Beth White
Boulder
Summary
Director-level planning leader with experience scaling end-to-end merchandise, inventory, and financial planning capabilities across complex, multi-channel retail environments. Combines hands-on planning leadership with deep expertise in transforming planning processes and systems used by global organizations of 100+ planners. Known for enabling business teams to execute effectively by translating strategy into structured planning frameworks, improving inventory productivity, forecast accuracy, and cross-functional alignment.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, Planning Operations
Crocs, Inc.
09.2022 - Current
- Lead global planning operations supporting 110+ planners across Americas, EMEA, and APAC, with direct leadership of a small team and enterprise-wide influence.
- Owned global planning operating model, aligning demand, inventory, and financial planning across regions to enhance operational coherence.
- Implemented global four-season planning cadence, synchronizing commercial milestones, financial timelines, and system dependencies for streamlined execution.
- Drove adoption across 100+ planners, standardizing processes, systems, and planning logic.
- Stabilized a challenged o9 supply and inventory implementation, defining forecast consumption, inventory policy, and dynamic safety stock; reduced manual effort by 30% and improved decision quality.
- Enabled improved inventory productivity, increasing turns from 3.8 to 4.4 post S&IP go-live through system and process design.
- Business Process Owner for Planning Transformation (o9), defining requirements across top-down MFP, middle-out, and item-level planning.
- Translate strategy into scalable planning frameworks, enabling alignment between bottom-up plans and enterprise targets.
- Developed scalable training and enablement programs to enhance consistency and boost system adoption.
- Bridge business and technology teams, ensuring systems and data support effective planning decisions.
Senior Manager, Demand Planning – Americas (Wholesale, eTail, eCommerce)
Crocs, Inc.
08.2018 - 09.2022
- Led U.S. demand planning across wholesale and digital channels, driving alignment during rapid growth.
- Led demand planning across wholesale and digital channels, supporting significant growth and complexity.
- Elevated forecasting discipline and inventory strategy, improving alignment with commercial execution.
- Partnered with merchandising, sales, and marketing to translate priorities into actionable plans.
- Balanced inventory availability with risk and exposure to sustain inventory health across channels.
- Designed planning frameworks, including SKU productivity, line rationalization, size curves, and lifecycle strategies.
- Established inventory exit and pricing frameworks to enhance margin recovery and optimize inventory productivity.
- Developed planning judgment and pattern recognition, later applied to enterprise system design.
Manager, Demand & Inventory Planning – Americas & EMEA
Crocs, Inc.
02.2015 - 08.2018
- Owned demand and inventory planning across Americas and EMEA, balancing demand variability and supply constraints.
- Led cross-regional planning alignment, driving consistent forecasts and inventory strategies.
- Integrated diverse market signals into cohesive plans, building early global planning perspective.
- Partnered cross-functionally to align planning with business priorities.
Business Process Owner, P2P
Crocs, Inc.
11.2012 - 02.2015
- Led planning representation for SAP P2P implementation, ensuring business requirements were reflected in system design.
- Defined MRP logic, including planning assumptions and forecast consumption.
- Led training and change management, driving adoption and practical system use.
- Built foundational expertise in enterprise systems and cross-functional dependencies.
Forecast Analyst – Wholesale, Americas
Crocs, Inc.
10.2010 - 11.2012
- Developed demand forecasts and insights to support wholesale planning.
- Delivered reporting and analysis to improve forecast visibility and inventory positioning.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of North Carolina
Bachelor of Science - Logistics and Transportation
University of Tennessee
Skills
- Sales and operations planning
- Supply chain and inventory management
- MFP, Merchandise Planning
- Planning systems expertise (o9, SAP)
- Operational efficiency
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Multi-channel retail strategy (wholesale and digital)
Core Capabilities
- MFP
- Demand Planning & Forecasting
- S&OP
- Supply and Inventory Planning
- Planning Systems (o9, SAP)
- Operating Model Design & Governance
- Cross-Functional Alignment
- Multi-Channel Retail Planning (Wholesale & Digital)
Timeline
Director, Planning Operations
Crocs, Inc.
09.2022 - Current
Senior Manager, Demand Planning – Americas (Wholesale, eTail, eCommerce)
Crocs, Inc.
08.2018 - 09.2022
Manager, Demand & Inventory Planning – Americas & EMEA
Crocs, Inc.
02.2015 - 08.2018
Business Process Owner, P2P
Crocs, Inc.
11.2012 - 02.2015
Forecast Analyst – Wholesale, Americas
Crocs, Inc.
10.2010 - 11.2012
Master of Business Administration -
University of North Carolina
Bachelor of Science - Logistics and Transportation
University of Tennessee