Supply Chain Warehouse Operations
Resume:
BENNY PEREZ
NEWARK, NJ ***** United States 201-***-**** ******@*****.***
SUMMARY AND PROFILE
Highly successful and results-oriented supply chain professional equipped with a rich mixture of warehouse operations with over 15 years of experience in warehouse and transportation management, systems administration, and cost reduction in competitive markets. Proficient in training new hires, negotiating with vendors, and advancing automated systems to deliver optimal shipping and receiving services. Utilizes skills in budgeting, forecasting, logistics, workload planning, inventory, and streamlining to retain top-quality storage and maintenance standards Seeking to use talents in warehouse operations management, maintenance, IT assistance, supplies purchasing, supplier negotiating, and employee engagement at new employment opportunity. Building peak-performing teams to enhance key stakeholder relationships and ensure continuous improvement.
Display ability to direct operational priorities to exceed expectations and maximize production outputs. Demonstrates strong work ethic and unsurpassed commitment in accomplishing responsibilities within strict deadlines and pressure-driven environments to ensure completion of deliverables
Areas of Expertise
Logistics Supply Chain Management Budgeting & Forecasting Operations Management Union Negotiations Project Management Cross Functional Leadership Management Training & Development Business Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tilley Distributions, Norwood, NJ, United States
Director Operations
2023 – 2024
Manage all operation segments of both stations to include: International and Domestic Transportation Services and Trade Compliance.
Warehousing/Fulfillment, and Local Cartage. In addition to Production and overall Warehouse Operations.
Identify areas of opportunity for efficiency and improvements.
Manage and implement environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) programs, including hazard identification evaluation and control, accident/injury prevention, hazardous materials/waste management, emergency preparedness, ergonomics, and industrial hygiene.
Track Key Performance Indicators for safety incidents (near-miss, recordable incidents, lost time incidents), evaluate trends, conditions, and opportunities, and initiate process improvements for the plan.
Lead member of the Global Safety Committee, ensuring the committee functions effectively while supporting the company goals.
Assist in establishing Universal’s vision, goals, objectives, and targets for performance, while developing quality metrics to drive performance improvement.
Monitor compliance with safety programs and conduct safety observations and program assessments.
Keep abreast of current and proposed EHS regulations - both U.S. (OSHA/EPA) and international.
Coach and mentor plant leadership/supervisors in identifying hazards and the proper interaction with employees to discuss safety behavior.
Work with site/regional Operations/EHS to ensure monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual reports are submitted to Regulatory Agencies, or the corporate office as required.
Effectively lead the managers of the Operations, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Customer Service teams.
Led the integration of processes, cultures, and ERP systems.
Team member of implementing a new SIOP process for multiple newly acquired companies, expanded the value-added operations capabilities to enable growth during the same period when most companies were seeing a decline due to market conditions.
By correctly turning the inventory and providing less than a 24-hour lean order processing, we experienced over 140% growth for the past 2 years from our sales of chemicals and ingredients which uses a proprietary search engine and marketing tool to proactively drive product awareness.
Developed strategic agreements and relationships with domestic, Asia Pacific, EMEA, and South American raw material suppliers to lock in long-term customer opportunities by providing value-added service and consistent quality and delivery.
High performing operations management leader with experience in Production, Logistics, Warehousing, Sales, and Sales Management. Adept at preparing and administering multi-million-dollar budgets.
Ability to develop and implement policies, procedures, and business strategies.
Proven ability to manage multiple teams and locations while maintaining a high standard of performance and the continuous pursuit of improvement.
Held P&L responsibility; budgeting, purchasing, inventory, and quality control.
Interpreted, negotiated, and implemented contracts for services to be performed.
Established operating and monitored workflow procedures.
Communicated effectively, developed, and maintained relationships with customer service, field sales, finance, logistics, and operations to ensure that service levels were aligned with sales and business strategies.
Hired, supervised, trained, scheduled work, monitored, and evaluated personnel performance, motivated subordinates to peak performance.
KSI Auto Parts, South Plainfield, NJ, United States
Distribution/Operations Manager
2022 – 2023
Oversee operations in multiple departments with more than 100 production staff members.
Plan, direct, coordinate, and assigned manpower to efficiently meet production requirements.
Contributed to a monthly increase in productivity through improvements in operations, quality, safety, and administration.
Led continuous improvement projects with measurable goals.
Assessed and trained personnel for promotion to cross-functional operations.
Mastered the intricacies of the process flow within each department.
Trained and developed employees to develop a high-performance goal.
Led the implementation of Reverse Logistics, responsible for requirement analysis, training, and issue resolution.
Diligently maintained safety and quality standards.
Organized and prioritized maintenance projects to keep facilities safe, efficient, and clean.
Ashley Furniture, Edison, NJ, United States
Operations Manager
2021 – 2022
Oversee day-to-day operation, including managing of managers, supervisors, budgets, order fulfillment, final inspection, warehouse maintenance and receiving.
Increased production by a minimum of 25% in order fulfillment while maintaining a .08% error rate.
Reduced workforce in receiving area by two people: improving operational productivity by 16%.
