Blake Bermingham

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linkedin.com/in/blake-bermingham-879236b

Summary

Summary: 16 years’ experience in the beverage industry with a demonstrated history of excellence in Logistics/ Operations Management/Marketing Management, Negotiation, Budgeting and Import/Export of Wine/Spirits/Beer/ Tea.

Experience

Supply Chain Manager

Roust Russia

Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Streamlined overall operations processes through effective day to day planning.

•Processed orders for all bailment/retail and stateside orders daily and created the daily report summaries so management could access day to day progress. Ensured all orders were correct and delivery timely to customers both retail and stateside.

•Ensure that all shipped orders are invoiced everyday and sent to customer for timely payment,

•Worked to clean up a yearlong back log so orders could be invoiced and sent to the customers.

•Forecast inventory and constant coverage of stock for upcoming orders daily to ensure that product was always avliable for sale when needed both stateside and in NY Retail.

•Maintained US and Canada inventory levels everyday, tax paid and bonded

•Initiated bond withdrawals when necessary.

•Found two missing containers that were bonded and ensured that the taxes were paid to the Government and the issue was completed and resolved going forward.

•Over review of NJ inventory, orders and containers from all over the world.

•Trained various departments and key personnel on key operations roles across the company through skype and teams so we can all effectively work together on day to day tasks.

•Created purchase orders and followed up on their progress from initiation to delivery of the product at Western Carriers.

•Maintained and developed a sales team of 11 people to customized operational practices and daily cut off and routines

•Produced reports for NY Direct/Bill and Holds/US orders Report/Shipped stateside orders and open orders/Shipped orders report for retail.

•Sample orders execution for various people and also sales force while producing the summary report for our Global analyst.

•Executed in house transfers at the warehouse through our various accounts to ensure stock levels for both warehouses.

•Extensive meetings with all departments to ensure timeframes and sales trends were captured in order to alleviate OOS stock issues.

Cocktail Kingdom

Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 (10 months)

Managed Warehouse inventory and put processes in place to efficiently pick orders daily Blake Bermingham - page 1

•Improved daily output through organized warehouse strategies such as labeling all items and making sure they are accessible for the picking staff.

•Worked with logistics to develop more cost effective and efficient ways to import and maximize savings on ocean freight and domestic freight.

•Planned purchases base on supplier lead-times and transportation to the warehouse to always ensure that stock levels would be sufficient based on sales and trends. American Beverage

Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 (4 months)

Operations Liaison

● Ensured a streamlined supply chain process from supplier in Mexico to customer/warehouse throughout USA

with effective/extensive daily communication.

● Led weekly meetings with upper management on status of Heneiken import shipments and to communicate

timing to the US Beverage sales team.

● Resolving import issues timely such as paperwork needed from supplier to freight forwarders and customs

agents, also aggressively worked to correct these problems for the future import shipments.

● Closely monitor freight rates)ocean and domestic) in an effort to provide cost savings for US Beverage where

possible.

● Monitor supplier production forecast and ensure accuracy with US Beverage sales forecast.

● Managed warehouses to ensure orders received/processed and in transit timely to customers. Planner

Unilever

Mar 2020 - Oct 2020 (8 months)

Increased the $400MM Tazo/Lipton/Pukka portfolio in regards to overall service from mid 60% to high 80's/90’s service percentage in 7 months with tactical weekly tactical strategies and precise daily execution to recover service/network.

•Managed all SKUs throughout their entire life cycle, setting up new innovation products and oversaw the exit of SKUs from the Unilever range.

•Extensive use of the SAP platform alongside reporting packages such as Business Warehouse.

•Extracted data from the above platforms to perform and provide analysis to the team which included issues,trends, and evaluated tradeoffs within the network using SAP ECC (transaction side) and SAP APO (planning

•Led schedule change / attainment loss recovery actions. Provide approval for WIP moves.

•Lead workstream to correct product rotation at the distribution centers, including systematic and behavior-based movements..

•Single point of contact across planning (Management,demand, supply, material,customer service/ logistics/transportation) in regards to Inventory issues and overall network health.

•Utilized deployment knowledge of the network and worked to design deployment strategy in an effort to minimize waste and create efficiencies.

•Led weekly operational planning calls to discuss near term risk and upcoming risks and proactive actions to mitigate those risks to fulfill customer orders. Blake Bermingham - page 2

•Provided long-term, strategic inputs on equipment needs and lane mix to logistics to best leverage a constrained macro environment.

•Deep dived into finished good special pack deployment. Optimize out of each Menasha copacker, understanding capacity and priority of special pack programs.

•Analyzed/Compiled complex data sets and created strategic recommendations for the business and the team daily.

•Managed digitization for all RP roles across the NA business using tools such as IRA and RPA.

•Improve productivity through automation, eliminate redundant tasks that can be applied across multiple categories.

Education

CUNY Brooklyn College

B.S, Business Management/Finance

Skills

analysis • automation • customer service • delivery • government • innovative • inventory management • logistics • meeting facilitation • microsoft access Blake Bermingham - page 3

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