• Maintain strategic relationships developed with key suppliers who are aligned to the company's needs and commodities and/or customer base.• Identify new suppliers, negotiate terms, and recommend potential supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates where appropriate.• Manage relative cost reduction opportunities and interact effectively with supplier, Engineering and Quality team members.• Stay informed of current and future trends in the global marketplace for those materials and/or commodities.• Manage requirements by issuing POs in accordance with suggested PO issuance as an output of ERP.• Evaluate for any obvious discrepancies between system suggested and customer order due date.• Expedite parts when required to meet customer needs and as confirmed by Customer Service, Program Manager and/or Sales.• Manage supplier base as necessary to ensure on-time delivery of materials.• Manage the ASL and reviewing proposed additions of new suppliers as necessary to maintain on-time delivery of materials and/or to mitigate supply risk.• Coordinate and help manage supplier quality issues with Quality & Operations functions to ensure identification of root cause and implementation of supplier corrective action.• Maintain close working relationships and effectively support Sales, Engineering, Production, and Business Development from a supply chain and materials perspective.• Work with the Supply Chain team to identify metrics tied directly to on-time delivery of materials, issue occurrences, tracking and reporting for all customer accounts, suppliers, and/or commodities. (e.g., cycle counting accuracy, turns, on-time, ERP expertise, material cost variance.

• Primary responsibility for building and maintaining relationships with vendors and suppliers.• Coordinates purchasing and delivery schedule of vendor supplied components with appropriate departments and personnel.• Source and buy product to fill requirements.• Qualify and develop new suppliers.• Manage, maintain, and grow existing supplier base. • Qualify vendor's product offerings to verify exact part numbers, accurate delivery date, and best price.• Negotiate and buy parts in a timely and expeditious manner.• Product research as required.• Communication and problem solving.• Create and maintain purchase plan per project.• Accurate and professional verbal and written communications• Complete vendor score cards• S & OP meetings

• Inside sales - Creating quotes and Answering questions related to product & specifications.• Inventory - Maintaining correct inventory levels of all products related to door fabrication.• Order entry - Maintaining order entry process and item specific information.• Production scheduling• Purchasing • Warranty and service claims -Documentation, scheduling and RMA processing to vendor• Maintaining door order component options in order entry software.• Creating marketing campaigns.• Creating and distributing marketing literature, product catalogs, displays, and sell sheets.• Working to grow existing customer relationships and fostering new opportunities.• Gathering market-specific information to explore new market opportunities.• Traveling to customer and vendor sites.• Production management

• Responsible for daily and long-term strategic management of software and technology related hardware within the organizations. • Planning, monitoring, and recording software license and or hardware assets to ensure compliance with vendor contracts.• Assisted in forming procurement strategies to optimize technology spend across the 80+ organizations.• Developed and implemented procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control throughout their life cycles.• Managed all purchased license and warranty documentation for all purchased items and obtained in all acquisitions. • Managed inventory of all acquisitions including licensed and proof of ownership and worked directly with legal and procurement to manage discrepancies for immediate resolutions.• Review and present vendor contracts to Supply Chain Manager for implementation as well as implantation upon approval.

• Evaluate MRP schedule and expedite orders to ensure production materials are on hand in a JIT environment and monitor inventory levels.• Update and monitor product backlog report, track all past due items, expedite as needed per changing production schedule, order products as needed from MRP driven schedules and review every job plan to ensure products per the job plan, scope of work are ordered per the specifications identified and meet the required need by date per the production schedule. • Work with vendors and accounts payable to ensure all invoice issues and processes are complete for a positive and efficient outcome for all parties involved.• Procure and plan components to support a build to order JIT environment for up to three standardized production set ups.• Documentation of client information associated with agreement contracts.• Created and maintained company processes and policies.• Inventory management including accuracy at all sites, re-order points, cycle counts, adjustments, managing the stock lists, and managing warranties.• Manage all procurement requests from various departments for all sites.• Corresponding with suppliers to negotiate and qualify nbo's/ contracts and discounts.• Review and evaluate backorder reports each week in accordance with the production schedule.

In addition to the general secretarial duties which include answering the phone, customer service, filing and scheduling appointments I streamlined the development in the completion of financial statements prepared for clients. This requires extensive knowledge and ability in word processing, database, and presentation software as well as accounting software applications. Other tasks I perform include but are not limited to; tracking several works-in-progress for multiple auditors for compliance purposes. Ordering office supplies and scheduling maintenance personnel on office equipment. Maintaining mail/phone directories of suppliers, clients, employees, and other contacts. Proofing financial documents and creating related correspondence. Provide training and support to the accounting staff on the accounting software applications used for the reproduction of financial statements and paperless filing. Entering financial statement data input and required note disclosures to generate a professional and precise report. Troubleshooting minor technical problems or submitting the problem to IT.

Performed daily account transactions for various types of accounts. Reconciled client accounts. Answered customer inquiries accurately and comprehendible. Proofed daily teller transactions and initiated electronic transmitting. Counted cash inventory coming in and prepared cash inventory to ship out. Organized and maintained specialty coin orders and distribution lists.