Manager Supply Chain

Timothy C. Taylor

Phone: 920-***-**** ****

Isaac Lane

Email: ********@***.***

Oshkosh, WI 54902

CAREER SUMMARY

Objective driven professional with over 19 years of customer centric focus

in Supply Chain and Logistics Management disciplines. Diverse experiences

in innovative supply chain leadership, supply chain management and demand

planning. Extensive experience in rail operations & rail negotiations,

logistics management, process development and integration, operations,

procurement, change management and strategic planning.

WORK EXPERIENCE

BADGER MINING

Berlin, WI

TDL Coach

September 2012-Present

. Actively lead the Transportation Distribution and Logistics unit in

the overall business functions ensuring that goals and strategies

o Formalize strategic business plans

o Coach others to maintain accountability.

. Coaching associates to successfully maintain agreed upon goals and

responsibilities

. Conduct performance evaluations

. Provide the Advisory Team, Leaders, and Vision Teams with a vision of

emerging market opportunities and competitive positioning.

. Provides quarterly performance and strategic updates to leadership

. Build and maintain strong relationships with railroad personnel

. Report to leadership fiscally responsible growth techniques.

. Obtain and maintain industry information and activities to manage and

improve the BMC supply chain.

. Coordinate the Transportation & Plant Operations Team's operations

o Developing a supply chain system to maintain the proper amount

of leased equipment

o Work closely with BMC Fleet Manager, railroads, and leasing

equipment associates to assure adequate equipment

supply at plant facilities.

. Identifying opportunities for process analysis and areas for improvement.

. Maintain and negotiate all rail property leases and rail shipping

contracts.

. Optimize equipment utilization by:

o Working with BMC fleet manager to manage BMC rail car fleet for

maximum efficiencies and optimum turn cycles on all rail

equipment

o Work with plants, sales, & transload associates to maximize

equipment utilization

o Develop and maintain a system to manage transload demurrage

costs

. Know proper procedures for avoiding accidents in all hazardous areas

and ensuring all associates know and follow these procedures

RED PRAIRIE

Eden Prairie, MN

Operational Consultant

Jan 2012-Sept 2012

. Apply broad logistics, warehouse, food and beverage and industrial

warehousing experience in assisting customers to maximize their

operations.

. Suggest process improvements to the customer's operation using ROI-

based analysis.

. Assess the customer business needs and design and configure the

appropriate solution

. Document "as is" current state warehouse operations processes and

conduct "to be" design processes within the warehouse in

. Prepare the project solution summary and review all documentation with

the customer

. Document and provide cost benefit analysis and change impact

assessments to the customer

. Assume primary business process design responsibility for one or more

functional areas of the solution

. Identify all barriers to warehouse productivity and recommend

solutions including best practices for software use

. Identify physical facility change (layout, racking types, automation,

load control center design, etc.) and/or business process/practice

changes that will enhance and realize the ROI benefits of the system

implementation.

. Recommend and quantify the benefits of process improvements to assist

customers in achieving best practices

CARGILL, INC.

Wayzata, MN

Warehouse Leader-Cargill Transportation & Logistics

July 2007-Dec 2011

. Project leader for global warehouse consolidation projects in targeted

regions consisting of multiple business units.

. Supervised and designed project processes

. Managed project discipline through a strict procurement process and

transition to new facilities.

. Directed warehouse procurement and contract savings back to Cargill

exceeding $40 million.

. Project Leader on the Brazil Warehouse Consolidation project.

Responsible for complete oversight and management and overall function

and success of the project.

. Facilitate property/building lease negotiations on warehouse renewals,

sales and procurement of new warehouse space

. Change Management Process leader.

. Partner with the business units to document their warehousing

requirements. Provide critical business unit support during the

procurement process to ensure effective contract implementation,

service satisfaction and competitive market rates. Managed rail

infrastructure developments to ensure rail support.

. Manage all global dry ambient warehouse Strategic Supplier

relationships. Serve as the primary point of contact for all

strategic warehouse suppliers.

. Measure and Maintain all key warehouse supplier performance

measurements and serve as the procurement and claims management

liaison between the Business Units and the suppliers.

. Facilitate the warehouse peer group made up of key Cargill

stakeholders. Challenge the peer group to identify opportunities for

process standardization, best practice sharing and industry leading

performance metrics.

CARGILL, INC.

Wayzata, MN

Supply Chain Manager-Cargill Animal Nutrition

May 2006- Jul 2007

. Developed & implemented an Excel based Demand Planning tool to

forecast empty polypropylene bag demand for all 82 North American

production facilities..

. Measure and Maintain the Global Demand Planning for all inbound raw

materials to the production facilities.

. Manage all outbound finished products and ensure they are effectively

managed and economically balanced against the P&L.

. Manage all rail operations to our NA plant base (82 facilities).

. Manage all global ocean freight contract negotiations annually.

Ensure we are achieving lowest landed cost to serve and adhere

consistently with best practices.

. Manage all rail negotiations annually with all Class 1 and Shortline

railroads that service our plant network in North America.

