Robert Morrison Email & Phone Number

Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Executive with more than 25 years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply risk management, software customization, project management, and team building that fosters dynamic working environments. Accomplished professional with a record of enacting process improvements that streamline productivity and maximize profit. Results-oriented leader adept at leveraging interpersonal skills to inaugurate innovative cross-functional workflows, ensuring aggressive profit generation goals.Areas of Expertise:Supplier ManagementProject ManagementStrategic SourcingInventory ControlTeam BuildingCarrier ContractsSupply Risk ManagementSoftware CustomizationBudget Creation

• Director Of Procurement & Supply Chain | Vice President Of Procurement & Supply Chain

  Lineage Logistics | Consolidated Distribution

  2000 - Apr 2021 - Lombard, Il

  • Rose progressively through the ranks as Consolidated Distribution became Lineage Logistics.• As a member of the executive team, successfully stewarded the company through massive growth and two major sales that each had a 7.5 multiple turn based on EBTIDA, ensuring that the business unit was seamlessly acquired by respected capital investment firms. • Revived a bankrupt division as a key executive, implementing best practices and turnaround strategies to secure its revolution into the largest global customized redistributor, increasing annual sales revenue.• Streamlined inventory operations, designing an original purchasing and forecasting module, sales system, and accounts payable module that reduced inventory levels and transportation costs. • Built and integrated cross-functional teams, training individuals across three facilities, establishing a work culture conducive to collaboration, and maximizing employee satisfaction and retention. • Set and achieved budgeted numbers 17 of 18 years during tenure.• Utilized data analysis to maximize profitable sales and customer acquisition through informed predictive data insights, driving consistent year-over-year (YOY) growth in revenue.• Employed successful account and relationship management strategies, optimizing client retention and designing client-specific web portals for communications and reports, securing critical accounts. • Created an original market share purchasing program, streamlining and expediting profit inflow to provide savings from forward planned purchases. • Leads a purchasing team, supervising one manager and seven buyers through the purchasing of SKUs from hundreds of vendors to accomplish inventory turns.

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  Northern Illinois University

  Operations Management