Responsible for $4.1 Million inventory, 15,000 line items. Manage the purchasing, billing, receiving and warehouse departments. Additional responsibilities include budgeting and communicating quarterly sales results to senior management. • Reduced inventory by $200k in four months.• Reduced the amount of warehouse space by 1/4 as a result of restructuring.• Maintained customer percent fill at a 95% average.• Established all procedures for inventory transactions, cycle counts and stock replenishment.• Member of the committee responsible for purchasing and implementing software for the company’s mainframe. Became familiar with, and wrote, many new procedures for all areas of the company.• Acted as the liason between Inventory/Manufacturing and the IT Department as well as troubleshooting problems directly with the software manufacturer. Designed custom programs for these departments, and wrote custom reports for all areas of the company.

Responsible for the cost maintenance on all products. Maintained the timekeeping and bill of material records. Analyzed all cost deviations and alerted management to any extreme variances. Produced the inventory and manufacturing journal entries for month end accounting.• Instrumental in developing the costing department from its infancy.• Constructed all bill of materials from blueprints.• Assisted in creating a part numbering scheme for all component inventory and raw materials.

Responsible for the collections of all accounts past 90 days. Verified new accounts for credit ratings. Assisted in Accounts Payable. Entered journal entries and calculated month end taxes.

Pulled and packed orders. Calculated shipping costs and generated bills of lading.