Paul Buttigieg Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

• Plan bulk sugar production to ensure adequate supply to multiple channels. • Maintain a strong communication link between the operations team, customer service and key account managers.• Liaise and maintain a strong working relationship with all 3PL’s.• Maintain a strong finished goods accuracy (KPI 95%). This was achieved by daily cycle counts with variances investigated vigorously.• Maintain a strong DIFOT result (KPI 98%), inventory accuracy was key to this success.• Investigate, report findings and proposed actions for all warehouse and transport related incident/hazard/near hit reports (onsite). • Assess and approve/dispute demurrage claims from 3PL’s• Manage the “Dispatch Office” and ensure that all transactions for all inbound and outbound goods were processed accurately and correctly.• Manage the forklift contract.• Procurement of process chemicals• Working closely with vendors.• Set targets & conduct quarterly PDR’s for all direct reports.• Continually looking to cut costs from the business.Key Achievements• Improved the cleanliness of the finished goods warehouse to what I called “audit ready”, thisultimately saved ~60k per annum.• Reduced onsite demurrage by ~50k per annum by working with the 3PL’s and introducing a more stringent review process prior to claims being paid.• Reduced the fork truck costs by $86k per annum by dehiring units that weren't being used to full potential.• Work with key account manager and customer to reduce the number of cancelled loads, saving of 10k per annum.• Be a part in the change in ERP systems from JD Edwards to SAP. This was a huge undertaking, my role in this was to review the new (SAP) processes for dispatch, procurement & cycle counting and ensure that they met the business needs. I was also classed as a “Super User” during the go live period, super users assisted with training the work force and providing support with any day to day queries from employees.