Oversaw the Purchasing department and Operations team. Our mission was to meet or exceed corporate goals and delight every internal and external customer. Managed the process of reviewing purchase requests from stakeholders in numerous departments, ensuring the request complied with corporate policies, the fiscal budget plan and corporate goals. Implemented a corporate process enabling Business Units to follow their requests from initial contact to issuing the Purchase Order to the vendor. Educated users in the Panzura PR to PO processes and procurement policies and procedures.

• Review and process Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders while implementing procurement strategies, policies and procedures.• Work with local and remote engineering teams to fulfill prototype material requirements from sourcing through large distributors and prototyping suppliers.• Facilitate planning/scheduling sessions and periodic reviews of established plans, schedules, and inventory to maintain schedules. Develop recommended actions to resolve conflicts.• Provide accurate and timely supply, demand, and inventory position plans.• Manage and monitor Suppliers performance to ensure commitments are met.• Serve as the key point of contact for, Authorized Requesters and Managers to troubleshoot and resolve Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order issues.• Demonstrate initiative, adaptability and problem-solving skills in a changing and dynamic environment.

Perform purchasing of maintenance parts, equipment, ingredients, facility supplies and warehouse materials. Directly supervised projects from beginning to end varying in scope from 1 person 1 day to multiple personnel over an extended period.

• Place necessary orders with approved vendors based on MRP/ERP reports, customer RFQ’s and requests, forecasting, reserves balance, inventory turnover and urgency. • Research new vendor prospects based on terms, cost, lead times and reliability. • Evaluate and audit current vendor performance. • Determine causes and solutions for inventory discrepancies. • Resolve receiving and A/P issues.• Communicate with Purchasing Manager regarding incomplete fulfillment. • Complete all necessary paperwork for transfer of equipment or parts and forward to appropriate departments. • Ensure record management is current and accurate. • Oversee and manage all incoming and outgoing items including freight, parts, supplies and equipment. • Train, evaluate and motivate team members. Provide input to Operations Manager regarding personnel issues, hiring, staff levels, discipline actions and rewards. • Maintain warehouse equipment, create and implement maintenance schedules for forklifts, pallet jacks and delivery truck. • Maintain hazardous waste materials for safe disposal. • Maintain inventory for accuracy and ease of product movement. • Facilitate weekly cycle counts of high dollar and high usage items. • Oversee annual physical inventory. • Pull, package and process items for shipping. . • Prepare and deliver items to proper departments or offsite locations.

Ordered all parts, supplies and needed materials for body and repair shop. Made sure that the received items were posted to the proper repair orders and distributed to the proper locations. Sold parts to retail customers. Maintained the parts inventory. Shipped and received all orders.

Managed and processed wholesale and retail parts sales orders. Maintained inventory and purchased replenishment stock when needed. Supervised retail staff and drivers in daily assignments, maintained work schedules to ensure adequate staff levels. Responsibilities included bank deposits, billing of open accounts, collecting receivables and reconciling accounts payables.