Don Arter Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Market Vice President of Greco and Sons West Market. Colorado, Washington, California, Arizona, and Nevada

East Texas

Providing quality in home personal care and medical staffing in East Texas.Our goal is to support the medical field to reduce overtime and current employee workloads where you need it most. We can fill schedules in a high specialty unit within a hospital, physicians office, school nursing, long term care facilities, or clinics. Interim Healthcare of.

• Owns full strategic and tactical oversight for physical and financial standing of two buildings: a one million sq. ft. Distribution centers in Visalia, CA and a 300, 000 sq. ft. distribution center in Brampton.
• Ensures quality service for multiple brands, including The North Face, Reef, Eagle Creek, JanSport, Lucy, Vans, Smartwool, and Timberland as well as image wear operation for custom embroidery.
• Administers performance of a combined operating budget of $65M+ between the two locations; drives teams to achieve in excess of $2.4B in annual combined revenue.
• Developed and rolled out an employee handbook for 1,100 personnel.
• Defined and implemented KPIs for Outdoor Coalition DCs with quarterly reviews by supply chain leaders.
• Oversaw direct to consumer cartonization that delivered $250K in annual cost savings.

• Owned full operational and financial responsibility for two distribution centers in California and a 950,000 sq. ft. facility in Houston, Texas, which consisted of 350,00 sq. ft. of refrigeration and freezer space as.
• Accomplished 535 safe work days without a lost time accident for perishable distribution.
• Managed the process improvement team for all distribution centers.
• Purchased and supervised construction of startup equipment, including forklifts and Dematic conveyor inventory.
• Authored and developed training manuals for all job functions in the Texas operations.
• Held direct supervision and P&L responsibility for all bargain wholesale orders and customer service.

• Owned full operational responsibility while serving as a third-party liaison for a 650,000 sq. ft. regional distribution center with service of hard lines and pharmaceuticals to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.
• Managed the efforts of 300+ employees and drove operation to win the 2002 Walgreens Pyramid Award.
• Achieved 94% to regression with 52 lines per hour vs. a plan of 50.
• Improved shipping pull times to 99.98% and decreased injuries by 45.7%+ in 2002.