I am a supply chain professional with a talent for improving processes and designing solutions that have netted over $13 M in savings and double digit increases in customer service metrics during my career. I have accomplished this by educating myself with an MBA and using my diverse and progressive supply chain experience to define the expectations of both internal and external customers and by thoroughly understanding how expectations interact with the entire supply chain and coupled with my ability to communicate with every level of the company – listening is the key– allows me to consistently meet and exceed business goals and objectives. Due to the aforementioned, I naturally gravitate to leadership roles and have always been considered the “go to” person due to my performance under pressure as I have the uncanny gift to maintain a view of the larger picture and don’t react in short term misguided judgments. Playing sports through high school and college, taught me the exceptional value in building and accepting roles on teams that I’ve utilized to create solid, highly functioning units resulting in the companies I’ve worked for becoming market leaders. warehouse management

Specialties

Automotive, budgeting, contract negotiations, customer relations, demand planning, demand replenishment, inventory management, inventory turns, ISO9002, leadership, LEAN, logistics, materials management, meeting facilitation, networking, outsourcing, production planning, continuous process improvement, purchasing, retail, sales, sales and opererations planning (S&OP), scheduling, six sigma, strategic planning, supply chain design, operations, and solutions, warehouse management.

Owner

Supply Chain Solutions, LLC

Management Consulting industry

February 2010 – Present (7 months)

In today's challenging economic times, every business is looking for ways to reduce operating expenditures and there is no better way to discover these cost reduction opportunities than hiring a supply chain expert to review your business operations. Supply Chain Solutions, LLC was formed to provide small to medium sized businesses the chance to receive expert supply chain analysis for very affordable prices.

►Measurable Management Facilitator.
►Distribution Optimization.
►Warehousing Operations/Cross Docking.
►Business Integration Modeling (S&OP).
►Process Improvement.

Manager- S & OP

COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL

• Public Company; CMP; Mining & Metals industry

• August 2007 – August 2009 (2 years 1 month)

• Manager - Sales, Operations, and Inventory Planning

• Directed a staff of 12 (5 direct) and led operations and strategic supply planning for 11 plants, 6 outsourced plants and 27 North American warehouses.

►Controlled direct ($14M) and indirect ($8M) of $70 million supply chain spend.
►Managed five-step process that was utilized to gain business alignment, create collaboration, identify risks and opportunities, and highlight critical decisions and recommendations across all functional areas.
►Led the implementation of MRP and distribution optimization projects that resulted in numerous operational excellence achievements and saved over $5 million dollars.
►Strategically redesigned distribution network including trucking and warehouses which resulted in reducing logistics cost by $5 million dollars.
►Negotiated over 50 contracts during time at Compass including several that were over $5 million/year with third-party production facilities. Based negotiation style on a “win-win” philosophy and building mutually beneficial relationships.
►Participated in Business Process Improvement SIPOC (Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers) and Fishbone business mapping activities to streamline processes. Co-chaired a process improvement initiative to condense the flow of ordering packaging that eliminated several steps and cut lead-time by seven days.