Bradford Schwarze

Dedicated and innovative operations leader driving efficiency and optimizing processes. Demonstrated success in implementing technology solutions, including the creation of a centralized Power BI reporting app and leveraging MS Power Automate to streamline processes. Skilled in business continuity planning, successfully navigating challenges. Masterful at fostering strategic partnerships for continued success. Strong in documentation and process improvement, resulting in significant cost savings and operational enhancements.

• Created a centralized App for all power BI reporting, storing dashboards to aid in streamlined data access – including item slotting specific dashboarding, customer mapping and others.
• Managed business continuity planning following a warehouse fire which resulted in 2/3 of the building volume being unable to be picked due to damage to machinery. Quickly shifting volume to nearby sites and planning transportation we were able to minimize any impact on our customers while strategically planning a long-term solution and route orders back to their home distribution center.
• Managed team of slotting analyst to optimally control product placement and settings of over 32,000 SKU’s to improve warehouse throughput as well as oversee key metrics with continuously evolving product mixtures and business needs.
• Aided in strategic account onboarding such as Temple, Valley Health, University of Penn and OptumRX by visiting each site, assessing ordering volume and working with a courier partner to establish optimized routing and order picking to satisfy customers’ delivery needs.
• Created a DC specific SharePoint website to house all pertinent information for the distribution center, for easy accessibility on projects, audit readiness, daily operations reporting and more.
• Utilizing MS Power Automate to create an automated workflow to increase processing time and data storage. Creating additional visibility, communication, and product loss prevention. Using the information captured, I could bill the couriers 50k per year for unsolicited returns based on a contractual agreement.
• Improved outbound on time delivery metrics from 30% to 90%+ by managing data, optimizing routes, and continuous review of KPI's.
• Built an improved data driven courier daily update that improved insight on delivery status that was pushed out to docks across the nation.
• Aided in training and onboarding Planning Managers in multiple distribution centers throughout the network to get them up to speed quickly. Through that created a document to layout detailed documentation on tasks and tool kit.
• Worked through a loss of 14% volume reduction by re-configuring all linehauls and transportation routes in conjunction with our courier partners. Also, re-slotting products throughout the building for new demand levels.
• $250K annual savings by consolidating last mile delivery routes and minimizing linehaul shuttle footprint.
• Improvement of documentation by creating written procedures for existing processes passed down through verbal training.
• Worked with business intelligence team to develop tools for improved data insight – An example is a dashboard to look at item logic for customers to help get in front of volume changes triggered by logic changes and inventory constraints that shifts demand to secondary items.
• Recipient of 2023 McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical Solutions & Services 2023 Presidents Award of Excellence.

• Built a manufacturing team from zero to a 24x5 operation to support 30% growth month over month.
• $700k in annual savings achieved via waste reduction of high priced consumable by finding a higher quality and lower priced material.
• Executed Engineering and IT protocols to support validation of the equipment and line.
• Point person for Quality Audits along with owning many of the collaborative corrective actions.
• Collaborated with HR partner to develop Job descriptions, hiring criteria, on-boarding tools and 30/60/90 evaluations.
• Mentored Supervisor and Lead teams to maintain a strong culture while on-boarding 100+ associates.
• Significantly reduced lot traceability errors caused by lack of visibility and system glitches.
• Built an in depth capacity model to align senior leadership on throughput of the operation based on labor time, machinery run time and shift scheduling for insight on department needs for increased volume milestones.
• Facilitated a 50% reduction in quality issues with Quality and Engineering and using root cause investigation tools by creating a tracking system that kept all stages of treatment together during processing.

• 99% On-Time Delivery while managing over 5,000 SKUs to meet customer expectation of next day delivery.
• $900k annual savings by performing root cause analysis on failure points to reduce scrap of raw material and improved management of recycled material.
• Worked in unison with engineering and quality to automate manufacturing process while continuing to serve customers. Integrating Fanuc robotic arms to load Fanuc high precision milling machines.
• Standardized daily reporting and KPI tracking to inform management and stakeholders on department production.
• Able to troubleshoot CNC and other equipment to reduce line downtime.
• Facilitated cross-functional project to improve internal quality and reduce customer complaints.