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Wayne J Dwyer
7 Romsey Street
Reservoir, Victoria 3073
Mobile: 0439007636
Schatzi_1@outlook.com
CAREER PROFILE
An experienced Senior Logistics professional versed in all aspects of Logistics Management
Great exposure and participation in company inventory control, and Customer Service.
Strong Leadership skills and experience, coupled with alignment to Corporate Vision and
Goals. Well developed negotiating ability. Conduct analysis of activities looking for areas of
Continuous Improvement and cost reduction.
Excellent team building skills. Strong capability to work independently. Experienced in
working across cultures.
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Leadership Team, Asia Pacific Supply Chain
Operations Team, OH&S team, Office Safety Team Leader and Site Manufacturing
Leadership Team.
Key Competencies
Logistics
Excellent understanding of all aspects of Supply Chain activities and the
interconnectivity and impact of one upon the other.
Leadership
Experience in recruiting and building strong focussed Logistic team. Assist teams in
goal setting in line with Modal and Corporate vision. Employee development
experience coupled with Performance assessments.
Cost Centre Budgets
Working budgets up from first principles. Predicting month by month costs and
explaining any reasons for variations.
Cross functional Relationships
Working cross functionally - Commercial/Sales, Controllers, EH & S, Manufacturing,
HR to achieve the overall direction, goals of the company locally and as a whole.
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Customer Focussed
Worked as the Australia and New Zealand Customer Service Manager in addition to
Supply Chain Operation Manager responsibilities for 4 years.
Led the Customer Service team through ISO 900 accreditation. Centralised some
functional activities to Shanghai, to reduce workload to allow greater focus on
customers.
Change Management - Project Management
Led the implementation of the SAP function of Material Flow in the Asia Pacific
Region across 14 countries 16 manufacturing plants for Milestone1a. Milestone 1c
for the Electronic business in various countries including manufacturing plants in
Japan and Korea. Milestone 3 included 18 heritage Dow manufacturing sites, 15+
major office locations and 250+ warehouse and contract manufacturing sites and 2
joint ventures
Led teams through constant change management initiatives that were driven
globally or as a result of company takeovers of other chemical companies.
4 PL Management – (Styron)
For and on behalf of separate legal entity represented them in all aspects of their
logistics activities. Including the negotiation of contracts. Acting as a 4th party
logistics provider.
CAREER OVERVIEW
Air Liquide Australia (1974 – 1988)
Despatch/Asset Control - Victorian Logistics Supervisor- National Transport Manager
Dow Chemical Australia (1988 – 2014)
Southern States Distribution Supervisor
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
Project Manager for Asia Pacific Perfect Order Project Steps 1-5
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
And Customer Service Manager
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
Asia Pacific Material Flow Regional Leader
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Australia and New Zealand Supply Chain Operation Project Leader
CAREER HISTORY
October 1974 – May 1988
AIR LIQUIDE
World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide
is present in 80 countries with close to 50,000 employees and serves more than 2
million customers and patients globally.
Despatch Officer/Asset Controller - Victorian Distribution Supervisor
National Transport Manager
Responsibilities
Preparing vehicle manifests for daily deliveries
Working with Production on availability of products required
Allocation of short product
Customer Liaison regarding short deliveries
Organising Same Day Deliveries
Organising “Milk” runs for Regional Distributor network
Scheduling “Milk” runs for bulk liquid gases, state wide
Assisting customer pick up
Back up Customer Service
Stock reconciliation
Invoice processing
Managed after hour call outs for Medical patients
Customer site visits for stock count purposes
Staff recruitment and training
Budgets
Tender Preparation
Contract Negotiation
Fleet utilisation Scheduling of Bulk Liquid tanker fleet from Sydney and South
Australia to service National Bulk Liquid requirements.
Enforcing vehicle maintenance activities as per contract
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Key Achievements
Maximised utilisation of assets
Close relationship with customers
Charged customers for call outs – Previously poorly managed
Liaison with Hospital Purchasing Departments regarding home patient excessive use
of product and excessive AH call out.
Charged for lost assets
Increased customer accounts for extra assets on site
Reduced provision of Certificate of Analysis, by introducing charges
Negotiated contracts for Regional and local cartage – Savings in the order of $50k
p.a.
