Brett Taylor Email & Phone Number

Key deliverables/responsibilities:• Analyzed flow of goods, organizational structure, site capacity, utilization and cost of service.• Developed data driven initiates, increasing space utilization, and reducing handling.• Proactive inventory management approaches supported by Procurement, and retail, increased accuracy, and fill rates. • Improved overall site performance through qualifying workflow, engaging associates, through performance audits, standardizing processes, implementing control points, and accountability. • Supported weekly and quarterly business reviews with 15 customer accounts. Reviewing KPI’s, forecasts, launch of new products categories, that facilitated a partnership to build their brands through strong service. • Created labour plans aligning with business needs and seasonal volume fluctuations, reducing labour cost, resulting in improved SLA’s. • Engaged cross functional teams in Health and Safety practices increasing awareness, improved working conditions and site organization, generating a positive affect on housekeeping, organization, performance, and corporate pride. • Brought positive energy to a multicultural environment, recognizing accomplishments, and creating a culture where associates wanted to be part of our achievements. • Worked with site service providers aligning contracts with corporate needs. Streamlining supply purchases and usage while reducing costs. • Qualified the end-to-end cost of service as a percentage of revenue, ensuring contracts were in alignment with pricing. • Responsibly managed site costs and contracts, reducing maintenance and increasing site security.

Key Deliverables/Responsibilities: • Initiated, developed, and integrated vertical revenue streams, improving top line growth, and bottom line measurables, with the addition of container drayage, customs clearance, freight brokerage, and value-added quality assurance services. • Leveraging multiple customer volume opportunities leading to net new services increases, revenue streams, while bringing administrate and transportation cost savings to our key accounts. • Direct reports of 16 Unionized employees, 15 Contract Labour staff, 2 Operational Supervisors, 8 Administrators • Integrated Quality Assurance processes, with initiatives, and control points aligned with SOP’s, and work instructions. • Lead and implement robust training programs that support employee retention, positive culture, efficiencies, and accuracies. • Clean, organized workspaces promote productivity, reductions in R&M, improvements in health and safety. • Architect of cross functional partnerships with key service providers, that supported overflow storage opportunities, and an outreach of additional resources, during peak transactional times. • Oversight of offsite overflow container and trailer storage • Led all DC decommissioning & consolidation initiatives positively impacting OPEX.

Key Deliverables/Responsibilities: • Domestic Coffee Roaster, supplying 4,000 Canadian food service customers, and key grocery retail accounts in Canada and the US.• Successfully managed all operations, cost, and performance of multiple DCs within BC, Alberta, Ontario. • Engineered, and negotiated the successful start up of an efficient, low-cost distribution network in the US, supporting a chain of 400 retail outlets, across 52 states. • Stripped transportation costs, leveraging volume negotiating exemptions, on density, and services.• Developed a solid transportation plan, that met customer expectations and planning, through the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games• Stabilized fill rates to 99.85%• Reduced write offs across all branches through implementation of control points, and optics.• Completed a successful implementation of a new ERP system across multiple DC’s.• Published and exercised RFP proposals on transportation, storage and handling related economies.

Key Deliverables/Responsibilities: • Wholesale Pharmaceutical provider for Shopper Drug Mart, and various independents• 30 non union warehouse staff, 12 administrators• Ensured compliance of all Government Regulations and was the key contact for all regulatory agencies, including but not limited too Health Canada, and the Municipalities of Calgary and Richmond. • Developed KPI’s and control points that evaluated daily operations and labour management.• Full customer interaction on service failures, that created opportunities for sustainable operational improvements.• Successfully profiled over 6,00 sku’s that promoted improved accuracy and efficiencies.• Lead all associate related activities related to hiring, performance management, accountability and corrective actions.

Key Deliverables/Responsibilities: • 250,000 sqft dedicated perishable, 3PL for the Overwaitea Foods Group, and Save On Foods• Developed operational plans, and dashboards ensuring timely departure schedules, and shift turn arounds were successful. • Improved training programs, increased awareness in health and safety. • Developed onboarding and training programs for 180 -250, unionized employees. • Created and implemented labour plans that reduced overtime, optimized scheduling, and throughput, while maintaining on time departure schedules.• Key contact to customers, and service providers