Tina Fischer Email & Phone Number

Fort Mill, SC, US

United States

Leading the delivery of training, training content, communications and standards and the delivery of project tools and resources.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Matthews, NC

• Managed team of project managers in planning, design and execution of facilities and process improvement projects of ~$23M in capital and expense annually in fast-paced multi-store retail chain. Directed vendor.
• Opened ~3K new stores and redesigned opening process delivering on-time, 100% completed stores before opening to public.
• Redesigned new store opening process reducing interior build-out and opening from 14 days to 10 days.
• Developed and led multi-year initiative completing “Banner” change of 300 underperforming Family Dollar locations to Dollar Tree locations, resulting in year over year ~3% increase in sales and gross margin.
• Built budget, project plan and timeline; oversaw remodel and construction teams for Family Dollar locations’ transition ensuring on-time project completion, development and administration of cascading communications.
• Established renovation program of aged and underperforming stores remodeling over 5K stores, thus boosting comparative store sales between 7% to 20% annually.

• Vice President of Supply Chain Integration 1999 - 2008Steered Engineering and Project Management Team in completing facility projects with annual capital budget of ~$30M.
• Reduced Warehouse operating cost by $10M annually optimizing distribution network.
• Implemented centralized planning, manufacturing and transportation software system decreasing supply chain expense by $20M annually.
• Raised production capacity with installation of 2 new bottling lines and conversion of 5 existing lines.
• Installed Dasani water line in Charlotte bottling facility resulting in first US bottler to produce and sell Dasani.
• Lowered manual pallet building labor by 80% as result of designing and installing automated pallet building robotics in distribution facility.

I managed client engagements that delivered custom software development, Y2K assessments and supply chain optimization. Clients included Hewlett-Packard, Advance Auto, Thomaston Mills and ECMD Manufacturing.