Jaycee Simolin Email & Phone Number

Davidson, North Carolina, United States

Associate Product Manager overseeing EDI setup and compliance for MSC's Supply Chain and Direct Procurement.• Aided in getting over 1,600 vendors and 83% of total PO Volume transacting through EDI.• Continue working with additional vendors to get them through testing and turned on for EDI.• Drive and monitor compliance of required return documents for Purchase Orders transacted through EDI to allow for improved service to our customers.• Reach out and hold discussions with vendors where compliance is not being met.• Identify and develop strategies to improve MSC’s Direct Fulfillment experience.• Work cross functionally with other departments to put strategies into motion.• Collaborated with cross functional departments, including Sales, Customer Service, IT, A/P, etc to create a customer journey, related to Direct Fulfillment experience, and identify improvement opportunities.

Davidson, North Carolina, United States

Category Operations Specialist for MSC's Sales & Support Team, providing excellent service to our Sales Force.• Provided service to both our Sales and Customer Service teams through cases in SalesForce, always maintaining a Customer First mindset.• Acted as a liaison between Sales associates and our Strategy/Inventory Teams, helping to resolve issues and pulling in teams only when necessary.• Aided in corrections with items, including pricing, descriptions, buy/sell mins, unit of measure, and discrepancies on MSC's website.• Provided help with supplier issues, whether it was updating information in the system or reaching out to a supplier to help resolve a situation. • Answered questions/resolved issues with our Exclusive Brand product.• Guided sales associates to correct teams to reach out to should the task not have fallen under our team.• Identified opportunities to correct numerous items within a series, and not just the one, when a case came in.• Created Standard Operating Procedures for our team.• Trained both the Cost and Supplier Management Teams within Category Operations on how to use SalesForce. • Worked cross functionally with other teams/departments to drive improvements through projects. Such projects surrounded Phase Outs, Direct Ship Orders, QIA SOG and MSC Landing Pages.• Educated new associates on what our Sales Support Team does.• Organized and ran a Category Enablement Meeting attended by over 90 associates throughout the department

Davidson, North Carolina

Supply Planner for Hand Tool and Hardware lines managing over 24,900 skus and $20 million in inventory.• Replenish acceptable inventory levels, across five warehouses, from over 100 vendors, both domestic and foreign.• Review and place purchase orders from replenishment system.• Expedite and formulate solutions to resolve backorders in a timely manner.• Responsible for managing inventory levels for assigned suppliers and implement plans as needed to achieve inventory turns goals.• Process receiving and inventory exceptions according to established time and process guidelines.• Identify slow moving and over-stocked inventory and initiate supplier returns; work cross functionally with Product Team to devise ways to drive down the inventory.• Develop and maintain internal cross functional relationships to enhance the purchasing process.• Ensure timeliness of product delivery and quality of inventory through frequent interaction with vendors and Product Team.• Consult with Product Team regularly to discuss and resolve supplier issues and to review product line performance relative to goal.• Review supplier performance regularly, developing and implementing corrective action plans as needed to address service issues caused by supplier performance.• Assist sales team to resolve and issues/inquiries that arise in order to provide outstanding service to customers.

• Control accounts receivables and payables, including processing all incoming checks and preparing bank deposits on a daily basis• Maintain checkbook with bank records using QuickBooks Pro• Process payroll on a bi-weekly basis • Prepare quarterly financial information for accountant• Manage unit inventory for all incoming and outgoing units• Process all customer credit applications and contracts for funding and motor vehicle documentation for registration

• Maintained customer bills of material (BOM) and entered in system• Processed sales orders and work orders for production; forecasting and scheduling • Purchased all material for scheduled orders; negotiated price and maintained vendor relations.• Responsible for reviewing shortages of material on jobs and expediting material in house• Assisted in invoicing and scheduling of shipments• Created invoices from shipments, posted invoices and mailed to customers • Tracked all open sales orders and maintained schedule.