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Tualatin, Oregon, United States

• Manage purchases within a tight timeline and work with suppliers to negotiate pricing and delivery dates
• Develop inventory targets for key components while leveraging EOQ purchases to maintain appropriate safety stock inventory levels
• Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact to suppliers
• Issue Purchase Orders to ensure adequate inventory available to meet production requirements and forecasted orders
• Build and maintain relationships with supply partners while continuing to seek out new sources as necessary
• Coordinate outside process materials and vendors to ensure that parts are available to meet production schedule requirements

Elmira, New York Area

• Consolidated production component requirements and generated work orders and purchase orders to satisfy internal and external demands.
• Prepared bid packages for quotation and analyzed data for cost reduction efforts.
• Managed phase in/out of products working closely with engineering and suppliers.
• Initiated purchase orders, issued change notices and expedited delivery of materials to meet demand requirements.
• Compiled and analyzed data to plan and schedule work orders with a minimum of throughput and lead time.
• Managed and controlled inventory for the purpose of meeting customer demand, reducing inventory and increasing inventory turns.

Horseheads, NY

• Over four years of experience in the aerospace industry environment with responsibilities in supply chain management, discrepant parts disposition and pricing/proposal analysis.
• Responsible for the management and professional development of Purchasing department employees.
• Played a key role in implementing new ERP system and enhanced end users’ understanding of the system by conducting group and individual training sessions and creating user-friendly training materials.
• Supported proposals through competitive pricing efforts, sourcing new vendors and negotiating best and final offers.
• Created controlled documentation to manage procurement activity procedures.
• Continuously identified and implemented improvements in the materials flow process.

Horseheads, NY

• Responsible for overall procurement activities including sourcing, vendor management, negotiating, and issuing of purchase orders. Provided procurement support for the research and development of new product lines.
• Forecasted material requirements for critical path suppliers.
• Traveled internationally to support new company acquisitions in the development of a viable supply chain and provided on-site support during implementation of ERP system.
• Created and maintained SAP system data for new materials.
• Worked closely with suppliers to resolve and minimize invoicing discrepancies.

Painted Post, NY

• Responsible for maintaining inventory management of components to support assembly production lines. Satisfied internal and external customers by determining production schedules for manufacturing cells while.
• Managed safety stock programs to meet both component and finished goods requirements.
• Coordinated material availability, manufacturing capacity and customer requirements to provide timely and accurate commitments.
• Hosted weekly meetings to review manufacturing plan with Engineering, Operations, Customer Service, and Commercial groups.

Painted Post, NY

• Worked closely with Customer Service to ensure that customer deliveries were created and processed to meet requirements. Responsible for the overall accuracy and integrity of the inventory system.
• Coordinated daily Logistics operations to ensure that customer requirements were attained.
• Directed daily activities of warehouse personnel and conducted skill development and safety training presentations.
• Responsible for inventory management, cycle counts and reconciliation.
• Created monthly period reports to measure shipping and inventory activity levels.
• Contributed as a member of the testing and implementation team to transition from PeopleSoft to SAP.

Painted Post, NY

• Responsible for all phases of the selection and hiring process of applicants and the creation of curriculum for ongoing employee training and development.
• Created and performed recruitment presentations at local job fairs and hiring blitzes.
• Conducted interviews, administered written testing and evaluated dynamic group exercises.
• Managed orientation details and completion of all new hire paperwork.
• Scheduled medical and drug screening process for all new employees.
• Facilitated tutoring sessions to help ready applicants for pre-hire testing requirements.