Chad Bowen

Just started a 3PL company with a group of great friends, and now business partners. Greg Vick, Doug Studley, Bill Foster. Looking forward to providing great results to Kroger in our first 3 opportunities.

Leading team responsible for supporting Sales opportunities on all new warehouseing and distribution business. Also responsible for assisting in new facility start-up's and continuous improvement at all Penske distribution center operations

Responsible for fast paced 24/7operation in 570k sq foot refrigerated and frozen distribution center. 175M + outbound per year, 750+ employees at facility.

Supported public warehousing, transportation, and 3rd party logistics business units for all information technology needs. Managed staff of 54 and a operating budget of 12.43M with capital budget of 4.8M. Also responsible for developing strategies to optimize distribution center operations, with a staff of 2 and operating budget of .32M. Reported to CEO with dotted line report to group CIO. - Reduced information technology department expenses by 20% from 12.4 M to 10.1 M. - Renegotiated WAN contracts saving 280k annually from 1.32M to .87M. - Outsourced helpdesk operations saving 320k annually - Modified existing WMS rollout to focus on achieving reduced cost in distribution centers. - Implemented high availability infrastructure for primary WMS. - Implementation of SAP for financial system. - Took 3 under performing facilities and reduced expenses and achieved a positive cash flow in less than 6 months. - Implementation of CRM salesforce.com.

Managed all indirect (non-operational) functions for large 3rd party logistics business unit (2500+ employees / 3.1M sq ft / 350M+ annual case volume), including HR, IT, Accounting, Project Management, Inventory Control, Industrial Engineering and New Business Development. Reported to Senior Vice President, 3PL. - Led project for new customer outsourcing a DC. Achieved reduction of operating expense by 26%, while attaining a 15% higher storage capacity and an 8% increase in thru-put. - Worked with sales team to win 2 new customer contracts worth 2.1M EBIDA - Developed and trained operational management covering Latino culture, Lean / Six Sigma, WMS practices, business process mapping, labor negotiations, ROI / capital management, employee safety, innovation and expense budgeting. - Developed business continuity plans for IT and operations. - Development and implementation of best operating practices.

Managed project teams from multiple disciplines for various projects in information technology, DC automation, facility expansion, and new customer outsourcing. Reported to Senior Vice President 3PL. - Developed ROI and coordinated 2 facility expansions achieving 22% ROI. - Worked with site managers to develop of capital plan’s and operating budgets for 5 distribution facilities. - Led 2 new customer start-ups for Atlas one in transportation and one in warehousing. - Installed new Warehouse Management System in 3 DC’s, achieving 18% ROI. - Performed analysis and ROI on 48 M $ automation project in distribution center. Led the DC implementation and Information Technology teams. - Developed network and systems architecture for all 3PL sites. - Installed Voice Picking and Labor Standards in 4 DC’s. - Implemented Prince 2 project management methodology

Directed team of 8 direct reports with 380 hourly associates, managed large distribution center with 475k sq foot DC, 70 M case annual thru-put, servicing national retail grocery company. Reported to site General Manager. - Implemented continuous improvement projects within 1 DC and worked with project owners on plan development and achievement. - Realignment of frozen warehouse to increase sku count by 15%, and increase of volume by 20%. - Implemented 24*7 shipping and receiving processes within the DC. - Reduced operational expense by 11.4% from .4635 to .4106 CPC

Directed team of 5 direct reports with 12 hourly associates, managing all IT functions for single distribution center. Reported to site General Manager. • Developed training programs for warehouse associates and warehouse supervision in use of Warehouse Management System. • Developed distribution center processes to support new product line in distribution center shipping on a national level. • Developed and implemented functional reporting programs utilizing warehouse management and labor standards data. • Coordinated development of a local intranet to bring information needed to make business decisions to all employees.