Carrie Pfaff Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Riverside, Missouri

Buy and plan materials for the Kansas City Service Center•Manage 3600 production parts and over 100 MRO materials, including $4.6 million in direct spend•Analyze material usage to decrease inventory by over 20%•Improve External Supplier Delivery Reliability by 5%

Watertown, New York

International and Intercompany procurement•Managed all incoming materials from Europe for the entire SBU, including $3 million in external spend•Acted as SAP Materials Management Module key user •Handled all supply chain activities for a $22 million international project to provide brake systems on 108 new locomotives over 4 years.

Canandaigua, Ny

Analyzing data and creating tools and reports• Data Analysis- Analyzing indirect goods spend data from JD Edwards and Emptoris in order to realize cost savings or cost avoidance• MS Access- Developed a tool in Access to automate scorecard creation for the Marketing Point-of-Sale Purchasing team

Rochester, New York Area

Developed operating procedures for a student-run consulting group.Managed 2 projects for start-up companies with teams of 2-5 people

Watertown, Ny

Implemented supply chain improvement processes through data analysis and business process reengineering• Developed supplier profiles in order to gain a clearer picture of the top 25 suppliers’ performance and amount of business with the company• Gathered, analyzed, and presented data, using SAP, which contributed to a project that resulted in a 20% reduction in product costs• Designed and implemented a process to notify suppliers of engineering changes to parts, which reduced the number of open purchase orders for obsolete parts by 66%

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Promoted a positive image of the honor society while interacting with the public by providing excellent customer service, such as answering questions about the society and its services.•Attained 120 memberships by phone in a two-month period, more than any of the five other interns and constituting 30% of the total team goal of 400.•Mentored new interns, which resulted in them becoming productive members of the team.

Bethesda, Md

Composed communications and planned and implemented a project to modify the website for rebranding.• Created a framework for future FIVS products and services, including the now-implemented FIVS-Assure which provides best practice guidelines for alcohol beverage companies.• Developed and initiated an organizational system for storing documents on the new website.• Generated two PowerPoint presentations given by the president of FIVS at the organization’s semiannual conferences, which were attended by heads of companies and government officials

Mba, Operations Management: Manufacturing, Services; Competitive And Organizational Strategy

Activities and Societies: President of Winter Sports Club, VP of Finance Simon Uncorked, Member: Simon VolunteersMerit Scholarship Recipient

Ba, International Studies, Russian Language, International Business

Activities and Societies: Representative on the School of International Service, Honors 101 mentor, Tutor in the DC Reads Program, Member.