Michael Laut Email & Phone Number

Wood Dale, Illinois

Harwood Heights, Il

• Managed all order fulfillment to national retailers Staples, OfficeMax, Office Depot, United Stationers, and hundreds of small wholesale distributors; up to 1,000 internet orders were shipped daily during peak season.• Designed a new picking layout that resulted in reduction of labor from five minutes to two minutes per line picked.• Promoted to Distribution Manager of the Waynesboro Pa. facility to organize operations as the hub of United States operations.• Reduced Staples fulfillment fines from $500,000 dollars in 2013 to $23,550 through September 2014.• Implemented daily cycle counts which resulted in a variance of .02% on $7.5 million dollars of inventory.• Member of safety committee that introduced ongoing safety training that resulted in no lost-time accidents in the past 13 months.

Chicago, Il

• Managed order fulfillment, receiving, inventory control, and loss prevention.• Achieved 98% order fulfillment to major distributors including Carquest, and AutoZone.• Received 10 years of ongoing TMS training through in house projects resulting in TPS certification.• Redesigned warehouse locations by ABC method that resulted in 20% reduction in labor and 15% increased efficiency.• Instrumental employee in the move to a new state-of-the-art warehouse installing flow racking and implementation of new bar coding software. • Oversaw all safety issues, including forklift certification.