Alec Matson Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Manage the day-to-day operations of delivering groceries and meal kits to Amazon Go stores across the country. This includes carrier procurement, delivery schedule creation, freight tracking, ensuring temperature compliance of the reefer equipment, and billing accuracy. • Introduce mechanisms that will allow the Amazon GO business to scale while maintaining our customer obsessed focus, preventing out of stocks at all costs. Includes the use of 10.4 and Samsara tracking software.• Launched a carrier-facing scorecard that monitors all key aspects of our business, along with action plans should thresholds not be met. On-time performance has increased from 95.2% in 2018 to 98.6% in 2019.• Performed route optimization activities, and introduced cross docks that reduced weekly trans cost by 13% .

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Member of the Linehaul team that is responsible for the coordination/on-time delivery of over 40,000 full truckloads of freight a week during peak season. • Oversee the flow of product from the 3rd party consolidators Cal Cartage and Yusen to Amazon fulfillment centers. Secure the required capacity each week to support the operations, and re-allocate volume as needed to best utilize equipment and avoid production loss.• Responsible for the execution of full truckload movements from vendors to Amazon fulfillment across the country. Create metrics decks to identify defects, clearly define service expectations, and conduct weekly service calls to drive performance improvement. Procure new rates and source alternate capacity on lanes to replace an under-performing carrier as needed.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Managed the Vendor Performance staff, overseeing both the domestic and import vendor compliance programs.• Enforced charge backs where necessary, but more importantly, partnered with the vendors to ensure they are properly educated why an infraction was generated, and strive to achieve the mutually beneficial goal of avoiding subsequent charge backs.• Revamped the process of how Toys R Us .COM distribution centers report/action truckloads that due not met inbound standards, and reduced incidents of delayed receipts by over 35%, ensuring inventory is available for online purchases.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Performed all aspects of project management for several initiatives working with EDQ, the item management software for Toys R Us. My responsibilities included documenting over a hundred required enhancements across purchasing/logistics teams, creating flow charts that accurately mapped out current system processes, and clearly articulating the desired go forward functionality.• Created test scripts to insure the desired requirements were delivered (UAT), and lead meetings to keep all parties involved on task, ensuring deadlines and budget goals were met.• Constructed Access databases that streamlined the UPC and item verification compliance reporting.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Key member in the rollout of an appointment infraction program that helped to ensure prepaid carriers adhered to their scheduled appointments at our distribution centers. This initiative both reduced late arrivals (89% to 95%), and became a revenue source for the compliance team ($250K-$450K annually). • Created a share point site that allowed our DC’s to report an inbound trailer that did not meet the required standards. Worked with the vendors involved to learn about their outbound supply chain operations, and corrected improper shipping practices where needed.• Assisted in the rollout of GT Nexus (DHL software) and the development of the Global Visibility dashboard. This dashboard allows Toys R Us to view when a breakdown in the supply chain occurs, reducing the chance of a late receipt at the distribution centers.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Central logistical contact for the electronics and entertainment division at Toys R Us. • Oversaw the direct to store shipping program for video game hardware/software, and managed 3PL providers to ensure the best service at the lowest possible cost. • Worked with the Planning & Analysis team for expediting freight: devised the most cost effective transportation solution, secured carriers, and tracked any freight as needed.• Developed a SOP that through the analysis of transit times, insurance rates, and carton dimensions outlined the best practices when shipping with a small parcel carrier.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Conducted bids for both truckload and intermodal lanes. Published open lane information, and analyzed rates to determine best performance and lowest cost solutions. • Managed carriers to performance expectations by monitoring KPIs including EDI accuracy and on-time delivery performance. Coached low performing carriers by providing weekly feedback, and replaced carriers when standards were not met.• Partnered with qualified 3PL vendors and developed the guidelines that brought home delivery of “big box” items to over 300 Toys R Us/Babies R Us locations. Received a Playing to Win Award for these efforts.

Rockleigh, Nj, Us

• Initiated NVC’s first ever offsite warehousing and distribution program.• Responsible for both the inventory and distribution of truckloads of high value merchandise.• Staged and loaded the freight in a manner that best utilized the cubic space of the trailers.• Dealt with any shipping problems that arose, and assisted in accommodating requests that the SONY employees had in regards to their customer's items.

Rockleigh, Nj, Us

Vendor Partnership• Negotiated contracts and rates between NVC Logistics Group and its outsourced labor.• Oversaw all aspects of vendor partnerships, i.e., communicated the service standards that were expected by our company, acted as a liaison between our vendors and the sales team, and insured that proper billing occurred for services rendered.• Monitored the movement of our freight through a variety of tracking lists to ensure it reached the customers in a timely manner.

Masters Degree, Supply Chain And Information Systems, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Advertising And Public Relations