Supply Chain Account Manager

William D. McGowan CPIM

**** ***** ****** *****, ******** Township, MI 48382 937-***-**** – **********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gentherm Inc. Farmington Hills, MI

Sr. Global Manager Transportation and Logistics 2022 - Present

Global Transportation P&L responsibility for 17 manufacturing and distribution locations with an annual spend over $40M.

Complete responsibility, from data collection to implementation of new carriers, for the annual international ocean and air freight, parcel freight and road freight.

Coach and mentor Supply Chain Managers and Logistics warehouse personnel in best practices to improve key performance indicators for production plan adherence, on-time delivery, freight and inventory.

Optimize the total cost of ownership, resolve global transportation issues and support transportation lead time discrepancies, to fulfill customer demand.

Implement global logistics and transportation initiatives to develop standard processes and drive continuous improvement to achieve best class performance.

Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Southgate, MI

Director, Key Account Manager Automotive and New Mobility 2021-2022

Commercial and P&L responsibility for 6 key automotive accounts with an annual spend over $100M.

Actively plan and execute key account strategies by collaborating with other business units to deliver attractive pricing and service solutions based on a strategic approach to value propositions used to deliver responses to internal and external RFQs & tenders.

Proactively identifies new opportunities in order to increase the footprint of business and solutions with assigned customers, ensuring an attractive and sizeable pipeline and high closing ratio.

Conducted regularly structured review sessions in order to align and update customers with the customer strategy and priorities. Highlighting the value proposition in order to provide continuous improvement and innovation.

Connected virtual account teams in order to ensure true global customer representation. Collaborated with related Key Account Manager networks globally and exchanged best practices and sales leads.

Successfully controlled the monthly account performance by monitoring volume, profitability, pipeline, AR/AP, and ensuring immediate actions in case of deviations (i.e. timeliness / accurate reporting).

MAHLE Behr Thermal Troy, MI

Head of and Manager Transportation and Warehousing 2019-2021

Operationally responsible for all domestic and international inbound and outbound freight totaling more than $70M for 7 manufacturing facilities and 2 warehouse facilities located in the US and Mexico.

Created and monitored for adherence the freight budget plans for all manufacturing facilities and report on the KPI performance to Sr. Management

Lead the newly created Critical Supply Team which is responsible for driving problem suppliers to ship past due orders and track the progress in the supply chain network. Year of year expedited freight costs reduced by more than 50%.

Created transportation cost matrix that Sr. Management used to determine future production locations as compared to customer ship to locations.

Responsible for leading the Freight Bill Audit and Pay process driving a decrease in processing time and increase in payment processing efficiency.

MAHLE Farmington Hills, MI

Lead Buyer Commodity Manager, Freight and Logistics Services 2015-2019

Operated in centralized purchasing structure buying for more than 20 locations in Canada, Mexico and United States. Personally responsible for an annual spend of over $100 Million for Freight and Logistics Services.

Performed regular domestic freight RFQ’s as well as all RFP’s conducted for international freight.

Integral part of the selection team of new warehousing and 3PL providers ranging from freight to customs brokerage.

Analyzed past, present and future freight and logistics trends in order to build commodity buying strategies that generated an average annual save and avoidance greater than 3.5% of spend, exceeding goal by 15%.

Lead Sr. Buyers responsible for packaging, warehousing and facilities. Performed annual performance reviews while mentoring Jr. Supply Chain personal.

MAHLE Behr Thermal LLC. Dayton, OH

Sr. Logistics SAP Systems Analyst 2011-2015

Supported SAP modules for all MAHLE Behr NAFTA plants as a Multi-Location Key User with a focus on the Production Planning (PP) and Warehouse Management (WM) modules.

Design WM warehouse infrastructures for WIP, Finished Goods and 3PL warehouses.

Ensure master data and transactional data quality.

Recommend and design system and/or process optimizations that support MAHLE Behr NAFTA’s financial goals.

Behr Dayton Thermal Products Dayton, OH

Sr. Logistics Coordinator 2006-2011

Manage multiple 3PL providers responsible for Domestic and International Transportation with a $15 million budget.

Part of RFQ and RFP process and selection of new warehousing and 3PL provider resulting in a ~$1million annual savings.

Supervise 22 hourly logistics operators and 2 logistics analysts.

Responsible for shipping, receiving and inventory accuracy at multiple offsite warehouses with an accrued inventory value totaling more than $5 million.

Project lead for redesign of purchased and finished good warehouse using SAP WM.

SAP WM and Packaging key user.

Ryder Integrated Logistics Dayton, OH

Customer Logistics Manager 2003-2006

Project lead for the launch of a ~$8 million automotive account.

Successfully implementation of transportation network including expedite management.

Manage inbound carrier base and performed performance evaluations.

Achieved a 15.02% (~ $2Million) savings on assigned freight during first year of implantation and ~10% during subsequent years.

Designed and implemented container management program.

Supervised the daily activities of person responsible for container management.

Ryder Integrated Logistics Dayton, OH

Logistics Analyst 2001-2003

Responsible for the design and implementation of optimal transportation solutions for 3 automotive parts manufacturers.

Prepared ~25 truckload and ~15 milk-run bids for carrier procurement.

Maintained daily dock schedules.

Coordinated additional freight requests with assigned spot buy carriers as well as premium freight providers.

Identified and validated cost savings opportunities.

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH

Fisher College of Business 1999

Bachelors of Science Business Administration (BSBA) Transportation Logistics and Marketing

Certification

APICS-CPIM

Computer Competencies

SAP Warehouse Management Expert User

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point and Access) Expert User

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