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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Budget responsibility for a $400 million logistics network including Transportation, Warehousing, and 3PL services. Freight spend managed across multiple modes including, Van, Flatbed, Rail, LTL, Parcel, Ocean, and International. • Directed a team consisting of Transportation Managers, Analysts, Load Planners, and Dispatch Specialists to deliver cost and service goals. Managed succession planning through talent development and team restructuring to ensure long term business continuity. • Employed coaching to successfully integrate multiple teams during restructure and increase efficiencies across the organization. Led the integration of multiple TMS systems to improve customer satisfaction across businesses. • Utilized leadership skills and multi-disciplinary mindset in coordinating business functions to optimize flow of materials and to ensure proper execution and delivery of customer orders. Process included network optimization of 26 locations, including third party warehousing.

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Accountable for the Logistics analysis and strategy implementation for $1.3 Billion acquisition and subsequent consolidation of internal businesses, facilitating doubling of revenue while reducing costs. • Project management & continuous improvement leader driving improved operational performance through a systematic and disciplined approach to continuous improvement utilizing Six Sigma and other project management tools. Leveraged project management and continuous improvement skills to implement new TMS system, onboard 3PL partner, and complete bid event that resulted in over $2 million in savings.• Facilitated the S&OP process to align Sales, Customer Service, Demand & Production Planning, Operations and Logistics teams to optimize the flow of inbound materials and outbound shipments to ensure proper execution and delivery of customer orders.• Led the strategic effort of setting and controlling transportation budget in excess of $250M in over the road transportation spend to realize the proper cost and service balance. Directed 3PL partner and internal team consisting of Transportation Managers, Analysts, and Dispatch Specialists, to deliver transportation cost and service through continuous optimization modeling.• Successful projects included implementation of a new TMS system, onboarding 3PL partner, and facilitating a bid event that resulted in over $2 million in savings.• Produced transportation cost modeling and forecasts to align carrier capacity with sales and operations projections. Worked across organizations to understand and influence market forces. These actions lead to improved carrier negotiations resulting in desired service levels at optimal cost.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

•Utilized continuous process improvement to drive carrier performance and create savings of over $2 Million annually while increasing on-time delivery percentage from 75% to over 98%. Only Transportation Manager to surpass 98% on-time over the entire year 2018. Worked with other Managers to increase overall network performance. Improvements led to increased customer satisfaction and ability to reliably service patients and reduce costs through more efficient staffing and allowing employees to focus on patient services rather than delivery follow up. Performance increase was achieved through vendor management, expectation setting, implementing proper network capacity. Initiated the termination of a primary vendor contract for poor performance. Conducted RFP to identify suitable replacement vendors that could perform as expected and at reduced cost.•Remote management of the Transportation network for Distribution centers in Bethlehem PA, Amityville NY, and Newburgh NY. This required the ability to lead three separate teams operating in different environments. Required understanding the unique operational and transportation networks to ensure adherence to established metrics. Hosted weekly calls with DC Management and 3PL leadership to coordinate efforts to service over 2,500 next-day & same-day deliveries daily including Health System, Department of Defense, and Community Pharmacy customers.•Responsibilities included control over annual spend of $16 Million. Facilitated 3PL RFPs and negotiated vendor rates. Oversaw the billing process including AS400 rate entry and weekly invoice approval. Lead DC and 3PL teams through network evaluation, adjusted capacity and delivery routing to maximize cost savings•Managed vendor EDI compliance and maintained customer routing utilizing SAP as primary TMS to achieve LPN and POD scan rates over 98%. Data used to create internal and customer facing dashboards.•Enforced vendor compliance with DEA and other regulatory agencies.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Directed the Transportation team through the utilization of various warehouse operations systems, such as Manhattan Associates YMS, WMS, and TMS, to guarantee timely fulfillment of store orders in a manner consistent with company expectations resulting in an OCOT score of 99.3% for FY2013. This lead to a reduction in store inventory spend and out of stock items. • Strategically monitored associate productivity and procedures to ensure successful completion of both short and long term goals while maintaining focus on issues including staffing and associate development. Utilizing Change Management skills was critical in the achievement of on-time and trailer utilization goals. Implemented new team structure that allowed for increased productivity and collaboration between the Transportation and Outbound Shipping teams and cross training opportunities for Transportation associates. • Developed Excel yard management evaluator and coordinated with carrier partners to provide seamless execution of both inbound and outbound deliveries while minimizing the cost impact to the operation. This provided for year over year outbound freight charge increase of only $50,000 despite increased freight flow of over $132 million during the same time period. • Analyzed P&L statements while utilizing the data to implement operational adjustments and to serve as a baseline for the budgeting process. Examples include calculating the proper number of trailers needed to handle projected load counts and securing a sufficient pool of drivers to handle deliveries safely and on-time.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Directed the efforts of a team of 150 employees and 17 department supervisors in the execution of a variety of customer service, retail, and back-office operation responsibilities for a $37 million location. Successfully achieved both sales and inventory goals for 2010 and 2011. • Managed the process of setting compensation, hiring, and terminating employees when necessary.• Executed business strategy planning based on diligent monitoring of profit and loss statements, formulating short and long term financial forecasts to enable informed decision-making. • Developed and deployed process improvements designed to minimize costs while driving revenue and productivity. Coached Department Supervisors on inventory and markdown management to allow for the removal of low margin, slow moving product and leverage inventory dollars for high margin, quick selling product. • Seamlessly executed a variety of administrative tasks, including the development of labor schedules, the completion of performance reviews, and the provision of appropriate training to motivate the professional development of all team members.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Business Administration And Management, Legal Studies