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Warren, Michigan, United States

• Support Logistics Manager in all phases of the day-to-day operation including planning of purchase orders for new and existing tooling.• Monitor purchasing capacity constraints of agency orders and track all relative trends.• Maintain reports relevant to the purchasing of tooling including weekly and monthly safety stock levels, purchasing trends, and overall customer service levels.• Lead daily market unit conversion calls with warehousing, commercial, supply, and sales teams.• Secure outside coverage for loads and quality inspection of steel coils in warehouses.• Develop, implement, and lead commodity strategies and cross-functional projects.• Implement productivity and service improvement initiatives across all spend.• Drive saving opportunities and effectively manage suppliers to maintain the highest standards for quality and delivery as well as maintain and implement purchasing and recordkeeping systems.• Collaborates with other departments and leadership to identify and develop needs and requirements for equipment, materials, products, and acceptable substitutions.• Assesses current material availability; reasonably predicts future availability based on the market, delivery systems, and other variables.• Prepares and presents market conditions to ensure maintenance of competitiveness.• Drafts, explains, and implements instructions, policies, and procedures for purchasing and contract management.• Manage third party strategic contracts and supplier relationships.• Utilizes contracts, best practices, spend analysis and supplier management techniques to manage cost and risk and resolve grievances with vendors, contractors, and suppliers.

Niles, Illinois, United States

• Partner with the manufacturing teams to create efficient and realistic productions scheduleswhile maintaining best in class produced out of stock rates.• Create tools to monitor purchasing capacity constraints and agency order trends.• Run and maintain reports for the supply chain team including daily and weekly OOS reports.• Plan the purchasing and deployment of bought goods from agency customers.• Lead daily market unit conversion calls with participants from warehousing, commercial, supply,and sales teams.• Create and maintain transportation lanes to ensure optimal sourcing networks, and on-timereplenishment.• Responsible for maintaining proper full goods inventory levels for assigned locations.• Plan innovation and new launch items to be received into inventory on or before the OTIC date.• Manage vendors’ brands that have various lead times to maintain proper inventory levels.• Optimize safety stock and MRP settings at distribution centers accounting for sales trends andseasonality.• Participate in the review of inventory levels and warehouse capacity, initiate and coordinatenecessary product movements to prevent out of stocks and out of date issues as well asoverstock.

Kalamazoo, Mi

• Worked closely with office director to plan concerts, public events, and presentations.• Entered and managed student, faculty, and alumni information.• Ensured information and database integrity of over 10,000 entries.• Managed scheduling of internal events and rehearsals.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

• Planned and facilitated day-to-day operations of 300-member organization.• Oversaw and directed a senior staff comprised of 10 individuals.• Acted as the liaison for internal and external communications.• Ensured overall success of organization.

Holland, Michigan

• Conducted in-depth analysis and redesign of department training program.• Prepared and presented statistical breakdowns of customer feedback.• Experienced with programs such as SAP and Bluescape.• Analyzed, investigated, and identified redundancies in SAP systems.• Incorporated business process strategies to streamline departmental duties.• Collaborated with interns to implement strategic

Warren, Mi

• Responsible for organization and allocation of warehouse inventory for over 100,000 items.• Implemented modern inventorying system, reducing loss of inventory and equipment.• Initiated high-level and detailed analysis of inventory and equipment.• Created automatic inventory ordering system for warehouse.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Coursework included effective communication & team management skills, global environments, information technology systems, ethical &.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Coursework included integration of theory & practice, diverse music cultures, entrepreneurship, artistic innovation, & creative.