Gary Allred

• Excel in innovation and strategic planning initiatives, and deliver outstanding leadership for both management and executive teams. • Provide comprehensive oversight for quality assurance processes. • Promote a positive and productive team culture by utilizing advanced people management skills. • Supervise human resources duties and programs. • Own financial administrative functions and respective reporting. • Team effectively with Marketing and Wholesale workers to achieve customer experience, traffic, and sales conversion objectives. • Direct warehouse functions to include inventory control.

• Led the design and layout of 400,000 square-foot facility with a three-story pick module. • Recruited and mentored workers. • Conceptualized a scanning and picking process wholesale and ecommerce functions across 36 stores; each store was able to use two less employees for stocking purposes due to process improvements.

• Administered receiving, material handlers, switch trucks, cycle counting, physical inventories, and motorized vehicles, as well as all domestic and international shipping. • Facilitated the shipping team in consistently achieving 99.9% on-time shipments with very few errors for 11 consecutive years. • Committed to team safety, producing zero lost time injuries during tenure. • Reduced production errors by verifying all shipments; this increased the quality of shipped products. • Served as Purchaser for manufacturing materials. • Improved GMP, Lean, Kanban, and ISO practices, and also contributed to continuous improvement efforts. • Leveraged SWOT analysis skills to lead teams of valued workers. • Earned an MBA in 2014 while working full time. • Exhibited a professional knowledge of Oracle, and SAP.

• Led 40 employees over four shifts, inventory control, and stores, which also included monitoring in excess of $100 million in inventory, as well as managing the Receiving department. • Reduced MSD and ESD failures due to electrostatic discharge and moisture by implementing handling procedures in stores and receiving. • Lowered the number of damaged materials by managing the development of inbound material standards for product receiving. • Contributed actively to the implementation of Baan and Geneva.

• Managed 36 employees over three shifts, which also included inventory across four warehouses, inventory accuracy, process flow, and cycle counting. • Acted as project manager for the company’s #1 priority, the Inventory Core Team; this also involved oversight of $100 million worth of on-hand inventory. • Boosted inventory accuracy from 68% to 99.9% in six months, and maintained this percentage for five months. • Minimized on-hand inventory for MRO products 66% via JIT and MIN/MAX systems, resulting in a cost savings of $400,000. • Drove the implementation of ISO 9001 certification in new facility over a four-month period after the first audit.