Taylor Hurles

• Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams to resolve logistical challenges and drive improvements in overall operations.
• Ensured timely deliveries by coordinating closely with drivers and tracking shipments throughout the entire process.
• Monitored logistics performance and identified improvement opportunities.
• Coordinated driver dispatch to accomplish daily delivery requirements.
• Managed logistics budgets and forecasting to achieve cost-effective operations.
• Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and various parts of the business when making plans for dispatching.
• Coordinated schedules efficiently between warehouses and transportation providers, minimizing downtime for both parties involved in the shipping process.

• Researched and provided route assignments for drivers to include entering backhaul information for driver routing.
• Reviewed and corrected/modified estimated departure times for routes, directed daily department workflow, schedules, and routes.
• Successfully built an exceptional rapport with team members and drivers at the 7812 Walmart Transportation office.
• Coordinated transportation operations by acting as a liaison between carriers and stores. Tracked performance by preparing and reviewing data in order to analyze reports.
• Provided administrative support by performing general clerical duties to include entering and extracting data from multiple systems, printing bills, and assigning seals.
• Responded to calls from vendors, stores, and drivers for various claims and returns. Identified and provided appropriate responses and forwarded issues to the correct locations for action.
• Completed work assignments and priorities by using policies, data and all resources available. Collaborated with management, team members, customers, and other business partners to identify priorities, deadlines, and expectations to carry out tasks and communicate progress and information as needed.

PROJECTS:

• Created an OBC for communication to drivers who had not returned with backhauls. This resulted in better communication between our office and drivers while preventing late backhauls.
• Worked with team members to find common denominators between drivers and departure times in order ot track early LOS more efficiently. Once necessary data was identified, we were able to provide management with reporting tools necessary to prevent early LOS.
• Completed various projects for management such as identifying stores that qualified for drop and hook stores, driver breakdown reporting, and deep dives of driver pay audits.