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Skills

  • Shipping and receiving procedures
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Team leadership and supervision
  • Food handling safety
  • Multidisciplinary team leadership
  • Shipping schedules
  • Material handling practices
  • Safe handling of pesticides
  • Receiving payments
  • Background in shipping and receiving

Work Experiences

  • Promoted inventory accuracy and proper records management by comparing shipment contents to paperwork.
  • Created inventory location mapping systems.
  • Reorganized storage areas to improve material flow efficiency and reduce labor costs.
  • Coordinated with sales and customer service teams.
  • Achieved savings over three years.
  • Achieved 57% on-time shipments.
  • Created a cost-benefit analysis of shipping methods that resulted in switching carriers, saving the company $54,000 annually.
  • Achieved a 49% reduction in freight costs.
  • Read and followed pick sheets to prepare, pack, and scan orders.
  • Returns were received, processed, and reshelved by me.

Summaries

  • Talented Receiver with 11 years of inventory control and movement experience, as well as forklift, hand truck, and baler operations skills.
  • Motivating leader who has built and managed standard teams in the past.
  • Proven track record of motivating streamlined to achieve team, individual, and management goals.
  • Successful track record of collaborating with carriers and other vendors to develop cost-effective strategies and manage costs.
  • Examining shipments and facilitating vendor resolutions are among the tasks that I am used to successfully managing high-volume work with little oversight.
  • ITIL certified
  • Prepared to contribute 10+ years of experience and seek a challenging position with room for advancement.
  • Data entry and technical writing are two areas in which she excels.
  • Distribution Clerk with extensive experience managing the movement of goods in, out, and around the warehouse.
  • Budget management in standard settings and data analysis in workflow optimization settings.

Accomplishments

  • Spearheaded implementation of real-time reporting technology, cutting manual reporting time by 5 hours per week.
  • Coordinated multi-location warehouse operations, reducing inter-facility transfer lead times by 64%.
  • Collaborated with procurement and logistics teams to shrink the average lead time on supplier orders by 20% days.
  • Introduced lean inventory system, reducing overstock by 65% and improving space utilization by 6 square feet.
  • Utilized continuous improvement methodologies that resulted in a 44% reduction in damaged goods being received.
  • Introduced inventory forecasting tools, decreasing stockouts on high-demand products by 18% and reducing expedited freight costs.
  • Led team of 11 receiving staff to streamline operations, decreasing discrepancies by 50% within 6 months while improving receiving accuracy.
  • Worked with IT and operations teams to integrate shipping software that decreased order processing times by 40% and improved shipment tracking.
  • Reduced overtime costs by 56% by streamlining scheduling and introducing shift rotations during peak periods.
  • Standardized receiving procedures, reducing variances between expected and received quantities by 80%.

Affiliations

  • Certified Forklift Operator since 2015 – National Safety Council (NSC), ensuring compliance with OSHA standards in material handling.
  • Certified in Freight Brokerage Services, Freight Broker Training Institute – optimizing less-than-truckload (LTL) and full-truckload (FTL) logistics.
  • Participant, National Freight Transportation Association (NFTA), attending logistics seminars on improving inbound and outbound freight handling.
  • Alumni, procedure Supply Chain Management Program, fostering connections with logistics and operations professionals.
  • Member, Distribution Business Management Association (DBMA), contributing to industry insights on the complexities of supply chain disruptions management.
  • Affiliate, Institute of Supply Management (ISM) – Driving operational efficiencies through innovative supply chain management techniques.
  • Member, Reverse Logistics Association (RLA), improving product returns and reducing associated costs through peer collaborations.
  • Certified, Six Sigma Green Belt – Lean Logistics, contributing to process improvements and waste reduction initiatives within the shipping and receiving department.
  • Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), actively participate in discussions on cutting-edge supply chain optimization technologies.
  • Affiliate, The Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC), advancing expertise in storage efficiency and warehouse operations.

Certifications

  • Certified Forklift Technician (CFT) - system
  • Certificate in Inventory Management - initiative
  • SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)
  • SAP Certified Application Associate
  • SCPro Certification - method, 2018
  • Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
  • IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) - metric, 2016
  • Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) - category
  • Certified Commercial Warehousing & Distribution Specialist - metric
  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect

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