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Weymouth, Ma, Us

Weymouth, Ma, Us

Middleboro-Lakeville, Massachusetts, Us

• Supports harvest operations in all North American Growing regions in the areas of harvest logistics and storage.• Supports frozen fruit and cranberry concentrate distribution to manufacturing facilities in the areas of freight lane contract development and execution.• Responsible for the achievement of corporate strategies and business goals related to Operations Planning in transportation and storage for all Cranberry Ingredients and concentrate.• Manage Harvest Freight budget of $10M.• Manage and co negotiate Harvest Freight Contracts with upward approval.• Manage harvest freight execution of up to 15 Harvest Carriers across 7 growing regions.• Review frozen carrier lane rates with transportation manager for cranberry fruit transfers within and out of region. Align on cost effective carrier plan that includes both harvest freight and frozen fruit transfers costs.• Provide input on Cranberry Storage & Transportation Budget as it relates to Dry and Reefer Transportation & Frozen Storage Rates• Work in coordination with Regional AG Operations manager develop and implement harvest logistics plan which includes estimated daily harvest volumes and distribution by carriers and freezers.

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Lead collaborative teams to create strong vendor relationships with 75+ vendors across numerous locations.• Responsible for understanding the nuances and complexities associated with various transportation modes (primarily rail, bulk truck, flatbed, intermodal, and dry van), as well as matching business needs with the correct mode and provider to deliver on both service and cost targets.• Work with Raw Material Planning and Production Planning groups to efficiently manage required service levels of inbound raw materials, both CT and third party produced.• Establish and support new logistical process - New lanes and opportunities, infrastructure projects.• Maintaining functional knowledge of railroad operations; Waybill patterns, tracking and problem resolution, both Class 1 and short-line railroads• Works in parallel with Inbound Category Management team to execute relationships and service performance.• Understands the complexities and nuances of all plant operations, production schedules, and raw material requirements in order to partner with the raw material planning group to identify timely delivery schedules to keep production running.• Troubleshoot service-related issues, resolving customer problems efficiently and in the most cost-effective manner.• Lead and motivate non-reports in Supply Chain and plant operations functions.• Work with cross functional teams within the group to establish and execute sustainability initiatives with focus on CO2 emissions reduction efforts for raw materials.• Develop business continuity plan for critical raw material transportation including communication protocols.• Invoice approval and resolution.

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Actively manage a finished goods inventory of $10 million across the MidAtlantic region, assuring proper product mix to fulfill customer orders. • Manage a team of 25 people, consisting of both union and non-union members, to ensure the accurate and timely loading of outbound truckload shipments (~100 truckloads a day during peak season). • Monitored all inbound and outbound shipments for accuracy, quality, and timeliness. • Improved material storage locations to allow a decrease in truck loading times by 8 minutes YoY. • Collaborate daily with the Operations and the Production Planning teams to understand the current and future inventory requirements that are needed to store product and fulfil. customer orders. • Actively work with EHS team to improve our warehouse environment, including implementing a 5S strategy to help. • Cycle count all material between our finished goods and raw material inventory to maintain accuracy on a daily basis. • Improved Material Accuracy by 13% YoY. • Led a project to provide an 11% increase in indoor warehouse storage capacity which will save on average 70k in 3PL storage costs.

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Lead the Norwood site as the subject matter expert in planning and scheduling all necessary raw materials for our roofing and granule plants. • Proactively anticipated supply chain disruptions and provide a plan to ensure production was maintained. • Review and analyzed demand history and developed a proper plan for our strategic objectives using ERP system. • Maintain optimal material inventory levels across all 34 SKUs using ERP through the correct use of planning and inventory parameters. • Plan and verify the arrival of incoming and outgoing shipments on a daily basis along with monthly forecasting. • Participate in the periodic revision of planning and inventory parameters (safety stock, lead time, minimum and maximum order quantities). • Collaborate with peers at other CertainTeed sites, to ensure that Norwood adheres to group goals and follows established SOPs, including maintain FIFO standard. • In tandem with the procurement team, communicate with vendors about service level performance and needs of corrective action plans on raw material claims and rejections

Malvern, Pa, Us

• Manages customer shipments using the established outbound process flow in SAP that will ensure optimal location loading, efficient manpower usage and accurate inventory transactions. This process includes, but is not limited to, the below:• Creates BOL’s documents and ensures proper filing of documents.• Actively troubleshoots order Issues with SAP.• Provides order and inventory guidance to forklift operators.• Ensure max weight on outbound trucks is met.• Receives incoming finished goods and verifies accuracy using SAP system.• Manages the site’s outbound and inbound shipping appointments using SAP and Manhattan.• Collaborates with others in logistics department to continually improve customer service key measurements – On Time and In-Full (OTIF) Measurement reports.• Help to support and maintain Warehouse stock location system and code dates to ensure proper inventory turns and adherence to FIFO principles.• Participates in cycle counting tasks with the shipping supervisor including reconciliation to ensure accurate Inventory levels are maintained in SAP.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

• Daily trade compliance transactional support including incoterms, PGAs, Antidumping, Assists, Sanction Party Screening, certificates of origin, etc.)• Collaborate with customs brokers and freight forwarders to ensure timely clearance.• Evaluate broker/freight forwarder compliance via audits.• Produced Classification of Bose products with HTS code.• Process work in SAP system GTS and ECP.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Helped create an excel file to support customer needs for tracking on Ocean Import shipments.• Work on BASF account and others.• Managed all customers inbound Ocean and Air shipment with providing Customs Clearances.• Processed all PARS shipments via Customs clearances.• Making sure all freight arrives on time to each facility.• Handle all billing for all 7 accounts managed, troubleshooting as needed.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Sourced Refrigerated and Dry Van sales.• Used daily metrics and industry data to source trucks for the best price possible.• On average sourced 8 truck route sales a day.• Ensured each truck sourced could properly store material and arrive to consignee on time.• Tracked loads on the road via email or calling dispatches twice daily and uploading data into the system for updates to the customer.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Process rail billing requests.• Track container data via LoadTech system, using waybills to confirm locations on the rail.• Handle all billing to support InGate transactions to the rail yard.• Troubleshoot any shipment delays and implement change management solutions to avoid production impact/plant shutdown through continued just-in-time delivery scheduling.• Responsible for real time Track and Trace of all Chrysler and Ford container shipments via rail websites.• Update the plant through Ford CMMS or Chrysler STARS systems.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

I currently work on the Ferrari Project. I test and verify the navigation domain for all Ferrari vehicles.• Wrote test cases to help improve the process of testing and make it a more reliable source.• Tested the Ferrari radios for basic functionality.• Found issues to log and send to the developer to have them fixed for the customer.• Simulated CAN messages to use for testing certain test cases and issues. • Monitored CAN signals and messages.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Drive 250 miles a day and test the the software of 2014 Jeep vehicles. Record and log all problems into tickets that will be used to fix the identified problem on the next release of the software.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Human Resources Management And Services

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