Introduced manual systemof calculating vehicle total delivery times and maximised
loading – result being reduction of extra vehicles by utilising some vehicles for
second loads and Same Day Service.
Prepared and wrote bulk Liquid driver manuals and operating procedures
Over saw new ADG legislative requirements into transportation of products
Absorbed CARBA Australia company takeover into logistic operations without any
loss of service
Introduction of Vertical Loading system
Asset ID system for Bulk Liquid Cryogenic tankers
May 1988 – Dec 2014
Dow Chemical Australia Pty. Ltd.
Southern States Distribution Supervisor
Initially rationalising the existing set up (Plant based) into a central modal
organisation without loss of service – 6 roles into 2
Recruiting and preparing and a team from the rationalisation base into a
cohesive focussed results oriented team with accompanying expertise.
Building better relationships with suppliers, holding them accountable for
service levels.
Renegotiating performance based contracts.
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
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Rationalising warehouse base- Closed 3 warehouses holding minimal
inventory.
Stock takes and reconciliation
Worked closely with Pacific area team for the first SAP implementation in
Asia Pacific. Taking advantage of new features in SAP. Auto notification to
carriers.
Budget preparation from first principles.
Employee goal setting and performance reviews
Capital projects – Heated store on site – Saving $250,000.00 p.a.
Installation of site weighbridge – Saving of $25,000.00 p.a. (no need to travel
off site for weigh and possible overweight underweight scenarios
Through negotiation held carrier rates for 5 years without significant increase
in major routes.
Encourage new players into the Dangerous Goods storage for competition in
the market
Heavily involved in the negotiation with suppliers other competitors and
State Government in the moving and building new bulk Liquid tanks at Coode
Island after the major fire
Encouraged and assisted in the move of Customer Service function to be
closer to Logistics to remove barriers.
Responsible for accuracy of Customer Consignment stocks.
Wrote warehouse bulk liquid terminals and Transport procedure manuals for
use by same in order they understand Dows requirements clearly.
Member of Australia and New Zealand Leadership team.
Member Altona Manufacturing Leadership team.
Member Asia Pacific supply chain Operations Leadership team.
Asia Pacific Mode Manager for Road Transport and Warehouse
I was offered project role before I could take up this role.
Project Manager for Asia Pacific Perfect Order Project Steps 3-5 of 7
Reviewed every plant in Asia Pacific for their work processes pertaining to
Road transport and warehouse with a view to standardisation across the Asia
Pacific and eventually Global. Project cancelled after 2 years
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
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And Customer Service Manager
Centralised various non value adding activities (Internal overseas orders and
transfers) to Hong Kong to allow customer Service Representatives to focus
on customers.
Realigned CSR’s to businesses
Managed the customer service activities and Logistic activities for Styron
Australia.
Member Asia Pacific Customer Service Leadership team.
Australian and New Zealand Supply Chain Operations Manager
And Asia Pacific Material Flow Regional Leader
Australia and New Zealand Supply Chain Operation Project Leader
EDI project to have data transferred to and from suppliers. Greater efficiency
and time saving. – Savings of $100,000.00 p.a.
Aligning heritage Rohm and Haas logistics set up in SAP to mirror Dow set up.
Greater transparency of costs.
Investigated proposed and implemented Dow Chemical Japan and Electronic
Materials Japan synergies into one Logistics organisation- saving $240,000.0
p.a.
Work with manufacturing manager and Business development manager to
market land on the manufacturing site to 3rd parties- Ongoing
Wrote accounts payable procedures for Logistics after new system
implemented to remove slow, non-payment of suppliers.
Provide data and guidance for businesses to review their cost structure in
Australia and New Zealand.
Logistics Spend Responsibility
Australia New Zealand
USD
Bulk Marine and Terminals $5,619,370 $517,009
Customs $2,606,899 $7,341,742
FF customs $3,895,607 $1,039,050
Not assigned $3,154,116 $753,877
Rail $450,942 $1,967
Transport & Warehousing $14,871,421 $1,333,451
$30,598,355 $10,987,096
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REFEREES can be supplied as required.
Examples of In House Courses
Distribution Risk Management
International Trade – Compliance Overview
Introduction to Supply Chain
Working in Team and Groups
Managing Remote Teams
Performance Management
Respect and Responsibility
Six sigma champion Training
Six Sigma Green Belt Training