Tim Williams Email & Phone Number

Tadley, Gb

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Having previously overseen Logistics and Distribution, I was asked to continue in my current role and oversee our L&D org again.• Having recently changed 3PL suppliers, I outlined our contract and SOW. Given our new 3PL has extremely mature WMS and SaaS offering we’ve partnered to automate most of our processes which include; buyer and vendor non-conformance alerts, ASN’s for both inbound and outbound including internal and external clients, consumable rotation flags, carrier API’s, automated commercial invoicing and SLI’s with basic data gaps highlighted before our paperwork enters customs, cycle counting…• Implementation of customs bonds, ACH, CARM to support tax and duty payments and audit enhancements. Also focused on simplified imports within EU geographies to reduce entry fees.• Onboarded additional carriers both US domestic and international forwarding to drive competition and savings ~$300k pa.• Rereviewed our parcel contracts to drive ~$100k savings pa.• Enhanced our reporting to improve audit capabilities.• Removed third party consulting transactions and brought in-house to save money and improve controls, namely European Intrastat.• Implemented Restricted Party Screening to safeguard our business from penalties and potential loss of export privileges.• Rebalance ~$5M (40% of E&O) within our services network to improve fill-rate and deliver purchase avoidance .• Enablement role - Project managed a series of D365 enhancements including Purchase Order approval workflow, picking list sheet modifications, Purchase Order output modification including adding item revision levels, Planning Optimization, In-transit report management to improve in-transit inventory management, RMA implementation, Production reservations and various API adaptations for third parties.

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Having demonstrated an ability as all-round problem solver with a keen eye for analytics, our holding company PE promoted me to enable our supply chain.• Supported the acquisition and integration of Fluence Automation into our business. Project Managed our supply chain integration by developing a detailed plan with owners and driving such through to implementation. - I led the analytics, data transition, training, inventory movement and go-live wareroom to ensure success.• Created a new entity/company within MS D365 to separate our offshore 3PL activities. This was a key activity to support tax and financial audit. The activity entailed project managing the entire entity structure, data, and operational transition.• Reviewed our service parts back-order issue and delivered a comprehensive action plan to improve our ability to meet our clients fill-rate demands. This led to our organisation investing in demand planning and restructuring our buyer planner organisation. We reduced our backlog by 50% in six months!• Developed a series of reports to improve our operational performance, specifically; Global fill-rate, Inventory tracking and E&O, Inventory reservations, back-order actions and planning dashboards including can-build to support E&O reduction.• Hired a manager of business analytics to help develop and drive KPI’s into our supply chain. This individual developed a set of key supplier and purchasing measures as well as developing our planning models driving additional efficiencies. This individual through my mentorship went on to become our Associate Director of Planning!• Redesigned our standard costing policy and procedure and built a model to manage standard costing within our global business. The model can forecast CPI and highlight financial risk which has significantly helped our sales costing and procurement organisation with pricing and negotiations, respectively.

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for building a mature Logistics network.• Improved both 3PL WMS integrations most noticeably by implementing order reservations, file auditing to mitigate duplications within the interface and automated cycle-counting reporting to highlight inaccuracies between our systems.• Setup domestic and international consolidation rules and interface batch job timing to reduce outbound freight.• Implemented Non-conformance processes.• Implemented reverse logistics processes.• Working alongside quality, we implemented inbound quality inspections and tightened up outbound quality.• Transitioned our parcel freight provider in Europe to save ~20% pa.• Started a picture and weight/dim (class) catalogue with our 3PL’s with a view to supporting inbound inspections and automated weight-based charges for part sales moving forward.• Hired a trade compliance manager and drove improvements within our auditing, customs management, and business knowledge. This also enabled us to make strategic sales with FTA’s and deliver into geographies we had previously struggled to do so.• Developed KPI’s and QBR structures for all core Logistical suppliers.

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Acquired by Platinum Equity. Formally a division of Piney Bowes. Primarily responsible for positioning our supply chain for success.• Supported our business transformation VP set our Supply Chain organisation up for success, which included hiring a number of core individuals, restructuring departments for success and delivering RACI/SOP’s…• Data transformation lead, oversaw the extraction and standardization of data (BOM's, Items, Purchase/Sales transactions, trade agreements, planning setup, vendors, customers, Inventory...) from our previous ERP (SAP), into our new ERP (MS D365)• Reviewed code and parameter setup with our consultancy firm to ensure a successful ERP go-live (We achieved this transition within 6 months across 15 Geographies)• Trained global supply chain employees within MS D365• Onboarded a new 3PL in the US, managed the WMS implementation and transition of goods.• Transitioned our current European 3PL from PB to Bluecrest and managed the WMS/ERP integrations.• Onboard new parcel freight carriers within the US and European networks.• Implemented a trade compliance network.• Oversaw our global buyer planners service coordinators and data management.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Having successfully driven process improvement and efficiencies within our European org, I was promoted to Global Operations Manager to help drive improvements largely within our North American operation. Within this role I delivered the following:• Restructured the organisation and job roles to drive global efficiencies across a team of 22 people.• Led Salesforce/Service Max and SAP implementation into the US organization.• Implemented inventory management, forecasting, freight optimization and a KPI suite to drive efficiencies and cost savings.• Synergised process globally, most noticeably technician ordering processes ensuring the use of our repaired cores which led to an average annual COGS savings of $0.5M

Stamford, Ct, Us

Remanufacturing-production, inventory management, analytics, project management, service support, process management, supply chain SME SAP, Siebel, Servigistics, Service Max.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Responsible for analysing network performance, supporting customer escalations and marketing.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked within a team of technicians rolling-out 360networks' pan-european own-fibre network with Cisco based MPLS and IP hardware.

Ccna, Cisco Networking And Microsoft Applications

Computer Assembly And Repair

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