Ben McDermott

• Opened and managed global facilities in APAC, EMEA, North America for customer orders via DOF (Direct order Fulfillment) and RMA replenishments
• Managed Purchasing, Planning, Master Scheduling teams.
• Set up and ran Restricted Party Screening system (E2OPEN) to screen all daily orders, new customers and all suppliers
• Worked directly with brokers to clear shipments through customs
• Managed raw material and finished goods shipping, receiving, stockrooms globally
• Managed inventory control team with robust cycle count program and annual physical inventory audit
• Managed consigned inventory at Contract Manufacturer along with invoicing reconciliation with finance
• Conducted audits to improve office logistics practices and procedures
• Collaborated with project managers to discuss procurement, logistics and service requirements for optimized purchasing power

• Managed inventory, production, workflow and distribution, analyzing each stage of product life cycle and recommending improvements to streamline processes.
• Managed Direct Order Fulfillment for all customer shipments.
• Set up and managed Shipping, Receiving and stockrooms at factory.
• Managed Inventory Control team and related oppositions
• Worked directly with all 22 customers daily to inure products are built and shipped in time
• Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others

• Generated weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports on purchasing operations.
• Reduced costs by streamlining contract bidding and procurement processes to assure best prices for materials and services.
• Managed all customer shipments via DOF as well as RMA shipments globally
• Managed Inventory Control, Shipping, Receiving and Stockroom teams. All inventory movement globally.
• Worked with buyers on metrics to address open aged POs, Return to Vendor aging, PPV

Managed the campus shipping receiving stockrooms and inventory control. (9 buildings)

Responsible for all hiring related to Logistics and Operations as well has all performance related activities.

• Planned and supervised shipments from production to end-user and scheduled daily and weekly routes.
• Managed DOF activities at Flextronics North America for customers, Citrix, Palo Alto Networks, F5 Networks, FireEye. This included all of their end customers globally and through all the various hubs in APAC, EMEA and North America. 100% of all the above customers revenues shipped from my teams.
• Managed SMT Setup teams, production kanbans, end of line and all packout related activities.