Manager Supply Chain
Resume:
Michael R. Breaker *******.*******@*****.***
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Golden, CO 80401
Supply Chain Management
Value focused, problem-solver with 20+ years of leadership experience with increasing responsibility and proven results in developing business strategies, realizing cost efficiencies and obtaining profitable growth. A natural talent for creating innovative cross functional solutions, building optimal global processes and ensuring client satisfaction.
Key Proficiencies
Logistics & Supply Chain
Project Management
Six Sigma/ TQM Processes
Root Cause Analysis
Strategic Planning
Global Interactions
Inventory Management
Team Leadership
Managing Virtual Teams
Vendor & Contract Management
Multi-Cultural Business Advancement
Process & Procedure Development
Transportation Logistics
Financial Reporting
Excel & Microsoft Office
Accomplishments
Capital Expense Avoidance
Process Design, Implementation & Enhancement
Metric Creation & Standardized Reporting
Operational Cost Savings
Global Integration & Alignment
Organization Development
Professional Experience
Level 3 Communications – Broomfield, CO (2015-Present)
Senior Inventory Program Manager
Manage warehouse inventory levels, consisting of over 70K SKUs worth $200M across 3 warehouses, which includes working with Finance to develop the budgets, reporting accruals and providing forecasts for each site.
Consolidated the planning and purchasing efforts previously performed by 14 separate organizations to a single streamline warehouse material handling and financial process to more effectively utilize capital and reduce transportation costs.
In 2016, responsible for improving inventory availability to 99.4%, inventory turns to 4.05 and successfully shipping orders from the optimal (most cost effective) warehouse 82% of the time.
Contributed to saving over $230M in capital expense as well over $2M in retired asset sales by maintaining item characteristics, ensuring replenishment calculations incorporate and drive the refurbishment and use of older equipment and actioning regular cross organizational excess reviews.
Led transformational change: developed, implemented, and transitioned from multiple budget owner and tracking processes to a new cross functional, value optimized warehousing materials methodology of using a single process and a commonly shared inventory.
Advanced a framework and reporting structure, inclusive of input from engineering organizations, for determining accurate stocking levels and replenishment needs.
Guided IT on how to capture and provide accurate data which could be consolidated to design a modeling tool to provide actionable information to support shift in methodology.
Provide weekly communication on actual warehouse consumption volumes, stock balances, potential inventory gaps and forecasted monthly totals. Work with Vendors to address low inventory items and Warehouse Managers to address equipment rebalancing as needed.
TW Telecom – Littleton, CO (2009-2015)
Director, Logistics Management
Collaborated with Purchasing, Engineering, Vendors, Field Services and 3rd Party Service Providers to design, resolve problems, and refine the North American supply chain process.
Reduced operational costs by an average of 12% per year, saving $6M over 5 years.
Fulfilled over 10% of client orders by coordinating the return and reuse of equipment, saving more than $68M in new equipment purchases over 5 years.
Created metrics and reviews for managing warehouse Vendor, have maintained over 99% on-time order fulfillment and accuracy against performance SLAs.
Developed methodology and processes to maintained inventory availability at greater than 98% while increasing inventory turns by 34% for more than 1,000 active SKUs.
Coordinated serviceability readiness for new product releases.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. – Broomfield, CO (2000-2009)
Program Manager- Vertical Disk, Sun Services – Storage Technical Service Center (2009)
Department Lead- North America Operations, Sun Services – Storage Technical Service Center (2008-2009)
Senior Program Manager, Sun Services - Supply Chain (2006-2007)
Manager, Global Logistics and Distribution (2002-2006)
Manager, Mission Critical Root Cause Corrective Action Control Tower (2001-2002)
Program Manager, Mission Critical Root Cause Corrective Action Control Tower (2000-2001)
Created methodology and reporting necessary for delivering globally consistent analysis of support delivery quality across vertical teams.
Implemented operational “best practices” focused on improving customer experience.
Led simultaneous projects with multiple functions and geographies.
Streamlined processes by creating a global organization consisting of 17 senior-level, international staff.
Implemented a global 3rd Party Logistics strategy by forming single logistics partnership who managed all sub-layered responsibilities and SLAs.
Integrated three diverse teams consisting of 27 professionals to create tools and processes necessary to provide reliable quality data for executive decision making.
Designed and implemented globally aligned processes for identifying people, process and product issues that impacted case resolution and drove those corresponding corrective actions to closure.
Additional Experience
City Express, Inc., – Denver, CO
Director, Transportation Planning, Quality and Administration
Nationsway Transport Service, Inc. – Denver, CO
Manager, Operations Quality and Planning
Supervisor, Transportation Planning
National Account Analyst
Supervisor, Rating and Billing
Account Manager
Operations Manager
Education
Regis University - Denver, CO (1983 – 1987)
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
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