Ryan Underwood
About Ryan Underwood
Ryan Underwood is the Sr. Transform Manager at General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with extensive experience in logistics and operations management.
Title
Ryan Underwood currently holds the position of Sr. Transform Manager at General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Current Company
Ryan Underwood is employed at General Mills, where he serves as the Sr. Transform Manager. He works at the company's Minneapolis, Minnesota office.
Professional Background
Ryan Underwood has an extensive career at General Mills, starting as a Logistics Management Associate in the Buffalo/Niagara, New York area from 2009 to 2011. He then served as Logistics Business Planner for Yoplait from 2011 to 2013 and as Supply Chain Replenishment Business Lead from 2013 to 2015, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as an Operations Business Manager in the same city, followed by his role as Cereal Operations Manager in Buffalo/Niagara, New York from 2017 to 2020. Subsequently, he was an Initiative Leader in Minneapolis from 2020 to 2023 before assuming his current role as Sr. Transform Manager.
Educational Background
Ryan Underwood is an alumnus of The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, where he studied Logistics Management and achieved a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA). He attended from 2005 to 2009.
Key Achievements
During his tenure at General Mills, Ryan Underwood has been instrumental in various cost-saving and performance improvement initiatives. He led a case pack conversion project affecting 40 SKUs and 4 manufacturing platforms, resulting in $1M in ongoing cost savings. He also improved case fill rates on priority SKUs from 98.5% to 99.1% and reduced destroy/donate/fire sales by $1.8M. Additionally, he optimized the manufacturing network for Fruit Shapes, achieving $1.4M in savings, and grew system performance for the Big G business by 5.5% at the Buffalo plant. He also managed an $11.5M capital project at the Buffalo plant that significantly increased capacity for Lucky Charms and Honey Nut Cheerios. His leadership has been recognized with company-wide Champions awards for exceptional turnaround in the Fruit business and logistics management during the avian influenza crisis.