Dominic Edwards

Established and maintain trustworthy client connections with 50+ transportation brokers by onboarding and negotiating cost-effective transportation prices for over 5,000 locations.

Effectively communicate and coordinate with carriers to guarantee that 175+ priority loads (within a month) are carried within three days of release, while 400+ general loads (within a month) are delivered within seven days of release.

Collect, analyze, produce, and automate shipping and inventory reconciliation reports utilizing tools through Microsoft Excel like (Pivot Tables, XLookup, Macros, Visual Basic) all while defining and improving key performance indicators (KPIs) for inventory, transportation expenses, and export costs.

Reconcile inventory transactions, adjustments, inbounds, and outbounds to ensure that all inventory from inbound to billing matches.

Reconcile transportation bills to original award amounts while negotiating with carriers to adjust discrepant amounts.

Coordinate export movements through drayage carriers from lumber mills to servicing ports via Freight Forwarders for the best cost-effective amounts, whilst adhering to all Department of Transportation rules and import/export regulations.

Build and ship orders based on inbound vessel cargoes and current inventory levels at our North American storage sites in Canaveral, Tampa, and Lake Charles. Etc.

Critically think, problem solve, and develop solutions for overweight loads at scale houses, as well as determining the best possible solution for product delivery while adhering to DOT transportation regulations.

Managed and controlled over $10 million dollars of perpetual inventory stock counting, whilst reconciling records via Enterprise Resource Planning systems.

Generated over $2.5 million dollars of purchase orders for services and supplies, negotiated and coordinated with outside vendors/suppliers for competitive bids for best cost-effective price for the company.

Monitored and reported over 100 carriers / 10,000 + deliveries annually via Manhattan systems on carrier compliance with Blue Buffalo transportation standards and practices.

Coordinated with carriers on shipments (both prescheduled and to be scheduled), whilst auditing freight bills and negotiating claims, most of which we utilized all movements with the least rate best fit for the company for all the goods and material (whether LTL or FTL)

Ensured compliance with customs, tariffs, federal and foreign local transportation regulations, which ranged from standard and/or dangerous goods / hazardous material and most regulated commodities.

Developed KPIs that aided in the auditing/monitoring of carrier performance, rates, and charges and compliance which included analyzing cost of shipping routes all while aligning with our companies’ service goals.

Processed inbound and outbound shipments corresponding to receipts from the warehouses, whilst allocating available inventory using SAP to customer orders and dispatch orders to warehousing locations.

Calculated and determined material stocking needs by using ERP system and spreadsheets to analyze stock levels.

Monitored, report and resolved inbound/outbound shipment compliance with Blue Buffalo standards and practice whilst establishing KPI's that reduced non-compliance from 25% to 5% within a 1-year period.

Worked internally with adjacent departments to resolve inventory issues and to increase order fill rate opportunities.

Received, inspected, verified and intra-company transfers totaling over $1 billion dollars annually whilst adhering to all Marine Corps safety procedures, rules and regulations.

Coordinated with other departments to distribute over 3000+ transfers yearly of material requiring shipment to domestic/ global locations in support of supply chain operations utilizing material handling equipment via Aircraft, Forklift and/or Motorized Vehicle.

Retained supporting documentation (i.e., receipts, invoices, accountability property reports) in order to provide an audit trail for ease of cross-reference in future reconciliations and annual supply compliance inspections.

Managed property by performing spot, cyclic and annual reconciliation of inventory stored within Marine Corps warehouses worldwide, while identifying and resolving item shortages, overflows, and serviceability.

Ensured supplies and other items were on hand and replenished monthly within the warehouse and are maintained as required.

Coordinated over 500+ logistic movements involving light/full loads of inventory for major Department of Defense operations within the United States and Overseas, with a total asset value of $5.5 billion dollars’ worth of inventory while ensuring inventorying accuracy and utilizing tracking systems.

Contracted over $2 million dollars of purchase orders for supplies and services, whilst negotiating with vendors for the best bid price and reduced over $7 million dollars be re-negotiating current contracts with new and current suppliers.

Performed applicable budget formulation, authorizations, execution, and review functions for future, current, and expired fiscal years totaling over $5 million dollars annually.

Request, requisition through ERP and MIP systems (GCSS-MC), procure, receive, warehouse, distribute, ship, issue, and dispose of all equipment, material, and supplies for the Marine Corps consumer-level inventory.