Christopher Wess Email & Phone Number

Lewisville, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas

• Oversee overall operational areas to ensure goods are produced globally and delivered to domestic retail channels in a timely manner. • Manage 3PL warehouses to ensure goods are repacked and prepared for retail customers, including managing execution of pallet builds for large format retailers such as Walmart and Target. • Oversee order management team to ensure orders are prioritized and sent to the warehouse for picking, while ensuring invoicing and cash are applied back to the bottom line. • Strategize, plan and execute expansion projects such as expanding office space, warehouse infrastructure, and drop-ship operations. • Act as multi-department liaison to ensure efficient overall daily operations including assisting Tier 1 & 2 IT help-desk personnel to quickly resolve systems issues while minimizing downtime.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Managed multi-million-dollar inventory and improved financial yield reconciliation to 99.7% • Strategized and implemented policy (5S / lean techniques) for better workflow, improved production efficiency, and to lower cost per case • Designed and implement MS Access Database to track production, efficiency, quality, and shipping data • Designed, installed, and maintained a Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain for over 100 users • Forecasted and developed production schedule to ensure goods produced met sales orders for ever-growing business needs • Negotiated and implemented all aspects of co-packing operation • Developed individuals through knowledge, mind tools, and trust

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Develop custom programs / databases for food service-based clients. • Collected and maintained data and developed reports & charts for executive level clients. • Onsite consultant specializing in proper food and beverage industry practice and improvements.• Analyzing data to improve output for various goods and exceed company goals.• Designing and implementing data backups to fit the customers need.• Scrub / Migrate data from older systems to new cloud based solutions.

• Ordered and inventoried all raw & packaging materials utilized in the Irving facility, including both DPSU (WD/CSD flavors). • In-depth knowledge of SAP / APO, demand planning, warehouse management and all other modules. • Built relationships with finance / quality / production departments to reduce syrup / material loss in the Irving facility. (Savings over 1 million dollars per calendar year).• Created SOPs and provided hands-on training for lean process (5S) manufacturing.• Procurement specialist / negotiated multi-million dollar commodity contracts.• Utilizing Kaizen 5S techniques to streamline day-to-day operations allowing better efficiency through the facility.• Strategize and develop logistics program in conjunction with the fleet operations to move High Fructose corn syrup more efficiently from the rail terminals to the production facility. (later other DPSG facilities were using the same method across the country).• Migrated / combined 2 separate SAP systems (Cadbury Imperial & Dr Pepper) to a single entity (cornerstone).• Received three call to action awards for thinking outside the box to further streamline process and reducing inventory loss.

Waco, Texas Area

In house IT Manager as well as Production supervisor. Maintained IT infrastructure and work with the corporate office for roll outs, work hands on to streamline the production efficiency of various lines in the facility using lean techniques.