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Process Daily Sales Report for Plant, Customer, and Parts. Create Cost Analysis Report reviewing retail pricing reviewing sales history, latest cost, and part categorization. Created Promo Pricing, Contract Pricing, and Warranty Pricing. Worked on special project to evaluate retail pricing for 500+ parts versus major competitor. It resulted in reducing 15% of all parts allowing company better position in market.

Processing distributor pricing below their standard cost.Review Point of Sale Data, Salesforce.com Entries, and two internalpricing databases to verify eligibility of discounted pricing.Managed factory discounting for the Americas when requested pricing resulted in low margin. Received requests via sales and through internal database.Verified correct part name, pricing,valid application, sufficient competitor detail, and solid reason applied for each factory discount request. Shared results with Sales Management and ensured that factory reference was attached for each successful discount.Created quarterly cost and price files for the Americas. Requested data from IT Department. For internal cost files, created naming convention, formatted for easy viewing, and password protected them. For the Distributor Price Files, deleted all confidential detail, identified new parts, price changes, stock status, and listed parts obsoleted since last quarter. Also, had to assimilate two different part identifiers for North American Sales Regions so that all parts were assigned a single code.

Order management, forecasting, spot buys, and quarterly quotations, track quotes, identify cross selling opportunities with Arrow Electronics, and assist accounting department on getting unpaid invoices resolved.

Provided assistance to all Omron Industrial Automation Departments with regards to inheriting control of Omron Industrial Relays April 1, 2010. Delivered training to Technical Sales Group, Latin American Sales Force, and Customer Service Department. Provided technical assistance to clients, distributors, and many departments within Omron. Added 15 new pages of relay web content and revised existing 14 pages making relay product pages far more accessible to users of Omron 247 Website. Assisted with creation of new relay navigation guides, relay kits, success stories, product launches and discontinuations.Assisted with special relay projects from multiple departments such as providing a relay stocking portfolio for a new distributor to sell to their clients.Assisted with special price requests and activating relay part numbers.Created a "checklist" for being a Product Marketing Manager.

Entered discrete, scheduled, and EDI purchase ordersResolved technical issues utilizing my own knowledge, internal resources, or contacting technical experts in JapanShipped capacitor samples to clients for new design or for potential replacement of competitor productResponsible for managing inventory level especially for customers with scheduled releases maintaining balanced product flow despite strong fluctuations appearing on customer forecastsAssisted Credit Department with collection of past due invoices from the clients I serviced to maintain positive cash flow.Submitted monthly production forecasts for parent companyAccomplishments:Increased sales volume five fold for key Minnesota Account in 2002.Persuaded New England Client to take three year old plus component for $5K order despite industry standard of using productdated less than a year old.Coordinated three golf outings in 2000 while a member of the Nichicon Entertainment Committee.