Greg Vanmeter Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

• Managed a team of 12 people to accomplish the responsibilities and goals for my department.
• Processing of Purchase Orders. We create about 175K purchase orders per year with a spend of 1.5 million per day on average. I manage the requisition, approval, and purchase order process in a Workday environment.
• Invoice dispute resolution. I work with Account Payable and our Transaction team to resolve disputes between purchase orders that have been placed and invoices that are received.
• Vendor Management. I use Green Security to vet the Vendor Representatives that come into our facility. I hold the Representatives accountable for signing in and out of our facilities.
• Sourcing of Substitute products for backorders. I created a comprehensive process to report backorders to the health system and accept and process requests for substitute items to be sourced.
• Created a comprehensive process to manage the bill only requests for the health system.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

• Processing of Purchase orders
• Implemented and Managed the Recall process using MDBuyline for the entire health system.
• Developed KPI process to measure performance

Kansas City, Kansas

• Responsible for capturing, mining, and archiving of data as it relates to Change Management projects
• Project manager for recall management process improvements (MDBuyline)
• Project manager for standardized label program and templates (NiceLabel)
• Developed and maintained KPI’s for supply chain functions
• Developed dashboards and archives using Access, Excel and Smartsheet
• Developed a standardized training program base on TJI and SIPOC methodology

Overland PARK Kansas

• Manage all aspects of materials management operations for the University of Kansas Hospital - ICC
• Lead team with 8 members to support all logistics and materials management aspects of hospital operations (Surgery, IR, MRI, Radiology, Breast Imaging, Pre/Post, Inpatient, Surgical Specialty Eye Center)
• Support all hospital functions in a Lean environment while establishing / following standard work (SOW)
• Implemented and established best practices for UDI tissue tracking.
• Track KPI’s and adjust as needed.
• Assure tissue and breast implants are available for scheduled surgeries.

Overland PARK Kansas

• Manage all aspects of materials management operations for Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital, and Satellite offices.
• I was a one-person department. I have absorbed all responsibilities of the OR Materials Manager, Purchasing Agent and Materials Clerk along with other programs and tasks after layoffs in 2010
• Work with Meditech software but also experienced in using Advantex
• Established and administrate vendor tracking program using Reptrax software
• P&L responsibility for the Materials department.
• Manage the annual physical inventory and maintain data base accuracy