Josh Samples
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Josh Samples is from Bellevue, Washington, United States. Josh works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Higher Education", "Retail", and "Logistics & Supply Chain". Josh is currently Senior Manager, Procurement, Amazon Logistics at Amazon, located in Bellevue, Washington, United States. In Josh's previous role as a Manager, Procurement, Amazon Logistics at Amazon, Josh worked in Bellevue, Washington, United States until Apr 2021. Prior to joining Amazon, Josh was a Manager - Packaging Lab, Customer Packaging Experience at Amazon and held the position of Manager - Packaging Lab, Customer Packaging Experience at Seattle, WA. Prior to that, Josh was a Senior Program Manager - Supply Chain at Amazon, based in Greater Seattle Area from Sep 2014 to Jan 2017. Josh started working as Senior Project Manager at Starbucks in Seattle, Washington in May 2014. From Oct 2013 to May 2014, Josh was Project Manager at Starbucks, based in Seattle, WA. Prior to that, Josh was a Senior Distribution Analyst at Starbucks, based in Seattle, WA from May 2011 to Sep 2013. Josh started working as Consultant at Manhattan Associates in USA and Canada in Aug 2008.
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Lead a team of customer-obsessed Lab Technicians to test and certify items to ship with less or zero (SIOC) packaging. Managed an advanced industrial testing and design lab and launched a materials testing lab while expanding a team to 24-hour operations and scaling 3rd party testing.
Project Management focused on supply chain improvements for oversized (heavy / bulky) products.
Managed cross-functional projects to achieve logistics cost savings and unlock new capabilities. Focused on Transportation scheduling and consolidation, distribution best-practices and network analysis.
Managed cross-functional projects focused on freight-consolidation, customer experience, and distribution network and fulfillment modeling.
May 2011-May 2012: Network Improvement, Warehouse Management Systems May 2012-October 2013: Outbound Distribution Operations -Implemented Warehouse Management System (WMS) and provided key deliverables in a number of areas of the project including requirements gathering and design, configuration and testing, change management and user training, go-live performance monitoring and reporting. -Worked cross-functionally to coordinate logistics for five different seasonal promotions, as well as a number of new product and new customer launches. -Drove adoption of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool dramatically improving customer service level performance across all North American regional distribution centers. -Helped coordinate Hurricane Sandy logistics relief effort for Northeast distribution center -Held regularly scheduled weekly and daily calls with field management to better prepare distribution network and address operational issues. -Developed standard operating procedures, queries, reports, and documentation to empower other employees with information and process consistency. -Improved execution and capabilities with regards to order fulfillment to B2B customers, reduced fines, and drove financial growth for the channel business units.
Implemented warehouse management software and industry best practices in multiple channels including direct-to-consumer, B2B, retail distribution, reverse logistics, and omnichannel fulfillment.
Implemented Manhattan Associates Warehouse Management for Open Systems WMOS v2008 and v2009 software. Also developed skills in command line and pulling data (PL/SQL Developer, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Tools, Aqua Data Studio.) Gained technical proficiency Microsoft Office suite.
-Handle technical queries using critical thinking approach for site accessed over 50,000 times daily. -Test software integration and fix-test new versions and updates. -Innovate Help system by developing more complete Knowledge Base of common issues. -Developed Wiki page and over 100 articles to allow users to share helpful tips with others. -Administrated over server outages and performance issues.
International Internship / Special projects manager -Proofread legal and marketing documents -Managed storage, transportation, inventory control of promotional materials -Took minutes at top-level executive board meetings -Prepared presentations for air-finance conferences such as the Paris -Air Show and Middle East and Africa Airfinance Conference
Worked a variety of front-of-house and back-of-house functions including: Sales Floor (Hardlines, Electronics, and Softlines,) Backroom, Guest Service, Cashier, Asset Protection, Telephone Operator, Fitting Rooms, Cart Attendant. Trained dozens of other employees in the above functions.