Scott R. Ohlrich

Strategically planned and managed inventory, global logistics, warehousing, transportation, and customer services for key accounts.

Directed and facilitated order fulfillment process supporting all customers and countries for Latin America region. Managed professional teams whose departments included Order Administration, Distribution Planning, Warehousing, Packaging, Shipping, and Transportation. Primary liaison to Sales Executive Team regarding order backlog, ship dates, and finished goods inventory levels. Created strategies and specific objectives for sub-functions and developed budgets, policies, procedures, and KPI / metrics to support the business. * Achieved committed ship dates and go-to market launch levels for four strategic new products responsible for 80% of the revenue and volume last two years. Achieved 28% order release to ship cycle time improvement through process mapping and LEAN redesign. Met and maintained 95% on time delivery goal, received high marks on all key customer scorecards. * Attained $800k better than plan distribution cost by optimizing routings and carrier agreements, implemented programs to reduce insurance costs, balanced ratios of contracted and temporary employees, achieved 38% less damage claims. * Reorganized departments to correct inefficiencies, talent mismatches, underlapping roles, workload balance. Interviewed and selected all key hires. Reduced cost of labor and benefits 12% year over year by eliminating a layer of management, consolidation of professional roles, optimized mix of full time and contracted employees. Improved communication and decision making. * Developed and established key retention program which implemented key position rotations for high performers and robust succession planning.

Oversaw professional teams for Materials Management functions including Planning, Procurement, Factory Scheduling, Warehousing, Inventory Control, and Distribution of factory materials and finished goods to meet company objectives and customer requirements. * Successfully completed a complex transition to Google including: employees, assets, and processes following the business acquisition. The transition was completed without any adverse impact to sales, delivery, or product quality. * Maintained materials availability and factory build linearity above 95%, managing 11M units (2.6x growth in annual volume and 3x increase in customer orders). * Selected by the Executive Team as operations lead for integrating management processes of the core business to a new ERP system (Oracle R12). The system was launched ahead of schedule and $135k under budget. * Reduced excess and obsolete inventory by $15M through BOM adds, re-use as alternates, site to site transfers, sales to authorized service centers, and distributors. No measurable scrap. * Introduced site wide green initiatives to reduce waste in the course of product manufacturing and distribution. Reduced facilities costs 7% by switching to energy efficient lighting in the warehouses and adjusted lighting levels in accordance with the production schedule. Packaging redesigns decreased material cost $0.03 per unit ($330k), and improved storage space utilization by 12%. Programs fostered a culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.

Formulated, designed, and implemented procedures for storage and distribution of finished goods to the North American and Caribbean marketplaces at three new sites of manufacturing operations. Streamlined operating infrastructure, consolidated administrative functions, organized labor and work teams, executed strategic cost management on the supply chain for inventory, freight, and labor. * Optimized routings and customer order consolidations to reduce annual outbound freight costs by 18%. Delivered savings of $486k. * Influenced decision to outsource direct labor. Negotiated terms for services supplier agreement. Decreased cost of labor by $352k. * Managed warehouse re-layout and material handling processes to achieve 38% smaller footprint as well as a reduction in facilities cost of $118k.