Billie Ann Wicks Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Directly impact the relationship between suppliers and internal production customers. Maintaining competitive sources from which to select suppliers for competitive bidding, direct negotiation, partnering and development of long-term business relationships while planning and placing purchase orders to support cardiac catheter production. - Providing support to the Manufacturing Organization along with Research and Development for all activities related to purchasing and inventory control, including being the primary interface between Philips and suppliers in order to effectively reduce inventory and improve turns.- Evaluate suppliers through performance measurements and develop supplier relationships.- Utilizing Oracle to ensure material is available to production. Coordinate demand requirements with suppliers. Monitor and adjust deliveries as needed.- Develop and implement quality, cost and delivery improvement programs specifically reducing supplier delivery times and cost to Philips.- Coordinating with Quality Control, develop ship to stock, direct deliveries, and vendor managed inventory programs.At Philips, we see huge potential to make a difference through innovation, design, and sustainability – our impact drivers – helping more healthcare providers help more patients, in an efficient and sustainable way, and making it easier for more people to take care of their health and well-being and look after their loved ones. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.

· Conducted and collaborated on system, purchasing, forecasting and best practice training in a team environment. · Created, mentored and initiated individual on the job training. System support, investigation and troubleshooting point of contact for Corporate purchasing department, Helpdesk, CA Service Desk tickets related to Manugistics Supply Chain Management system and internal Arrow product systems. · Evaluated and updated user system access and parameters for optimal performance, recommended enhancements and proactively reviewed and corrected issues for greater efficiency, productivity and quality. · Prioritized and managed projects for system integrity, reporting and analysis, implementing tools and processes with minimal supervision.· Analyzed business segment with management to modify purchasing parameters based on market conditions.· Ensured superior customer service in a fast-paced environment and developed purchasing parameters for the ERP system to support manufacturing requirements of the segment and/or supplier. · Supported 85 Product Managers and held them accountable for managing inventory, with duties encompassing forecasting, purchasing, customer service, logistics, negotiations pricing on volume purchasing, troubleshooting, and team management.· Ernst and Young, LLP collaboration on Sarbanes Oxley corporate and audit accountability forpurchasing organization.· Conduct internal audit for ISO certification.· Quality System requirement for AS9100 / Aerospace Standards.· User acceptance testing per defined operations processes.· Created and implemented a five week on-boarding for new hires within the purchasing organization.

Inventory Task force to implement new Enterprise Resource Planning system at Arrow Electronics called Manugistics.• Customized implementation of new Enterprise Resource Planning system, Manugistics.• Developed and delivered training for 130+ senior executives, directors, managers, buyers, andservice specialist in North America.• Defined purchasing parameters required for Manugistics.

Buyer for Memory, Embedded Processing and Communication technology. • Managed $30 million of semiconductor inventory quarterly to maximize working capital and cash flow for America’s Components group• Systematically managed stock records and other system data for data integrity thereby maximizing inventory and reporting efficacy.• Mitigated risk for slow-moving, NCNR, and EOL inventory• Conducted supplier stock rotations quarterly• Implemented strategic purchases as directed by Management (safety stock, stocking packages, forecast increases)• Fielded calls from a variety of internal stakeholders to address inventory concerns and system issues.• Maintained a professional working relationship with key stakeholders at Intel, Advance Micro Devices and Sandisk to leverage relationships to Arrow’s benefit.• Provided backup assistance to fellow memory team members (buyers for TI, Micron, STMicro)• Provided training for new team members.

Responsible for daily purchasing, inventory and financial management duties of over $20 million in inventory. Use discretion and judgment to evaluate requests for allocated products while working to meet established inventory, margin and service levels targets. Supporting sales of assigned Suppliers products through the development of competitive purchasing strategies. Securing the best possible purchasing terms and assists in product life cycle management. Negotiate special returns with Suppliers to assist with slow moving inventory reductions. Ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external customers. Negotiations of cost improvements with franchise Suppliers. Conducted sales training sessions regarding asset processes and best practices. Coordinate with suppliers and establish strong communication and relationships.

Expedite purchase order with franchised vendors, review pipeline on hyper turning products, utilize purchasing system for requisites (buy, push, pull and cancellations), interaction with the sales team to satisfy customer requirements.

Coordinator in Ship and Debit, Supplier Price Protection, Bill Back and Cost Credits. Ensure profitability maximization from vendor rebate programs and accurate valuation of inventories by resolving price discrepancies.