Eric Baker Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Associate of a 2 year development program tasked with carrying out the responsibilities of a Procurement Specialist, hybrid Production Planner, and buyer role for manufacturing facilities
• Creates POs and work orders while developing and maintaining relationships with over 50 suppliers to ensure continued operations and a reliable primary source of contact
• Maintains purchase order dates and quantities to support a changing production schedule. Includes limiting late POs, decreasing PPI, minimizing monthly inventory, and improving various terms with suppliers
• Assists in the ongoing outsourcing efforts of over 200 components while engaging extensively between our site's and our supplier's quality and engineering teams

Jacksonville, Alabama, United States

• Assisted in maintaining the master production schedule to initiate the plan of action and drive morning production meetings. In turn, executing $2.4-$2.8 million and 2000-2500 orders a month in operations
• Communicated across Customer Service, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain, and supporting teams
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to meet monthly and yearly goals; such as inventory reduction, minimized supplier rejections, line items shipped complete, and dollars shipped

Indiana University SPEA Library

• Analyzed patrons' requests to determine needed information, and assist in collecting and furnishing that information while educating patrons about the library's resources
• Assisted the checking in and out of books and coordination of operations in a library serving ~43,000 students

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

• Founded a student organization at Indiana University to bring the soccer community together in a fun atmosphere to watch professional televised soccer and discuss soccer culture
• Grew the organization size to 283 members and 4 board members that continues to function and expand after my graduation
• Hosted and organized over 300 hours of events

Diamond Bar, California, United States

• Learned the various roles of a centralized procurement position and their cross functionality with other teams
• Built a bot to automate purchasing of PPE at 40 plants on a biweekly cadence that saves 80 hours of work, a wide range of cost, and added consistency to the purchasing process every month
• Designed the foundation of a database that organizes UNSPSCs and assisted my team in daily cost analysis

South Bend-Mishawaka Region

• Trained under and assisted a wide range of departments such as material handling, returns, purchasing, logistics, inbound, outbound, and inventory at a fulfillment center
• Led a team of 6 people in a 9 week-long product recall operation that had cost savings of $200,000
• Worked with middle and senior management on inventory control measures

Elkhart, Indiana, United States

• Gained exposure to the operations of a supply chain and acquired experience in material handling at a distribution center
• Facilitated loading and unloading of trucks and applied protocols to ensure timely deliveries

Granger, Indiana, United States

• Communicated inventory between the kitchen, bar, pool cabana, and management, along with ordering and stocking this inventory
• Prepared high quality food for dining, pool cabana, and banquets
• Catered to high-end clientele and performed other duties as needed and/or assigned

South Bend, Indiana, United States

• Engaged in direct, high-volume customer service in a park setting
• Informed visitors and collected payment for services and products such as gate fees, inner tubing tickets, wedding events, canoe rentals, and other various park related activities

Major In Supply Chain Management,Co-Majors In International Business & Digital Technology Management

Minor In Spanish