rockville, US. Note: July 2009.

Customer: Frito Lay (PepsiCo), Russia – 2007 & 2008

• POSITION DESCRIPTION
Supply Chain Reporting System Project Manager. Polish (analytics and development) and Russian business teams management. I was responsible for solution design and all deliverables – system layout & logic, report content, testing process, final presentation and deployment to daily use.

• POSITION DESCRIPTION
Supply Chain European Planner EE (April 2005 – November 2006). Personal Care Category
Based: AVON Narofominsk Plant; Russian Federation (ARM)
o I was responsible for Russian manufacturing planning process – production and distribution. I also coordinated buying process within products transition period.
o As AOP support I led Russian production and distribution planning team
o Operating responsibility for planning processes and plan execution on Russian plant
o Responsible for transferring production planning and distribution processes from Polish to Russian plant across ERP and APS systems – over 1000 products NPD process included.
o Manugistics Super User and local functional specialist – data validation, adapting processes and functional support for users. I took role of Manugistics 5.4 and 7.2 trainer for Avon Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
o I was a member of Manugistics 7.2 Avon implementation team (upgrade from 5.4)

Supply Chain Analyst (May 2004 – March 2005) Personal Care Category
Based: AVON Garwolin Plant, Poland (AOP)
o EMEA supply chain control role, responsible for regional EMEA production and distribution planning process in Roll-ons (Personal Care) products category
o Materials buying team’s cooperation and coordination within supply planning process.

• ACHIEVEMENT
o While working for ARM me and the whole team successfully implemented and transferred over 1000 products to Russian manufacturing and planning process. My role was to develop Avon supply chain standards in new-born part of the organization. From the very beginning I was responsible for keeping and lifting up Avon KPI’s like Service level and Inventory within rapidly growing production level. Thanks to great coordination and big effort we succeeded.