Russell Carlson has more than 30 years of experience in logistics and supply chain consulting with a successful record of providing “best in class” solution design and operations management for well known and respected manufacturing and distribution organizations such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Colgate-Palmolive, and Domino’s. He has demonstrated cross functional leadership enabling value added operations management and logistics process design and implementation across the transportation, physical distribution, and materials management disciplines. Functional skills include logistics procurement, logistics IT management, Lean/JIT process planning, project management, staff development and training, customer service leadership, and order fulfillment.

 

At Tagos, Russell is leveraging his experience to help clients optimize materials supply capabilities though improved planning, forecasting, and inventory control capabilities. He is developing and implementing supplier management practices to improve delivered performance, introducing enabling technologies that support material control, and designing organizational structures that support the center of excellence objectives of the client.

 

Prior to Tagos, Russell focused on operational management and process improvement. Russell has enhanced system capabilities through network, IT, and infrastructure improvements that enabled a robust materials deployment strategy, providing right time, right place, right product delivery and reducing inventory lead time by 25%. He returned over $43M in cost savings associated with process improvements and RFQ results and has directed operations from more than 40 worldwide supplier and fulfillments sites utilizing air and ocean services with an annual direct transportation spend of ~$270M, impacting approximately $15B in revenue. Russell served in the United States Marine Corps, Logistics and Infantry, for 11 years where he implemented and administered materials control procedures for a 1200 line item, $9 million inventory, maintaining appropriate stocking levels of hard goods, consumables, repair parts, and specialty items. Russell received his BA from East Carolina University.