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Springdale, Ar, Us

Responsible for creating, leading and directing network solutions that optimized Tyson’s cost and service performance for over 1 million annual shipments. Drove sustainable strategies that secured transportation capacity needs for OTR Contract Carrier, Dedicated and Private Fleet with a budget that exceeded $1.7 billion annually. Responsible for safety, driver recruitment, and asset procurement of over 1,100 tractors and 3,700 trailers in Tyson’s Private Fleet.

Gainesville, Georgia, Us

Identified new customer needs and established the necessary cross-selling partnerships to create new markets and build solutions resulting in new revenue streams.Assessed the overall go-to-market strategy to make recommendations for long range planning process, metric development and visibility, and marketing messaging and strategy.

Deliver supply chain and operational solutions for small to mid-size companies that focus on revenue growth, profitability, sales & marketing strategy, and multi-channel distribution tactics. Provide one-on-one business development and client retention consulting strategies.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Led North American operations to oversee strategic transportation initiatives and a full procure to pay team consisting of 30 General Mills employees, 26 On-Site Carrier Representatives, and 75 Contracted Carriers. Administered a $750 million annual budget. Planned and designed strategies to optimize shipping logistics for all transportation modes, three temperature channels, 11,000 lanes, and 650,000 annual shipments.▪ Transformed the go to market strategy through carrier segmentation and rationalization, bid process rebuild, truck utilization improvements, intermodal conversion, and network optimization. Delivered $28 million cost savings and was recognized by achieving the corporate Continuous Improvement Award.▪ Developed strategy to convert supplier delivered freight to collect realizing $21MM savings over 4 years.• Led payment terms extension, achieving a $42 million working capital savings over two years.• Led implementation of new SAP Transportation Management System resulting in a $5 million savings.• Effectively reduced reported CO2 emissions by 22%.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Drove customer replenishment strategies across the brand to deliver supply objectives focusing on case fill performance, on-time delivery, and reduced costs. Championed customer specific initiatives to align short and long-term customer supply chain and capacity objectives, tactics, and vision. • Achieved 99.5% in-stock across all refrigerated/frozen categories while reducing days of supply by 24%.• Collaborated with the Sales team and Buyers to reduce post-holiday markdowns by $4.2 million.• Chosen by Walmart to develop the Replenishment Manager training curriculum on Supply Chain principles and presented quarterly in Bentonville, Arkansas.• Recognized by Walmart as Supplier of the Year.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Provided supply chain and logistics leadership for a team of 17 to manage General Mills’ largest division that included a $170 million logistics budget, 141 million cases, 522 SKU’s, and 43 production plants. Directed supply planning from product introduction to end of life, ensuring customer demand, productivity, and business revenue goals were consistently achieved. • Reduced Logistics CPC from $1.49 to $1.30 in three years through numerous cost savings initiatives.• Achieved $3.3 million in savings by challenging the status quo of the Green Giant direct plant ship (DPS) program and expanding Progresso’s DPS program from Hannibal, MO.• Delivered 99.3% case-fill performance through item-location forecast error reductions, quarterly capacity reviews with Sales and Marketing, and eventual implementation of S&OP.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Managed all (13) General Mills’ refrigerated and frozen customer DC’s (3PL and General Mills operated). ▪ Developed and led a cross-functional team (Sales, Customer Service, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Transportation) responsible for integrating the storage and shipment of Pillsbury refrigerated products and Yoplait yogurt post acquisition.▪ Reduced the number of DC’s from 8 to 4 within the refrigerated network.▪ Determined size, location, layout, and staffing for 2 newly constructed DC’s and oversaw the implementation of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Oversaw all distribution functions for Generals Mills’ largest plant (57 million cases). Scope included supervision of 12 direct reports and 21 wage material handling personnel, operations of the largest Yoplait DC (Kalamazoo, MI), and management of a private transportation fleet (16 tractors, 30 trailers).▪ Negotiated new 3PL warehousing contract saving over $3.9MM over 5 years.▪ Played a leadership role in building a new 60,000 sq. ft. dry warehouse and startup of 5 robotic palletizers.▪ Eliminated private fleet due to non-core competency saving $400,000.