Mike Watson Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Escondido, California, United States

San Marcos, CA

• Developed, fabricated, and installed engineered solutions to bring innovative and lean services to clients in order to increase the capacity of their site operations. Drove continuous improvement making finding a.
• Provided Research & Development (R&D) and procurement for new and used equipment sales and services to customer’s distribution center operations.
• Established and built a pallet-racking and conveyor business catering to large distribution centers, which led to a series of contracts with Trader Joe’s to rack over 2,000,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space.
• Negotiated and won a 6-year contract to wash all of Trader Joe’s plastic recycled containers for the North Western United States, including Texas. Implemented, maintained, and managed extensive testing and verification.
• Created and fabricated 8 large pass-through conveyorized washers capable of handling 7 million units per year. These machines were installed in Trader Joe’s own distribution center and ran 2 shifts, 7-days per week.
• Analysis of throughput, efficiency, quality, safety, and real-time reporting enabled crews to be the most respected of the warehouse and generated record profits each year for 5-years consecutive years.

Huntington Beach, CA

• Ownership across tactical leadership of the supply chain function, including supply planning, client partnerships and product sourcing, service delivery, imports and exports, transportation, and demand planning.
• Won contract and preferred Importer of Trader Joe’s, responsible for importing ~100 container per year of private label products into the United States and distributing private label products across 28 states.
• Developed private label wines for Whole Foods Market and distributed to all stores in 31 states; maintained licenses in 31 states and imported to both the West and East coasts.
• Devised and implemented supply chain management best practices in areas such as systems integration and optimization, inventory control, and demand planning.
• Identified value added service opportunities in existing client base and with new clients in sourcing product; determined and pursued new product lines of business for potential expansion of the business.
• Supported rapid growth across the markets by establishing supply chain relationships and practices that ensured consistent best-in-class customer service, fill rate and inventory efficiency.