GABE GENAW
Allen Park,MI
Summary
Warehouse management professional, prepared to drive efficient operations and enhance productivity within warehousing environments. Proven track record of optimizing inventory systems and streamlining processes. Known for fostering team collaboration and adaptability in dynamic settings.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Warehouse Manager
Pronto Freightways
06.2021 - Current
- Manager of 8 forklift drivers. Overseeing the loading and unloading of trucks daily. Daily floor checks for older stock. Doing tracking when wrong material is shipped or received.
- Load out sea containers for shipment with work sheet and proper dunnage
- Keep track of special orders both inbound and outbound
- Loading and unloading 50 trucks daily
- Manage 2 shifts
- Work closely with dispatch to keep ahead of loads.
- Make sure drivers know which trailers are ready
- Do dim and weighs for both air and sea freight
- Label skids when unloading
- Use Crown computer program for tracking skids & loads
- Daily walkthroughs checking for older skids for storage purposes
- Keeping track of forklift maintenance and operators evaluations and testing
Site Manager
Southeast Unloading
03.2020 - 01.2021
- Site manager for a 3rd party lumper service at Eby-Brown. On boarded and forklift certified 7 employees. Daily start up meetings, area safety walks. Work closely with the customer on inbounds and receiving floor set up.
- Handle 27 inbounds daily, unload and break down mixed pallets
- Conduct interviews
- Certified 8 for forklift use, do daily safety walks
- Negotiate rates for the unloading, sorting, and segregation
- Tracking inbounds on separate docks as well as an off-site location
- Do end of day closing safety paperwork and reconciliation of money with daily trips to the bank for deposits.
- Create end of the week packet for the home office.
- Complete end of week spreadsheet for hours and monies received and payroll.
Warehouse Manager
Pro-4 Marketing
10.2018 - 08.2019
- Manager of $650,000 of inventory. Certified 7 employees for forklift use and produced safety standards. Created steps to ensure shipping accuracy, and standards for builds that are to ship out. Investigated all shipping and receiving errors.
- Do weekly inventory keeping 97.5% accuracy
- Set up the 10,000 sq warehouse, certified 7 employees on forklifts
- Developed and implemented processes to tighten control on inbound receiving, improve safety training for warehouse staff, and reduce outbound customer shortages.
- Eliminated costly discrepancies in receiving through detailed review of shipping documents and consistent follow-up with vendor.
- Improved plant wide communication and productivity by creating the daily agendas for the Operators in startup meetings based on the previous day information.
- Laid Off
Warehouse Manager
BATEEL/LUXURY CONCEPTS
01.2017 - 10.2018
- New business, Inbound original loads of packaging and food. Oversee $500,000 worth of product. Use LightSpeed for tracking and shipping purposes.
- Inbound and warehouse set up for packaging and food
- Created label system for ease of tracking and retrieval of product in LightSpeed
- Implemented way to track transfers to the store. Worked with FDA and Health Inspector
- Severance ended April 2016; I took the summer off to be with the kids. Bateel was to start mid-October but was pushed back until January 2017.
Assistant Operating Manager
ESSENDANT
08.2003 - 11.2015
- Managed $450,000 to $600,000 inbound pipeline. Completed all paperwork for inbound receipts and outbound orders, tracked all discrepancies. Inventory control and reconciliation. Supervised between 11 and 13 employees
- Decreased picking errors by 6% using a sticker system that provided unit of measure and reinforced the requirement to follow the correct picking process for every order.
- Reduced by 15% inbound receiving time through reorganization of receiving steps and creating shortcuts without compromising accuracy
- Collaborated on labels out process that increased the shipping accuracy and customer satisfaction
- Kept shipping accuracy to 97%
- Trained and certified 25+ employees on how to safely operate a forklift as the Safety Coordinator.
- Resolved issues and identified potential lean improvements as a regional member of a corporate High-Performance Team.
- Maintained 98% inventory accuracy
- Facility Relocated, Severance April 2016
Education
Associates Degree - Business Administration
Wayne County Community College
Skills
- Shipping and receiving
- Forklift operations
- Warehouse operations
- Inventory and stocking
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 15 staff members.
- Achieved reduce mispicks through effectively helping with label out program.
- Created information board so employees could see results of current year vs. previous year.
- Kept 97% accuracy in inventory
Certification
Yellow Belt Six Sigma Certification, 2016
Languages
English
Timeline
Warehouse Manager
Pronto Freightways
06.2021 - Current
Site Manager
Southeast Unloading
03.2020 - 01.2021
Warehouse Manager
Pro-4 Marketing
10.2018 - 08.2019
Warehouse Manager
BATEEL/LUXURY CONCEPTS
01.2017 - 10.2018
Assistant Operating Manager
ESSENDANT
08.2003 - 11.2015
Associates Degree - Business Administration
Wayne County Community College
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