James Smith Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Louisville, Ky

SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONAL Trusted business partner, resource, and advisor in Purchasing and Logistics with emphasis on vendor relations, inventory minimization and JIT strategies. Report to the President and CEO. Establish and manage inventory levels based on historical and projected sales data. Manage inventory and procurement function under tight budgetary constraints and in a JIT environment.Manage vendor relationships and sourcing for 26 product lines for Kentucky’s largest ABD with annual sales of $7 million. Identify and determine final source of supply, quantities purchased and delivery schedule. Collaborate with owner in medium and long term planning and purchasing strategies related to cost, quality and customer service objectives. Initiate and maintain effective and professional relationships with suppliers, actual and potential.Create opportunities and strategies for liquidation of obsolete inventories. Serve as channel through which all requests regarding prices and products are handled. Conduct all correspondence with suppliers involving pricing and quotations. Resolve all invoice discrepancies. resulting in a 20% reduction in cost on all pieces in the product line. Changed sourcing for all office supply products resulting in annual savings of over $5K.

Louisville, Ky

Operations Program ManagerDeveloped and implemented printhead and print module business and support plans for global organization. Interfaced with Genicom international organization. Directed inbound and outbound product flow, outsource and purchase of repair services from international service provider to meet forecast needs. Managed overall support of all international product orders. Senior Logistics Planner Maintained field services inventories located in 80 remote sites nationwide as well as finished goods inventory in main repair depot. Exclusive responsibility for replenishment of finished goods inventory for employer’s largest revenue customer. Collaborate with client planners to translate forecasts into supply requirements. Forecast inventory levels and report service levels. Managed inventory for upper level units, reporting of customer consigned inventory, management of “scrap” and obsolescence processes, define, forecast and maintain targeted stocking levels for over 900 parts to insure appropriate order fill rate from finished goods inventory, resolve cycle count discrepancies, initiate purchases of repair sub-assembly parts, and act as point of contact for all customer service, problem solving and issue resolution.