Jerrud Woolford
XPEL, Inc.
San Antonio,USA
1
Certification
25
years of professional experience
Senior Inventory Manager with leadership across multi-site inventory control, receiving, and count reconciliation. Coordinates global inventory counts, builds reporting in Excel, and uses velocity analysis to place fast-moving stock closer to picking activity. Strengthens inventory visibility for warehouse teams and downstream planning groups.
Work History
Manager – Inventory and Receiving
3 Years- As the Manager for the Inventory and Receiving teams, I ensured that product was checked in and processed into ERP in an efficient and accurate manner.
- Coordinated monthly, quarterly and yearly inventory counts for main distribution center in San Antonio and multiple satellite locations globally.
- Generated ad-hoc reporting for multiple teams using Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP and various other formulas).
- Identified A, B, C velocity items and staged them appropriately in picking locations for more efficient order picking.
Manager – Inventory and Receiving
- As the Manager for Inventory and Receiving, I worked with my team to ensure that product was received in a timely manner and in quality condition. Applied Lean principles to the receiving, storing and picking of product for customer sales orders.
- Identified and labeled product from high moving (“A” velocity) to slow moving/dead stock.
- Created home bases for “A” velocity items for more efficient order pulling.
- Reduced “lost” inventory by 50%.
Inventory Specialist
- As the Inventory Specialist, I worked with the warehouse team to clean up and organize the warehouse and utilize the space to its maximum potential.
- Created reporting for warehouse team to identify low stock for replenishment.
- Created report to assist with item consolidation and grouping.
- Research all inventory discrepancies using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Inventory Supervisor
3 Years- As Inventory Supervisor for the Band & Orchestra, Audio/Video and Service Parts divisions, I worked with each of my team members to review processes to help improve productivity.
- Communicate job expectations, challenges and changes to team members and other departments.
- Collaborate with other departments who are facing challenges with current processes that affect their team.
- Analyze performance data to determine strengths and improvements in forecasting, purchasing and warehousing processes.
Inventory Analyst
2 Years- As the Inventory Analyst, I managed the creation, maintenance, planning and purchasing of over 250K service part SKUs using Oracle ERP.
- Created monthly fulfillment and weekly out of stock purchase orders of service parts for all Yamaha Music product groups (musical instruments, A/V, recording equipment, etc.).
- Identified discontinued parts and slow-moving assets for retirement and disposal.
- Worked with domestic and international suppliers on keeping accurate ETAs for ordered product to ensure customer satisfaction.
Budgets Coordinator/Purchaser/Buyer
3 Years- As the Budgets Coordinator/Purchaser/Buyer, I worked with the team to produce purchase orders for all forecasted new builds, site modifications and site inspections. We monitored spending by each project to ensure a better spending forecast for future projects.
- Reporting and reconciliation of Received Not Paid (RNP) over 30 days. Managed to reduce RNP by $60M working directly with Vendors to ensure that they were submitting invoicing correctly and on time.
- Managed the research and resolution of PO, receiving and invoicing issues. Performed root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues.
- Formed and applied a “Single Point of Contact” PO creation and receipt system for the10 line teams in the So Cal Region. This created ownership of requests and helped reduce any lost or mishandled requests. Prior process was a community email box where Coordinators would randomly select requests to process.
- Standardized a 4-business day turnaround time for all PO creation, adds and receipt requests. This ensured that the Buyers and Project Mgrs could meet all milestones and deadlines and Vendors could be paid in a timely manner.
- Worked with HQ on procedures to create system processes to provide more efficiency to PO creation and change orders such as using bulk templates for PeopleSoft system upload.
Inventory Analyst / Distribution Lead
12 Years- As the Inventory Analyst/Distribution, I helped lead the warehouse team in creating better work flows for receiving, storage, order pulling and distribution using Lean principles. Team lead for the cycle counting and auditing of assets for the So Cal Network team.
- Managed the scheduling, reconciliation and reporting for all inventory cycle counts for over 2500 locations (cells sites, switches, vehicles and spares locations).
- Supervised the day-to-day operations of the warehouse to ensure accurate receiving, order pulling and shipping.
- Managed the design, execution and maintenance of inventory trackers to provide visibility of available equipment to the Buyers and Project Mgrs to reduce over-ordering and cut down on Capital purchasing costs by millions of dollars annually.
- Created warehouse layouts to store all equipment in specified sections to reduce order pulling time and increase efficiency.
- Created bin/row locations to assist in the recording of equipment location within the warehouse and yard for a more efficient and accurate order pulling process.
- Aided in the design and testing of CATS WMS. CATS is used to electronically record and track movement of all assets within and outside of the warehouse. This replaced the manual trackers previously used.
- Trained 200+ employees on the use the CATS inventory system for inventory tracking and auditing.
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CATS and PeopleSoft troubleshooting for the SoCal region. Assisted in troubleshooting issues nationwide.
- Provided forklift training courses to certify all new team members.
- Performed quarterly audits to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements were met.
Network Assistant (Contract position)
1 Year- As the Network Assistant, I was responsible for providing support to the Field Operations teams and warehouse personnel.
- Created and maintained purchase orders for forecasted and ad-hoc projects.
- Processed purchase orders for payment to Vendor.
- Reviewed all purchase order requests for duplicates or projects that have been closed.
- Processed all Return Material Authorizations (RMA) for Field Ops teams.
Education
Associate in Arts - Information Technology
A+ Certification
Network+ Certification
- FrontPage, PowerPoint, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Skills
Inventory control
Cycle counting
Inventory reconciliation
ERP reporting
Purchase order processing
Warehouse operations
Receiving operations
Order picking
Lean process improvement
Inventory tracking systems
Inventory forecasting
Certification
Network+ Certification
Timeline
Manager – Inventory and Receiving
XPEL, Inc.
01.2023 - 01.2026Read More
Manager – Inventory and Receiving
Clear Design (Evoque Group)
01.2022 - 01.2022Read More
Inventory Specialist
Clear Design (Evoque Group)
01.2022 - 01.2022Read More
Inventory Supervisor
Yamaha Music Corp of America
01.2019 - 01.2022Read More
Inventory Analyst
Yamaha Music Corp of America
01.2017 - 01.2019Read More
Budgets Coordinator/Purchaser/Buyer
Verizon Wireless
01.2014 - 01.2017Read More
Inventory Analyst / Distribution Lead
Verizon Wireless
01.2002 - 01.2014Read More
Network Assistant (Contract position)
Verizon Wireless
01.2001 - 01.2002Read More
Intelisource
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
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Orange Coast College
from FrontPage, PowerPoint, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS
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Fayetteville Technical Community College (ITCAP)
A+ Certification
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Strayer University
Associate in Arts from Information Technology
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