Daniel Patrick Email & Phone Number

Owestry, West Midlands, UK, International

I have loved smoothing the supply chain within the Dairy Industry and more recently within one of the country's leading third party logistics providers. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have been involved with market leading organisations, getting fast moving consumer goods to market.In an attempt to follow my dreams and create a work life balance.

I manage the commercial relationship and development for client in the Northern region, covering six distribution centres in the Midlands and the North of the country, both temperature controlled and ambient. Supported by a team of four, we manage a large number of clients including household names as well as smaller and start up companies, ensuring.

Outsourcing of warehousing and transport operations required close management and optimisation of distribution networks across the group. Having been largely responsible for the implementation of that outsourcing, I was seen as the natural candidate for the position. The role was made up of contract management of both chilled and ambient networks as well.

My experience in and knowledge of customer supply chain led to this secondment to implement the biggest change in our route to market; that is, the outsourcing of ambient warehousing and consolidation of chilled transport providers. Pulling together and coordinating all relevant work streams as well as identifying opportunities and threats, which were.

The role was to manage and develop the customer supply chain with key retail customers, mainly M&S and Waitrose, and covered all major retail and foodservice customers at different stages. Building close relationships enabled me to become an integral part of their supply chain, from working on collaborative forecasting to off loading a vehicle at the local.

I was brought in to develop and manage a customer service team to meet the changing requirements of the customer base. Initially the role was one of service reporting and customer liaison, whilst advocating for the customer in a high pressured traffic office. Soon finding my feet, I took on more responsibilities including the Administration Department as.