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Setting inventory parameters, preventing production delays and downtime, assessing capacity availability, maintaining stocks, and investigating supply chain issues.

Refining & Chemical Industry Center in St. Louis, MO.• Created and communicated project reports to management to provide visibility for project job costs relating to budgets and to aid with project order efficiencies.• Created and communicated tracking/expediting reports to project managers to insure timely delivery of materials.• Improved customer service levels by setting up vendor inventory management and consolidating vendor spend to reduce the number of purchase orders issued by 54%.• Collaborated with buyers to eliminate process defects by identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions resulting in 95% purchase order placement on-time.• Mapped a network optimization plan of key commodity materials.• Performed and negotiated terms and conditions for purchase orders, engineering service. agreements, purchase agreements, and field services agreements in order to save costs.• Managed and provided continuous support & training to three buyers.• Trained new Local Procurement Leads for other project based locations.• Reduced invoice holds in Oracle by 45%• Setup a process in Oracle for returns and damaged materials, which was not currently utilized, to track credits and replacement materials.• Resolved vendor payment issues.• Repeatedly negotiated 5% to 30% cost saving for individual projects. Most recently saved $1.7M on a multimillion dollar project. • Solicited bids, secured written quotations from vendors, analyzed bids, performed value and cost analysis and selected products and vendors consistent with existing policies and procedures.• Developed and maintained work flow processes and procedures. • Analyzed and resolved complex issues in Oracle, Noetix reporting system, as well as several other third party applications.• Provided support in other areas and for projects as needed.

• Managed daily procurement operations for fourteen facilities in U.S, and multiple international facilities• Developed & implemented procurement system redesign• Resin tanker staging for delivery, offloading & storage to job sites• Managed procurement invoice reconciliation • Fleet/Asset Management • Development of Crystal Reports• Obtained 49CFR/IATA/IMDG Certification for Multi-Modal Shipping• Shipped dangerous goods both domestically & internationally

Supervised payroll staff for completion of weekly multi-state payroll for over 2,000 employees.• Processed company salaried payroll.• Managed & processed all federal/state tax records & payments.• Managed Job Cost Data Collections (JCDC) system for all projects.• Trained and supported 45 superintendents on JCDC system to collect field employee’s time worked by project.• Received Leadership Award for JCDC system implementation & support.