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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Overall management of warehouse, shipping and receiving functions. Support strategy execution for logistics, warehouse, and inventory control. Implement financial metrics and associated KPIs for respective areas. Develop and implement transportation cost-savings programs for year-over-year savingsIdentify project responsibilities, delegating phases and elements to appropriate personnel.Maintain awareness of industry and global logistics trends. Train employees, emphasizing safety guidelines and promoting a culture of excellenceAnalyze shipping and delivery data with an eye for optimization in the marketplace. Lead and develop standards and operational best practices. Key projects include. Implementation of 18 Kardex vertical lift modules, with critical improvements in safety, ergonomics, storage capacity, and efficiency.Designed and implemented 10,000 square foot warehouse mezzanine, increasing optimal storage space, flexibility, and efficiencies.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Overall responsibility for planning and coordination of materials, purchasing, warehouse, and shipping and receiving departments. Collaborate with other managers to determine supply needs, material flow, warehouse order picking, shipping and receiving best practices. -Maintain optimum inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements-Responsible for continuing programs of exploration for new materials, suppliers, and processes to achieve the best possible quality, reliability, prices, continuity, and delivery-Establishes procedures and supervises the annual physical inventory-Supervise, evaluate and coach staff members-Interfaces with product line coordinators on the planning and forecasting of customer orders to meet shipments-Maintain relationships and negotiate with suppliers-Purchase supplies and materials according to specifications-Ensures that the company standard practices and procedures are followed in connection with all materials department functions

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Manage and develop a team of 9 procurement buyers in a high mix low volume facility. Responsible for the overall procurement of over 20,000 direct materials across 300 plus suppliers. Development and implementation of best practices and metrics for the operational buyers. Implementation and enforcement of the company’s purchasing policies and procedures. Additional responsibilities include material management, data analysis, reporting, inventory control, logistics and warehouse management.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for site metrics, site reporting, mining and organizing data for material consumption and availability. Preparing reports for executive leadership that effectively communicate trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data. Managing master data, including creation, updates, and deletion within SAP ERP system. Determine and setting key planning parameters in a high mix low volume site. -Strong mathematical & numeracy skills.-Intermediate understanding of databases such as SQL Server, Oracle and SAP.-Understanding of reporting & data visualisation tools such as Business Objects, PowerBI and Tableau.-Manipulate large volumes of data using Excel. -Analyze data for troubleshooting and tracking Reporting/Metrics to resolve all reporting/ metrics related issues.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Plant Supply Chain/Warehouse and Inventory ManagerResponsible for overseeing and managing company's overall supply chain and logistics strategy. Full responsibility for planning and scheduling operations in order to maximize the process efficiency and productivity. Responsible for procuring raw materials and collaborating with suppliers, procuring packaging supplies, managing lead times, updating forecasts, scheduling of the production lines, batch reconciliation, shipping and receiving of goods, monthly physical inventory, HACCP team member, safety team member. Managed 2 salary and 7 hourly employees while collaborating closely with other department managers in a team environment. Extensive background working with sales, customer service, process engineers, and the R&D group taking products from development to commercialization. Created a team environment that continues to meet and exceed target goals set for safety, inventory reduction metrics, on time shipping metrics, and controllable costs.Strong passion to meet and exceed scheduling deadlines, good communicator, a problem solver with excellent critical thinking skills. Oversee loading and unloading of trucks, warehouse cube utilization, labeling, warehousing of product, training and development of employees, inventory counting and scanning, shipping document preparation, setting up transportation lanes, negotiating transportation rates, ordering of packaging supplies, and working in 3PL management systems.

Bachelor’S Degree, General Studies, Business Information Technology And Residential Property Management

Associate’S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Certifications, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance