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• Point liaison between Operations and IT to assess operational needs in order to design, develop and implement solutions for process and system improvements
• Lead development and implementation of Red Prairie enhancements to increase pick mod batch efficiency to reduce picker travel time
• Teamed with 3rd party RP contractor to create and test solution to reduce systematic receiving processing time by 75%
• Developed and implemented system put-up process to allow 30% reduction in consolidation space
• Lead development, testing and implementation of WMI 2020 in January 2022
• Directed testing and implementation of 2013 to 2020 WMi upgrade for secondary Gildan distribution facility in Eden NC.

Eden, North Carolina, United States

• Responsible for mutli-shift operations in 500K sqft facility processing FTL and same day orders consisting of picking at the piece, case and pallet levels with monthly financial sales goal at or above $12M
• Developed and implement FDM4 WMS to convert operations from FDM4 legacy ERP
• Lead team to develop and implement E1 based WMS in Kaiserslautern, Germany (Anvil Brand)
• Performed lean based events to increase each picking productivity by 30%

• Analyzed in improved processes in New Bedford Comfort Colors facility to increase monthly distribution output to $12M
• Managed project to study overweight shipping trailer data and implemented improvements that generated a reduction in overweight shipping occurrences, and produced freight and labors saving of $97K
• Initialized and completed project utilizing lean pull production and 5S methodology that has reduced average receipt cycle time; yielding an annual saving of $110k

• Created inventory control procedures and cycle counting processes that yielded a 99.999% unit accuracy for inventory levels reaching $60 million, yielding labor saving of $100K per year
• Increased customer fill rates to 99.97% by creating processes to identify the root causes of shortages and designed standard procedures to monitor and eliminate shortage drivers
• Drove a $65K savings per year by creating and executing an inventory consolidation that reduced square footage consumption by 50% and eliminated the need for contracted labor in a second facility

Eden, North Carolina, United States

• Planned and executed consolidation of 10 warehouses upon purchase of competitors distribution network to single facility
• Lead and executed move from AS/400 based legacy warehouse management system (WMS) to Windows based Red Prairie WMS
• Responsible for setting up and directing operations in 2 facilities covering 600K sqft, 12 million dozen selling units across 6000 SKUs with an average output of 2 million dozen per month with 3 shifts, 250 associates.

Managed three departments consisting of 2 supervisors and 43 hourly associatesCreated new each picking processes and rack design to increase picking efficiency by 30% and reduced necessary head count from 15 to 10 associates in picking and processing departmentsManaged inventory consolidation to generate square footage in order to design a high security.

Supervised 2 leads and 25 associates across 2 shifts with an average throughput of 20 trailers per day at peak through the receiving department and 500 DZN per day through value added services departmentTested and performed operational installation of PkMS upgrade in Greensboro DCIncreased receiving throughput by 30% and reducing cost by $60K in one year.