Michael Elkin Email & Phone Number

Spring, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas

Manage sand hauling logistics on six spreads across the region and 1000+ railcars. This position reports directly to the Logistics Manager.• Forecast sand hauling capacity to carriers.• Manage both container and pneumatics carriers.• Handle day-to-day sand hauling issues with field and carrier.• Run reports on inventory at all transloads in the Northeast.• Build lasting relationships with all sand hauling carriers.• Provide Sales team with logistics quotes for all potential work. • Completed a North American sand hauling RFP saving the company $3+ million dollars a quarter.• Manage carrier contract with rate negotiations.• Track, trace, and analyze rail fleet performance to ensure timely delivery of required inventory.• Turned in 200+ railcars that went off lease in 2019.

Managed complete inventory footprint of over 500 million lbs of products across the world.-Created daily Pipeline covering sales, inventory and production.-Managed inventory at all Imerys-based transloads in the United States.-Updated and exported weekly inventory report to sales team.-Managed Job Tracker which analyzes available inventory vs. upcoming sales.-Assisted and supported Sales team with any potential purchase order requests ensuring inventory levels are adequate.-Tracked, traced, and analyzed rail fleet performance to ensure timely delivery of required inventory.

The Woodlands, Tx

Responsible for analyzing, processing, maintaining and responding to customer sales orders. -Assisted and supported sales team with any potential purchase order requests.-Coordinated the release of product with the transload facility for all purchase orders.-Billing of railcars from plant in Wrens, GA to customers.-Secured, dispatched and monitored over the road trucking companies to make deliveries to the wells.-Upon completion of purchase order, sent customer complete list of each truck delivered to well site.-Created sales order and invoicing customers in Microsoft AX.

Houston, Texas Area

-Designed and managed Share Point for the Chemical, Oil, and Gas Team.-Ran Competitive Analysis for the Chemical, Oil, and Gas Sales team.-Worked with the Sales Team to gather the best information to excel future sales.

Tomball, Texas

-Developed and implemented system for tracking online social posts.-Operations and Digital Strategy for social media campaigns.-Maintained all social media from content to followers.-Website maintenance, including audio shows, blogs, and content, using WordPress.