Group Purchasing Organization providing exceptional purchasing power to its Member-Client companies - specializing in Non-Core Categories. www.ThePurchasingDept.com ThePurchasingDept™ is a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) which aggregates specific INDIRECT SPEND catagories, common to a broad spectrum of client companies, and negotiates Best Practice Order/Reorder Service and National Contract Pricing to provide economic advantage. Please browse this site to learn more About Us, Our Purpose, and the Contracts our Member-Clients use to lower costs.

Consulting expertise in the following fields; Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Operations, Strategic Sourcing, Outsourcing, Business Development and Shared Services.

Led centralized Procurement, Information Systems, Administrative Human Resources and Finance.

Responsible for centralized Procurement for five compaines with 14 production plants and three distribution centers. Utilized commodity futures markets, international trade and multi-plant ERP Procurement.

Nutraceutical Food Ingredient Procurement and Marketing. Responsible for the Procurement, Marketing and Sales of nutraceuticals domestically and internationally.

Managed the Supply Chain function, which was responsible for procurement of all goods and services, planning, inventory control and distribution for company run warehouses, public warehouses, traffic, order entry and customer service.  Applied knowledge of the commodity futures markets, international trade and multi-plant ERP Supply Chain Management.Other notable accomplishments include:·Centralized Purchasing ·Implemented multi-million dollar strategic sourcing cost reduction    programs ·Managed the successful co-development of technology ·Negotiated and implemented exclusive long-term contracts at key contract manufacturers.·Reduced Inventories over 25% while maintaining a customer service level of over 98%.·Implemented ISO 9000 quality systems and received ISO 9001 quality certification for medical foods and devices.

Optimized supply chain through an ERP system implementation, least cost plant utilization and consolidation of distribution centers.

Centralization of the purchasing function, implementation of cost reduction programs and the optimization of Supply Chain Management.