1. Address: Austell, GA 30168
Darron Sargent Phone: (404)895-2551
Email: Dlssargent@yahoo.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Supply chain professional with expertise in strategic sourcing, logistics, customer and supplier relationship management,
inventory management, order management, project management, and process improvement
Strengths:
 Developing and managing healthy relationships with new and existing clients
 Gathering, defining, and documenting business requirements for process and technology implementations
 Serving as a liaison between internal and external project stakeholders
 Conducting regular business reviews with clients to monitor clients’ satisfaction with projects, to identify risks and
opportunities, and to create action plans
 Creating and distributing status reports to stakeholders
 Facilitating meetings with mid and senior level management to report progress and project milestones
 Facilitatinginterview sessions, conducting data analysis, researching best practices, collecting benchmark data for current
and future state assessments for clients in a variety of industries
 Training clients and end-users on newly created processes and applications
 Cultivating negotiation skills through the project sales cycle, scope management, sourcing agreements, vendor
relationship management, and compliance monitoring
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Coca-Cola Refreshments, Atlanta, GA 2009 – Current
Procurement: Direct and Indirect Materials
 Developed and createdautomatic reporting models to improve transparency and reduce the need of ad-hoc reports
saving multiple hours per week
 Worked with and supported the rate negotiations for a 1 million, 3 million, and 5.25 million dollars decrease in
transportation spend. Key analytical team member responsible for year over year transportation spend.
 Assessed, managed, and executed circumstances that safeguarded continuity of supply for multiple products: Able to
make decisions under pressure with limited timing
 Created a model utilizing supplier information to extrapolate rates for all supply locations based upon cost per mile
by region to evaluate supplier’s hypothetical servicing capacity for the Coke HFCS network, enhancing strategic
negotiations
 Created a transportation model to support the load stabilization team with a national selection of suppliers that saved
a $700kdollars
 Supported the Point of Sales team with the needed operational requirements to validate a realistic savings
opportunity for their delivery network
 Formulated a usage to purchase ratio to gauge carbon dioxide efficiency of the bottling network. Developed a plan
to create automatic reporting to track yields and business impact
 Developed the contract framework with the Procurement Legal team for various third party suppliers
 Interfaced with suppliers and program stakeholders, prepared and communicated market information, and managed
monitored, and streamlined various analysis for Ingredients
o 10+ Suppliers, 130+ bottling locations, 6+ Ingredients
o Business Segmentation: 50 million to 900 million dollars in spend
 Lead negotiations with four suppliers for Honest Tea ingredients
CSC, Atlanta, GA 2005 – 2008
Consultant
Client List: BASF, DuPont, PetSmart, Hamilton Sundstrand, Home Depot, Siemens, Sonneborn, SouthCo, TIAA-CREF
 Conducted multiple business assessments in the manufacturing, chemical, financial, and transportation sectors
focusing on continuous process improvement opportunities
o Conducted functional interviews and presented findings of assessments and interviews to management
o Established business and system requirements, then led a vendor selection process for the appropriate
application
o Performed inventory right sizing, transportation, and procurement analysis
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2. Address: Austell, GA 30168
Darron Sargent Phone: (404)895-2551
Email: Dlssargent@yahoo.com
o Identified areas of improvement along with outlining the strategic timeline for the execution of future state
and best practice processes that aligned the organizations’ strategic goals with their daily operations.
o Created and defined new key performance indicators to create more procedural stage gates and tangible
operational measurements.
 Created an offline decision support, linear optimization tool using Visual Basic in Excel for Sonneborn’s
hydrocarbon production process that enabled business operation decisions to be made more effectively. The tool is
predicted to save the organization between $1 and $2 million dollars per year.
 Implemented new sales and operations and demand planning processes.
 Performed functional and system testing at Home Depot for the implementation of Manhattan Associates
Warehouse Management System (WMS). Executed scripts and tested the WMS to investigate issues. The project
consolidated information for over 50 distribution centers that allowed the organization to run more effectively.
 Managed the issues of a Manhattan Associates Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementation go-live at
PetSmart.
 Planned and designed training while also managing the project plan for Hamilton Sundstrand’s implementation of
RFID hardware equipment.
HOME DEPOT, Atlanta, GA 2003 – 2005
Logistics Analyst
 Worked on a cross-functional team to install scan guns in the receiving area at all Home Depot stores nationwide.
 Led the vendor compliance initiative for the logistics department by establishing relationships and tracking vendor’s
operational progress. Increased truckload and small package vendor compliance by 40% and 46% respectively.
 Designed a process to capture and analyze the capacity constraints of carriers for 37 distribution centers to
facilitate the negotiations with carriers. The savings opportunities were estimated at $3 million dollars.
 Identified and researched bid lanes that needed a primary carrier. Discovered an estimated savings of $1 million
dollars.
 Optimized facility-store assignments for distribution centers that saved $2 million dollars.
 Identified potential savings of a $500,000 dollars and a 30% reduction of miles traveled in one Home Depot store
market for the centralized fulfillment delivery network.
 Led, managed, and outlined the project timeline for the pickup, transit, and delivery of reset displays for store resets
that were valued at over $5 million dollars. Introduced pool distributions to the resets that decreased the amount of
shrink and damaged product.
 Designed and implemented automated Access applications that decreased run time from multiple hours to 1 hour by
applying Visual Basic to simplify weekly and monthly reports.
 Initiated individual training sessions with 5 associates to enable them to understand the system, the data, and the
operations of Home Depot’s truckload system.
COMPUTER SKILLS
MS Suite: Access, i2’s Strategist i2’s Transportation Quality Assurance: Database: SQL,
Excel, Project, (Supply Chain) Management System Test Director Visual Basic
Visio (TMS)
SAP’s APO SAP’s Contract Oracle’s TMS Minitab Manhattan
Management System Associate’s WMS
and TPM
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Six Sigma Green Belt - Southern Polytechnic State University, Certified April 2009
TRAINING
Leadership Boot Camp, Negotiations, Production and Inventory Management, Project Management, Toastmasters, SAP and
Oracle Overview Training, Process Mapping, Six Sigma Black Belt - Southern Polytechnic State University -
Training/Passed Test (Missed Certification Period)
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