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Vice President Global Operations/Supply Chain

Location:
Bella Vista, AR, 72714
Posted:
November 15, 2021

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Brian

Goodpasture

***** ****** **. ***** *****, AR

918-***-****

************@*****.***

Brian-goodpasture-290a7411

Entrepreneurial leader with demonstrated experience in creating and implementing supply chain strategy, exceeding financial performance targets, enabling collaborative cross functional focus on corporate objectives, and effective recruiting and talent development to build high performing teams.

Skills

International Supply Chain

Forecasting/Demand Planning

Negotiation

Innovative Problem Solving

Inventory Control

Food/Cold Chain

Profit & Loss

Financial Modeling

Cross Functional Execution

Import/Export

3PL/Transportation

Order Management

Strategy/Planning

Purchasing

People Development

eCommerce

Reverse Logistics

Expense Reduction

Experience

2019 – PRESENT

VP Global Operations / Pacific World Corp, Irvine, Ca / Bentonville, AR

Lead/manage supply chain operations located in China, Canada, Mexico, England, Czech, and US (~400 employees)

P&L performance/budgeting with 10% annual reduction in spend

Re-imagine operational infrastructure with implementation beginning summer 2020

Regular interaction with ownership/board of directors

Drive strategies to reduce overall inventory by 75% while improving availability to 95%

Supplier relationships and sourcing initiatives to reduce annual COGs by $1 million

Cross functional partnerships with sales, marketing, finance to eliminate under-performing SKUs (50% reduction)

2017-2019

VP Logistics Services / Pacific World Corp, Irvine, CA / Bentonville, AR

Created a 3PL organization from the ground up to include IT, P&L, financial modeling, pricing, sales, web, order management

$10 million gross sales at the end of 2018

2014-2017

Sr. Director, Supply Chain Services / Walmart, Bentonville, AR

Led a team of 20-25 managers (including MLM’s) and 10-15 hourly associates across multiple campuses

Partnered cross functionally with Merchandising, Replenishment, Transportation, and Distribution to optimize product flow

oCreated metrics to drive acceptable behavior from suppliers, replenishment, transport, distribution, and merchants

oProvided cross-functional visibility to enable unified objectives

Responsible for annual financial value of $200M+ thru key initiatives which include:

oChannel Decision – Great Value water move to grocery network valued at $30M

oBreakpack Capacity Growth – Third level implementation with $25M capex to reduce $100M inventory

oDC Pooling – 500+ shippoint conversions to reduce variability, inventory, and transport expense of $8M annually

oShippoint Optimization – drive supplier shipping alignments and demand planning mitigating $10M annually

Redefined distribution center practices related to appointment availability and inbound load priority

2012-2014

Sr. Strategy Mgr II, Inbound Transportation / Walmart, Bentonville, AR

Led a team of 7 managers creating and implementing transportation strategy

Drove cross functional alignment between Replenishment and Transportation to improve variability and reduce expenses

oAnnual savings exceeded $80M; 4x prior leaders performance

Elevated team performance by focusing on P&L/financial metrics (cost per case, cases per trailer, miles driven)

oCreated and led execution of Routing Project ($50-$80M in annualized savings)

Provided reliability through management of “collect” transit times and correlating replenishment lead times

Improved private fleet reliability by leveraging replenishment knowledge to level the order pattern by day

Implementation of mass tendering alternative to single carrier tendering for collect loads

2011-2012

Sr. Strategy Mgr, Inbound Transportaiton / Walmart, Bentonville, AR

Direct supervision of three salaried managers responsible for lead times, transportation analytics, and project management

Annual transportation savings responsibility of $15M

Restructured the inbound optimization team to improve teamwork, increase knowledge base, and maximize output

Worked with store operations and transportation to optimize recycling supply chain

Furthered the team collaboration with operational teams and replenishment

2004-2011

Operations Manager / Walmart, Ochelata, OK

Perishable Operations Manager 2006 - 2011

oResponsible for the operation of a perishable goods warehouse that accounts for sales of approx $50M/month

oDirect supervision of six salaried managers leading 125 hourly associates; including 10 promotions

oDeveloped new procedures for mechanized receiving that moved units per hour from 325 to 650

oOperational compliance with internal and federal food handling standards leading to a 98% audit score

Remix Coordinator 2005-2006

oProject spanned one year with responsibilities to include; managing detailed timelines, cross-functional planning between departments, regular update meetings within senior leadership, and a communication and training plan for the impacted associates

oResponsible for the monitoring of Capital Expenditures for this project to include rack remodeling, complete dry warehouse item migrations, and analysis of power equipment requirements that lead to purchasing

Automation Manager 2004-2005

oFront line communication for Swisslog (3rd party supplier) during the construction and testing of the crane system

oAuthored training documents used by the managers and maintenance staff to build mechanized knowledge

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2000-2004

Industrial Engineer / Walmart, Bentonville, AR / Brundidge, AL

Utilized the principles of IRR/ROI in presenting new initiatives for approval

Implementation of $250 K project in the reverse logistics network improving units per hour from 250 to 400

Collaborated with onsite warehouse management team in Bentonville to generate $50,000 “quick hitter” savings

Create the initial item profile and implemented the engineered standards in Brundidge, AL

Education

2003

BS Industrial Engineering / University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2011

PMP Certification / NWACC, Bentonville, AR

2013

MBA, Global Business Management / American Public University



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