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Leading the operational implementation of a new Warehouse Management System and Labor Management System for North American distribution centers.

• Fully responsible to implementing TPM at 14 company owned Distribution Centers. • Closed an East Coast Distribution Center with zero service interruptions for annual YOY savings of $927,000. • Complete responsibility for four company owned Distribution Centers and one 3PL with a $18M annual operating budget.• Consolidated 3PL partner and brought Dish Machine business in house for an annual YOY savings of$ 678,000• Lowered total operating costs from 2019 $.072 Cost per Kilo to 2022 $.064 Cost per Kilo.• Increased Cultural engagement score by 16% for the Region. • Created, trained, and implemented 5S, cascading KPIs, and safety pillar board for all North American DCs.

Facilitated an instantaneous start-up of SAP conversionDeployed TMP tools: Monthly OGSM KPI board, DOM measures and meetings, and problem solving methodologies. Increased warehouse capacity by 32% in the same warehouse square footage. Your Voice Matters cultural engagement score of 86%. An increase of 31% over 2016.

• Led cultural safety and quality transformation of Department to embrace Nestle Goal Alignment methodologies to measure and improve factory cascaded key priorities of Safety, Quality, Cost, Reliability, and Competency building.• Rolled out TPM and Sigma based problem solving methodologies to develop an autonomous maintenance work team.• Decreased downtime by 42% in 6 months and sustained productivity by partnering with maintenance and line teams.

• Led the RDC to 978 days free from recordable injuries by installing a culture where safety is a value. • Proven supply chain project manager for three company integration projects.• Developed frontline associates for progressive promotions. • P&L responsibility and oversight of regional supply chain network in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.• Directly responsible for developing and administering multi-million dollar annual operations budget.• Experience in cold storage, food warehousing and distribution, as well as working with numerous 3PL providers. • Leadership in process improvement programs including the Nestle Continuous Excellence program. • Experience optimizing shuttle cube, increasing pick attainment, warehouse slotting, new product integration and executing numerous go-to-market strategies. • Manage temporary agency relationship to ensure summer ramp up of 40+ temporary employees is planned and executed. • Led operations team responsible for servicing a DSD network of over 150 routes to 25 cross-docks across 5 states.• Partnered with freight providers to ensure on-time delivery, dynamic volume changes, and future capacity increases. • Achieved maximum freight cube for the most complex DSD shuttle network in the company.• Functional Expert for the design of SAP Warehouse Management System.• National Change Leader for the factory conversions to SAP

• Led a team of frontline employees to ensure order accuracy and on-time delivery while maintaining a robust safety culture.• Developed diverse frontline associates for progressive promotions. • Safety employee of the year.