Ryan Cain

● Spearheaded development of automated ordering for Micro Fulfillment Centers, driving a 40% reduction in fulfillment costs (from $0.87 to $0.52 per unit) by integrating third-party robotic Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS).
● Orchestrated the consolidation of 80+ business and technical requirements into a comprehensive Product Requirement Document (PRD), serving as the foundation for seven design documents evaluated by 20+ senior leaders.
● Instituted capacity guardrails… Show more

● Spearheaded development of automated ordering for Micro Fulfillment Centers, driving a 40% reduction in fulfillment costs (from $0.87 to $0.52 per unit) by integrating third-party robotic Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS).
● Orchestrated the consolidation of 80+ business and technical requirements into a comprehensive Product Requirement Document (PRD), serving as the foundation for seven design documents evaluated by 20+ senior leaders.
● Instituted capacity guardrails within ASRS, mitigating over-ordering risks, optimizing space utilization, and enhancing system stability by aligning order volumes with storage constraints.
● Transformed end-to-end replenishment workflows, elevating inventory accuracy and reducing labor costs through automated procurement, forecasting overrides, and exception handling. Show less

● Fostered creation and launch of Variable Weight ordering capabilities, unlocking a $21.6M annual entitlement by enhancing in-stock performance, labor efficiency, and shrink reduction across 530 stores and 728K items.
● Eliminated manual ordering and streamlined perishable inventory management by delivering mobile ordering application.
● Wrote pivotal discovery whitepapers, identifying 40 critical implementation requirements and utilizing data analysis to prioritize product development… Show more

● Fostered creation and launch of Variable Weight ordering capabilities, unlocking a $21.6M annual entitlement by enhancing in-stock performance, labor efficiency, and shrink reduction across 530 stores and 728K items.
● Eliminated manual ordering and streamlined perishable inventory management by delivering mobile ordering application.
● Wrote pivotal discovery whitepapers, identifying 40 critical implementation requirements and utilizing data analysis to prioritize product development while mitigating technical debt.

● Optimized the store ordering tool, enhancing user experience, cost-awareness integration, and supplier scheduling, while introducing out-of-stock and substitution workflows to improve reordering accuracy and efficiency. Show less

●Led the launch of a new receiving mobile application, streamlining acknowledgment workflows for store team members and enabling bulk, pallet, and PO line-level receiving, reducing product receiving time from two hours to one hour, saving 30 minutes per full truckload.
●Drove the rollout of credit PO functionality, allowing team members to issue credit POs for missing, short, or damaged products, cutting execution time from 20 to 10 minutes per transaction and improving vendor… Show more

●Led the launch of a new receiving mobile application, streamlining acknowledgment workflows for store team members and enabling bulk, pallet, and PO line-level receiving, reducing product receiving time from two hours to one hour, saving 30 minutes per full truckload.
●Drove the rollout of credit PO functionality, allowing team members to issue credit POs for missing, short, or damaged products, cutting execution time from 20 to 10 minutes per transaction and improving vendor reconciliation.
●Supported the introduction of guided cycle counting, automating cycle task triggers based on key events (e.g., continued transactions despite a system on-hand balance of zero), enhancing inventory accuracy and reducing over-ordering risk by enabling store leaders to dispatch tasks directly to team members’ devices. Show less

● Directed $6M launch of a 3P supplier-facing transportation system, integrating Blue Yonder’s TMS to streamline inbound logistics for Small Parcel (SP) and Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) shipments, enhancing efficiency across 200+ Amazon sites.
● Delivered $150K in cost savings within the first two months by shifting freight costs from suppliers, automating freight payments, and enhancing shipment visibility, achieving a 99% delivery success rate across 39 U.S. states.
● Accelerated supplier… Show more

● Directed $6M launch of a 3P supplier-facing transportation system, integrating Blue Yonder’s TMS to streamline inbound logistics for Small Parcel (SP) and Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) shipments, enhancing efficiency across 200+ Amazon sites.
● Delivered $150K in cost savings within the first two months by shifting freight costs from suppliers, automating freight payments, and enhancing shipment visibility, achieving a 99% delivery success rate across 39 U.S. states.
● Accelerated supplier shipment creation by 44% for SP and 28% for LTL, driving 77% increase in throughput through Coupa-TMS integration, PO trigger logic, and systematic data flow controls.
● Established UPS API and EDI 204/214 integration, enabling compliant shipping label generation, real-time carrier tracking, and automated invoice reconciliation, ensuring financial accuracy and operational scalability. Show less

