Manager of Distribution including shipping and receiving in an acute care organization. Manage twelve fulltime employees as direct reports. Achieved reduction in supply cost through product standardization and implementing best practice for inventory and distribution processes. Plan, budget, and oversee a $3 million dollar budget for Distribution and Receiving including hospital linen and scrubs. Decreased linen cost for hospital over $200,000 and Surgery supply cost decrease of $300,000 annually. Manage PAR Excellence, a weight based inventory system throughout the hospital including Surgery. Effectively managed supply shortages throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure product availability for patient care. Trained the Supply Chain Analysts in the Purchasing Department and oversee compliance and standardization with our GPO Vizient/MSS agreements. Collaborating with the Finance and Supply Team to develop and implement a new INFOR Cloud System replacing MMIS AS400. Member of national materials management association, AHRMM. Fill in for the Director, as needed.

Served as a Supply Chain Analyst for 4 years covering all procedural areas supply and equipment needs. Led the multi-disciplinary value analysis teams responsible for reviewing new product requests, product standardization, supply cost reduction, and contract compliance for supplies and equipment. Managed all supply and equipment contracts for the procedural areas and achieved over $3 million in savings. Implemented a revised Capital Equipment Request process improvement to engage all impacted stakeholders in the review. Collaborated with a surgery and IT team to convert from the GE Healthcare System to Allscripts Sunrise Surgical.

Corporate Strategic Sourcing Specialist proficient in contract negotiations and supply chain management. Expertise in Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel. Maximizing leverage with one sourcing leader per commodity. Responsible for all indirect material for global company. Minimizing risk through appropriate contracting for commodities. Strategic analysis of national vendors to negotiate current volume and spend to reduce cost.

Professional hospital purchasing Buyer for 5 years in acute care and hospital owned clinic environment. Areas of expertise include specialty products and equipment for OR, CVOR, GI Lab, Cath Lab, and IR Lab. Capital negotiations included purchase price and service agreements as indicated by benchmarking data. Proven performance in product and cost analysis, product standardization to support GPO contract compliance, and report writing. Maintaining the Surgery Inventory setting up min/max as the schedule changes to ensure that the surgeons and staff have the supplies needed to perform the procedures. Auditing procedures and vendor invoices making sure what was being billed was accurate to what was used for the procedures. Conducted annual fiscal year-end inventory with Surgery staff manually counting product, recording on spreadsheets and reporting analysis to finance for fiscal year end details.

Inventory Specialist in Central Supply for 2 years. Responsible for inventory of approximately 1200 unique items in the main storeroom and in multiple par levels throughout the hospital to ensure adequate supply levels for timely patient care. Maintained the hospital perpetual inventory system, calculated inventory turns and lead times and adjusted, as indicated. Led annual inventory at the end of the fiscal year with Central Supply Staff, recording and delivering reports to finance for year-end adjustments. Created and maintained spreadsheets to ensure expired products are addressed and removed. Collaborated in setting up GE Surgery System with all surgery inventory, charging and scheduling. Worked with Director of Materials Management on projects as assigned.

Distribution Tech in Central Supply for 3 years. Completed manual floor counts with data entry to develop a pic ticket to pull and deliver supplies to hospital floors and departments. Checked in and received pallets of supplies delivered from distributor, to include stocking warehouse accurately. Shared work duties with Material Handler on the dock receiving in packages and shipping out packages when needed. Delivered those items to the location that placed the order. Maintained inventory on crash carts and other specialty carts.