Zachary Leonhardi
Dry Branch
Summary
Resourceful Logistics Leader bringing proven record of success in coordinating Inventory Control, Management, Assembly teams. Handles issues proactively and creatively to mitigate risks and maintain schedules. Works with internal and on-site teams to resolve concerns and sustain customer satisfaction.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Pre-Installation Supervisor
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
05.2023 - Current
- Conducting all systematic UAT testing as well as physical start up of NA Pre-installation branch to deliver on time for ORH3 and DAB2 projects in our first year
- Responsible for production planning, including management and flexible plan adjustments in response to changing customer demands
- Responsible for inventory management, including placing sales orders, managing work orders, maintaining inventory levels in accordance with production plan, and inventory control for the PI60000 branch
- Responsible for assembly team, including up to 15 assemblers, managing output and reporting, countermeasures to meet customer demands, and KPI reporting to Amazon Supply members and project managers
- Responsible for logistics team, including 2 material handlers within Pre-Installation department, management of material replenishment to the work cells, rework, quality assurance, receiving and shipping of materials, as well as customer service for any nonconforming or damaged materials
- Identified systematic issues leading to order messages for unneeded materials, escalated and managed situation to prevent the over-ordering of over $500k worth of materials, avoiding unnecessary stock on hand, man hours lost to assembling unneeded assemblies, and obsolete stock sitting in the warehouse branch and the space issues associated
- To date department has received only 2 omni-trackers (quality escapes) reported by site management over the course of 4 delivered projects
- Managing all systematic bill of materials, and routing creation and maintenance within JDE
- Managing all component and assembly costing and cost maintenance in JDE
- Managing all master data creation and management for items in the branch within JDE
- Annual planning with Amazon supply to ensure teams readiness to supply all Amazon project bundles on time, Including manpower planning and equipment planning, as well as collaborating on lessons learned to continuously improve department performance
- Supporting material sourcing efforts to lower costs and ensure cost effectiveness to projects
- Collaboration with engineering and R&D teams to smoothly roll out new product types within the DOT-M product line
- Collaboration with Central Material Planning, Amazon Supply team, and project leadership to identify shortcomings and offer flexible solutions to best meet the project teams needs
Inventory Control Lead
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
10.2021 - 05.2023
- My process improvements resulted in branch 60001 inventory 4 weekly moving average value accuracy from 92% to 99.92%
- Improved branch plant 60001 stock location accuracy metric from 7% in July 2021, to 80% in Nov 2022.
- Lead team of 6 inventory controllers to assess root cause inventory losses, develop and implement new processes, implement daily cycle counting program and daily audit plan for the Amazon warehouse stock of over 2,000 SKU’s with a value greater than $20,000,000
- Implemented processes working directly with Inbound supervisor, stock control supervisor, Picking supervisor, and Warehouse manager to vastly reduce inventory losses
- Worked with the Finance department to established cycle count variance approval authorization scale
- Reported monthly stock difference explanations to the Finance department
- Responsible for quickly identifying and resolving “911” issues with direct communication from Supply chain logistics manager
- Communications with Supply Chain Coordinators and control tower members over stock issues directly impacting critical demand for project sites
- Participated in the annual performance reviews for 6 inventory controllers
- Handled PTO approval for inventory control team
- Managed the investigating all picker reported “not in location items (NIL)”, completing stock adjustments and reconciliation within 48 hours
- Collaborated with Process Improvement manager to write formal SOP’s and training documents for inventory control team
- Managing consolidation efforts to maximize picking ergonomics and inventory accuracy, as well as space utilization
- Managing multiple stock migration projects, including color code additions, stock levels for multiple version of item numbers to satisfy demand requirements for both
