Amy Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Salinas, Ca, Us

Salinas, Ca, Us

Salinas, Ca, Us

Salinas, Ca, Us

Monterey, Ca, Us

Develop category strategies to gain a thorough understanding of goals and required outcomes to execute details and support project management.Understand the competitive landscape in assigned categories to support sourcing roadmap.Participates in entire RFP process from development to contract execution.Optimize total costs by identifying and tracking cost savings and process improvementsBuilds relationships with suppliers working with them on forecast and deliverables to support plant replenishment across the enterprise.Drives suppliers to continuously improve the value delivered to Dole.Assesses, manages, mitigates, and avoids risk throughout the supply chain.Identify key supplier metric tracking as well as timely action plans to address and resolve supply issues.Provide daily management of suppliers including forecasting, pricing, invoicing, and inventory levels. Manages weekly supplier meeting.Executes the identified strategy for assigned categories that aligns with short and long-term business goals and leverages Supplier Relationship ManagementOversees category weekly calls with plant operations.Maintains accurate supplier/item pricing in the system including setting up new item/supplier records.Monitors rebates, indexes, pricing accuracy and updates item and supplier master in JDE.Maintains systems data required to process billings and update system accounts (period close).Place purchase orders and manage blanket purchase orders (BPO’s) and overall supply for each category.Applies thorough understanding of how each supplier manages their supply chain and production to ensure Dole is providing all information to support order lead times, what drives their order lead times, management of Dole supply and use of Dole forecasts.Responds timely to resolve service, quality, and financial issues for my categories.Participates in supplier business review meetings.Support sustainability initiatives through various information roll ups.

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