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Deliver exceptional transport logistics, managing marine and truck transportation providers, ensuring compliance with global contracts, creating critical KPIs to track and improve on-time delivery, customer issues and safety statistics; and developing and controlling performance metrics for service providers.Leverage outstanding analytical and organizational skills to drive corporate success, forecasting and monitoring a fixed distribution annual budget of over $27 million and leading a strategic cost savings team, resulting in savings in excess of $800,000 or 3.6% variable freight.Reconcile month-end inventory, resolve discrepancies for terminals, and through a commitment to continuous process improvement, reduce those discrepancies from 0.59% to 0.29% over a one-year period.Enter and update shipping rates and routes from ship points to the final destination with extreme accuracy.Reduce accruals over 60 days from over $1 million to under $50,000.Regularly apply very strong relationship management skills to build, maintain, and develop solid and personable professional relationships with service providers.Effectively negotiate and book spot vessel fixtures.

Provided exceptional production planning and distribution/resupply planning within a zero to four-month time frame, deftly managing multiple competing priorities and short-term deadlines with the result that 95% of orders were shipped on-time.Maintained, entered, extracted, and analyzed SAP PR3 MRP data for supply and inventory management.Analyzed data to plan extensive intra-region distribution network and reassign optimal ship points ad hoc. Developed product plan and terminal supply, using sales and operations planning processes.Executed inventory exchanges with co-producers.Monitored and assessed trends in sales vs forecast and communicated and collaborated cross-functionally with marketing to resolve gaps and provide effective solutions.

Applied exceptional organizational and analytical skill to design, improve, and implement a lean manufacturing system, ensuring agile and effective inventory levels management for over 3,000 SKU numbers.Creatively deployed skills to drive process improvements and bottom-line profitability, developing, testing, and perfecting new systems for material tracking, quality control, production and engineering error detection, and a model year inventory management program that minimized obsolete material and established a strategic disposition process.Managed assembly plant visual controls.Produced budget, month-end inventory, and annual turn rates reports to gauge performance and efficiencies.

Demonstrated outstanding supplier relationship management in day-to-day communications resolving issues with containers, labeling, electronic transmissions and availability.Investigated material banks and transit times to reduce inventory and premium transportation, resulting in cost-savings along the entire material pipeline. Closely examined any product shortages, determined root causes, and implemented corrective action.Committed to teamwork and collective success by fostering effective working relationships at all levels of the company, internally and externally, and actively offering operational improvements for quality, production times, and cost savings.

Expertly facilitated all aspects of scheduling, ordering, and reporting production trial run processes.Supported the successful launches of new vehicle platforms by ensuring part availability from global suppliers.Supervised union employees and developed training for critical plant operations procedures and processes.

Worked cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and purchasing to resolve critical issues with quality and packaging, ensure product availability for future build events, and reduce premium transportation costs.