Vice President of Logistics Resume Example

•Coached 80 delivery agents and 6 dispatchers in the Fuel and Lubricants divisions.

•Consolidated the warehouse operations from 8 facilities to only 4 facilities over the course of three years while increasing service levels in those same geographies.

•Negotiated new contracts with common carriers for full truckload dry and bulk inbound finished goods and less than truckload dedicated fixed rates.

•Designed new lubricant tanker delivery assets to allow for drop and hook operations in three markets providing daily delivery service without additional inventory or facilities.

•Streamlined the company's electronic tank monitoring program from three suppliers to one leveraging new software technology to automate sales order creation and VMI program.

•Conducted extensive RPF and implemented a new Demand Planning and Forecasting Software which resulted in a 20% reduction in inventory levels, inventory turns increased 38% and Line Item Fill Rate increased from 86% to 94.5%. New Software allowed for optimized network supply chain.

•Managed Raw Materials procurement and warehousing, production scheduling, as well as finished goods warehousing and distribution for Haagen Dazs production facility in Tulare, CA.

•Co-Leader of national strategic transportation leadership team for finished goods of Dreyers/Edys Grand Ice Cream, Nestle and Haagan Dazs brands.

•Restructured and designed dedicated transportation network for outbound shipments of finished goods to California Distribution Centers and backhauls of production materials and raw ingredients throughout west coast.

•Member of national WMS redesign and implementation team for all 20 finished goods distribution centers.

•Implemented WMS upgrades in ingredients and finished goods warehouses.

•Implemented Nestle Process Improvement Team recommendations to achieve optimum flavor run sizes for most cost effective production scheduling.

•Member of the corporate Supply Chain Team focused on new product initial inventory strategies, production capacity models for annual budgeting and national transportation strategies.

•Managed transportation relationships with regional dedicated carriers and national common carriers to support

distribution network of Northern California, Pacific Northwest and Alaska for John Thompson Operations Center.

•Managed procurement team for all non-manufactured partner brands that were distributed from that warehouse resulting in best ever partner brand order fill rates of 99.2% in 2004.

•Was the pilot facility for the companies new Transportation Management System and then was part of the two person team that implemented the system at all five Regional Distribution Centers across the company over a 6 month period.

•Was a member of the strategic team that orchestrated the transition of plant closure of the only company Unionized facility to the new non-union distribution center for Northern California sales region.

•Managed frozen warehouse operations of three shift, six day per week Teamster Unionized operation including receiving finished goods from production floor, palletizing, put away into the warehouse, picking and loading of local route deliveries and truckload shipments to smaller regional warehouses. Staff was 75 teamster union warehouse workers and 2 office support staff. JTOC was the oldest and second largest production facility in the company at the time.

•Managed start up and then daily operation of 200,000 square foot distribution center as a Third Party Provider for The Scott's Company responsible for US and International distribution of fertilizer spreaders.

•Operation included staging area at manufacturing site in Carlsbad, CA, transportation by company owned assets of finished goods to Distribution