Deborah Brown

Deborah Brown has experience of all aspects of retail operations, business and systems requirements at both store and central levels. Her experience covers the full supply chain from point of sale, through to central Buying & Merchandising systems, Warehouse functionality and links to other systems such as Finance. Whilst specialising in supply chain, she has particular experience of the full system development lifecycle from definition of requirements through to testing and implementation. Software implemented has been both off-the-shelf and bespoke. Key experience: - Review of fulfilment and delivery supply chain systems and processes - Detailed “As Is” business processes for Buying, Merchandising & E-Commerce; definition of Merchandise Planning & Assortment Planning requirements within the context of a system selection for a multi-channel business - Perpetual Inventory system implementation for warehouse location - IBM Websphere B2B implementations for Waitrose - Web-based Far East Sourcing System - Multi channel E-Commerce Web Ordering and Fulfilment system (Sterling Commerce fulfilment system) - Supply Chain systems - a Logistics Tracking system - a Buying & Merchandising System (JDA)