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Burlington, Nj, Us

Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, United States

- Managed purchasing, forecasting, planning, and international inventory operations for North America with oversight of a $60 million annual revenue stream. - Implemented proactive on-demand ordering strategies based on balance of data-driven analytics, reducing total inventory holdings by 53% over 2023 fiscal year. Total reduction from 3MM to 1.4MM across al product lines. - Reduced 2023 YoY excess inventory from 1.2MM to $275,000 through effective planning.- Accomplished a 54% reduction in stock outages over a 1 year period, an approximate average from 750K to 350K over said period. - Implemented and maintained LEAN inventory practices to optimize stock holding levels and achieve upper management goals. Fostered successful relationships with domestic OEM manufacturers, skillfully managing negotiations and expectations. - Managed end-to-end logistics for international and domestic shipments, including booking and securing FDA clearance. Facilitated communication between corporate headquarters and transportation brokers to successfully transport loads valued at up to $1 million. - Accomplished 98% reduction in surplus orders YoY and eliminated stock-out situations by more than 34% from previous year. - Reconciliation of discrepancies, both foreign and domestic - corresponding with international suppliers daily for smooth supply transitions. - Developed and implemented effective loss prevention programs and optimized warehouse layout to maximize production efficiency while reducing on-site errors.- Collaborated with internal teams in Sales, Customer Service, Accounting, and Shipping to provide effective solutions for day-to-day challenges.

Hamilton, Nj

Served in a supervisory role within corporate inventory management. ILG provides custom home building and property management solutions to businesses and families across the US, currently ranked as the #1 provider nationwide. - Trained and coached warehouse associates across 13 locations across the Northeast and Midwest location in SAP, providing support to 50+ employees within immediate area of responsibility. Monitored all sites within region through report analysis and in-person spot checks to ensure compliance and resolution of inventory discrepancies. - Managed cycle counts to ensure both total compliance with company standards and meeting financial goals. - Maintained Aged Inventory for all sites. Worked to decrease aging profit loss through extensive research and coordination with locations within my sphere of responsibility. - Maintained Aged Inventory for all sites. Providing support to warehouse in creating RTV, garage sales, and resolve discrepancies remotely. - Troubleshooting for warehouse, financial, and purchasing inquiries relative to SAP.

Hamilton, Nj

- Managing material logistics at 31/mm facility for a luxury homebuilding business spanning NJ and PA. - Negotiation and management of material shipping schedules and devising replacements/reelections to adhere to builder schedule. - Key player in maintaining and acquiring new contracts with nationwide builders by providing instrumental logistics services. - Usage of SAP in complete a variety of tasks including: inventory tracking, cycle counting, material shipment tracking, and discrepancy adjustments.- Working in collaboration with Field Managers and Production Scheduling in order to keep work schedules up to date

Bristol, Pennsylvania

- Provided purchasing support for seven plants for a major US-based stored-energy supplier: Exide Technologies.- Utilization of Oracle and PeopleSoft software to navigate extensive database of purchasing contracts in the MRO sphere.- Expedited, tracked and resolved thousands of purchase orders, consistently performing in the top 5% of all employees across all teams measured by on-site metrics- Maintained consistent contact with dozens of vendors on a weekly basis, building brand loyalty and demonstrating the usefulness of 3rd party logistic contractors.

Antioch, Ca

- Coordinating storeroom in a more cohesive and easily-managed layout that benefits multipledepartments. Relocating at-risk items to more secure locations for more precise tracking, preventingloss.- Log and receive all POs relevant to maintenance department, checking for accuracy from Purchasingand Accounting department. Corresponding with plant management to ensure product reaches properrecipients.- Working with vendors to resolve shortages and placing inventory orders- Processing and kitting work-orders to be deployed to maintenance team.- Creating and pre-approving material releases for all outgoing inventory- Responsible for overhaul of entire storeroom to comply with 2018 objectives and SOP.- Worked with purchasing department to meet 2018 goals in inventory accuracy and shrinkage.- Ensuring accuracy of maintenance requisitions before Plant Manager sign-off.

San Leandro, Ca

- Resolution of BOL discrepancies- Assisting Shipping and Receiving department in resolutions- Customer and corporate audits- Use of WMS software- Ensure legitimacy of incoming and outgoing shipments- Identify, audit, or remove product not within customer specifications- Filing paperwork to process cut, audits and adjustments in accordance with corporate policy- Collaboration with Customer Service to identify origin of errors- Resolution of system errors- Cycle count verification- Use of Excel, WMS, hand-write and BOL for investigating discrepancies- Data entry

San Francisco, Ca

- Developing a plan to convert non-cycle counted warehouse to comply with RetailOps software.- Brought turnaround time on lost/variance items from 2-3 days to ~2 hours per item. Increased rapidresponse rate to customers in order to meet deadlines and provide solutions to CS team.- Working with RetailOps team to help identify bugs and inconsistencies to improve softwareperformance.- Inventory planner for 50% of warehouse, spanning roughly 10,000 units. Items ranged from footwear,apparel, beauty products, and jewelry.- Responsible for CNF's, Returns, LP, and RTVs. Coordinated companies largest-to-date RTV throughidentification of production error, saving company upwards of $50,000 in accidental disbursement.- Worked with receiving department to cross-check inventory counts and identify discrepancies.- Daily correspondence with HQ to resolve customer delivery issues, product inspection, QCverification, inventory discrepancy resolution.- Receiving speed and accuracy at ~2,500 items per day with 0% variance.- Review and error-checking of PO's to resolve discrepancies and vendor shipping discrepancies.- Developing best-practices for new merchandise, executing new SOP.

Delran, Nj

* Led a crew of up to 15 employees, managing one of the highest performing locations in the NorthEast.* Frequently assigned to highest profit days due to efficiency and employee demand. Reduced callouts,break-time abuse and driver road-times with close monitoring.* Helped achieve a 300% profit growth over previous fiscal year* Assigned entire inventory tasking, done once a week. Diligence resulted in bringing loss average from 7% to 3%* Rendered customer service in dining room and at front desk* Resolved employee conflicts and issues* Opening and closing cash duties: counting, balancing and transporting +$3000.00 on a daily basis

Trenton, Nj

* General cashier duties; general customer service.* Performed daily cycle counts* Gretag/Noritsu/Kodak Photo systems certified.* Fully compliant and qualified in Noritsu/Gretag/Kodak G3/Kodak G4 photo systems repair.* Assistant Trainer to Regional Photosystems Trainer.* Received weekly truck orders for store, assisting management with its completion, review ofmanifest.* Responsible for entire store inventory: stocking and ordering from vendors.* Trained extensively in FSI (Front Store Initiative) compliance (relating to shrink/loss issues).* Full knowledge of the SYMBOL systems used in selected retail chains.* Placed, received and processed weekly vendor orders.* Responsible for general store and back room organization for inventory purposes.

Applied Sciences, Database Administration, 3.5

Focused studies on completing my Applied Sciences degree with a focus on Database Administration.

Certification In Welding Technology, Welding Technology/Welder

Learned the basics of three predominate welding processes. Certified in ship building techniques. Taught new students the basics of MIG.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

Studied Business Accounting