Andrew Binder Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Understand, validate, correct, and act on Material Requirement planning (MRP) and its messages. Get BOM, yields corrected to ensure MRP signal is right.• Sources, purchases, plans, and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods, and related material through production and inventory process.• Leads and participates in cross-functional projects involving Supply Chain, Sector and/or corporate initiatives that ensure business objectives are met.• Meet inventory goals while supporting material requirements for production.• Represent Purchasing in Manufacturing, Operations Scheduling and other daily Tier meetings.• Partners with Commodity Management/ Supply Management on supplier Value Stream, Capacity Planning, supplier issues/delays and Business continuity assessment• Very close co-ordination with supplier as well as Manufacturing to ensure there are no line downs due to Material.• Proactively escalate any supplier issues, get buy in from cross functional team to ensure risk (of line down) is mitigated

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Serves as the Sourcing liaison with Site Operations, Planning, Quality and Finance organizations in the resolution of supply related issues. Participates and/or leads Sourcing strategic activities especially those involving product life cycle and supplier management including but not limited to: product/part phase in-phase/phase-out, local sourcing related initiatives, supplier delivery performance and inventory management. Support Category Management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers. Participates in supplier visits and audits to drive continuous improvement activities (Cost of Poor Supplier Quality Support) •Use problem solving techniques/methodologies to identify supplier delivery root cause and achieve resolution of production continuity events (support sCAPA when necessary)•Knowledge of the quality system and responsible for following all purchasing control procedures•Site support for regulatory body audits•Attendance and engagement in the SiOP process and the GSC/planning target consensus meetings/reviews. Communicate changes to Purchasing Center of Excellence•Creation and presentation of monthly inventory reviews•Responsible for project performance, risk management, administration, financial management, budgeting and issue resolution.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managing indirect POs in Ariba system; Main source of resolution for invoice kickouts on indirect POs in ReadSoft system for entire Danvers location (750 employees); Indirect PO values ranging from $300.00 to $1.5m; Supply Chain lead for project involving moving manufacturing line from Europe to Danvers, MA; Analyzing data and determining factors that affect prices. Determining lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability, and ability to meet required schedules; Sourcing, purchasing, planning, and scheduling the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods, and related material through production and inventory process; Compiling information to keep informed on price trends and manufacturing processes; Monitoring performance of suppliers and collaborate on demand analysis planning; Delivering and/or managing projects assigned and working with other stakeholders to achieve desired results; Established and productive individual contributor

Garching Bei München, Bayern, De

Team Lead, Planning $ 3 MM - $ 7 MM worth of inventory monthly, Purchasing, Inventory Budget / Reporting, Cross-functional Teamwork / Leadership, voice of Supply Chain on new product development teams, S&OP to Forecast Balancing, Customer Service, 3rd Party Vendor Management, Global Supplier Management, Risk Buy Analysis, Continuous improvement processes to achieve Fill Rate and WCT Improvement, maintaining overall company supply chain / inventory objectives, Technical product, rapidly growing market and company

New Britain, Ct, Us

Coordinated with sales, channel marketing, structural and graphic packaging engineers, as well as supply chain inventory planners, in the development and execution of promotional activity. Worked with outside vendors as well as internal teams in the development and/or execution of POP (Point of Purchase) merchandising from development, negotiation, value engineering, to point of P.O. and logistic details. Cost quoted promotional merchandising and controlled those costs to stay within target profit margins.

New Britain, Ct, Us

While managing a small focused team, carried out the execution and delivery for key account holiday pallet display ($5MM revenue) by working with internal team based in Taiwan, third-party packaging vendors, and sales/channel/supply departments. Led the execution of key account planogram transition from competitor's product, to Stanley, including new product launches and transition of new items. Ended year with fill rate 2% higher than goal. Worked weekly with plant to make forecast adjustments, and stay within inventory targets. Contributed toward improvement of Working Capitol Turns through forecasting and order management (one full Turn improvement year over year). Fostered strong relationships with planners and distribution. Total revenue of promotions managed, $12MM.Responsible for the management of fill rates and inventory levels through forecasting and order management of key account. Collaborated with internal sales, channel and supply planners to meet company fill rate, inventory, and Working Capital Turns targets.

New Britain, Ct, Us

Certified using JDA software. Responsible for monthly reporting of E&O (Excess and Obsolete) inventory values and detail to key management. Acted as process improvements liaison in relation to E&O reporting. Using JDA, analyzed key account supply chain and inventory levels to maintain adequate levels of Stanley product necessary to place weekly replenishment orders Performed weekly item maintenance in JDA system..

New Britain, Ct, Us

Ensured effective handling of all order fulfillment activities and call metrics. 100% same day order entry. Worked with Supply Chain Personnel to identify andremedy issues causing service failures. Acted as customer liaison. Helped to identify and implement process improvements through Lean Sigma. Consistently improved and managed customer communication flow on promotions and product information. Updated, maintained, and analyzed customer account profiles. Utilized SAP and AS/400 systems to process orders from the customer to the warehouse.

Responsible for directing, recruiting, and scheduling of volunteer workforce, and aligning these service volunteers with assignments. Site Manager for HAUW's Day of Caring. Carried out the scheduling and coordination of museum activities and events. Marketing liaison to public. Responsible for creation and maintenance of database. Assisted in program facilitation and setup. Exhibited strong leadership efforts.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Marketing

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