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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Belvidere, Illinois

Elburn, Il

• Manage stock levels of raw materials for plant to ensure that replenishment reflects the sales trends, 90 days of on hand goods, and turnover goals for 1000 plus products worth an excess of $2M-$10M on a given month. • Forecast sales for customer demand while also forecasting supply of raw materials, packaging, resale, and intercompany transfers.• Built and maintain vendor and carrier relationships. Negotiating lowest rates, therefore, lowering cost.• Manage and operate monthly inventory counts, managing the count teams, processing the information, analyzing the results, and consistently implementing improvements to the inventory process. Successfully, improving the monthly variances from, approximately, $75,000 to $15,000. • Manage promotional estimates for upcoming sales. Ensuring the goods are available for all the Midwest needs. • Create intercompany transfers for 13 other plants and make adjustments prior to receipt of goods as warranted by sales trend, weather, and other outside factors. Set up trucking for these loads. • Manage the shipping and receiving team of 8 who pick orders, receive in trucks, manage the storage of products, load, and unload trucks, both flatbed and dock. Access performance and recommend raises based on annual reviews and merit. Promote and recommend other for promotion when their performance is exceptional. Execute write-ups for poor performance or insubordination. • Review and adjust yearly budget. • Semiannually analyze all raw material cost and execute cost update. • Receive orders into JD Edwards system.

Hoffman Estates, Il

• Managed sales and stock levels for stores to ensure that reorder recommendations made by the replenishment system reflect the sales trends, presentation standards and turnover goals for multiple product lines worth an excess of $10M.• Recommended promotional or new product forecasts by reviewing and updating sales estimates and history.• Gathered business requirements to build ad-hoc inventory reports to ensure in-stocks at DC and store level.• Proactively communicated key strategies and initiatives to store partners.• Engaged in continuous teaching about system capabilities and supply chain processes.• Made quality inventory and purchase recommendations to the corporate buying teams.• Created superior order allotments and made adjustments prior to receipt of goods as warranted by sales trend.• Ad-hoc reporting as necessary under the direction of Senior Leadership.• Accountable for maintaining proper mix and levels of inventory for the Sears Full Lines stores, distribution centers both RRC and DDC networks, and support the off mall stores formats.• Responsible for identification of product complexity with seasonal changes by analyses of weather patterns.• Establish store product assortments through analysis of item and store level sales by reviewing multiple years of detailed data.

Prepare documents for audits. Use Excel to record and organize price testing information and record and prepare incentive pay information for production workers. Search through years of records to find the source documents for each purchase of steel and manufacturing order of finished products. Access vendor websites to retrieve invoices.

Review quotes and orders for pricing: analyze process costs and determine a suitable selling price based on quantity and customer, enter orders into GP, and send acknowledgements to customers. Use Excel to download, modify and store information from GP. Create spreadsheets, reports, pricing documents, and record keeping logs using Excel. Collaborate with inside and outside sales to determine the pricing needs of the customer. Submit approval of pricing sheets daily and communicate directly with executives and the owner of the company about this task. Develop and document step-by-step work instructions of our processes for daily duties. Extract EDI information, verify and input changes into GP. Verify PO date, quantity, and pricing changes to meet customers’ requests and expectations. Record material pricing changes per rebill for CAT to update the CAT spreadsheet and CAT orders on a quarterly basis. Maintain the customer/pricing index to be sure the quarterly, semi-annually, annually, and other long-term pricing agreements are updated and submitted to the customer on time. Preform contract review on each purchase order that is entered into GP. Developed and implemented the ECN aging spreadsheet as a special project with success

Warrenville, Il

Review exchange AR/AP accounts to ensure all payments have been made and/or received by month end, research and follow up with exchange analyst if there is a problem with a payment to resolve problem, use Excel to download and modify data from various location to gather, record, and store information, use SAP to confirm vital month end close jobs have run properly, post product regrades and post additive consumption entries, review negative inventory reports for terminals, identifying the reason and working to resolve negative inventory, maintain relationships with third parties, using their data and available resources to reconcile contracts, compile aging reports, explain the reason of any aged items and work to resolve the issue, reconcile contracts by comparing our reports with partner statements and explaining any differences between the two, working with the partners to remedy an discrepancies, compiling the hard copy folders and submitting for approval, creating journal entries, and recording document numbers, use PC Recon to reconcile monthly and quarterly GL accounts, prepare EPD templates and submit for approval, enter gains/losses into the gain/loss database

Served as a marketing specialist for the Sycamore office, built and maintained relationships with clients and patients, functioned as a liaison to patients and ensured a consistently positive customer experience, developed marketing techniques, prepared weekly and monthly reports, assisted the administrator with his daily responsibilities, produced sales volumes efficiently and according to the training requirements, developed a strong patient base.

Served as the accounts payable clerk for the Sycamore main branch, built and maintained relationships with vendors, ensured a consistently positive customer experience, prepared weekly and monthly reports, followed policies and procedures to ensure proper controls, promptly send the invoices to proper executive management to be authorized, post the invoice payments into the accounting software, review checks after printing and promptly have the CEO sign the checks, send the checks to the vendors, communicate with executive management on a daily basis, resolve conflicts with vendors.

Master'S Degree, Human Resources And Labor Relations

Bachelor Of Science, Accountancy

Associate Of Science, Accountancy