Benjamin Church

About Benjamin Church

Guiding the sales team on how supply chain challenges and trends will impact our…

Experience

1. Logistics Planning Manager

   King & Prince Seafood

   Sep 2016 — Present · Brunswick, GA, US

   Managing inbound raw materials and outbound shipments to customers in a fast-moving production environment.• Redesigning processes and introducing more competition to reduce overall freight spend per pound shipped. • Working closely with procurement to forecast demand for transfers, raw materials, and outbound shipments. • Utilizing technical skills to isolate data from multiple systems that can be used to support root cause analysis of service level anomalies and forecasting errors. • Developing, tracking, and presenting key performance indicators that are effective at illuminating successes or failures to our senior management team. • Mentoring and professional development for the logistics department staff members. • Decreasing costs of inbound and outbound intermodal, refrigerated, and dry van shipments. • Demand planning and distribution management over multiple warehouses.

Education

• University of North Florida

  Certified in Transportation and Logistics (CTL)

  2015 — 2015

• University of North Florida

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

  2011 — 2014

Skills

• Third-Party Logistics (3pl)
• Transportation and Logistics Management.
• Freight Forwarding
• Excellent Time Management.
• Interchange Agreement Negotiation.
• Container
• 3pl
• Truckload Shipping
• Ability to Understand and Negotiate Complex Agreements.
• Mentoring
• Quick Decision Making.
• Ltl Shipping
• Problem Solving
• Operations Management
• Demand Planning
• Truckload
• Supply Chain Management
• Logistics Management
• Web-Based Research
• Customer Service
• Shipping
• Ltl
• Effective Problem Solving.
• Demand Forecasting
• Load Planning
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Logistics
• Transportation Management
• Freight
• Port Security
• Effective Utilization of Access Databases for Tracking and Reporting.
• Strong Customer Service Skills.
• Mitigating Risk Associated with Less Profitable Modes or Lanes.
• Supply Management
• Inventory Management
• Warehouse Management Systems
• Freight Bids
• Developing Strategies to Exploit High Margin Freight Opportunities.
• Container Shipping
• Container Drayage