Bret Dotson Email & Phone Number

Stark, Tuscarawas, Carrollton, Wayne, Holmes, Coshocton, Harrison County Ohio

Selling Industrial Maintenance Products for Manufacturing, Auto and Truck Repair, Agriculture and Farming, Food Processing and Safety Products.85% of what we sell is made in the USA.Made sales goals through building relationships with maintenance departments which increased my new business by 30% each year. My account retention is 99%.

Canton, Ohio Area

Operating a service business and consumers assembling and repairing RTA ( Ready to Assemble ) products in there home or business.

Plant liaison responsible for $1M in annual purchases for a global garage door manufacturing customer producing a variety of residential/commercial garage doors and parts including torsion springs and operating track. Planned orders for timely usage of safety, maintenance & repair products. Responsible for stocking emergency maintenance parts and tools for 10 manufacturing lines in the same facility. Created a 10% cost savings on LTL orders of the same dunnage bags used by Shipping by negotiating a 3-pallet minimum order on the bulk bags. In addition, rather than shipping the bags to an outside carrier, order was picked up at the wholesaler’s dock and backhauled through Fastenal’s Logistics creating an additional 3% savings on freight charges for the customer. • Within 6-months, captured a 34% cost savings on lowered Safety Product usage on the mfg. floor. With Safety product usage excessively high, department managers requested a way to reduce it thru restriction of daily use. Worked w/them to develop & implement Fastenal’s “vending machine” dispensing system, thereby providing management w/ability to monitor and control usage.• Department manager requested identifying a new CNC cutting bit supplier in order to lower price. Carried out the task with the existing vendor thru the creative solution of setting up a “carbide tip replacement” work order for 100 usable bits meeting tolerance. Bit would have the carbide tips replaced w/new sharp bits at a 50% cost saving. Realized a $2k savings per order / $10k annually.

Operated local customer driven convenience store w/annual sales of $600K, supervising a team which included an assistant manager, clerk, cashiers & stockers. Tracked actual sales versus goals and inventory shrinkage weekly. Purchased all commodities to insure timely shipments & performed cycle counts.• Increased annual sales 5% by monitoring items thru cycle counts to have the correct counts for order replenishment. Developed relationships w/many commercial accounts for bulk order sales.• Reduced annual inventory shrinkage by 1%. Trained employees to reduce theft by providing excellent customer service which included greeting and assisting customers.

Conducted cold calls to construction companies and contractors acquiring new accounts and providing follow-up service. Facilitated orders by purchasing product and arranging delivery to customer.

Assisted contractor accounts with projects and increased add-on purchases as well as special orders. Other duties included cycle counts, setting plan-o-grams, and merchandising.

Supervised 5 managers and 40 staff in 5 store locations assuring quality products and excellent customer service.• Existing tool rental centers lacked necessary tool inventory and organization. Revitalization was done by becoming a part of a tool rental center program through True Value that added tools and supplies to the rental inventory and trained employees to operate a successful rental tool center. In conjunction with other departments, more retail floor space was created to expand. The difference made to rental tool sales for each store increased from $10K to $60K average per month.• Inventory control needed implemented for all stores. Was involved with the installation of the POS system. The online real-time use of data lines between stores for the POS system allowed the employees to know what was available at each location to assist in increasing sales.

Bsba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Senior Year - On the West Virginia University's - Creative Arts Concert Series Board where I was on the Art.

High School Diploma, Business

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Golf Team, President of the Art Club where I brought many professional artist into the art class.