Ho-Chunk, Inc. is the award-winning economic development corporation owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Established in 1994 in Winnebago, Nebraska with one employee, Ho-Chunk, Inc. has grown to over 1,000 employees with operations in fifteen states, Washington D.C., and eight foreign countries Ho-Chunk, Inc. operates over 30 subsidiaries in a diverse range of industries including information technology, construction, government contracting, professional services, wholesale… Show more Ho-Chunk, Inc. is the award-winning economic development corporation owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Established in 1994 in Winnebago, Nebraska with one employee, Ho-Chunk, Inc. has grown to over 1,000 employees with operations in fifteen states, Washington D.C., and eight foreign countries Ho-Chunk, Inc. operates over 30 subsidiaries in a diverse range of industries including information technology, construction, government contracting, professional services, wholesale distribution, office products and technology, logistics, marketing, media, retail, and an ISO certified and FDA inspected manufacturing facility. Show less

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Manage an international team of procurement specialists purchasing nearly 100 million dollars annually.● Created process of consuming global existing inventory saving 10 million dollars in first 6 months● Restructured buying responsibilities across global sites

Scheduling 2 international manufacturing plants (China and Canada) in correspondence with the orderbook demands of 12 international Distribution Centers using Oracle MRP to consider forecasts,safety stock, and customer orders.● Influenced major key account in renewing 25 million dollars● Received company issues Core Award as top performer

o Managed the global procurement of 2600 SKUSo Balanced Manufacturing backlog

Tasked to lead efforts of the expediting team in rushing past due sales orders. Designed a mastershipping schedule report (global order book).● Created expediting process● Contributed an increase in revenue of nearly 3 million dollars in first quarter of year

Advocated for added responsibilities of purchasing for South Africa Distribution Center thusconsolidating purchasing for the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.● Facilitated implementation of Oracle MRP

Buyer for Europe at height of anxiety with centralization of purchasing and inventory reductionefforts. Built and executed process to address the anomalies of drop ship model for Europe.Converted Russian warehouses to standard ordering model.● Collaborated on company reaching year end inventory reduction levels

Purchased Finished product for 4 Latin America Distribution Centers.● Built standard reporting tools as purchasing was centralized from global segmentation

Received, entered and confirmed New Accounts for top clients included but not limited to Sprint,WalMart, Verizon and USC.

Distribution Center Pick Line ManagerManaged order fulfilment and rushed orders through pick line for key customers● Assist in exceeding year end goal by 4 million dollars.

Worked on the short term assignment to design, develop and implement an online interactive teachingresource and problem based learning module for the fifth year Musculoskeletal and EmergencyMedicine courses

Prompted by lean six sigma methodology tasked with identifying needs based training and development across global sites.● Attended Six Sigma White Belt Training