Manager Resume
SUMMARY:
Well - versed Logistics Professional who possesses strong analytical skills in supply chain management, JIT inventory, transportation, distribution, warehousing, SAP implementation, and customer service. Background in manufacturing and service related industries with experience in high level problem solving, cost reduction and containment. Ability to be analytical and present the right data to management for decisions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Manager
Responsibilities:
- Implement a new 3rd Party freight payment company and set up reports in the new system. Create reports in Access database and Excel to report on transportation functions.
Confidential
Logistics Manager
Responsibilities:
- Logistics Manager for the Milling Division. Rates negotiation for rail, truck, intermodal, LTL, and parcel.
- Develop new procedures, troubleshoot issues with truck and rail loading, warehousing, transportation, and more.
- Create reports out of SAP, RailTrac, Excel, and other software programs.
- Develop monthly KPI’s and reports that help measure cost.
- Profit and Loss reports are important to me to measure how we are doing with our transportation negotiations and dispatching of trucks.
- Brought in a product that saved on damaged loads on truckloads and boxcar shipments.
- Using my systems background to try to influence the use of a TMS and updates to the recently installed SAP ERP system.
Confidential
Sr. Business Processes Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Consult, Test, and Implement the SAP Transportation Management System. Worked one year on mapping, pricing, and creating workflows for various organization for SAP.
- Then worked one year at Owens Corning, using my logistics experience to work on the implementation of the TMS Optimization, route set up, and other Logistics functions.
Confidential
Sr. Logistics Process Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Implement SAP to the various plants, 1 business unit at a time. Implement WM/IM/LE in a highly customized system.
- Work with end users to develop new business processes, complete IDS, work with Developers, test, train, and implement.
Confidential
Manager
Responsibilities:
- Negotiated with railroads and tracked changes in rail transportation.
- The position is in Wichita, where I lived on weekdays, but commuted back to my wife in St. Louis.
Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Corporate Transportation Manager
Responsibilities:
- Negotiated transportation rates with railroads, LTL, truckload, air, and ocean carriers, for package and bulk, technical, food, and semi-grade materials.
- Notified organization of world wide transportation issues and disruption of services.
- Worked with marketing group to get rate quotes and equalized freight position with competitors’ freight costs.
- Ensured carriers sign our contract and fuel surcharge.
- Responsible for a $40M transportation budget and 500 hopper and tank car fleet.
- Developed business charts to track savings, cost of transportation and fuel, and other related transportation issues.
- Found, implemented, and tracked cost savings and avoidance for transportation. Developed training material and trained plants and 3rd party warehouses on SAP.
- Implemented a Transportation Management System (TMS) and saved $600k in the first year, this was 16% of ICL’s truckload budget.
- Team lead of upgrade team for SAP 4.6C computer system. Implemented SAP 4.6C-Logistic Execution and major contributor to WM/IM.
- Developed EDI freight payment system with Cass Information Systems and a Rail/truck tracking system with Transentric to track On-Time Delivery.
- Bid out Truckload transportation and gained a 5% savings.
Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Transportation Planner, Supply Chain Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Implementation of Inbound Program which accounted for $1M in savings through audit of freight bills, analysis of current purchasing and transportation procedures.
- Developed new processes and procedures.
Confidential, St. Louis, MO
Transportation Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Start up third party operations at Ral corp, set-up carriers, negotiated rates, tracked shipments, audited freight bills, provided customer service, and researched OS & D claims.
