Michele Baldwin Email & Phone Number

Cherry Hill, Nj

I am the Administrative Assistant to the Area Director of Avnet East.I dotted line report to the Sales Managers and Inside Sales Managers. I manage the daily employee schedule, Mail, Computer Equipment, Phones, ordering of all office supplies. I run daily, weekly, monthly reports for Sales, Supplier Reviews, Market Share, projections and special projects. I handle all travel arrangements for the team and all new hire paperwork. I help plan all major functions within our branch. The biggest being our Partner Appreciation day. I am in charge of obtaining and scheduling all vendors, I manage the volunteers for this event as well as the overall flow of the event. I set up the registration table for optimal flow. I follow up on all outstanding monies due for this event. I reach out to outside vendors for our auction to help raise more money for the charity associated with our event. I answer the phones for this office and all outlying branches associated with our COE. I also help out other District Sales Managers with whatever they need.

Affinity Alliance provides sales and technical marketing consulting services to companies servicing the high technology electronics industry. We help high technology startup companies through the early customer adoption stages then take them through build out of sales channels as they reach market maturity. Affinity Alliance focuses on providing market penetration and early customer adoption during the startup's early growth stages. We also assist established companies with unique market penetration challenges. Using our global sales experience, market knowledge, customer relationships, and a network of established sales resources throughout North America and EMEA, Affinity Alliance provides a level of service unmatched by the traditional sales rep model or without the associated expense and geographic limitations of direct sales.

Interfaced with sales team to ensure proper inventory mix and desired inventory turns at Tier 1 (over $1M in sales) and Tier 2 (greater than $500k) accounts; negotiated inventory parts list and maintained stock reservation contracts for the South East District (which covered Philadelphia to Puerto Rico).Reviewed and revised stock reservation contracts to maintain current corporate Supply Chain and Core Value inventory policy and procedure. (end of life, obsolete, NCNR)Utilized knowledge of a wide variety of customer forecasting methods and software (E.g., Mapper, Oracle).Increased inventory turns from 6 to greater than 8 for TB Woods account within 3 months; accomplished by meticulously reviewing forecasted customer requirements and reducing inventory dollars with slow-moving inventory. Boosted On-Time Delivery (OTD) goals for the South East District in FY08, achieving the following OTD customer gains within one year: Spartan Electronics, 60% to 97%; Jabil Electronics, 50% to 100%; and, Two Technologies, 87% to 100%. Successfully maintained goal of <10 days of inventory in transit.

Global Fortune 500 Company and one of the world's largest industrial distributors of electronic parts, enterprise computing and storage products and embedded subsystems with 10,000 employees.; Managed the operations of our Supply Chain Services team (18 employees) to ensure the attainment of sales and service goals for 120 accounts with a run-rate of approximately $203M. Minimized profit leaks; planned, developed and implemented strategies and policies to improve excess inventory, on-time delivery, premium freight, unprocessed shippers, miscellaneous inventory and write-off disposition. Developed and implemented an aging inventory database company-wide to increase responsiveness in resolving aging inventory; averaged 98% disposition on any given month.Spearheaded a project improvement process to streamline inventory write-offs and minimize write-off disposition to the district for a savings of $175k for FY08 and $200k for FY09. Facilitated monthly one-on-one calls and trainings with region's 3 supply chain managers for each area (8 parent branches), addressing quality goals and progress, operational efficiencies, and inventory.Improved on-time delivery program (Vendor Managed Inventory) with accounts on a monthly basis; reviewed issues and determined action steps to resolve. Developed, updated and maintained master files, databases, spreadsheets, reports, logs, & manuals.Approved all freight invoices and temporary employee bills for payment; served as liaison to Avnet's accounts payable department.