Customer Supply Chain Manager Resume
Hamburg, PA
SUMMARY:
Results oriented professional with 20+ years of managerial experience. Highly effective leadership, communication, and employee management skills leading to improved work performance, increased productivity and reduced costs.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
- Customer Service Operations Management Production Scheduling
- Inventory Control Employee Training & Education Confidential
- Advanced Computer skills Systems & Procedures Development P&L Oversight
- Purchasing Supply Chain Management Logistics
EXPERIENCE:
Customer Supply Chain Manager
Confidential, Hamburg, PA
Responsibilities:
- Direct and coordinate the supply chain activities by developing and reinforcing a customer - centric focus to exceed customers’ expectations.
- Prepares a daily production schedule based on current inventories, and projected sales.
- Manage the finished product, packaging and work in progress inventories. Set up critical control points for packaging materials, decreasing the amount of inventory on hand.
- Communicate directly with customers to confirm and coordinate orders and shipments.
- Establish procedures for the warehouse staff to accurately ship and receive finished products and packaging materials.
- Decreased department size through increased efficiencies by decreasing inventory discrepancies.
- Decreased the overall cost per pound by renegotiating freight rates with carriers.
General Manager
Confidential, Pottstown, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managed the operational and fiscal activities of an 85,000 square foot warehouse with a staff of 40 employees including managers, supervisors, clerks, warehousemen and drivers.
- Improved Confidential and efficiencies by developing new systems, restructuring physical layout, and implementing standard procedures.
Operations Manager
Confidential, Reading, PA
Responsibilities:
- Directed a team of supervisors, customer service, inventory control, accounting and union plant employees in a 3-shift, 365 day-per-year operation manufacturing fluid and dried dairy products.
- Captured a 40% market share by developing and launching a new product line.
Manufacturing & Customer Service Manager
Confidential, Reading, PA
Responsibilities:
- Implemented Key Performance Indicators ( Confidential ’s) and developed a strategic planning process for a two-plant system to measure management’s control of costs and increase profits.
- Liaison between customers, manufacturing, sales, QA and 3rd party logistics providers.
Operations Logistics Manager
Confidential, Reading, PA
Responsibilities:
- Decreased annual transportation and warehousing costs by over 23% by contracting with 3rd party warehousing and transportation companies.
- Negotiated raw material and packaging supply contracts, providing plants with fixed costs when establishing their strategic plans.
Milk/Production Coordinator
Confidential, Reading, PA
Responsibilities:
- Reduced packaging material storage costs by 40% by initiating a Just-In-Time delivery program after implementing an improved production planning program.
- Decreased delay time and charges by 32% by developing a scheduling system for annual fluid receipts of over 850 million pounds and shipments of over 144 million pounds.
Director of Materials & Distribution
Confidential, Wyomissing, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managed a diverse cross-functional team of 150+ employees in the warehousing, transportation, planning, and supply chain functional areas.
- Reduced inbound material costs by 15% by utilizing our own over the road drivers on back hauls.
- Implemented driver education courses and installed “shock switches” on all forklifts resulting in 65% reduction of damage caused by forklifts.
- Consolidated materials and recycled unused and outdated packaging inventories eliminating one warehouse.
Inventory Manager
Confidential, Reading, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managed the receipt, storage and shipment of all ingredients, work-in-process, and finished goods to and from the manufacturing areas.
- Created a strong team environment through the development, training, and motivation of employees in a pay-for-skills program which achieved increased productivity.
- Established a daily in-process inventory which led to decreased waste of ingredients and work-in-process materials.
- Successfully negotiated with ingredient suppliers to increase the number of deliveries per week, eliminating issues with limited storage space.