. Collaborate with other Cargill Business Units to consolidate LTL truck

freight by combining compatible loads.

o Realized cost savings of $100,000 in the first six months of

2006.

. Responsible for the management and oversight of all Supply Chain

projects on a global scale to ensure solutions are implemented on an

enterprise level.

CARGILL, INC.

Wayzata, MN

Sr. Supply Chain Logistics Analyst

Mar 2004- May 2006

. Scheduled production of Lecithin at our toll processing facility.

Includes raw material (MRP) purchasing flows, production planning and

outbound load makeup requirements.

. Maintain and manage European Import Product processes. Includes

forecasted sales and actual sales and reviewed monthly with product

line managers.

. Manage and schedule the movement of raw ingredients to our toll

processors for final production. Manage freight costs of ingredient

stream as well as final product warehousing and delivery to the

customer. This includes all rail and truck freight negotiations and

cost analysis.

. Manage and implement all new product setup in Adage (ERP) within the

Food Ingredient Systems platform. Manage all pack codes, formula setup

and process maintenance.

. Project Champion/Leader and member of the process review team working

on the project to implement a new forecasting tool within Food

Ingredients Systems(Demantra)

. Managed rail covered hopper and tank fleets to ensure we have adequate

railcar lift without adding unrequired lease costs to the budget.

INSIGHT NETWORK LOGISTICS

Auburn Hills, MI

Manager Rail Operations

Mar 2002- Mar 2004

. Manage the Chrysler finished vehicle rail network from assembly

plant to dealer delivery.

. Identify and resolve with appropriate railroad any and all movement

delays and terminal delay issues that impact finished vehicle

delivery schedules.

. Conducted daily operational awareness meetings with the entire

Chrysler plant network to advise of any rail issues that could

affect production.

. Responsible for the empty Chrysler railcar network. Worked with the

east coast railroads to ensure accurate placement of the required

number of railcars to meet production forecast.

. Provide weekly empty railcar forecast for all Daimler Chrysler

origin plants. Forecasts provided to TTX for plan compliance.

. Responsible for placement of empty railcar volume sufficient with

plant demand and production output.

. Single point of contact for all east coast and Canadian railroads

for all vehicle movements and process improvement reviews.

. Research and Recommend network redesign to Daimler Chrysler and the

appropriate railroads where root cause analysis process dictates.

. Serve as DaimlerChrysler representative at quarterly TTX Reload

Quarterly Steering Committee meetings

FIRST STUDENT Arden

Hills, MN

Contract Manager

July 2001-Mar 2002

1. P&L responsibility for$3M budget including all school district

contracts. Develop and retain new charter and existing school

district transit business.

2. Responsible for management and full oversight of 315 drivers and 14

full time staff & fleet of 173 busses

3. Direct management of all Human Resource, Dispatch and customer

service functions

4. Managed relationships with five school districts and elected school

board and city officials.

CSX TRANSPORTATION

Jacksonville, FL

Senior Manager Automotive Operations

Jan 2000 - July 2001

5. Managed and Supervised the General Motors rail finished vehicle

network.

6. Managed a team of three rail fleet managers who oversee the Toyota,

Ford and Honda networks.

7. Represented CSX at TTX reload quarterly meetings regarding auto

rack fleet allocations to the automakers

8. Advise CSXT senior staff and customers on root cause analysis

outcomes that will help improve performance and management of the

GM customer network.

9. Maintain weekly / monthly performance matrices for all GM finished

vehicle traffic flows.

10. Prepare presentations for CSX / GM Logistics quarterly review

meetings held at GM in Detroit.

Manager Quality Control Sept

1999 - Jan 2000

. Promoted to this newly created role to ensure program changes

enacted as the Assistant Director continued to be implemented.

. Managed rail fleet networks for chemical customers, Hoechst

Celanese (Solutia), Monsanto and Dow Chemical.

Assistant Director Transportation Support

Oct 1997 - Sept 1999

. Worked directly with CSX Sales & Marketing on a targeted customer

base to enhance rail accuracy

. Setup customers for targeted rail management within the CSX Service

Coordinators to actively target rail transit problems that resulted

in these customers leaving rail service.

. Successful in CSX Sales securing an additional $3 million dollars

of additional rail service from these targeted customers.

Assistant Manager Information Quality Mar

1996 - Oct 1997

. Ensured the daily reports being sent to the customers are accurate

and reflect the most current data

Service Supervisor July 1995 -

Mar 1996

. Managed a team of Service Coordinators.

Service Coordinator

Jun 1993 - July 1995

. Monitored and managed rail fleets and single car shipments for rail

customers consisting of various commodities including aggregates,

minerals, paper, chemicals and auto parts.

EDUCATION

CARGILL HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

. Graduate HPM (High Performance Management) 2009

. Graduate TIL (Transitioning Into Leadership) 2011

JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Arts, General Business 2001

FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Associates Degree-Business 1998

UNITED STATES NAVY

Operations Specialist: 1987-1991

MINNETONKA HIGH SCHOOL

Diploma June 1987

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