Gary Lajoie
Procurement @Cancoil
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WORK HISTORY
Procurement @Cancoil
Kingston, ON, CA
EDUCATION
McGill University - Macdonald Campus
B.Sc, Agriculture
ABOUT GARY LAJOIE
Professional Profile An accomplished CPG professional experienced in managing the entire end-to-end supply chain process, including S & OP planning, procurement, production, warehousing and logistics. Creating and improving supply chain operations that are focused on exceptional customer service while maintaining financial discipline across the organization. Accomplishments Procurement Savings • For a start-up cannabis organization: o Established long term agreements with jar and vape suppliers reducing costs by over $250K o Consolidated logistics shipments resulting in over $300K in savings • For an East Coast folding carton manufacturing business o Reduced $500K in ink costs by using a vendor managed in house inventory and dispensing system Manufacturing efficiency • For a traditional Food company o Initiated and led a Capital Equipment project of $2.2 million to upgrade the nut butter line which increased line capacity by 218% without increasing labour requirements. o Introduced a modified SMED (single minute exchanged of dies) program to increase uptime efficiency by 15% for a 24/7 operations Supply Chain efficiency • For a pharmaceutical organization: o Managed the S & OP process, upgraded the supply chain organization and process which resulted in increasing inventory turns from 1 to 4 and increasing order fulfillment from the mid 60’s to 95%
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