Oliver Castle Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, Gb

United Kingdom

Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom

Successfully managed the implementation of Blue Yonder (BY) to control inventory for a Flagship National Distribution Centre. Championed agile project management to successfully deliver a stock management solution.Pioneered reporting suites to support with continuous improvement through go-live. Developed key tools to maintain controls around accuracy on site. Built and evolved an efficient and sound team.Pivotal in achieving, reporting and maintaining SLA's within stock accuracy, dispatch and queries. Formed strong stakeholder relationships through regular presentations, meetings and feedback sessions. Headed project scope, UAT and SOP writing.Guided co-workers through a successful start up and go-live. 530,000 sqftSemi-Automated site with installation of innovative handling systems including conveyors between the floors and locus robotic support for pick & put-away, with capacity for over 3 million items.

London, England, United Kingdom

Profitably implemented an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for the businessSuccessfully planned and implemented Prophet (WMS) to control Freddie's E-Commerce Supply ChainDelivered agile project management for an ERP WMS system. Including: E2E testing, process writing, system training, RAID log, project plan and system development for Planning, Operations and Finance.Empowered team to deliver Picking and Despatch accuracy, increasing to, and maintained, above 99.8%Achieved gross discrepancies reduction from 60,000 to 5,000 units per week. Optimised and directed management of stock through new processes.Headed the processes and accountable for all logistics throughput.Implemented SQL report writing and inventory analysisRenovated WMS Implementation as Project ManagerManaged Stock Integrity across multiple 3PL sitesAccomplished two successful audits

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

In August 2021, XPO Logistics split into two companies. This was a continuation of my previous role, under the spinoff GXO Logistics.

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Championed this National Distribution Centre start up. Processes, SOP’s, SLA’s and KPI’s created and monitored.Improved and maintained picking accuracy above 99.9%.Successfully managed net stock loss below 0.03% weekly based on throughput.Exceeded weekly, monthly and quarterly SLA’s/ KPI's. E.G putaway time, net stock loss and cycle counts.Headed weekly feedback to customers on performance, stock loss, mitigation and KPI managementChampioned reporting and analysis to interpret and report figures back to senior management using JDA, DLx, Blue Yonder, Red PraireConstructed reports through VBA (Visual Basic for Application) Excel for key stakeholdersControlled daily orders circa 100,000 in a 365,000 sq ft, FMCG environment. Headed day to day 3PL Stakeholder management. Accountable for a team that operates 24/7 with three direct reports and 30 indirect.Guided colleagues through WMS implementationFounded and built all admin functions within the warehouse.XPO split and the role continued with GXO

Northampton, United Kingdom

Achieved Level 3: Leadership and Management Apprenticeship. Headed large financial savings through route analysis.Championed Project Management for 3PL reductionsOrchestrated end to end testing on a 638,000 sq ft, fully automated warehouse.Assembled standard operating procedures (SOP's).Delivered end user training. This position spans over a 24 month period; made up of four, six month placements.

Milton Keynes

Delivered exceptional candidates to hiring managers Built strong relationships with key stakeholderExceeded weekly and quarterly targets

Professional Investigative Practice (Ba), Private Investigating, 2:1

Modules covered: BA Professional Investigative Practice, Law and Criminal Justice System, Covert Investigations, Investigating Serious.

Ict, Ict And Media Studies

A-Levels: ICT [C] BTEC: Double Creative Media Production Level 3 [Passed with Distinction*] GCSE’s: Application of Mathematics [B].