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Name Confidential
Phone 717-571-1025
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $175K +
State Pennsylvania
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Owner
The Alternative Board
Mechanicsburg, PA
(Consulting/Coaching)

VP Operations, Retail
Exel
Westerville, Ohio
(Third Party Logistics )

VP Logistics
LG Electronics
Engelwood Cliffs, NJ
(CPG Manufacturer)

Key Accomplishments Developed Supply Chain Vision that will maximize in stock condition at lowest cost, reduced COGS by $75 million through reverse auctions, cross dock modules and formalized contract management, established first Supplier Advisory Board.

Implemented KPI scorecard, Designed and implemented multiple highly automated distribution centers, implemented net landed cost tool to reduce costs and rationalize SKU growth.

Reduced inventory costs by $90 million through DC consolidations, assimilated multiple cultures, policies , systems, and operations on multiple acquisitions

Grew cold chain daily delivery business with an existing retail client by over 50% by improving service, reducing costs, and implementing "best practices" processes.
Education / Skills MBA, Finance, Northern Illinois University
Association participation in Council of Supply Chain Professional Management and Warehousing and Research Council
Continuing education at Duke, Northwestern, and Michigan State Universities.


Name Jim
Phone 330-338-4938
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions EVP Supply Chain & Sales


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SVP Sales and Marketing


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VP Special Services (GM)


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Key Accomplishments 7 years board of director experience for a 500 million dollar public company





Education / Skills BA




Name Confidential
Phone 630-443-9522
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $175K +
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions National Sales Director
Rauland-Borg
Illinois
(Mfg. Communications syst)

Regional Sales Manager
Alcatel
Illinois
(Mfg. Telecom/Data syst)

Director Sales
SBC
Illinois
(Telecom/Data Com Services)

Key Accomplishments DIRECTOR / MANAGER - SALES Channel Management / B2B Consultative Sales / Acquisitions Market Niche Development / P&L Growth Strategies / Partnership Development Negotiations / Change Management Compliance

Drove double digit sales growth, developing successful strategies for companies in telecommunications, manufacturing, computer and high-tech industries. Started consultative sales organization, opening new channel to substantially increase reven

Implemented consultative sales model and opened new channels, increasing revenues 15% for Rauland-Borg. -Re-aligned sales team with distributor specialization, doubling channel revenue for Rauland-Borg in 90 days. -Reversed downward sales trend,

Education / Skills Key Skills: Strong communicator and motivator. Excellent recruiter and trainer. Intuitive decision maker. Action ori

MBA, Keller Graduate School. BS, Finance, Illinois State University.
University of Chicago Executive program- Strategic Sales Management, University Of Michigan Executive Business College

Name Robert
Phone 708-494-2461
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $101K - $125K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Controller
Weinstein Wholesale Meats Inc
Forest Park, Il
(Wholesale meat distributo)

CFO
Faip North America Inc
Elk Grove, Il
(Pressure washers and hose)

Controller
Gordon Kapes Inc
Skokie, Il
(Telecomm & audio control )

Key Accomplishments • Managed $5M to $10M A/R portfolio. Held A/R over 21 days to 8.5% and over 30 days to 1%. Achieved DSO of 18.25 days. • Formalized credit application process and performed credit research and analysis to approve set up of new customers and assign credit limits. Approved sales orders outside prescribed credit thresholds. • Established and managed credit hold function; instituted credit insurance over portfolio; enhanced credit management systems features to control A/R and restrict sales outside established parameters.

• Converted GL from Peachtree to in-house ERP system. Created company’s first ever monthly financial statements. Reduced monthly closing time to 11 days. • Created reporting of borrowing base, covenant reporting, and credit reporting. Converted payroll to online reporting. • Automated loan borrowing transactions and had bank assign us to dedicated customer service. • Held shrink on $5M inventory to under $10k. • Slashed A/R write offs from $350k in 2010 to $0 in 6 months

• Key team member that implemented 2 systems conversions to MAS 500 for 2 entities. • Selected and implemented new banking relationships. Reduced line of credit borrowing from $9M to under $5M. Implemented spending controls. Managed multiple bank audits. • Reduced inventory levels from $18M to $9M. Eliminated need for leased warehousing space. • Developed business plan for acquisition. Performed due diligence reviews of acquisition targets. Led acquisition financial integration

• Launched finished goods inventory count program resulting in 25% improvement in inventory record accuracy. Reduced inventory shrink loss 30%. Improved inventory record accuracy to 90% from under 30% via improving inventory part number, bill of materials, and production work order processes. Directed inventory planning team. • Reduced time to take physical inventory counts for 2 main businesses by 33% saving $10k. • Designed daily one-page summary report that informed customer service of future production dates and quantities enabling accur
Education / Skills masters project management from Keller BBA accounting from Loyola Green belt six sigma




Name Edward
Phone 708-308-3977
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Credit Manager, National
US Foodservice
Rosemont, IL
(Food distributor)

Regional Credit Manager
Ryerson
Chicago, IL
(Metal Distributor)

Credit Manager
Allscripts Healthcare
Chicago, IL
(Medical technology)

Key Accomplishments Leadership: Spearheaded turnaround strategies for troubled credit departments: Strategies included creatiom of policy throughout the Credit, Collections, and Sales functions, aggressive "clean up" of receivables, risk management and customer service

Risk Management: Lead financial modeling team to construct scorecards and cash flow metrics. Models enabled analysts to assign credit lines while simultaneously reducing risk 50% faster than previous methods.

Sales: Continuously worked with sales and upper management to develop leads, maintain profitability, and strengthen existing customer relations. Negotiations with fledging business resulted in $10 million in annual sales.

Process Improvement: Worked with Sales, IT and Finance to improve the auto release rate of sales orders; improved release rate from 15% to 78% within a 6 month period.
Education / Skills MBA, Finance - Lewis University
BA, Clinical Psychology - Governors State University
Additional certification in financial analysis, customer service and credit law from Dun and Bradstreet
Computer background includes: Microsoft Office, Mac O/S, PeopleSoft, SAP, CARMS, JD Edwards and IBM AS400 software

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