Craig Strilchuk Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Canada Area

Consulting Services provided to companies with lack of time or resources to address logistics opportunities. ✅ Reorganization of an 80,000 square foot warehouse and 2100+ skus to improve and enhance organization and picking efficiency. Resulting in a 40% reduction of overtime costs and a 14% increase in productivity.✅ Development of a standard KPI to monitor and strengthen delivery metrics for a 36 truck routing network. Allows the supervisors to monitor performance while expanding their responsibilities and identifying opportunities for training and performance improvement.✅ Review and advise on a third party lease arrangement for an independent retailer.✅ Decision matrix created to evaluate and take action on redundant inventory. $3 million dollar inventory was reduced within 2 months by $400,000.✅ Writing job description and profiles, safety and procedural policies for an independent distributor.✅ Posting, screening and hiring of delivery (2) and warehouse staff (1) on a 1 month turn-around for a customer in British ColumbiaOther services includes:- Project management - Labor Planning/Strategy - Screening/hiring of candidates (Drivers/Warehouse/Admin)- Inventory analysis/management- Order processing/entry- Yard/Building maintenance (3rd party service providers - Contracting)- Quality Control- Load building- Budget creation- Carrier performance- Slot Designation- warehouse layout- Routing- Short/long/seasonal storage- Staging- De-stuffing- Re-working- Reverse Logistics- Order Fulfillment- Replenishment- Vendor relationships- Training and support (SOP)- Project management- Team building- Negotiation of carrier rates- Pick and pack- Final mile delivery- Retail Distribution- Special order management- Recall process and tracking- KPI creation and daily metrics- Warehouse utilization- Carrier sourcing and assignment- Budget management- Communication techniques and templates

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The primary contact for the Distribution Centre in Western Canada and the fulfillment and execution of retail replenishment for the stores and the ecommerce business at Sephora. Working collaboratively with the 3rd Party Logistics provider for all aspects of the operation in Surrey, BC. Including: • inbound receipt from over 300 vendors and over 25,000+ products. Inventory control, production planning and forecasting for both B2B orders and B2C orders. • skyrocketing sales (double digit growth) surpassed multiple volume records for overall performance and accuracy. • Driving accountability with the established service level agreements with the 3rd Party Logistics provider and cross-functional Sephora teams while providing support and improvements to enhance the customers experience in the omni channel co-mingled inventory model.✅ Order accuracy improved to 99.82% during the peak volumes of the Christmas season, while establishing weekly records for units, orders and volume processed within 24 hours. Supporting with flexible labour plans and training to meet aggressive sales targets while staying within budget targets for variable and fixed costs.✅ Established a monthly business review process and conduit to drive shared best practises between the two warehouses in Canada in addition to the Sephora owned facilities in the US. Helped facilitate the implementation of an inbound compliance program, Inventory cycle counts, additional dispatches for store growth and accuracy measures.✅ Established a new model for communicating and supporting Sephora as the first employee of the FSC (Field Support Centre) for the Logistics and Distribution team not based in Toronto. Including self initiatives for training and learning and the on-boarding of an assistant manager of distribution for Western Canada.

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Part of the senior team that provides leadership and guidance to the production, distribution and retail representation for Rocky Mountain Soap Co. Featuring toxic free, all natural ingredients for our large variety of soap and health and beauty products made right in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.✅ Engaging the team with the development of daily and weekly KPI’s and to proactively influence production planning. and drive the utilization of operational teams by 10%. The reporting and cadence improved the gap from planned units to actual units from a 30% gap to 12%. resulting in an improved in stock for the retail network from 84% to 96% for the Christmas season.✅ Led the team through a Health Canada audit resulting full recall of hand sanitizer products across Canada. I helped initiate a full re-alignment of documentation, SOP creation and training for the manufacturing facility in line with NHP (Natural Health Products) guidelines and regulations. ✅ Operational Responsibilities included inventory control, production, procurement, production planning and forecasting, sanitation, maintenance, warehousing, QC, Health and Safety, on-boarding and training, sanitation, and shipping,

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Member of the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the Vice President, Finance & Corporate Development. Responsible for the build-out and launch of a new business entity founded with 5 employees and $3 million in sales, and expanded to 22 employees across four provinces and a $9 million annual sales base within 2 yearsImplemented a comprehensive reporting structure to drive improvements to sales and operations, resulting in a rationalization of customers and baseline metrics for profitability for each customer and route. This delivered an average revenue per customer increase pf 14%Led the establishment and ongoing development of relationships with 16 independent distributors to facilitate a national delivery option for the Circle K convenience account under RiCal's direction and Administration.Oversaw the successful integration of 4 business management software systems, resulting in an efficient order, receipt and live-invoicing environment that was indispensable to realizing the vision of providing a competitive servie advantage to our competitors in Canada's distribution sector.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Strategic oversight and accountability for large account changeovers into the Wallace & Carey delivery network.Directed the smooth transition of the Petro Canada wholesale delivery business from a sector competitor to Wallace and Carey (350+ sites in western Canada) by leading a cross functional project team. This included tight coordination of 7 departments (Finance, IT, People Services, Operations, Safety, Sales, Vendor Management) across 4 provinces. Success was both dramatic and measured with no disruption to service frequency, and a customer increase in fill rate from the previous supplier's 73% to 98% with Wallace and Carey.Lead the internal creation of a dynamic labour-planning tool for 7 distribution centres across Canada that predicted and managed daily labour requirements to achieve best-in-class order fulfilment completion. Results were a reduction in overtime from 11% to 3%.

Rockyview, Alberta

Strategic planner and inventory control for the growth and changing business needs for the perishable warehouse that services all Wal-Mart stores in Western Canada.- Continuous Improvement and Project management. Analysis and development of improvement initiatives and the creation of in-house teams to implement, measure and sustain positive change to the business.- Creative analysis and manager of key performance indicators for the site including the pay initiatives for all employees.- Manager of the inventory control and process design with 14 direct reports.- Business system integration and upgrade and testing for upgrades and new business development.- Budget accountability and variance analysis

Calgary, Alberta

General Manager for the warehousing and distribution of medical supplies for the Calgary distribution center.

Calgary, Alberta

- Strategic planner for the production, procurement and delivery of retail and wholesale products for 3 production facilities located in Saskatoon and Calgary.- Interfacing with the National sales team, research and development, manufacturing to help coordinating the successful delivery of processed meat products.- Working directly with 3rd party warehousing, transportation companies to ensure that our Customers had a reliable, quality delivery of products for their stores, restaurants or businesses.Support to sales team on sales calls to clients from a logistics perspective.National customers included Dairy Queen, A&W, Loblaws, Wal-mart, Sobeys, Safeway, Calgary Stampede, and The Keg.Receive, process and fulfill customer orders from our central logistics centre.Production planning and reviews of forecasts and sales trends to modify schedules and satisfy demand.Development of key performance indicators for suppliers and order fulfilment.

Calgary, Canada Area

Management of the 8 person truckload sales team at TransX for Western Canada.Business development that increased the portfolio for 8 years consecutively including a personal portfolio that grew to over $9 million.

Developed the in-house back-haul program for Loblaws in Western Canada with utilizing third party carriers and exclusive contracts for local, regional and international shipments. Produce, Groceries, General Merchandise for the entire network of stores in Western Canada including Real Canadian Superstores. Negotiations with a large network of carriers for both Rail, Road, and Cross-docking operations.Rationalized delivery and routing for the store networks that corresponded with the integrated approach of consolidating the distribution centers.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Transportation And Logistics

Activities and Societies: President of the Transportation Club President of the Calgary Curling Club

High School, General - Science