Dewayne Rader
Chief Operating Officer
- Role
- Chief Operating Officer at The Resource Group, Spend Management Solutions
- Location
- Powell, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dewayne Rader
The Resource Group is a change management organization that lowers the cost of providing quality healthcare by continually innovating resource and supply management and committing to service excellence. As the Chief Operating Officer, Dewayne is responsible for daily Logistics and Supply Operations, Sterile Processing Operations, Pharmaceutical Support Services, Supply Resilience, and Master Data. Dewayne leads 2,500+ associates at 160+ locations that serve acute hospital inventory management and logistics, sterile processing, pharmaceutical logistics, supplier performance, operations data integrity, ambulatory distribution, courier coordination, freight management, ERP deployment and enhancement.
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
The Resource Group, Spend Management Solutions
Feb 2023 — Present · TN, US
My team is responsible for directly managing and optimizing all functions to acquire, manage inventory and distribute $3B of supplies as well as sterile processing of 740+ million instruments annually. My team also deploys and manages the pharmacy logistics solution for $1.6B of pharmaceuticals along with maintaining the operational data integrity for 4.6 million items. Other managed functions include managing supplier performance, developing and deploying tools to increase supply chain resilience, courier coordination, freight management, ERP deployment and enhancement.
Education
Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee
Bachelor of Science, Supply Chain
1996 — 2001
Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Supply Chain; Finance
2010 — 2011
Skills
- Procurement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Leadership
- Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Warehousing
- 3pl
- Transportation
- Training
- Logistics
- Transportation Management
- Vendor Management
- Process Improvement
- Inventory Management
- Contract Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Data Analysis
- Six Sigma
- Logistics Management
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Operations Management
- Analysis
- Change Management
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