Manager, Logistics & Fulfillment
Resume:
David Toar
Brooklyn, NY **224
****.*****@*****.***
Qualifications
• Background in consumer packaged goods.
• Specialist in logistics negotiations, emphasis in shipping costs.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in inventory control management.
Professional Experience
Logistics Manager – YINGLI GREEN ENERGY AMERICAS, New York, NY
(3/1/2011 – 1/20/2012)
• Maintained and monitored inventory levels at third party logistics provider’s Carson, CA and Edison, NJ warehouses.
• Fulfilled purchase orders and arranged shipments from the aforementioned distribution centers and coordinated deliveries with both freight carriers and customers.
• Helped with accounting and billing issues (primarily in regards of shipment records and proof of deliveries).
• Worked with sales team to identify its needs and challenges, and provided solution-oriented timelines.
• Maintained daily communication with parent company in conjunction with all inbound issues.
• Liaised with sales team, third party logistics provider, and customers for all logistical issues.
• Maintained solar panels flash test reports in Access database for both modules imported from parent company and those sold/shipped to customers.
Achievements:
• Completed delivery projects for Orlando Utility Commissions in Orlando, FL and Bagdad Airport in Bagdad, AZ both with under projected lead times and budgets.
• Created user-friendly Excel-based daily updated inventory status report and hosted in share-point for all team members to use.
Supply Chain Logistics Specialist – DUANE READE, New York, NY
(10/1/2007 – 2/22/2011)
• Responsible for timely deliveries of purchase orders, based on given lead times and constraint daily receiving budget and warehouse capacity.
• Liaised with business partners (vendors/suppliers and freight carriers).
• Coordinated deliveries for Maspeth, NY and North Bergen, NJ warehouses.
• Maintained daily communication with category managers, buying merchandisers, and receiving department.
• Enforced and constantly emphasized compliant factors, and worked with vendors/suppliers and freight carriers to minimize out of stock and charge back issues.
Achievements:
• Replaced phone-calls and faxes with email-based delivery appointment requests.
• Eliminated non-compliant freight carriers, greatly minimized missed delivery appointments which caused out of stock and charge backs.
Traffic Specialist – TDK, Garden City, NY 11530
(5/27/2003 – 9/28/2007)
• Maintained and monitored inventory levels at company-owned Anaheim, CA and Peachtree City, GA warehouses.
• Fulfilled purchase orders and arranged shipments from the aforementioned distribution centers and coordinated deliveries with both freight carriers and customers.
• Analyzed order history, managed stock balance project and helped with procurement.
• Refined selection of non-asset and full-asset based transportation providers based on customers routing guidelines and company operational budget.
• Negotiated rates and contracts with freight carriers.
• Reconciled charge backs by working with customers and freight carriers.
• Helped with reverse logistics by thoroughly investigating requests prior to issuance of official return authorization.
• Helped audit freight bills for both over-charges and claims, primarily due to misinterpreted freight classes and description.
Achievements:
• Established cost-saving freight transportation mode by combining less than truckloads into multi stop truckload, which greatly cut down lead times and freight charges and resulted in annual savings of more than $300K from 2003 onward.
• Accomplished major feat in order fulfillment criteria by consistently shipping 100%, earning high ranking on key accounts scorecards for fiscal years 2005 and 2006.
Warehouse Manager – AMERICAN AUTO ACCESSORIES – Corona, NY
(December 1988 – August 2002)
• Hired as temporary warehouse worker (order-picking and janitorial duties).
• Promoted to shipping and receiving manager in 1990, helped with delegating workflow.
• Promoted to warehouse manager in 1997, managed staff of 8 permanent and varied quantities of seasonal workers.
• Maintained and monitored inventory levels at company owned warehouse and third party logistics provider’s in Gardena, CA.
• Maintained equipment (hydraulic manual pallet jacks, stand-up cherry pickers and forklifts, shrink wrap machine, and pallet scale) and ordered supplies (shrink wraps, corrugated cartons, and empty pallets).
• Negotiated rates and contracts with freight carriers.
• Fulfilled purchase orders and arranged shipments from the aforementioned distribution centers and coordinated deliveries with both freight carriers and customers.
• Audit freight bills for both over-charges and claims, primarily due to misinterpreted freight classes and description.
Achievements:
• Implemented fill and kill purchase orders, resulting improved fill rate for key accounts.
• Self-taught freight classes and description, and the applicable discounts and regulations.
• Implemented quarterly cycle counts and annual physical wall to wall inventory counts.
• Initiated and helped allocate resources for company relocation from Corona, NY to Gardena, CA, eventually generated savings in both domestic shipping costs and lead times from establishing Gardena, CA-based single point of distribution.
Education
Sacred Fathers Catholic Academy, Surabaya, Indonesia – class of 1986
Technical
ERPs, AS400, MS Office (Outlook, Excel, and Word), and internet/e-commerce.
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