Tina Edwards
Lavon,Texas
Summary
Expert in managing operations across transportation, storage, and distribution sectors. Proven track record in optimizing supply chain logistics and enhancing warehouse efficiency. Demonstrated ability in team leadership and operational analysis, resulting in reduced costs and improved delivery timelines. Achieved significant process improvements, ensuring high inventory accuracy and timely deliveries.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Logistics & Warehouse Manager
Stewart Systems Baking LLC
Plano, TX
10.2018 - 04.2025
- Manage day-to-day supply and logistics activities to maximize efficiency, reliability, timeliness, and cost effectiveness of the organization's supply chain.
- Manage and direct materials planning and control, procurement, inventory management, storage, warehousing, logistics, transport, and distribution.
- Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet customer needs.
- Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory to ensure a cost-effective flow of activities.
- Develop and implement schedules and procedures.
- Allocate resources to meet targets in areas such as transit and delivery times; inventory levels; purchasing, warehousing and storage costs.
- Liaison with functional and operations area managers to ensure supply activities are integrated with other parts of the business.
- Lead, direct, evaluate and develop staff to ensure resources are used effectively and work schedules and targets are met.
- Manage and direct in-house crating department.
- Responsible for inventory control program and process flow covering the end-to-end supply chain solution.
- Optimize warehouse functions.
- Actively involved in data capturing and audit programs, physical inventory, cycle counting, delivery and non-conformance material flow process.
- Drive supply chain initiatives between sales and operations.
- Oversee the handling and executing of shipping orders.
- Communicating with sales and accounting to ensure the customers' requirements are met.
- Ordering and receiving materials in the warehouse.
- Coordinate with carriers regarding all logistic shipments or pickups, LTL, full truck load, or containerized shipments.
- Managed and trained a team for UPS small parcel shipment arrangements using UPS WorldShip as well as FDX and DHL.
- Communicate worldwide daily regarding shipments and operation needs.
- Ensured compliance with local, national, and international shipping regulations.
- Replenishing materials with regards to the schedules of production.
- Ensuring all the deadlines are met.
- Having a clear understanding of company policies.
- Hiring and providing training to the new employees.
- Coordinating the use of automated and computerized systems effective with ERP systems.
- Briefing the team leaders daily.
A/R & A/P, Purchasing, Logistics & Warehouse Management
AMS-TAOS-USA, Inc.
Plano, TX
02.2000 - 10.2018
- Company Overview: formally TAOS, Inc.
- Responsible for the comparison of identifying information and counts or measure of items for incoming and outgoing shipments and verifying information against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records.
- Unpacks and examines incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify any damages and shortages.
- Ship goods to customers/suppliers include physical preparation of the shipment and cross-check of all relevant paperwork (counts, weights, products, serial numbers, lots).
- Maintains import/export records per US laws and corporate policy.
- Maintain and provide guidance for relevant import/export law and procedures, tariffs and duties, licenses, and restrictions.
- Align with customers and suppliers on import/export procedures to ensure efficient, positive, and lawful activities.
- Provide day-to-day assistance to business units on compliance with import/export laws and brief employees on license/agreement provisos/limitations.
- Participate in compliance audits and/or investigations of export and import activities.
- Align with forwarders on special transportation requirements for equipment shipments and hot shots.
- Responsible for the routing of items(s) to appropriate departments and/or personnel.
- Operate hand truck to move, convey, or hoist shipments from shipping & receiving area to storage or work area and/or from storage or work area to shipping & receiving area.
- Responsible for issuing material requirements to the production floor(s) and receipt of finished goods back to warehouse.
- Responsible for the physical inventory count and alignment with SAP records.
- Maintains correct inventory and proper storage in the warehouse of all stocked materials, including supplies.
- Manage all export and import licensing activities for of ams-TAOS-USA and its subsidiaries; provide guidance and support in regard to license requirements, adherence to trade and export regulations, transition and implementation; ensure effective program planning for license determination; develop and execute strategies to ensure successful license outcome; worked with all departments and agencies to ensure successful licensing outcomes; assist programs and subsidiaries with export classification and commodity jurisdictions; assist in the development and execution of training programs; participate in trade compliance audits.
- Have extensive knowledge and experience with the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations ('ITAR'); Missiles Technology Control Regime ('MTCR'), the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security ('BIS'), Export Administration Regulations ('EAR'), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ('FCPA'). Had all responsibilities for export compliance with U.S. and non-U.S. laws and regulations.
- Formally TAOS, Inc.
Education
Associates - Accounting
University of Phoenix Online
AZ07-2004
High School -
Community High School
Nevada, TX05.1989
Skills
- Shipping and receiving
- Import and export logistics
- Freight management
- Warehouse supervision
- Quality assurance
- Inventory control
- Space optimization
- Logistics management
- Customer service
- Team scheduling
- Productivity analysis
- Loss prevention strategies
- Transportation logistics
- Driver communication
- Microsoft Office 365 proficiency
- QuickBooks expertise
- SAP software knowledge
- Mapics ERP system
- Infor ERP XA Power-Link experience
- Office administration skills
- Communication proficiency
- Global communication skills
- Trade regulation research and analysis
- Export license determination
- Compliance manual maintenance
- Training and awareness programs
- ITAR, EAR, OFAC compliance audits
- Global supply chain management
- Daily operations management
- Shipment coordination
- Customs compliance
Certification
- Global Market Series Import Certificate Program, National Association of Purchase Management
- Global Market Series Export Certificate Program, United States Department of Commerce
- Journey to Excellence, Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center at UT Arlington, and the Small Business Development Center
- Export Administration Regulations Course on Export Controls & Licensing, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security
- Internal Auditor Training for ISO 9001:2000
- Certificate of Training 'How to Develop an Export Management and Compliance Program'
- Texas Notary Public (Commission Expires 11/01/26)
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Logistics & Warehouse Manager
Stewart Systems Baking LLC
10.2018 - 04.2025
A/R & A/P, Purchasing, Logistics & Warehouse Management
AMS-TAOS-USA, Inc.
02.2000 - 10.2018
Associates - Accounting
University of Phoenix Online
High School -
Community High School
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