Senior Transportation Analyst and Contract Management Professional

Phillip D Stafford

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Murfreesboro, Ten. 37128

Home: 615-***-****

RETIRED LOOKING FOR POSITION AFTER RETIREMENT

LAST POSITION:

Senior Transportation Analyst and Contract Management Bridgestone Firestone North American LLC, in Corporate Offices at 535 Marriott Drive Nashville, Ten. 37214.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Contract Management and Freight Payables:

1.Maintain LTL, Truckload, and Intermodal Contracts.

2.Liaison between corporate and Payment vendor to assure they maintain full compliance with the companies pricing, contractual policies, and directives. Give an accounting of their performance to management of their Audit and payment processing.

3.Have established error code process for post audit, Identify areas of improvement to be implemented on the front end process of the supply chain.

Full knowledge of freight rates, Schedule A National Motor Freight Classification NMFC -- Contracts, Tariffs, Classification, and Rules Tariffs of LTL, Truckload, and Intermodal. Interface with the corporate traffic on the one hand, and our points of production and distribution on the other to insure that compliance is maintained by carriers and third party logistics companies servicing these locations. Assure applicable carriers are used in lanes that have active pricing established by yearly Transportation Bid Process.

FREIGHT AUDIT: Have full capacity to audit and advise better means of cost savings through rate analysis of lanes and Operational processes Through interpretation of NMFC ( i. e. Post audit will reveal inadequacies of the front-end process)

OPERATIONS: Substantial knowledge of Replenishment systems of Finished Goods, and Raw Material Procurement. JIT coordination of Nissan loads of inbound auto parts and glass.

NAFTA CROSS-BORDER OPERATION : Monitor of cross-border operation of raw material to Monterrey, Inbound replenishment to US DC’s, audited cost, trouble shooting carrier problems at Nuevo Laredo, and forwarders of Bridgestone Firestone ( i.e. Fed Ex Trade Networks, Dicex Forwarding, and Texas Forwarding)

Prior cliental with previous audit and consulting employers have been Mitsubishi Corp, Alcatel, Indalex, Nortel, and Saturn Corp where I audited and consulted on operational, and pricing issues.

WORK HISTORY:

ARKANSAS BEST FREIGHT SYSTEM: 1978-1990

12 years corporate office with major truck line in a National Central Rate Dept.

Two years rate training, Four years Central Rate Department gaining full knowledge of rates, contractual pricing, rules, regulations, and routing. Six Years Cash Exception, Routing, Pricing, OS&D, and Overcharge.

GOGGIN TRUCK LINE: 1991-1994

Terminal Manager --Worked in full Field Terminal Operations Capacity running the day to day operations of an LTL Trucking Terminal Operation. Cross-dock, Trailer Utilization, Payroll, Billing, Rating, load coordination, and manifest prep.

Worked Nissan warehouse staging and coordinating time sensitive shipments

STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES 1994-2002

Auditor and Consultant liaison between shippers Corporate Traffic Department, Carriers, and Third party logistics.

BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE 2002 - TO JANUARY 2016

Freight Payment Liaison/ Senior Transportation Analyst/ Domestic Contract Manager/

Freight Payment Process : The Punctual pricing supplied to our payment Vendor by Physical Distribution, The accuracy of lanes bid vs pricing contained in the Schedule “A”, field compliance using only carriers who were awarded bids, and fulfillment of directives given to our payment vendor on the one hand, are weighed against recovery levels in Post Audit.

Liaison Between Payment Vendor, Corporate, Carriers, and Field.

1.My main responsibility is to monitor, and maintain levels of service from our payment vendor that keeps freight expenditure in check with the bid pricing we implement each year. I supply the Payment Vendor with all updated pricing, I oversee the pre-audit process through the Client Approval Process, and payment failures brought to my attention through Balance Due’s forwarded by carriers and advice requested by the payment Vendor.

2.Secondly, I advise Physical Distribution of any inaccuracy’s that may exist between our bid carriers and corporate pricing, negotiate and implement chronic missing lanes that are far above regular bid expenditure, and see to it that these non-compliances are brought to the attention of all related parties.

EDUCATION:

Vol-State Supply Chain Management Technical Certificate in Supply Chain Management April 2011 toward an AA degree which transfers to MTSU business degree with Concentration in Supply Chain Management.

HIGH SCHOOL/CAMERON HIGH SCHOOL/ Cameron,Ok. 1973

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH / BUSINESS CURRICULUM 1973-1975

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER / Certificate in Business Analysis 2008

TRAINING AND SKILLS

ARKANSAS BEST FREIGHT SYTEMS FREIGHT RATE TECHNICIAN TRAINING / TWO YEARS 1978 - 1980

APICS-- BASICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 2002

40 hrs

EXCEL LEVEL 1

05/07/03

EXCEL LEVEL 2

3/9/2005

EXCEL LEVEL 3 (advanced)

10/28/2005

OUTLOOK LEVEL 1

12/18/2003

SAP TRAINING:

Purchase Order

Order to Cash – freight and variable Warehouse Standards Calculations and Actuals

A/P Manual Freight Processing

Interface Error Handling

Freight Accounting Overview

Bill of Lading Troubleshooting

ZFREIGHTRPT Transactions

Routing Schedule

SAP SHIPPING:

Creating shipment

Routing

Delivery Monitor

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