Manager Sales

Jamie Laforest

Blackstone MA ***** (***)*** - ***2

www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-laforest-a8a07013 **************@*****.***

Proficient and results-driven logistics, and inventory professional offering extensive experience in transportation and strategies to increase efficiency and lower costs. Specialize in evaluating client needs and managing multi-million dollar projects. Seeking to secure a challenging and rewarding position where prior experience, personal ability, and a commitment to professionalism produce results which generate increased capital for the company.

Technical Skills

Inventory Management

Enterprise Resource Planning

Logistics

Shipping & Receiving

LTL, TL, 3PL Pricing

Booking & Auditing

OS&D

Inventory Control

UPS Worldship

JD Edwards

Material Requirement Planning

Project Management

Professional Experience

LSI Industries, Woonsocket, RI Apr. 1999 – Mar. 2017

Shipping Operations Manager

•Managed the daily inbound and outbound transportaion for a fortune 1000 company.

•Negotiated freight tariffs with LTL and TL companies.

•Built relationships with freight forwarders and various air carriers.

•Implemented processes to increase efficiency with UPS Worldship often handling over 300 packages per day.

•Oversaw DDR and OS&D and worked with procurement to document and correct any issues.

•Selected carriers based on service and cost

•Maintained security, safety and quality control standards

•Created packing slips, bills of lading and customs documents.

Accomplishments:

•Decreased company spending by 325k by consolidating to a smaller carrier pool and negotiating accessorial fees.

•Increased efficiency in UPS Worldship by over 75% by eliminating hand entry and using excel to import bulk addresses.

LSI Industries, Woonsocket, RI Apr. 2007 – Feb. 2017

Inventory Control Manager

•Responsible for compiling and maintaining records of quantity, type, and value of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies stocked in establishment.

•Counted all materials, equipment, merchandise, or supplies in stock and posted totals to inventory records, manually or via computer.

•Compared inventories to office records and computed figures from records, such as sales orders, production records, or purchase invoices to obtain current inventory.

•Verified clerical computations against physical count of stock and adjusted errors in computation or count and investigated and reported reasons for discrepancies.

•Compiled information on receipt or disbursement of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies, and computed inventory balance, price, and cost.

•Responsible for preparing reports, such as inventory balance, price lists, and shortages.

•Prepared list of depleted items and recommended survey of defective or unusable items.

LSI Industries, Woonsocket, RI June 2006 – Apr. 2014

Production Manager

•Supervised up to 75 employees in the Assembly dept., Fabrication Dept., Paint Dept., Shipping dept., Receiving dept., and Warehouse at our 811 facility

•Held supervisors and employees accountable for their actions and enforced company procedures and policies.

•Developed floor plans and created processes to be more efficient and create KPI Charts.

•Trained shipping and receiving clerks on how to handle BOL’s, BOM’s and RGA paper work.

•Reorganized receiving area for better flow and rewrote SOP’s for better structure.

•Created new floor plans for Kaizen events.

•Consolidated operations from building 811 to building 601 in a smooth manner as not to interrupt customer expectations.

•Processed and released work orders for production

•Analyzed data from various sources to prepare daily/weekly reports

•Performed daily inventory inquiry of raw materials and finished goods to ensure on-time shipping

•Maintained production calendar based on multiple daily reports

•Coordinated all sales order changes with sales, production, and shipping department

LSI Industries, Woonsocket, RI Apr. 1999 – Mar. 2017

Graphic Installer

•Responsible for remodeling installations of signs and graphics to retail store chains on the East Coast.

•Performed installation at the corporate headquarters of CVS, Stop & Shop and Whole Foods.

•Built and manufactured signs/prototypes with extensive knowledge on vinyl graphic installation techniques and sign building.

•Worked with large format digital printers and laminators as well as CNC routers.

•Built crates to prevent damage to shipped signs

Education & Certifications

Diploma-Woonsocket High School, 1994

Forklift Certified and Certified Forklift trainer (Apr.1999-Present)

Key Skills

Truckload Shipping

Microsoft Office Suite

Forklift Training

Data Analysis

Purchasing

Gerber Composer

Freight Auditing

Adobe Illustrator

CNC Operation

Bill of Material Creation

Computer Graphics

Physical Inventory

Forklift Operation

CNC Manufacturing

Enroute

Variance Analysis

Cycle Counting

Process Management

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