President
A 35+ year veteran in the International supply chain space, is President of Allport Cargo Services USA Inc, part of the Cargo Services Group, the largest privately held Hong Kong based 3PL. Bill started his career on the ocean carrier side of the business with Hapag-Lloyd and American President Lines and later spent 5 years in Hong Kong leading APL’s consolidation entity, APL Logistics.
In 1996, he founded United States Consolidation Ltd. which he sold to Exel/DHL in 2002 and in the past 10 years has held several executive level positions leading the end to end supply products for global forwarders Kuehne + Nagel and Ceva Logistics. Bill and his team lead the development of the “below the box” functionality of the Infor Nexus platform in 2006/7 and are considered one of the most experienced and proficient 3PL platform providers on the platform today.
Executive Vice President
Lisa Schraer, Executive Vice President based in our US Headquarters in Bloomfield, NJ began her logistics career on the customer side with a combined 12 years at Federated Dept. Stores and Associated Merchandising Corp leading regional and global logistics operations for international inbound retailing. Lisa has spent the last 17 years on the 3PL side of the business specializing in PO management, inbound supply chain solutions and logistics management and lead the design and deployment of the GT Nexus 3PL platform with the first client, Microsoft.
Areas of expertise include Vendor management, origin/export customs compliance, consolidation and value-add warehouse services, carrier management and negotiation, ERP integrations, Supply chain visibility, data analytics and supply chain modelling. Lisa has held key management positions at Exel/DHL, CEVA Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel as SVP of Operations, Operations/Solution Design, Implementation and Service Delivery leading her origin leading her origin and destination teams utilizing GT Nexus as the operating platform in supporting over 150 best in class global retailers including several Fortune 100 companies.
Senior Vice President - Customer Solutions
Mike began his career supervising the APL stacktrack operations in South Kearny NJ in 1994. From there he went on to run the E-Rail facility in Elizabeth for Cooper T Smith until 2001 when he was hired by United States Consolidation Ltd. Mike was the on-site resource for the Toys R Us account for the next 7 years as the company transitioned from USC to Exel and then finally to DHL. With his operational background, Mike’s next role was to run the North American operations teams for all of DHL ISC which included premier customers such as Toys R Us, Best Buy, Staples and Ross Stores.
In 2010 Mike was added to the team responsible for designing the newly signed GT Nexus platform to become the DHL operating system and transitioned over 180 customers to the platform. This expertise, coupled with his operational experience, allowed Mike to move into the solution design role in 2012. In this role Mike was responsible for the technical and operational design of customer implementations on the Infor Nexus platform.
In 2016 Mike developed an initiative to globalize the solution design and supply chain engineering expertise within DHL and created the Business Solutions team which included teams in Hong Kong, UK, and the Americas. Mike was Global Head of the Business Solutions teams until his departure from DHL in June of 2020 at which time he was reunited with many of his previous USC colleagues at Allport Cargo Services USA Inc.
Senior Vice President, Global IS&S
Caron started her logistics career 23 years ago with Bonita Banana managing systems development for visibility solutions. She has worked the last 20 years managing implementations of Supply Chain visibility software at multiple 3PLs, focusing on systems integrations between Customers and their supply chain partners. Caron worked with GT Nexus to develop standardized approach to deployment both in configuration and EDI messaging when that platform launched an LSP service offering.
Caron has held Information Systems management positions at United States Consolidation (USC)/Exel/DHL, CEVA Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel. At Kuehne + Nagel, Caron was also responsible for Kuehne & Nagel NVO Carrier Integrations with customers for North America and while there created improvements in implementation of standardized messaging with ASPs, such as GT Nexus, Amber Road and Mercury Gate and Freight Payment companies, such as CASS, Nvision, AFS, Veraction, and Tranzact, +.
At ACS, Caron developed the Insights Newsletter on her arrival in 2018. The newsletter is published with each Nexus build and highlights new functionality begin delivered, as well as features new or existing functionality or solutions that benefit ACS customers.
Vice President - IT Solutions
Vice President, Customer Solutions started his logistics carrier with Toys R Us Canada as Import Manager. In this role, he oversaw both International and domestic transportation as well as Customs Compliance. In 1997, Tom moved to the United States transitioning to the 3PL side with Exel/DHL and lead the transition of more than 200 clients to the Infor Nexus platform. Tom’s role throughout his 3PL carrier has centered around designing customer solutions integrating data flows in support of origin / destination operations.
In this role, Tom has played a key role in shaping the product offering at Infor Nexus, from both a customer end user experience as well as origin operation functionality and efficiency. Tom’s area of expertise is largely around customer’s ERP, TMS and WMS applications in relation to data exchange and data management.
Vice President - IT
Scott Gray, Vice President IT started his career in software development with AT&T building corporate applications. He entered the logistics industry in 1998 working for the logistics management software company LOG-NET. He spent 9 years developing the software and was promoted to manage the customer development team. Taking a break from the logistics industry, Scott worked for a nationwide restaurant chain in the US to build and lead a development team creating the next generation point of sales system. After a successful rollout of the point of sale system, he returned to logistics but on the industry side.
Working for CEVA Logistics and Panalpina, he managed software vendors (LOG-NET and GTNexus) along with implementing customers on the software. Scott has over 20 years of management, implementation and development experience in the logistics industry.
Senior Vice President, Account Management
With more than 23 years’ experience in Operations, Renata specializes in comprehensive global supply chain solutions, particularly focused on customer support at destination. She started international supply chain journey as an Account Manager with United States Consolidation, managing numerous global accounts. Before joining Allport Cargo Services USA in October 2016, Renata gained experience at multiple prominent 3PL companies, assuming greater responsibilities over the course of her career.
Renata brings her expertise to Order Management and Vendor Management, leveraging the Infor Nexus platform. Her primary objective is to ensure seamless operations through continuous process enhancements and the dissemination of best practices. Renata is passionate about mentorship and a proponent of developing strong team by empowering individuals. As a hands-on leader, she firmly believes in the collective success of the team.
Director, Asia Pacific
As we make some significant changes globally around our international supply chain, I am excited to have partnered with ACS. We could not have had made these changes without an industry leader such as ACS. I am more than confident we will hit our ROI and drive efficiencies within our direct import program with ACS leading the way.
General Electric Appliances selected ACS to be our 3PL for all production parts as well as finished goods inbound to the US. We have been very pleased with the success of the program and look forward to continued innovation. By utilizing Infor Nexus as the key application, we are able to leverage vendor booking and warehouse exceptions, which alert us to deviation from our standard process.
One of the main factors in us moving forward with ACS as our order management provider was for the comprehensive data that could be sent to Infor Nexus and then used to help with planning and exception reporting on the backend. Also, we run a lot of ad hoc data dumps to be able to answer one off questions that we historically were not able to answer, or it took us a long time to answer. Now we will always be able to answer any questions that are asked of us. I am not sure I could have said that before ACS and Infor Nexus
Moen uses the powerful reporting engine within Infor Nexus in three ways. Firstly it gives us the capability to run adhoc reports on demand. Secondly, we have setup standard daily/weekly reports that give an overview of the current state of the business, and finally, we use the flexibility of the reporting function to provide back support and detail for our monthly financial reporting and savings activities.
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