Tom Ashdown

Tom Ashdown is a graduate from the prestigious John Carroll University and Senior Manager for Transportation Management Group, Inc. Tom has extensive experience in all major facets of logistics and distribution which is complimented by a strong background in safety, health/environmental issues, and costing procedures for assessing performance.

In industry, Tom has spent years in manufacturing, chemicals and coatings businesses where he led an onslaught of process improvement programs. Most notably, he has managed technical solution implementations, which included Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Production Inventory Control Systems, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.

Tom's armlong list of client engagements include Universal Studios, The Glidden Company, The Limited and Technicolor.

Prominent Strengths

• Warehouse Site Location: the ability to successfully negotiate both property leases and public warehouse contracts for customer service operations.
• Warehouse Consolidation & Optimization: Assess distribution systems to eliminate unnecessary warehousing and to integrate manufacturing and distribution.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): develops programs to assess customer order profiles and evaluates customer ordering patterns, to streamline work processes and eliminate non value added activities.
• Transportation: Evaluate and recommends strategies to establish pool distribution, approach to order delivery; and create programs to assess carrier delivery performance.