Phil Brookes

Vice President, EMEA Operations Responsible for S&OP, Inventory Management, Sourcing, Customer Service, After Sales, and D&W operations in EMEA in addition to developing and implementing global supply chain strategies for Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Aggregate Production Planning, tactical Supplier Management, inventory management, and S&OP processes.

Director, Supply Chain OTC International Responsible for all global supply chain activities for the Smoking Cessation franchise • Developed and implemented global launch approval and tracking process for $500MM business • Led team to develop toll rules book to protect annual tax efficiencies of over $50MM • Coordinated multiple supply chain initiatives including internal and external manufacturing

Responsible for setting strategy for worldwide supply chain processes, design and procurement of all supporting systems. • Implemented global planning process and system for Asia Pac and Latam region. Savings $6.2MM • Implemented regional DC in Singapore to supply Asia Pac region. Savings $3.4MM • Reduced lead times in Asia Pac by 90%, Inventory reduction of 25%, LIFR increase of 5% • Introduced people development initiatives to quantify and measure business results and performance

Responsible for capacity management (50 production lines in 2 countries, $600MM), raw material stock procurement ($60MM) and capital and facilities strategic sourcing ($120MM). • Created savings of $6.0MM for first 6 months of 2004 • Reduced strategic source vendor lead-times by 70% • Reduced lead time for capacity scenarios by 85% (2 days from 14+ days) • Developed strategic scorecards for supplier management • Implemented new global capacity planning process • Led the Vistakon Process Excellence team

Responsible for the development and expansion of global supply and demand planning at Vistakon. • Implemented demand management (forecasting) process in 27 countries. • Implemented inventory management and replenishment process (DRP) in 22 countries. • Implemented aggregate production planning process in 2 countries. • Best in Class consumer forecast error level (<5% aggregate MAPE) • Supported the achievement of superior fill rates: LIFR, OFR > 99% • Reduced worldwide inventory by 25% ($30MM)