• Manage the department with their daily activities to ensure optimal supplier selection and product quality.• Lead all stages of the product life cycle including research, planning, requisition and marketing.• Plan, coordinate and monitor lean purchasing strategies to minimize inventory for 44,500 SKU’s.• Preserve quality through supervision of by reviewing and approving maintenance forms. • Closely monitor quality of all SKU’s with high warranty rates.• Ensure system is always up to date; price updates, inventory stock levels and ETA’s are accurate. • Act as a liaison for all internal/external customers to resolve all issues.• Resourced an entire product line saving 20% on all of cost of goods sold.• Established a new product line (Transmission) which grossed over $640,000 by year two.• Logistics management of shipping containers 5-15 weekly from dock to doorstep.• Generate reports as needed on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for the Executive Team and Board.• Ensure OEM products are properly branded and identified parts for aftermarket sourcing.

• Maintain inventory of $20 million of 7,500 items at a lean and consistent fill rate of 95% or higher.• Successfully meet objectives by achieving target fill rate, budget, overstock and inventory turns.• Monitor suppliers for performance on all levels; direct & non-direct costs, quality and fill rates.• Created a Return & Rebuild program which helped grow and retain market share.• Developed and implement Bill of Materials (BOM) kit program that identified high profit opportunities.• Generate, place and expedite purchase orders from 50 vendors globally.• Continually review individual parts-in-transit status to identify potential shortages leading to corrective action in support of JIT needs.

• Constant communication with management to ensure warehouse goals and activities are beneficial to all departments.• Maintained a strong leadership in team’s daily responsibilities and activities while managing up to 40 employees.• Assigned and trained employees specific tasks, such as verifying amounts, storing incoming merchandise, assemble and ship customers orders for delivery with detail to volume, cost, quality and deadlines.• Identified problems, diagnosed cause and determined corrective actions.• Processed Return Authorizations, both from customers and to vendors.• Kept warehouse inventory current and organized.• Maintained and inspected physical condition of warehouse equipment, prepared work orders for repairs and requisitions for replacements.

• Performed receiving, shipping, and inventory duties.• Reviewed purchase orders to ensure orders are being filled accurately. Verified all documentation is received with incoming part.• Notified the Purchasing department of any discrepancies.• Determined location for new inventory and stocked shelves with material receipts• Pulled requested parts from inventory to fill orders/returns.