Joshua Girle Bennett

• Developed community and stakeholder relationships.

Planned and executed community hubs, chair high-level stakeholder meetings and manage internal workshops.

• Oversaw inbound queries via community hotline, email, webform and face to face.
• Overhauled reporting to identify potential KPI and abatement breaches for total organisation resulting in $1,200,000 in savings for the company.
• Developed Power BI dashboard to illustrate changing enquiry trends and aged trends that saved 5 weekly hours in reporting comparisons.
• Facilitating Microsoft Dynamics 365 training sessions and developed training manual for over 40 new staff.

• Oversaw the movement of pet food product between factory, co-packer and third party logistics providers.
• Developed inventory control model which improved logistics delivery in full on time from 65% to 97%.
• Delivered seven additional hours per day of co-packing through leading production time and motion studies.
• Built Excel dashboard with SAP data to communicate to all business units correlations between co-packer and third party logistics provider performance.
• Consulted daily with key business units to meet Nestle customer supply requirements.

• Oversaw packaging forecasting and buying requirements for the weekly consumption of over 1.5 million units of cardboard and other packaging material.
• Overhauled 300 bill of materials to eliminate overbuying resulting in $1,500,000 of savings.
• Enhanced over 30 supplier contracts to reduce average SKU lead times from seven days to three days.
• Expeditiously adapted to changing factory production plans in a highly volatile supply chain environment.

• Implemented production scheduling for forecasting visibility resulting in 35% labour productivity gains.
• Overhauled the project management process to prioritise the completion of 90% of aged installations.
• Led continuous improvement initiatives to gain quick wins and improve quality, flow and output.
• Developed production and installation process flow, position descriptions and quality assurance guidelines.
• Resolved issues quickly through creative means to maintain production targets.