Stephen Hughey Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for multi million dollar inventory

Houston, Texas, United States

• Oversee all operations of the Houston Warehouse • Maintain safe and functional warehouse supporting Houston and Dallas import/export• Responsible for millions of dollars worth of cargo each month• Support the operations teams in the safe transport of cargo to and from destination• Handle all billing for the Houston Warehouse to ensure timely invoicing to and payment from customers• Responsible for all communications from the warehouse team • Monthly safety reports to our corporate office• Ensure that all requirements are followed for exported and imported cargo• Support branch manager in all efforts to ensure all protocols are followed• Manage the P&L reports for the warehouse in Houston• Manage labor hours against workload to ensure no waste in warehouse • Oversee all building and forklift maintenance monthly

Houston, Texas, United States

• Oversee all operations of the Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio Branches• Manage employees and branch managers throughout Texas• Handle day to day operations as well as ensure all customers’ merchandise is delivered efficiently and correctly• Responsible for all monies that change hands upon delivery or before delivery• Help building solar jobs for customers• Responsible for over $10mm in inventory from small parts to solar panels

Houston, Tx, United States

• Oversee all operations of the Houston and Dallas DC’s• Implemented cycle counting and physical inventory counts• Analyze the business to determine the production output daily• Handle all customer balances with the accounting department• Coordinate imported goods from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia• Responsible for a fleet consisting of 1 tractor trailer, 5 26-foot straight trucks, and 2 16-foot box vans• 5 direct report employees and 25 indirect report employees• Oversee inventory movement between 2 main warehouses and a temporary warehouse• Reduced inventory errors overall from 75.6% accuracy to 98.5% accuracy within 2 months• Rewrote job descriptions for accounting team, office management, warehouse managers, operations manager, warehouse associates, and production team

Houston, Texas, United States

• Analyzed inventory and purchased products for 80+ DCs nationwide.• Conducted 90-day projection analysis to influence purchasing, including from imported vendors.• Allocated companywide inventory costs ($250M throughout 92 DCs).• Coordinated imported goods from China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.• Reduced inventory/purchasing spending by $25M within 1 year by implementing a central purchasing team.• Created job descriptions for entire central purchasing team, including purchaser and analyst.

Spring, Tx, United States

• Oversaw purchasing and receiving departments (20 employees) in DCs throughout Houston.• Maintained 35 vendor partnerships via phone, email, and in-person meetings.• Managed receiving department projects, including rearranging warehouse layout, training new employees in proper receiving and merchandise storing techniques.• Implemented ScanWorkx into the MS Dynamics AX system for the first time, troubleshooting issues and reporting necessary changes.• Communicated warehouse procedures and updates to other managers and departments, including new scanning and inventory-moving processes. • Decreased receiving department shrink by 95% within 6 months; identified DC issues and implemented new schedule and auditing systems that eliminated errors. • Developed and implemented Excel spreadsheet to identify and communicate locations of each item to 250 DC staff (including management), increasing efficiency.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Led sales and warehouse operations throughout Memphis market (22 stores and 1 DC).• Collaborated with district managers, operations managers, and sales team to streamline sales, warehouse operations, delivery quality/changes, operational changes, and inventory budget allocation.• Trained and supervised 6 warehouse crew and 3 assistant managers.• Implemented process improvements to control shrink, eliminate overhead of delivery contractor, and more efficiently transferring product throughout warehouse. Earned DC of the Year in 2008 and 2009.• Assisted with transition to new ERP systems in Phoenix, Nashville, and Memphis.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Assisted operations manager with employee/delivery crew management, inventory, inbound/outbound and product management.• Managed deliveries and inter-store transfers between how many locations 14 locations and 1 DC.• Oversaw daily unloading of inbound trucks.