Neil Bates Email & Phone Number

Dordon, GB

Tamworth, England, United Kingdom

• Coordinator across multiple European Lean Logistics projects, ensuring mutual benefit and aligning with overall business goals
• Capture, track and report on Logistics CapEx related projects for all European regions
• Collate and Report on all Regional Excellence Initiatives
• Support Central EH&S Team with analytics of site visit assessment results
• Review and update European Warehousing Whitebook documentation
• Project Lead - Whitebook for Branch Logistics Excellence lean operating model

United Kingdom

• Recording, reviewing and reporting on all Logistics Capex activity for all European regions, building and maintaining good relationships with Logistics Directors across multiple countries and supporting with financial.
• Providing CapEx spend analytics for monthly European Board Reviews
• Creation of Analytics Dashboard to support the management of stock availability across our European landscape
• Program Manager for the Czech Republic NDC Improvement Plan
• Creation of the 2023 Operational Budget and financial forecasts for Logistics in Czech Republic
• Member of the 1LKQ Warehouse Excellence White Book Design Program, creating a lean operation model for logistics within our national and central distribution centers

T1 & T2 - Tamworth

Responsibility covering all Forward Logistics Warehouse operational activity for T2 NDC, handling an average of 120m boxes annually in a 1,000,000 square foot semi-automated facility with 750 colleagues at peak. Reporting to the General Manager with reporting lines of 13 Shift Managers and 32 Front Line Managers. The role also includes overseeing T1 NDC.

T2 - Tamworth

• Part of the operational set up team at a modern semi-automated 1 million sq ft facility, responsibilities including implementing testing, preparing for site BAU operations through to full implementation in July 2017..
• Maximising operational activity across all of the functions by managing the pick operation which includes driving the VOR pick and replenishment to achieve agreed SL’s with a daily value of circa £800k. Driving.
• Managing and motivating a team of 200 colleagues and developing a working environment in which employees are valued and effective, promoting positivity and colleague engagement.
• Working with peers to plan deployment and delegating tasks in advance in order to maximise operational activity across all functions.
• Continually reviewing and assessing the operational effectiveness and efficiency to improve productivity and performance, through ensuring that deployment meets business requirements on a daily basis and analysing and.
• Maximising operational activity across all functions including liaising with the training department to ensure that supply meets operational demand.

T1 - Tamworth

• Working at the 250,000 sq ft NDC providing the overnight supply of Branch Restock and VOR orders to over 200 branches and hubs across the UK. As a member of the late shift Management Team comprising 4 Shift Managers, 6.
• Daily planning of the pick operation to ensure correct placement of resource across all areas
• Forward planning every weekend to ensure sufficient resource in place to meet order demand
• Manage the workflow of order picking, ensuring timely delivery of orders to the despatch bays
• Responsibility for the Replenishment Team
• Management of the Weekly Promotional sales

Overall responsibility for all Warehouse Operations within the Coventry Depot, successfully delivering year on year improvements to all measured business criteria. This demanding role requires both focus and clear direction in order to drive the business forward.Monitor, manage and deliver depot KPI's in line with business targetsDeliver Depot costs in.

Managing a shift of up to 50 members of staff whose functions include order picking, despatch, goods inward and stock control, serving one of our largest UK customers Mitchell & Butlers, the role being both challenging and demanding, requires robust leadership skills together with a strong sense of customer requirements.Managing staff absence and sickness.

Working within a fast moving consumer goods industry, for the leading supplier of frozen, chilled and grocery products to the catering industry in the UK.Working within the Brakes Logistics division, managing a team of order pick warehouse operatives, a role that requires flexibility and adaptability, needing both planning and problem solving.

Multi skilled within a goods inward environment including administration, entailing organisation of driver's paperwork, data input, and control of relevant documentation.Experience of working within a team based environment, involving compromise, commitment and a “can do” attitudeFlexibility in meeting deadlines, demanding time schedules and meeting.

Trained new members of staff within the warehouse environmentGained experience throughout the warehouse in the areas of order picking, Goods Inward and Stock ReplenishmentParticipated in working groups within the company, focusing on issues and resolutions.Attained position of Management trainee during 2001, on an in house management development scheme..

Btec First General Engineering

General Engineering

Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Manufacturing; Literacy; Application of Number; Achieved grades A-C; including Maths, English and Dual.