Nick Mclaughlin Email & Phone Number

Romeo, Michigan, United States

• Manage supplier relationships as part of L&L’s “High Touch” relationship model. Act as the conduit for communication between L&L and its suppliers, driving for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Purchase direct materials and services, samples, prototypes, outside processed parts, components, tooling, and categories of items as assigned, ensuring lowest total cost of acquisition is achieved. Maintain thorough.
• Create regional commodity strategies, support global strategies and goals, participate and lead cross- functional teams as appropriate, provide a comprehensive review of: commodity, supply base, cost drivers, market.
• Create and implement annual cost reduction strategies, including but not limited to: negotiate pricing ensuring the lowest price up-front, source new business per the approved commodity strategy, implement packaging.
• Interface with supplier development for continuous performance improvement in the supply base.

Romeo, Michigan, United States

• Purchase direct materials and services, samples, prototypes, outside processed parts, components, tooling, and categories of items as assigned, ensuring lowest total cost of acquisition is achieved
• Generate and maintain accurate records according to the established procedures for quotes, cost estimates, items, tooling, purchase orders, supplier performance, and commodity spend analysis, etc.
• Issue request for quotations, required follow up activities and completing associated workflows in system
• Complete workflows for new part sourcing, prototypes and engineering changes
• Support cross functional meetings in support of new product launches and engineering changes
• Issue Purchase Orders for tooling and parts, update Purchase Orders for tooling and parts, update Purchase Orders as required, understand Procure to Pay process and resolve any invoice discrepancies

Madison Heights, Michigan, United States

• Responsible for managing a group of 90 employees to meet production needs
• Mentoring & Coaching of Team Leads
• Training of new Business Unit Supervisor I
• Facilitating Kaizen events, 3Ps & A3s
• Problem Solving through Lean tools o 5Why, Fishbone, Pareto Chart
• Creating & Maintaining Lean tools

Madison Heights, Michigan, United States

• Responsible for managing a group of 20-30 employees to meet production needs
• Responsible for cross training shop floor associates to improve shop floor efficiency
• Ensuring level loaded daily demand is attained
• Ensuring Lean practices are followed daily
• Ensuring quality standards are met
• Attaining weekly/monthly KPI’s; Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost

Madison Heights, MI

• Training of new Commodity Buyer/Production Planner I
• Creating, Maintaining & Trouble shooting Inventory Databases
• Working with cross-functional teams to improve workflow
• All roles & responsibilities of Commodity Buyer/Production Planner I

Madison Heights, Michigan, United States

• Inventory control & management of 12k+ purchased parts through Lean practices
• Creating/Maintaining Kanban systems
• Place daily purchase orders for production inventory
• Follow up with suppliers on past due purchase orders
• Plan level loaded daily build schedules for shop floor associates
• Coordinating cycle counts

Rochester Hills, MI

• Led company in sales against budget in General Merchandise and Health & Beauty departments
• Worked approximately 30 hours/week (5:00AM shift) to put myself through college while maintaining full time student status
• Excelled at time management/organizational skills, resulting in the following promotions: managing two departments, writing/submitting inventory purchase orders, training new associates
• Outstanding attendance record
• Excellent work performance reviews
• Operation and maintenance of equipment and supplies

Brown City, Michigan

• Worked weekends and summers while in high school
• Facilitated the daily care, feeding, and milking of 300 cows, meetingstrict health standards and timing requirements
• Trained new assistants in operation of mechanical milking equipment

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, 3.20