Michael Howse Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, United States

It has been a long road and I am hanging up my hat.

Orlando, Fl

Orlando, Florida Area

Purchasing ride vehicle parts

Orlando, Florida Area

Orlando Florida

Purchasing ride vehicle parts

Orlando, Florida Area

MET Merchandising Execution Team PART TIME Still looking for better opportunities. Merchandising service activities such as merchandising projects, planogram maintenance, overhead organization, and display/signage maintenance designed to enhance the customer experience. • Execute merchandising strategies and ensure product is displayed correctly to drive sales and maximize inventory turns.• Provide superior customer service to both internal and external customers

Orlando, Florida

Sourcing SpecialistSourcing and Procurement of parts for various Audio Visual projects, negotiate price and delivery of parts with vendors to meet demand. • Negotiated cost on each purchase and established lot size purchases for and achieved cost savings, reported cost savings to management monthly. • Coordinated with vendors and engineering to uncover and validate available replacements for obsolete parts.

Procurement of stock parts to maintain ride reliability, and planned projects for various venues for IOA and USF. Worked with vendors and engineering for replacement of obsolete parts.Negotiate price and delivery of parts with vendors to meet demand. Negotiate annual contracts with vendors for parts and services. Established lot size purchases for cost savings in addition to cost savings on each purchase and reported savings to management monthly

Procurement of stock parts to maintain ride reliability, and planned projects for various venues for IOA and USF. Negotiate price and delivery of parts with vendors to meet demand. Worked with vendors and engineering for replacement of obsolete parts. Negotiate annual contracts with vendors for parts and services. Established lot size purchases for cost savings in addition to cost savings on each purchase.

Procurement of non-stock parts to maintain ride reliability, and planned projects for various venues for IOA and USF. Evaluate the rebuild of broken parts vs. replacement cost. Negotiate price and delivery of parts with vendors to meet demand. Negotiate annual contracts with vendors for parts and services. Established lot size purchases for cost savings in addition to cost savings on each purchase. Worked with vendors and engineering for replacement of obsolete parts.

IBM laptop computer repair division components.Maintained lean inventory levels using BAAN, SAP Business Objects, and ExcelUpdated daily reports for buyers / planners for optimum inventory control.

Hired as Purchasing / Inventory Control Manager by IDU. In this position, I advised the owner of the corrections that were required for the planning system to forecast demand properly, provided forecast for demand replenishment and proper data entry format to allow the planning system to function properly. Advised owner to allow the use of EOQ to establish and maintain demand forecast utilizing the planning program. Reviewed inventory levels daily in the warehouse between product brands, and setup re-boxing of inventory to maintain level inventory between brands. Owner decided to move the postion to the home office in NY,NY. It was a great place to work.

Supervision of material planners, major components kit planner, Mechelen, Part Distribution Center planner and components part planner. Conduct weekly team meeting to establish trust and open communication, provide guidance on planning parameters and systems to plan and track progression of parts. Worked with team members to meet goals for inventory dollars on hand, supplier past dues, first pass fill rate, customer back order dollars, line days. Monitored inventory flow of parts to consume parts that were scheduled to supersede to prevent obsolete inventory. Worked with suppliers to reduce lead time, lot size and minimum inventory purchases. Worked with customer service department to ensure customer satisfaction. Worked with operations to prioritize the receipt of parts from suppliers, based on the current customer demand. Sourced and purchased parts as required. Worked with purchasing to enter purchase orders and quotes on sourced parts. Maintained the excess and obsolete inventory database for Memphis, used by all Cummins facilities to purchase parts to lower excess inventory. Planning and scheduling of parts, purchasing and expediting using ASOMS, MOVE, WMS, Xelus and Oracle based software. Participated in Six Sigma excess and obsolete inventory project to minimize excess and obsolete inventory purchased by the suppliers. Participated in Six Sigma low cost part inventory project to establish minimum quantities purchased of low cost parts, establish minimum stock quantities to increase first pass fill rates of customer orders. Participated in Six Sigma project to eliminate multiple suppliers of the same part and have a dedicated supplier to decrease the delivery lead time and cost of parts. Revised existing expediting procedure, eliminating time-consuming manual labor. Set up training documents for Parts Past Due and Shortage Report training. Contributed to the Work Load Focus Project to combine the Supply Chain Analysis position and the Planner position.

Providing expertise in material take off and the procurement of materials from Lucite PICS planning system and from blueprints and fabrication drawings for all crafts, (boilermakers, carpenters, electricians, instrumentation, iron workers, pipe-fitters, plumbers and support crafts), for the 2003 Fall Overhaul at the Memphis Fite Road Lucite International site. Responsible for assurance of material compliance with Lucite International specifications, ASTM and AMSE standards. Maintained and updated data in Lucite PICS system for capturing materials for procurement. Set up reports in Microsoft Access to provide data on a daily basis to track material and procurement requirements. Responsible for entering data from the Lucite PICS system into the Revere system for procurement of materials, confirmed that purchase orders were raised and authorized from requisitions issued and that the delivery of materials met required timeline. Maintained daily communication with vendors for pricing, specifications and overtime as required by vendors for delivery of materials. Reported to engineers, project coordinators and job planners of status of materials. Expedited materials as required to meet delivery requirement. Provided information concerning material procurement and vendors to reduce material costs. Responsible for material procurement for (FCR’s) Field Change Requests and the cost of materials related to the FCR’s during the overhaul. Set up and maintained a live database for job planners to access to check material status. Inspected materials purchased for compliance and rolling stock (air compressors, lighting, man-lifts, power generators and welding machines) for compliance and safety. Utilized Excel spread sheets to track requisitions, purchase orders issued, FCR’s, and to maintain inventory of rolling stock and release of rolling stock. Provided detailed reports to overcome shortfalls that occurred during the overhaul to eliminate reoccurrence in the 2007 overhaul.

Business encompassed generating film negatives and pre-press proofs from files provided by customers. These items consisted of ads, books, magazines, brochures, business cards, envelopes, letterheads, posters, and various other related materials. This required the knowledge of programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Corel Word Perfect, Dbase III, Excel, Macro Media Freehand, Microsoft Word, PageMaker, Quark Express, Quick Books Pro.Other responsibilities include material inventory and procurement. Business accounting, including invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and taxes federal and state, IRA administration, health care administration. Maintained quality assurance, office safety, assured compliance with state and federal regulations.

Responsible for safety, job scheduling, procurement of materials, job cost estimating, supervision of work, quality of work, job completion, final job cost, work permits, lock out of process and electrical systems prior to any work performed, coordinate work performed by different on site crafts to insure a safe work environment and minimal interference between crafts. Reporting to area supervisors and construction engineers of anticipated work, schedules and cost. Supervision of sub contractors, responsible for their safety, work permits, lock out of electrical and process systems prior to any work performed coordinate work performed by sub contractor to minimize the interference between the subcontractors and the various on site crafts on the job.

Spsm, Purchasing

Currently working on SPSM certification

Technical, A/C Heating And Process Piping, Tech

Diploma, Drafting