Lora Alexander Email & Phone Number

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

New Haven, Indiana

 Calculates labor, burden, and material cost to produce product offering Creates and maintains BOMS and routings Inputs new and maintains existing part specifications Reads and interprets customer prints Performs capability and time trials Executes Buyer/Planner activities for $2.5M of raw materialsKey Accomplishments: Headed a materials purchasing initiative that saves $175K annual in cost Improved turns on $1M in sales from 4.7 to 8.7 and maintained service Slow-moving laminates project shrunk S&O by $40K in three months Led a team spanning five departments streamlining the item add process

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

 Created and maintained purchase orders, reorder points and reorder quantities based on analysis of demand requirements and product/supplier performance patterns Made decisions regarding inventory levels, purchases, moving PO due dates, and cancellations Managed roughly $5.8 million of inventory from sixty-six vendors across twenty warehouse locations Responsible for both distribution items and raw materials for manufacturing, which included hazmat liquids, third party processing, and products with a shelf-life  Completed returns to vendors for quality, damage or non-compliance  Resolved accounts payable/receiving issues for vendor remittance

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

 Provided courteous customer service for a group of buyers  Prepared reports including sales, new business, inventory and forecasting Managed inventory levels for raw materials and finished goods  Communicated product specifications with the manufacturing plant Crossed-trained in the plant scheduling position Estimated production costs and communicated pricing to customers

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

 Managed and maintained a collaborative relationship with a fleet of drivers  Decided courses of action as problems arose in the movement of Household Goods Resolved internal claims and completed corresponding accounting transactions

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

 Authorized all escrow disbursements Reviewed vesting to ensure clear and proper transfer of title Approved and remitted all vendor payables