Santiago Garcia
Bakersfield
Summary
Dynamic Shipping/Receiving Manager with extensive experience at Allied Potato, excelling in supply chain optimization and team leadership. Proven track record in enhancing inventory management processes and achieving operational goals. Bilingual in English and Spanish, skilled in effective communication and problem-solving, driving efficiency in shipping coordination and order fulfillment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
SHIPPING/RECEIVING Manager
Allied potato
02.2021 - Current
- Review inventory reports to determine daily department staffing levels; reviews staffing plan with Inbound/Outbound.
- Responsible for supervising personnel receiving products, pulling orders, loading trucks for next-day delivery, and processing paperwork relating to product delivery.
- Supports safety programs to reduce or eliminate employee injuries.
- Ensure all incoming packaging materials stored properly and inspected.
- Meets with Supervisor/Manager daily to discuss goal attainment, inventory levels, and standard productivity executed.
- Leads all associates in achieving discussed goals.
- Supports recommendations on process improvement and may assist in implementation.
- Provide the job training, cross-training to new and existing associates on a consistent basis.
- Manages facility inventory and orders supplies as business needs.
- Operates computer, spreadsheet, word processing, and database applications to issue work orders, and prepare administrative and technical documents and reports, ensuring completeness and accuracy of all information.
PRODUCTION SCHEDULER
TASTEFUL SELECTIONS
10.2020 - 02.2021
- Managed order entry and inventory reports to schedule the production line.
- Collaborated with Sales team, Production team, Shipping team and Quality control on day-to-day basis.
- Made wash-line schedules to keep the tank capacities over 50%.
- Update inventory reports as needed to stay on track with the demand and changes.
- Print and upload schedules for operators and management team.
- Analyze tank capacity and production lines.
- Providing Sales and Shipping with updates on product ETA's and time availability.
- Analyzing inventory levels and product availability to schedule accordingly.
- Conducted physical and visual tank inventory to provide actual reporting to management at end of shift.
- Worked with inventory management to stage and have product ready for the next order.
- Worked with production team, and quality control to ensure best quality product.
- Assisted engineering with problem solving on new equipment.
TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR
GRIMMWAY FARMS
10.2016 - 08.2020
- Collaborated with Sales team, Production team, Shipping teams.
- Dispatched carrot harvesting loads for California, Colorado, and Washington facilities, over one hundred loads a day.
- Assigned delivery loads for Aldi, Trader Joe's, Costco.
- Checking inventory levels with third party warehouse.
- Tracking and scheduling shipments.
- Supervised company commercial drivers, monitor logs and DOT records.
- Tracked department weekly transportation costs.
- We participated in weekly meetings with shipping management to discuss prior challenges and plan for upcoming week.
- Monitored road conditions, construction zones, and accidents to improve our deliveries.
- Evaluated quarterly freight market conditions and prices for company deliveries.
- Built stronger shipper-carrier relationships.
- Verified and approved invoices for all freight loads.
- Data entry and time management for sixteen employees in the department.
- Assisted in covering every position in the department to fulfill the duties.
- Tracked and coordinated all information involving carrier accidents.
- Collaborated with carriers and insurance companies on claims and damaged equipment reports.
- Assisted in the development, evaluation, and upgrading of safety programs.
- Maintained and managed carrier compliance records.
- Inspected fleet equipment that was out of service and submitted work orders for repairs.
- Implemented equipment management forms for the company’s facilities.
TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR
GRIMMWAY FARMS
01.2011 - 10.2016
- Assigned direct shipment loads to customers.
- Worked together with Sales team, Production team, Shipping teams to fulfill products for orders in a timely manner.
- Set up and arrange 50-100 truckloads daily.
- Scheduled delivery appointments for freight carriers.
- Coordinated product transfer to/from all Grimmway facilities across California.
- Tracking deliveries and updating drivers with receiving information.
- Created Bill of ladings, Phyto’s, inspections and paperwork for all shipments.
SHIPPING LEAD
GRIMMWAY FARMS
06.2009 - 01.2011
- Oversee all shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and condition of shipments.
- Directed team to ensure orders are scanned and shipped properly.
- Cycle counts of inventory, ran inventory reports.
- Operated forklift to load and unload trucks.
- Trained and supervised dock loaders and inventory personnel.
- Collaborated with production team, quality control with proper product handling.
Education
High school -
Arvin high school
01.2007
Skills
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Coordination
- Supply Chain
- Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- Shipping and receiving
- Order processing
- Inventory management
- Supply chain optimization
- Shipping coordination
- Transportation logistics
- Production scheduling
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Employee training
- Problem solving
- Effective communication
- Team leadership
- Time management
- Order fulfillment
- Warehouse operations
- Shipping procedures
- Stock control
- Inventory reconciliation
- Material handling
- Transportation solution development
- Forklift operation
- Schedule management
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Professional
Timeline
SHIPPING/RECEIVING Manager
Allied potato
02.2021 - Current
PRODUCTION SCHEDULER
TASTEFUL SELECTIONS
10.2020 - 02.2021
TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR
GRIMMWAY FARMS
10.2016 - 08.2020
TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR
GRIMMWAY FARMS
01.2011 - 10.2016
SHIPPING LEAD
GRIMMWAY FARMS
06.2009 - 01.2011
High school -
Arvin high school