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David Centers is listed as Director | Performance Turnaround | Strategic Planning | Leadership and Development | MBA at UPS, a company with 170821 employees, based in Cumming, Georgia, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for David Centers.
David Centers previously worked as Director - DirectShip - Corporate Transportation Services at Ups and Carrier Relations Manager - Corporate Transportation Services at Ups. David Centers holds Ba, Supply Chain Management - Eli Broad College Of Business from Michigan State University.
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As a resourceful, quality-focused leader, I offer broad experience spearheading operational enhancement, change management, service level improvement, and technology deployment initiatives across diverse business functions. Over a progressive 20-year career in transportation operations and logistics, I have achieved a track record of results developing high-performing teams, enhancing employee engagement, delivering robust analytics, and improving vendor service levels and cost control. My forte is working across disciplines to identify/ implement operational enhancements and forging productive cross-functional relationships to gain buy-in for strategic initiatives.Advancing with UPS through recent developmental leadership roles spanning new technology deployment, operational performance revitalization, and logistics optimization/cost control, I currently oversee carrier management, customer relationships and service for a network that consists of 90K loads/year, 40+ customers and 300+ lanes. Previously, I led planning, procurement, and control for $430M in annual purchased transportation spend, business transformation initiatives for a $250M transportation operation, including implementing a web-based transportation management platform, building up an understaffed department, and improving service level and team engagement.Initially joining UPS as a Load Planner, I quickly progressed through supervisory roles of increasing scope and impact to lead a team in the development, optimization, and analysis of performance metrics and operational effectiveness for the company’s global corporate transportation services operation with as much as $10B in annual spend. I partnered with executive stakeholders and IT to propel reporting quality and efficiency while controlling costs. I hold an MBA in Global Management and a BA in Supply Chain Management. Additionally, I have received the UPS Project Management and Business Process Improvement certifications.
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Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Advanced through leadership development roles in technology deployment and change management, operations management, and purchased transportation logistics/procurement with 500K-employee global logistics company.Appointed to oversee carrier management, customer relationships and service for the DirectShip network.Ownership of all service, scheduling.
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Tapped to control purchased transportation expenses ($430M in annual spend) while optimizing carrier service performance, directing two supervisors. Oversee carrier negotiations and service level for growing business experiencing a large uptick in B2C shipments stemming from major e-commerce account. Manage planning, procurement, and rate negotiations of.
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Handpicked to revitalize understaffed 24/7 DirectShip operation supporting linehaul services for 65 major retail customers with $250M in purchased transportation/linehaul expenses. Challenged with building up department and enhancing service level/team morale. Directed load planning and optimized utilization of carrier resources/capacity. Worked.
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Selected for developmental role deploying a new web-based transportation management platform supporting load scheduling, tracking, and freight pay functions for DirectShip operation with 95K load shipments and $185M in carrier costs annually. Migrated all shipment planning/execution and carrier/customer communication functions from Excel-based process to.
Advanced to direct a staff of six in development, continual enhancement, and analysis of performance metrics and operational effectiveness for global corporate transportation services operation with 20+ business units and $8-10B in annual spend. Led robust executive-level reporting strategy. Generated reports supporting quarterly performance bonus program..
Fast-tracked through early engineering roles as a Load Planner, Forest Park Hub; Customer Solutions Supervisor, Pleasantdale Hub; and Supervisor, Atlanta Hub and South Division, advancing to plan for seven packaging centers with 200 drivers. Devised operational solutions for corporate customer shipments and partnered with operations to address service.
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