SCM/PC&L/Transportation Manager-Donald L. Waldron

Donald L. Waldron

SUPPLY CHAIN /PRODUCTION CONTROL/ LOGISTICS / TRANSPORTATION MANAGER

Driven, analytical, detail oriented, and highly motivated leader with comprehensive management experience and an excellent track record in Supply Chain Management, Production Control & Logistics and Transportation Management. Highly capable of analyzing existing processes and systems to devise rapid improvements. Proven ability to hire, train, coach, evaluate, empower and motivate teams of employees. Demonstrated accomplishments in completing major projects on-time and within budget. Highly flexible, bi-lingual (English-Spanish) and able to perform and succeed in multi-national and fast paced work environments.

Strategic Planning ∙Team Leadership, Training & Development ∙ Customer Service and Relationships ∙Project & Change Management ∙Budgeting & Cost Reduction ∙Inventory Control ∙Lean Manufacturing, Lean Material Flow and Six Sigma ∙Consulting/Crisis Management ∙Internal Control (SOX) Compliance ∙Contract Negotiation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EARLY RETIREMENT, Warren, OH 2008 - 2009

DELPHI PACKARD ELECTRIC SYSTEMS, DIVISION OF DELPHI CORPORATION, Juarez, MX 2006 - 2007 Superintendent/Manager-Procurement/Supply Chain, North America Transportation

Directed Mexico hourly, US and Mexican salary employees in Juarez, MX and Nuevo Laredo, MX in Procurement and Supply Chain activities for over $50MM per month in raw materials including 5,000 part numbers from over 600 global suppliers, shipping to 21 Mexico production plants. Directed $130MM annual spend North America transportation budget establishment, transportation and logistics contract negotiation, freight cost analysis and performance metrics measurements.

• Coordinated and drove premium transportation reduction for operations from $10 million in 2005 to $3 million in 2006 and $1.5 million in 2007 via effective supply pipe line calculations, development and implementation.

• Led Procurement Team to recover over $1MM in supplier related additional costs to Delphi (premium transportation and lost time costs).

• Implemented Ryder Logistics as 3rd party logistics provider utilizing 2 North America cross-dock/consolidation strategy.

• Developed divisional standards for Supply Chain inventory pipeline establishment.

DELPHI PACKARD ELECTRIC SYSTEMS, DIVISION OF DELPHI CORPORATION, Clinton, MS 2001 - 2005

Superintendent/Manager- Production Control & Logistics

Directed the organizations responsible for the procurement of all raw productive material, machine repair and tooling spare parts (MRO), scheduling and planning of production, management of inside and outside warehousing, internal material flow, receiving, packaging, transportation, inventory control, customer service and distribution of finished products for nine production facilities and ultimately one warehouse in seven cities and three states.

• Led project teams to close and consolidate four warehousing/distribution facilities into one facility reducing floor space by 275,000 ft² resulting in $2.5MM annual savings while sales increased 10%.

• Reduced monthly inventory from $40MMin 2001 to $28MM in 2004. Inventory turns increase from 8.5 to 13.5.

• Through innovation and continuous improvement led organization to reduce premium transportation from $500M in 2000 to $75M in 2005.

• Improved On-time Delivery Performance from 97.0% in 2000 to 99.9% in 2001-2005.

• Achieved 3 years (2002-2004) Safety Award for zero lost time accidents.

• Through organizational re-engineering, reduced salary headcount from 30 to 18.

• Six Sigma Greenbelt Certified

• Led complete PC&L salary organization (18) to achieve Six Sigma Greenbelt certification in 2005.

• Special assignment for seven months in Matamoros, MX (electronic manufacturing) to reorganize Materials Management, Production Control and Logistics organization in order to save business with General Motors, Chrysler and Ford.

Continued…

PACKARD ELECTRIC, DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Cordoba, ARG and Sao Paulo, BR 1996 – 2000

Superintendent/Manager- Production Control & Logistics

Directed all of the Production Control & Logistics functions for 10 manufacturing plants and one warehouse in three countries (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela) supplying wiring systems and metal/plastic components to General Motors, Fiat Motor Company, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Peugeot.

• Implemented Materials Management modules of QAD (MFG-PRO) ERP system in 3 manufacturing facilities, 2 in Brazil and one in Argentina.

• Reduced raw material inventories from $54MM to $35MM while increasing On-time Delivery performance from 93.0% to 99.0% (Brazil), unmeasured to 99.5% (Argentina) and unmeasured to 95.7% (Venezuela).

• Implemented tax and duty draw back process in Brazil resulting in $5MM annual savings.

• Implemented first company usage of an FTZ in Buenos Aires, ARG.

OTHER POSITIONS HELD

Superintendent of Divisional Transportation and Global Logistics (Warren, OH); QS-9000 Management Representative for North America Materials Management, Production Control, Logistics and Operation Support; Superintendent of Production and Material Control (Juarez, MX and Nuevo Laredo, MX); Superintendent of Customer Service and Finished Goods Warehousing/Distribution (El Paso, TX); Divisional Engineering Change Coordinator (Warren, OH); Troubled Supplier Support (Flagstaff, AZ);Production Planner and Supervisor of fiber optic manufacturing; Customer Service Account Coordinator; Production Planner-electronics manufacturing.

EDUCATION

WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY - Bowling Green, KY

Bachelor of Science - Biology and Anthropology

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