Profile: Motivated and personable business professional with talent for assessing scope of work to provide the best solution. Diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels. Accustomed in handling internal and external customers in obtaining information required to complete tasks. Flexible and versatile with the ability to deliver under pressure. Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Excellent team building skills. • Reading of drawings/specifications, purchasing, expediting, bid analysis, invoice auditing. • Standardizing purchasing forms including big requests, material requisitions, purchase orders, logs and trending.• Support engineering in preparations of projects as in requesting quotes for raw materials and equipment. • Maintain data in Epicor ERP System, including appropriate reorder points, adding break pricing and secure the correct contact info for all vendors. • Negotiation, implementation, contracting pricing agreements• Create, renew and maintain current vendor relationships; initiate formal vendor qualifications. • Cooperate with inventory control which includes inventory, reducing and eliminating obsolete materials. • Discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services with Quality Assurance personnel, users and suppliers to determine source of issues and assist in corrective action. • Analyze data to optimize inventory turns in maintaining sufficient inventory to meet customer demands. • Work professionally and efficiently with all internal customers and/or departments.• Prepare Purchase Orders by verifying specifications and price. Obtaining recommendations from suppliers for substitute or alternative items. • Inform Production of all material shortages, supplier delivery problems, price increases, shipping delays etc etc. • Maintain documentation in line with FDA regulations, ISO 13485 utilizing approved vendors.

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Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests. Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary. Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes or cancellations. Perform buying duties. Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries and other problems. Review requisition orders to verify accuracy, terminology and specifications. Prepare, maintain and review purchasing files, reports and price lists. Compare prices, specifications and delivery dates to determine the best bid among potential suppliers. Track status of requisitions, contracts and orders. Calculate costs of orders and charge or forward invoices to accounting. Compare suppliers’ bills with bids and purchase orders to verify accuracy. Approve bills for payment. Locate suppliers using sources such as catalogs, the internet and interview them to gather information about products to be ordered. Monitor contractor performance and recommending contract modifications when necessary.

Laid Off due to downsizing plants in Texas.

/2005 ­ 7/2009Customer Management: Proactive resolution of any customer care issues - Drive all customer service and satisfaction initiatives - Establish a regular (weekly, bi-weekly) communication schedule with key contacts - Build and promote a healthy business relationship with customerOrder Management: Manage the order / forecast commit process - Facilitate resolution of any planning / ordering conflicts with customer - Analyze backlog to improve order management performanceCommercial Management: Manage the existing product price change process - Resolve all customer excess and obsolete material issues - Resolve all delinquent accounts receivableRMA Management: Implement and maintain RMA agreement with the customer and operationsEOL Management: Manage product end of life process with minimal cost to company

Created Internal company documents ­ Engineering Change Order, New Part Number, Bill of Material and Discrepancy Log reports - Created and maintained databases ­ Part Numbers, Bills of Materials, Engineering Change Order - Maintained engineering drawings to latest revisions for accuracy and manufacturing specifications compliance.