● Directed optimization of Amazon’s container yard operations across seven major U.S. ports, enhancing procurement efficiency, yard allocation, real-time data visibility, and financial controllership, mitigating congestion and capacity risks.
● Negotiated contracts with 3P logistics providers, securing bundled pricing 10% below average bid, reducing costs by 9% against R&O budgets and preventing $4M in potential expenses.
● Developed a data-driven yard space model, optimizing container… Show more

● Directed optimization of Amazon’s container yard operations across seven major U.S. ports, enhancing procurement efficiency, yard allocation, real-time data visibility, and financial controllership, mitigating congestion and capacity risks.
● Negotiated contracts with 3P logistics providers, securing bundled pricing 10% below average bid, reducing costs by 9% against R&O budgets and preventing $4M in potential expenses.
● Developed a data-driven yard space model, optimizing container volume forecasts, dwell times, and carrier performance, improving peak season readiness and minimizing congestion risks during supply chain disruptions.
● Reduced detention and demurrage costs, preventing $50M in potential annual fees, while securing 20K FEUs across 6.4M sq. ft. of leased yard space, ensuring scalable and cost-efficient logistics operations during high-demand periods. Show less

● Led the initiative to identify, onboard, and pilot drayage carriers for Amazon Relay, optimizing containerized freight movement from ports to inbound cross-docks.
● Developed and executed a pilot for Relay for Global Mile, integrating middle mile and global mile systems to create a unified planning and execution platform.
● Enabled Global Mile to post demand on the load board, allowing carriers to book port terminal appointments, execute deliveries, and provide real-time appointment… Show more

● Led the initiative to identify, onboard, and pilot drayage carriers for Amazon Relay, optimizing containerized freight movement from ports to inbound cross-docks.
● Developed and executed a pilot for Relay for Global Mile, integrating middle mile and global mile systems to create a unified planning and execution platform.
● Enabled Global Mile to post demand on the load board, allowing carriers to book port terminal appointments, execute deliveries, and provide real-time appointment visibility within Relay.
● Expanded Amazon’s drayage capacity beyond dedicated third-party carriers and 1P assets by leveraging a flexible, scalable load board model.
● Delivered key pilot insights that informed a feature backlog to advance the product to an MLP state, including automating port appointments, managing port payment fees, and enabling empty container returns as a third-leg transportation flow. Show less

●Negotiated $120M in supplier contracts with Zep, Gojo, Grainger & Fastenal, securing 20,000+ pallet spaces through 3PL partnerships (NFI, UNIS) to maintain business continuity across Amazon’s fulfillment centers during the pandemic.
●Improved inventory strategy, mitigating excess supply, exiting underperforming contracts, and repurposing or donating $3M in surplus inventory to Feeding America.
●Achieved $1.3M procurement cost reduction by optimizing supplier partnerships with PPE… Show more

●Negotiated $120M in supplier contracts with Zep, Gojo, Grainger & Fastenal, securing 20,000+ pallet spaces through 3PL partnerships (NFI, UNIS) to maintain business continuity across Amazon’s fulfillment centers during the pandemic.
●Improved inventory strategy, mitigating excess supply, exiting underperforming contracts, and repurposing or donating $3M in surplus inventory to Feeding America.
●Achieved $1.3M procurement cost reduction by optimizing supplier partnerships with PPE vendors, improving delivery timelines and transitioning away from unreliable vendors. Show less

● Directed cross functional teams of 10+ to meet deliverables for each phase of the project and achieve schedule deadlines
● Developed and executed scope, schedule, cost, resource, risk, quality, procurement, stakeholder, and communication plans

● Gathered data justification, developed project charter, and organized events to reduce $250K of material waste within process
● Utilized strengths within team members to identify waste, try-storm countermeasures, implement changes, and sustain results