The Logistics Department and Field Support Department are scheduled to merge on Sept. 1 with the start of the new fiscal year. Tina Ford, who currently oversees field support, will lead the newly merged departments as the manager of logistics and field support.
“Tina has done a great job building a strong team to support our field and train our CSR’s, and managers,” says Larry Ehrman, vice president of logistics. “She does an excellent job of coordinating the efforts of field support and I feel confident that she will be a strong leader of the merged department. As we move forward, our logistics and field support staff will continue to work closely together and support our goal of running our delivery trucks efficiently with matrix that are industry leading.”
Ford has worked for the company for a total of 10 years. She was first hired as a temp in the credit department in 2005 and was with the company for a year. She returned for another six years working in credit from 2006 to 2012. Ford briefly left the company again before coming back in 2013 to work in the Fixed Assets Department. She has worked in field support since March 2014.
Ford will takeover logistics from M.G. Behrend, who recently accepted the position of operations manager for the South Central region.
“M.G. has done a fantastic job of leading our routing team as we roll plants into the new E-1 platform, he has built a strong team and he will be missed,” Ehrman says.
Like Ford, Behrend will assume his new position on Sept. 1. He was hired as a senior management trainee in Jan. 2016, which has allowed him to work a in variety of roles, including: fuel delivery, warehouse organization, field support, customer service and E1 trainer. Behrend was named interim logistics manager in Aug. 2016 and officially had the interim tag removed from his title in Oct. 2016.