Matthew Dickins Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Senior leadership review of supply chain operations across the business.
• Implement staged improvement activities within operations.
• Manage the warehouse and logistics teams focusing on efficiency gains.
• Prepare the Supply Chain, for expansion of the business interstate.Key Achievements:
• Identified savings across freight activities and set up interstate fright procedures.
• Manage warehouse optimisation process. o Redesign and lay out receiving and dispatch. o Relocate and optimise pallet racking. o Manage the stone gallery renovation.

Melbourne, Australia

• Active member of the executive management team.
• Manage all Procurement, Inbound Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory activities across the national organisation. Facilities in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
• Maintain and develop Vendor relationships. Key Achievements:
• Identified $800k savings across inbound freight.
• Developed and implemented S&OP across the Dindas organisation.
• Implemented a program to develop and create SLA’s (Service Level Agreement) for all suppliers providing a more formal and direct partnership for both organisation. In addition to the created and published key metrics.

Dandenong, Melbourne

• Active member of the executive management team.
• Managed the Supply Chain Operations across the business including all Purchasing, Inventory, Warehouse and Procurement activities.
• Maintained all responsibilities from previous role.
• Managed the Purchasing and Planning activities across the organisation.
• Develop, Implement and lead an S&OP (Sales and Operation Planning) process across all departments.
• Develop and improve Supplier performance over all categories of the supply chain.

Tottenham, Melbourne

• Manage a team of sourcing specialists that are developing the sourcing of cable from international suppliers (Both internal and external to Nexans).
• Manage 3 Australian distribution centres across. Wetherill Park NSW, Geebung QLD and Forrestfield WA.
• Roll out of safety procedures and develop reporting mechanisms across the DC’s.
• Leading the relocation and improvement of the QLD DC.
• Develop and implement an active procedure looking at reduction and rationalisation of inventory.

Coburg, Victoria

• Active member of the executive management team.
• Manage the complete supply chain function.
• Responsible for all Customer and Supplier Relations, Purchasing, Warehousing and all Transport for APV.
• Lead a team of professionals.

• Lead and manage the team for all supply and shipping activities.
• Manage the 3 major teams within the department. Materials Control (supply), Materials Flow (dispatch and warehouse) and Packaging.

Port Melbourne

• Active member of the Port Melbourne management team.
• Managed 3 dedicated teams - Material Control, Production Planning and Customer Relations.
• Led all customer support functions for engine sales.
• Led the Sales and Operations Planning process at Holden Engine Operations.