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Detroit Metropolitan Area

Lansing, Michigan, United States

Key Contributions included:• Established processes for order entry, shipping, and warehouse operations for startup diet food distribution company• Created KPI’s for product sales, customer profitability, shipping cost trends, order picking accuracy, customer satisfaction, among others• Negotiated rates with freight carriers to reduce overall freight spend• Researching and on-boarding of new suppliers/products.• Team-member on the Website Redesign process to increase website functionality and integrate with operational processes in ERP.

Livonia, Michigan

Spearheaded overall operations for 14 location company serving 16 states. Involved in numerous continuous improvement projects, many of which involved working with team members across different departments. • Devised and deployed cost saving initiatives and unified 3PL vendors to reduce overall freight spend by 20%.• Project Team member to establish companywide KPI’s across Operations, Inventory, and Sales. • Project lead in deployment of a method to private label items for large scale commercial projects that increased order hit rate by 25%.• Served as a key member of cross-functional team to introduce new products to the marketing reducing time to market by 50%.• Managed Operations team that included 100 team members with 9 direct reports, covering Site Management, Warehousing, Delivery, Customer Service, Inventory Control, Sampling, Data Management, and Purchasing.

Livonia, Mi

Directed overall processes involved in planning and deployment of the central warehousing team. Experience with space planning, site relocation, Warehouse Management Systems. • Project lead for the operational integration for two acquired companies. Unified procedures for shipping, receiving, inventory control, purchasing, and customer service. Development of training manuals for all processes and conducted training of staff before on time go-live dates for each location. • Implemented 3PL TMS system for LTL shipments ensuring seamless A/P processes. Increased freight recovery by $200K while also creating operational efficiencies in A/P, Customer Service, and Shipping• Project Lead for WMS implementation for all company locations. This project reduced operational cost by 15% and created many other customer facing enhancements.• Reduced item file related data entry time by 60% through utilizing Excel and recorded macros to enter data into ERP system. • Overhauled sampling operations to provide better insight into $1M dollar yearly expense. Created systems to automate replenishment of inventory. While also establishing processes that allowed tracking of sampling expense by customer, sales rep, and product type.

Livonia, Michigan, United States

Overhauled the purchasing and warehousing process during a period that saw 100% growth in sales. • Set up of ERP demand tracking/forecasting system for product purchases.• Developed system for tracking product line performance and created recommendations of products to phase from stock. This helped to reduce inventory obsolescence by 40%.• Established central warehouse concept and created a daily hub and spoke transfer system. This improved inventory turns by 80% while also providing 1 day service levels on all stock products to all company locations.• Drove improvement in processes for item, cost, price, and packaging file management by incorporating the use of Excel to manage data.• Set up consistent weekly inbound shipment flow from all suppliers to create reliable delivery estimate capabilities at the order entry process.• Established and enhanced process for selling outdated products that led to additional $300K in sales per year.

Greater Detroit Area

Oversaw Production, Quality, Sales, and New Product Development