• Promoted to position while retaining purchasing responsibilities; spearheaded office operations including accounting, inside sales, customer service, and management of all state and local contracts

• Established strong long-term supplier relationships, developed metrics to measure supplier performance and sourced new vendors to yield improved performance and delivery, reduce costs and maximize profits • Negotiated innovative, long-term cost containment contracts exclusive of escalator clauses, thereby freezing prices over multi-year periods and achieving huge savings• Examined legitimacy of price increases, approving or rejecting such increases based on analysis of all available information• Analyzed price fluctuations, released requests for competitive bids to suppliers, aggressively negotiated contracts and pricing, and determined best suppliers for order placement • Expedited all orders, reduced lead times to ensure timely deliveries, tracked shipments, expedited release of overdue supplier payments, and resolved discrepancies• Documented RMAs and ensured that all discrepancies had been resolved • Performed ongoing inventory tracking, management and control; maintained a management information system for inventory control