International Transportation
- Negotiated a service contract with ANERA (a conference
of steamship lines) that reduced freight cost by 24% for a
specialty retail chain in Illinois. The contract was
moved from an NVOCC to lanes specific carriers.
- Established a West Coast warehouse to handle the flow
of import goods from Asia to the retail stores. The company
was able to continue operating in the existing facilities without
expanding the central distribution operation.
- Reduced import freight costs 31% over a two-year period
by Negotiating contracts with ANERA (a liner conference). Managed
their Import Division.
- Reduced the import costs by $1.76 million by developing
a multi vendor and country consolidation program in Asia resulting
in shipments to 480 stores for a specialty retail chain.
- Designed and implemented an international transportation
network, targeting delivery of retail product to cruise ship
ports around the world
- Reduced costs by $3.1 million on a spend of $20 million
and shortened the lead-time by 6 days for the flow of merchandise
from origin to the distribution centers for a specialty retail
chain in Houston. Moving the management of the import operations
from an NVOCC to an internal group generated the savings.
- Negotiated new contracts with Import Freight forwarders,
reducing the overall cost to handle import merchandise 11%.
- Designed a Direct to Store program to consolidate multi-vendor
product in Asia and ship directly to the retail stores. Savings
were generated at a rate of $800 - $1,400 per container
- Implemented a C-TPAT program in accord with US Customs
