Brad Jones
About
Brad Jones is from Greater Seattle Area. Brad works in the following industries: "Wholesale". Brad is currently Director Of Purchasing at Animal Supply Company, located in Federal Way, Washington. Brad also works as Buyer Analyst at Safeway, a job Brad has held since May 2015. In Brad's previous role as a Purchasing Manager at Taylor Farms, Brad worked in Kent, Washington until May 2015. Prior to joining Taylor Farms, Brad was a Purchasing Manager at United Natural Foods and held the position of Purchasing Manager at Auburn, WA. Prior to that, Brad was a Inforem System Administrator/Purchasing Manager at Safeway from Oct 1997 to Apr 2002.
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Brad Jones's current jobs
• Cross-functional New Item process development • Economic Order Quantity analysis • Development of complex analytical reports in SQL • Training and development • Procuring and managing $6M in inventory
Brad Jones's past jobs
• 4 direct reports- Buyers • Developed process and tools to extract raw material forecast from finished good forecast • Collaborate with Production to procure raw materials in time for production • Developed tools using SQL to create buying report and potential out of stock report. • Service level running 99.5%
• Managing and developing the UNFI Demand Planning team. Five direct reports, two Analysts and 3 Demand Planners. Adding three more Demand Planners in next few months. • Created and developed the application, processes and SOPs for UNFI Demand Planning. • Worked on multiple project for UNFI Inventory Planning and Replenishment (IPAR) team: • Manhattan Inventory Optimization (IO) system installation- business requirements specifications, technical design specifications, testing, SOP development, installation issues documentation and resolution, training and mentoring of Buyers, post installation troubleshooting and support. • Whole Foods DC transition to UNFI distribution, Moreno Valley warehouse move, Specialty Category integration, Colorado DC conversion • Developed training for UNFI IPAR team. This included a 9 week program to instruct newer buyers in all aspects of the job, including contracts, policies, ad programs, customers by region, purchasing math, and UNFI buying system. • Designed and directed the implementation enhancements to the UNFI purchasing system including exponential smoothing, improved forecasting, on-line customer order tallies, quick item review, buyer and invoice comments, truckload allocations, and on-line date-code review. • Partnered with I.T. department to add key data elements to the national datamart, including the full vendor file, future promotions, product dating, sales history. • Created several new reporting tools and databases leading to better management of information. This includes development of a database to track and predict customer promotion sales totals.
• Coordinated with the Director and Lead Buyers to manage a purchasing staff of 25 Buyers and Associate buyers. Responsibilities included performance reviews, interviewing candidates for open positions, managing Buyer workloads and vendor assignments. • Organized and lead projects such as lead-time reduction, vendor list cost reduction, and sourcing changes for Safeway Stores. Worked on the Safeway acquisition of Carr’s Stores in Alaska. • Trained purchasing staff on promotional forecasting, buying techniques, and system settings. • Created and implemented several new reports using SQL to monitor: - Allowance dollars to recoup (approx $25,000/yr) - Buyer service level and targets - Purchases made near a deal time frame - Promotional service level increased by 4 percentage points - Aged Inventory (reduced by $4.5 million or 40%) - Promotional Overstock (down by 10-15%) • Successfully installed the Inforem forecasting and replenishment system for the Inventory Management Department with IT Partners. Responsible for testing and troubleshooting system, developing test plans, user acceptance testing, data integrity and cleanup.