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Orlando, Fl, Us

Airport Ground Support Equipment, Global Supply Chain, Sourcing, Supplier Development, Contract Manufacturing

Orlando, Fl, Us

Lead all activities associated with supporting ground support equipment manufacturing and aftermarket supply chain encompassing 25k SKUs and 500+ suppliers. Accountability includes purchasing, supply chain, logistics, warehousing, order filling, receiving and inventory control. Manage a staff of up to eleven direct reports as well as up to 50 indirect labor staff. Developed a supply chain performance team to focus on supplier recovery, increase inventory turns, and reduce material shortages caused by suppliers. ● Implemented a supplier segmentation strategy to systematically address issues of on-time delivery, material shortages, and excess inventory. On-time delivery increased by 50 points, shortages reduced by 67% from peak levels in 2018. ●Led the change to material planning processes to increase visibility of materials requirements to suppliers with increased forecasting of most used components.●Negotiated supplier stocking agreements across multiple commodities which reduced inventory and increased turns in the largest value segments.

Irving, Texas, Us

Morton, Illinois, Us

• Accountable for all aspects of leading and supporting an aftermarket supply chain with multiple warehouses, thousands of SKU's supporting mining equipment across the world.• Directly manage a multi-million dollar budget for locations in the U.S., Germany and India. • Built and led a global supply management team as part of a corporate acquisition• Provided leadership for multiple network optimization projects including SAP implementations, warehouse closures and startups, part number and supplier conversion.

Morton, Illinois, Us

• Led team focused on supplier development to support three major network initiatives including a warehouse startup, SAP Demand Planning implementation, and on-time delivery improvements.• Successfully deployed SNC (SAP Supply Network Collaboration) globally to 230 suppliers. • Led the move of 900+ suppliers to a new parts inbound processing center. • Developed and executed strategy to deploy a monthly supplier scorecard to top 300 suppliers.• Led network optimization modeling initiatives for Asia Pacific and Latin America service parts logistics studies.

Morton, Illinois, Us

Transportation Black Belt• Implemented a single core carrier across ten Midwest locations resulting in reduced line-haul costs, operational efficiencies and smaller trailer pools at manufacturing facilities.• Led project to optimize LTL/Parcel weight break project to reduce enterprise transportation cost. • Developed business case for implementing a dedicated team fleet for inter-plant truckload lanes; resulted in a single carrier with an initial fleet of 80 power units.

Morton, Illinois, Us

• Accountable for reporting weekly and monthly transportation metrics to internal Caterpillar Service Parts client; KPIs included carrier on-time delivery, capacity utilization and corrective actions on defects.• Led project to reduce DC to DC transit times by managing outbound and inbound load schedules in i2/TM resulting in reduced client inventory, labor and transportation expense. • Reduced freight spend by annually through a mode shifts while maintaining customer requirements for transit time. • Reduced client transportation spend by demonstrating how loading dock operations impacts freight expense through weight and cube utilization.

Morton, Illinois, Us

• Led contract and rate negotiations for approximately all surface freight spend for U.S. Canada and Mexico delivering.• Developed and negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with major LTL and Truckload carriers such as YRC, Conway, Werner, Swift and U.S. Xpress.• Led internal effort to reduce transportation risk by developing new relationships with major U.S. truckload carriers to ensure capacity and market competitive rates.• Managed the transfer of freight and lanes impacted by a carrier bankruptcy for a major mining product out of Mexico to the U.S. • Led carrier contract and rate negotiations for an automotive client 3PL contract.

• Grew business 100% through cold calling, networking and relationship building with potential clients.• Managed dispatch and maintenance operations for a fleet of 35 power units specializing in full truckload flatbed and heavy haul across United States and Canada.• Grew and maintained long term relationships with freight brokers to optimize back haul freight and reduce empty miles.• Developed and implemented a quarterly driver safety bonus to improve safety and driver retention.• Logged two years and approximately 200K safe driving miles hauling general commodities and heavy haul.

• Trombone Section Leader, 144th Army Band, Springfield, IL• Unit Transportation NCO• Honorable Discharge

Irving, Texas, Us

Worked in Advanced Materials Technology at Caterpillar, performing research in advanced ceramic processing techniques.

Mba, Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Ceramic Sciences And Engineering

Executive Education, Executive Education - Supply Chain Management: Driving Strategic Advantage