Increased production of final inspection by 9% while maintaining an error rate of 1 error for every 2,200 orders shipped.
Demonstrated operational excellence with a 21% improvement of account implementation by documenting the process and creating and managing implementation checklist.
Reduced errors by 18% by identifying, documenting, and implementing new SOPs.
Led the implementation of Reverse Logistics, responsible for requirement analysis, training, and issue resolution.
Initiated project to create and document KPI's for executive team and producing savings of $38K per quarter by eliminating unnecessary overtime and carrying costs.
Refrig-It, Kearny, NJ, United States
Operations Manager
2021 – 2021
Oversee the operations of a 3PL cold storage distribution company that has 3 facilities, approx. 400K sq. ft.
Manage a staff of 100+ employees, consisting of 3 Warehouse Managers, 1 Customer Service Managers and their teams.
Maintain partnerships & relationships with a customer base of 300+ customers.
Negotiate with temp agencies, vendors, contractors and service providers to get competitive rates, working within company budgets.
GDP Certifications with an accredited 3rd party auditor, SAI Global, passing with 97.7% Super & 96.68% Excellent Statuses and annual Organic Certifications with an accredited 3rd party auditor, Natural Food Certifiers.
Work with 3rd party inspectors, USDA, FDA & Foreign Trade.
Utilization of 2 WMS Systems, maintaining inventory accuracies of 99%, monitoring capacity levels and tracking productivity.
Establish KPI’s to increase efficiencies and set company standards.
Continuous improvement and succession planning, SOP implementation.
Responsible for the maintenance of the company’s facilities, Food Safety Plan, Emergency Action Plan, HACCP Plan and Pre & Post COVID-19 Planning as outlines by the CDC guidelines.
Performance Team, Carteret, NJ, United States
Operations Manager
2020 – 2020
High performing operations management leader with experience in Production, Logistics, Warehousing, Sales, and Sales Management. Adept at preparing and administering multi-million-dollar budgets.
Ability to develop and implement policies, procedures, and business strategies.
Proven ability to manage multiple teams and locations while maintaining a high standard of performance and the continuous pursuit of improvement.
Held P&L responsibility; budgeting, purchasing, inventory, and quality control.
Interpreted, negotiated, and implemented contracts for services to be performed.
Established operating and monitored workflow procedures.
Communicated effectively, developed, and maintained relationships with customer service, field sales, finance, logistics, and operations to ensure that service levels were aligned with sales and business strategies.
Hired, supervised, trained, scheduled work, monitored, and evaluated personnel performance, motivated subordinates to peak performance.
Dependable Food Corp, Edison, NJ, United States
Director, Distribution and Operations
2017 – 2020
Improving the day-to-day operational performance against a baseline of metrics.
Implementing a supply chain network optimization plan - to improve the cost effectiveness, efficiency and performance of the distribution network.
Lead the executive team in developing and executing to our corporate strategy.
Responsible for recommending and implementing strategy and executing continuous improvement across the supply chain organization.
Responsible for developing KPI's and key supply chain metrics and scoreboards.
I was responsible for the day-to-day warehousing and distribution strategies. Effective use of labor and technology through the organization.
Total responsibilities included all areas of the Value Chain including Customer Service, Inventory Planning and Forecasting, Transportation, Distribution and Employee Health & Safety.
Lawson Products Inc., Fairfield, NJ, United States
Operations Supervisor
2005 – 2017
Responsible for managing a warehouse distribution facility on functions including receiving, material handling, order filling, shipping, slot profiling and cycle counting. Focus has been on building a collaborative, proficient team, well trained to function in a continually changing and improving environment.
Responsibilities include:
Budgetary accountability - staying within or under budget on labor, supplies, & repair and maintenance expenses.
Safety training and maintaining an incident free workplace.
Planning, organizing and directing the workflow including staffing according to sales volume.
Setting and maintaining high productivity and accuracy standards and maintaining plant rules.
Achieving or exceeding a set of yearly productivity metrics.
Continual improvement - providing efficiencies through process enhancements. Training, counseling and appraising team members.
Development of lead workers to monitor daily workflow and assist all employees and management in accomplishing daily performance goals.
Building relationships with company sales representatives and solving for their customer shipping needs.
Working with freight carrier representatives to provide the best service to account base.
EDUCATION AND OTHERS
University of Phoenix, Jersey City, NJ2020-2022
Master’s in business administration, Management
University of Phoenix, Jersey City, NJ2018-2020
BS in Business Administration, Management and Operations
University of Phoenix, Jersey City, NJ 2016-2017
AA in Business Administration, Management and Operations
Additional Information
Skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook) SAP-WM ADSI Strong communication skills Scheduling Team Orientated 5S methodology Exceptional problem solver Inventory Control knowledge Chemical processing expertise Continuous improvement Skilled Multi-tasker
Certifications: Hazmat Forklift Trainer CPR/AED/First Aid Six Sigma (Green Belt) Lean Inventory Management Logistics Management
Languages: English Basic oral proficiency in Spanish
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE & CAUSES
Causes I care about:
Children
Education
Health
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Organizations I support:
The Valerie Fund
Friends of Karen
Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Disaster Response Dialogue
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