Lamar Laster, Mba Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Global Supply Chain

Long Beach, California, United States

• Procure to Pay managing Sourcing, RFX, Negotiation, Contract Management, Communication, Executive approval, Vendor Management, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Invoicing and Spend management
• Less-than-truckload(LTL) including residential delivery, cross border for both Mexico and Canada, czar lite and air expedited pricing models, rate maintenance(Oracle Transportation Management System, Mercury Gate), FAK.
• Contract negotiation and template development including Master Service Agreement, Transportation schedules, warehousing schedules, NDAs, exhibits, General Terms and Conditions
• Third Party Logistics services(3PL) including Lithium ion cell storage, returnable packaging, Hazardous Materials, Storage trailers, Shuttling, Yard Management Systems(YMS), Transportation Management Systems(TMS).

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Conducted root cause analysis on all service issues across TL, LTL, Bulk, Intermodal, and warehouse vendors.
• Supervised the North American Transportation team of 4 new employees, including an import and export Asia analyst, an import and export Latin America analyst, a domestic TL supervisor, and an LTL analyst.
• Established Contracts, Rates, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring the category's stability and operational continuity in the event of turnover

Greater Atlanta Area

• Category Management of Transportation, Logistics, IT equipment, IT maintenance, IT software, Recruiting, Relocation services, Parts logistics, Packaging, Vehicle Logistics, Vehicle testing & Certification, Phone.
• Expert knowledge of Zycus including vendor management(SIM), sourcing(I-Source), project management(I-Manage), and Contracting(I-Contract)

Alpharetta, GA

• Manages all truckload procurement for North America including HAZMAT, Tanker endorsement, and protect from freeze capacity.
• Tank truck procurement including liquid bulk, multi compartment, ISOs, and intermodal capacity.
• Vetting of global freight forwarders collaborating with global supplychain to manage export and import vendor options
• Vendor management including tranportation assets, sample tollers, warehousing, freighpayment, parcel, 3PLs, consultants, and freight brokers

Alpharetta, GA

• Accountable for the vendor management process, involving key stake holders to ensure alignment on business requirements, while effectively managing price and service.
• Manages the day to day service performance of the vendor based on business objectives, stakeholder requirements and management expertise.
• Developing measurements, reporting, scorecards and scheduled performance reviews all focused to drive performance, recognize trends and satisfy the end customer.
• Developed procurement project plans for UPS Freight and Canadian operations negotiating intra and cross border pricing, ensuring efficient timely implementations with contracts, equipment, vendors, and operations.
• Procurement and vendor management activity across multiple transportation modes (TL, LTL, Dray, Intermodal) and projects including Peak web retail, Business to Consumer, consolidated LTL, and Dedicated TL.

Alpharetta, GA

• Managed quarterly supplier review refining the scorecard, KPI's and survey to evaluate and manage the vendors performance with input and collaboration across the enterprise.
• Supported IT with the implementation of EDI across LTL networks managing vendor testing improving processes and evaluating vendor compliance to system requirements.
• Delivered spend analytics and reporting to support procurement cost savings working through data integrity issues and collecting data for 10 business units and half a billion in annual spend.
• Worked on multiple projects including onsite management of Peak holiday operations, EDI best practices, 3PL Sustainability project, and Oracle Vendor training.

Mba, Supply Chain Management

Ba, Marketing

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