- Tasked to find the root cause of the $10mm of financial loss for branch plant 60001 recognized during the July 2021 wall to wall. Determined it was related to a process issue and I introduced daily/weekly/bi-weekly auditing procedures to monitor and police both physical stock movements from inbound/outbound teams, as well as virtual locations
- Developed a wall to wall inventory plan with Finance and Supply Chain management to be conducted while moving both Amazon and Airport/Parcel buildings and integrate stock in to single new building
- Completed the move from NADC2 (Amazon building) in under 5 weeks against the budgeted 9 weeks schedule
- Created cycle count KPI’s, requested by finance, updated and reviewed daily to ensure finance’s confidence in our inventory control
- Was tasked as the warehouse SME for both the Q4 PWC external audit and the Q2 internal audit
Stock Controller
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES Manufacturing, NA
04.2021 - 10.2021
- Responsible for goods receipt for inbound in Manufacturing (systematic and unloading)
- Managed filing of all inbound good receipts – BOL’s, packing slips etc
- Conducted physical inventory cycle counts and performed root cause analysis for counting differences
- Direct communication with purchasing manager to address issues regarding specific suppliers’ shipments, documentation, and issues with receipts
- Managed investigations for not received PO issues aged greater than 1 year, PO’s missing due dates not showing received in system, finding resolutions to these lines to minimize financial loss on MFG stock, and to prevent credit holds
- 1 of 2 MFG employees picked to assist physical distribution in data entry for their wall to wall over two buildings (Amazon stock and airport/parcel stock)
- One of 6 employees between MFG and PhD picked to participate in a 3-week 2nd shift special project to assist physical distribution in catching up on their Amazon project shipping backlogs. Acted as interim shift lead for the project, our team had higher output with 2 pickers than 1st shift team had with 6 pickers and exceeded expected goals for output to reduce backlog
Physical Distribution Employee
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
04.2020 - 04.2021
- Responsible for goods receipt for inbound in physical distribution (systematically and unloading)
- Communicated with buyers regarding PO discrepancies and PO troubleshooting
- Responsible for internal allocation of material to project sites and transactions in relation with shipping, as well as loading outbound trucks
- Responsible for receipt of good from Vanderlande Manufacturing, verification of packing lists, and reporting/troubleshooting differences
- Developed and computerized filing system to eliminate the need for physical filing paperwork
- Maintained filing for all inbound and shipping records including BOL’s, Packing slips etc
- Created training documents for JDE receiving, transactions, and colli, functions to vastly decrease training time for new employees
- Managed wall to wall physical inventory for branch plant 60001 for Amazon inventory – count planning, data entry, recounts, reconciliation, and final reporting
- Managed transactions, planning, and truckload logging of material during move in to new building for airport and parcel stock
Sales Associate
Fastenal Company
11.2019 - 04.2020
- Retail counter sales
- Customer quoting and invoicing
- Inventory stocking, counting, returns
- Deliveries to Fastenal customers in the Fastenal delivery vehicle
- Stocking of Fastenal branded vending machines at Fastenal customer locations
- Warehousing – loading and unloading using a forklift
Package Handler
FedEx Corporation
11.2019 - 04.2020
- Loading of over the road trailers with load out performance goals
- Picking of the “incompatible belt” (oversized and overweight packages)
- Maintained a 99.5% scanning rate
- Received 6 “blue light” bonuses. This is awarded to employees who can load out a trailer to 95% capacity per the loading instructions within the allotted time
Education
High School -
Woodland High School
Skills
- JDE modules
- Hubble reporting software
- Appshare
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Root Cause Analysis/Counter measures
- Preventative Measures
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Word
- SharePoint
Timeline
Pre-Installation Supervisor
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
05.2023 - Current
Inventory Control Lead
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
10.2021 - 05.2023
Stock Controller
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES Manufacturing, NA
04.2021 - 10.2021
Physical Distribution Employee
VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, NA
04.2020 - 04.2021
Sales Associate
Fastenal Company
11.2019 - 04.2020
Package Handler
FedEx Corporation
11.2019 - 04.2020
High School -
Woodland High School