Michael Lively Email & Phone Number

University Park, Il

Harvey, Illinois

Managed daily operations for receiving dock, courier services, mail room, central processing, and linen department. Monitored productivity, staffing levels, and interactions across all hospital departments. Led implementation of Kanban system used in central warehouse and roll out for all areas within hospital. Interviewed and hired candidates for various hospital operations positions across 5 departments. • Reduced hospital inventory by 50%.• Increased inventory turns by over 50%. • Decreased expiring inventory by 50% instituting forecasting controls and constant rotation of stock.• Coached and mentored staff to improve performance in their responsibilities.

Purchased and managed five divisions. Implemented cost optimization, inventory controls, purchasing guidelines, and reporting methods within all branches. Led all material needs of 25 person sales force with vendor relationships and strategic alliances. Oversaw daily operations of purchasing and inventory controls with annual spend of $25,000,000. Developed long term relationships with strategic suppliers and negotiated continuing service agreements. Created reporting formats used on national basis to determine stocking and inventory levels on daily and monthly basis used in top management meetings.• Exceeded inventory turn objectives while reducing obsolete inventory to less than 1% of total value.• Reduced total inventory by 20%.• Worked closely with Warehouse Manager to increase inventory accuracy to 99%.