Sean Richards

Manager, Demand Planning @Federal Signal

University Park, IL, US

Business lead for sales and operations planning (S & OP) process for $180-million annual revenue division. Partner with sales and marketing teams in monthly demand review meetings and hold cross-functional monthly S & OP meetings with both middle and senior management to achieve a unified monthly plan for the business. In 2019, conceptualized, justified, and implemented cloud-based, collaborative Vanguard forecasting/S & OP system with custom performance reports for 15 users to improve forecast accuracy, chart a path to greater process maturity, and encourage stakeholder engagement- Drive forecast accuracy improvement and material requirements for 300+ product families spanning SKUs using both historically derived statistical base and sales-generated large-order opportunity forecasts. Improved weighted forecast accuracy for top-80%-by-revenue PSS business unit products by 25% from Q1 2020 to Q2 2020- Pursue continual efforts to optimize inventory. Originated average age of inventory measurements by product family for S & OP process. In 2019, changed ad-hoc classification of finished good ship codes and safety stock methods to automated demand history driven ones, resulting in ~10% reduction in safety stock dollars. Reduced excess and obsolete inventory by over $925k in 2017- Manage procurement analyst and supply chain co-op responsible for generation of supply chain analytics in support of strategic goals (PPV, supplier on-time delivery, quality, and inventory turns).

Northern Illinois University

EMBA, Business

University of Illinois Chicago

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

University of Miami

Bachelor of Music, Music Engineering Technology