· Senior Buyer position purchasing commodities domestic and internationally were passive electronics, MRO items, and packaging materials for contract manufacturing of printed circuit boards.· Daily duties included use of MRP Exceptions report containing buy items, move ins, push outs, past dues and cancellations. · Sent out and analyzed RFQ’s for NPI products for best-landed value while focusing on project profit margins. · Worked with suppliers to increase on time deliveries while reducing expedited freight costs.· Worked closely with customers and component engineer to resolve obsolete or long lead-time components to obtain approved alternates to procure to keep customer orders on time.· Implemented inventory reduction plans per new department goals set by corporate. · Company liaison for manufacturing engineers and suppliers to resolve non-conformance products.· Resolved invoice and receiving issues with appropriate departmental employees to ensure proper payment and product receipt.

·Hired because of my vast overall supply chain to shipment knowledge to hit the ground running utilizing all past purchasing experience listed above for a facility that is undergoing a 2-division consolidation coupled with total migration of old to new ERP software.·Worked in ISO, Aerospace, and Military electronics environment.·Able to handle enormous pressures, changing daily priority schedules, and lack of any consistent information stream while self learning new Oracle Purchasing module.·One of six buyers, but personally had responsibility for 48% of the total divisional spend.· Daily use of MRP and discrete shortage reports driving on the spot high dollar purchasing while expediting production floor shortages. Working with Emerson internal global supply chain purchasing products from China and Mexico.·Direct personal duties include daily MRP management of 48 % of total company buy, PPV reduction, consolidation of supplier base, supplier direct POC for all internal electronic engineering issues, purchasing department liaison for special new product releases. Work closely with accounting, receiving, inspection, engineering and production departments to resolve any upstream or down stream material management issues. Designated as buyer of all production supplies and raw materials while providing inventory and production management support to new operations manager for the remainder of the Mesa, Az. operation not yet relocated to Waseca.· Set up initiatives to work with suppliers to encourage supplier/customer partnerships, the abilities to strengthen the communication stream which would result in positive supplier performance reviews, on time deliveries and Win/win relationships for all based on the ultimate goal of on time deliveries of quality products while achieving high positive customer service levels to our current customers. ·

•Buyer of domestic and foreign metal casting commodities for ISO 9001 contract manufacturer.•Personally responsible for 2008 purchases exceeding $18 million.•Executed corporate and strategic plans to meet goals, including commodity price reductions, forecast product purchasing, supplier consolidation, supplier and part certification, physical inventory elimination and maintenance, on-time delivery performance, and inventory turns•Introduced a custom MRP Software Crystal Report to Purchasing management designed to isolate item purchase pricing discrepancies. This report assisted in recognizing a $57K annual savings from one supplier for one SKU during the first three months of employment.•Introduced EOQ Spreadsheet to management staff which was adopted as a departmental guide and used by 4 other department buyers within the organization.•Coordinated purchasing activities while interfacing with engineering, planning and manufacturing departments to procure products in a cost-effective and timely manner.•Coordinated with production and sales to convert sales forecasts into the planning schedule.•Managed negotiations with suppliers to determine lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability and ability to meet required schedules and inventory targets. •Focused on the entire global supply chain to smooth out product flow while optimizing inventory levels.•Implemented engineering ECO/ECN requests.•Negotiated and monitored key supplier agreements•Developed strategies to predict the peaks and valleys of the production cycle to maintain the inventories at an optimum level.•Managed the suppliers to ensure delivery, quality, and performance levels were acceptable and took corrective action accordingly if needed.•Worked with internal QA to resolve quality issues.•Led troubleshooting effort to resolve receiving and A/P issues, working with supplier and internal receiving and finance departments.

•Purchasing/Planner/Inventory Manager-my primary direct responsibilities were production and capacity planning, all purchasing and inventory related functions, daily input to production floor management and supervising warehouse and shipping activities.•Negotiated custom freight discount tariffs. •Implemented supply chain techniques focusing on annual company spend, supply market, total cost analysis, identification of suitable suppliers, and development of sourcing strategies while minimizing risk and costs.•Developed and maintained all supplier files and confidential purchase agreements.•Provided daily work assignments and production priorities to departmental supervisors and employees.•Responsible for leadership, development, monitoring and response to key supplier indicators to ensure corrective action and process improvement.•Developed EOQ Spreadsheet designed to recognize best-value purchases by identifying estimated annual usage, holding cost, unit cost and projected annual inventory turns.•When vendors and suppliers were no longer competitive, developed new supply sources while maintaining quality standards. Recommended cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis and alternative sourcing.•With IT assistance, developed custom MRP software in a made to order environment to effectively plan production, increase production work cell efficiencies, customer service, and on-time deliveries while maintaining proper inventory levels to accommodate demands. Custom MRP software was later interface with new ERP system.•Developed and implemented BOM system to validate production standards.•Ensured GMP compliance and assisted in correcting GMP issues.•Maintained detailed and organized data/records for the purchasing department.•Trained and mentored new Purchasing Assistant for production planning and custom purchasing.

•Employed in progressive roles as Inventory Control Manager and Production & Transportation Manager.•Developed perpetual inventory system of raw materials. Provided daily/monthly inventory levels and unit sales data.•Developed and implemented MRP system for controlling inventories of finished product. Production Supervisor utilized this information to maximize production and minimize outages.•Promoted to Production & Transportation Manager with primary responsibility for freight and production departments. •Purchased all packaging materials ranging from corrugated boxes, label stock, pallets, and several types of poly bags. •Managed coast-to-coast operations for fleet of 12 semi-tractor trailers with focus on centralizing LTL drop shipments in key regions. Negotiated with produce markets for return loads to optimize efficiency and profitability. Managed driver DOT requirements. Negotiated custom freight discount tariffs.