Paula Washburn, Mba, Cpim Email & Phone Number

Jackonville Florida

St Augustine, Florida, United States

Responsible for special projects to help streamline their procurement processes for contract renewals, data enrichment reporting, and past due discrepancies. Additional responsibilities included the procurement of material/subcontracting orders for life safety and critical infrastructure business. Provided support to purchasing department for accounting discrepancies and purchase order audit, through data analysis and vendor management system.- Led contract reviews with management team and identified opportunities for purchase incentives.- Evaluated suppliers for the data enrichment reporting program to enhance the reporting process.

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Responsible for leveraging industry knowledge, benchmarking data, and best practices to achieve corporate goals by spend with suppliers and improving inventory processes to ensure customer demand is met within supply chain while looking for opportunities to help develop and promote while service levels and key performance metrics are achieved. Analyze spend data and provide recommendations to Commodity teams to leverage all capabilities of sources.- Project lead for Supplier IO launch of Tier 1 & 2 data enrichment program.- Analyze $765M data spend to identify opportunities to commodity teams to expand program.

Huntersville, North Carolina, United States

Responsible for assisting in the execution of supplier spend of $430M and supply chain sustainability strategies in alignment with Trane Technologies goals. Provide insight to the commodity management & business unit teams on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities for the organization(s).- Works across functional and SBU teams to identify process improvement opportunities and leverage various sources of information to enable decision-making process.-Manage RFQ and RFI's within Coups system to track spend and coach suppliers to improve profile.-Project leader & moderator for 2021 Supplier Workshop.

Davidson, North Carolina

As a commodity specialist, I perform key activities to assure supply continuity across specific commodities including heat exchangers, compressors, refrigerants, bearings, and valves. Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cost, quality, delivery, reliability, and time to market. Accountable for tracking productivity goals of $25M, spend of $600M and lead MDI meetings and reviewed AOP goals for the second largest commodity team at Trane Technologies. Supported commodity managers with strategy development and execution by completing standard work and project planning. Lead strategy A3’s, RIE’s and deployed 9 step processes to improve cycle time and reduce costs. • Nominated for Presidents award as a member of the Price Change Template Team Q4 -2020• SME for Preferred Supplier program lead council meetings and processes -Q4 -2020• Streamlined reporting processes to reduce cycle time by 15% per year Q3 -2020• Selected to participate on USPAACC 2020 Southern Region Pitch Committee – Q3 -2020• Member of the GP Sustainability and Supplier Diversity Council Q4 -2019• Project leader for Sustainability Strategy A3 –developing 2020 initiatives Q3 -2019

Charlotte, North Carolina

INGERSOLL RAND; Charlotte, NC May 2014- PresentA diversified industrial manufacturer for over 100 years with market leading brands in residential, industrial, and commercial markets. Family of brands includes Club Car (golf carts), Ingersoll Rand, Thermo King and Trane they work together to provide quality of air and comfort to homes and businesses around the world.Material Planner/BuyerResponsible for planning and purchasing of tools, fluids and air products for the distribution center. Managed $15M spend for the DLC. Reviewed inventory levels to meet customer service and inventory targets. Involved with Lean Manufacturing processes and participate in daily department reviews utilizing the Six Sigma tools. Volunteer as a member of the DLC Ergonomics Team.• Achieved a 96% First Pass Service Level in Q1- 2016• Selected to participate in RIE for consolidating the shipping process for WMS Q2-2015 • Reduced supplier past due order by 20% from Q3 -2015 to Q2 - 2016.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

PERFECT FIT INDUSTRIES; Charlotte, NC September 2013-Present A leading supplier of home products including yarn, bed pillows, mattress pads, electric warming blankets, and furniture covers with sales of $50M. The company manages licenses with several well-regarded brands that include Tailor Fit, Serta, Wellrest Bedsack, and Soft Heat. Senior Inventory Planner /Sales Analyst Inventory planner for all of the warming business which includes blankets, throws, mattress pads and furniture covers for $6M of inventory items. Manage the Demand Plan and sales analysis for major on line customers like Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Overstock.com. Participate with Marketing in making decisions on the lines of products to offer and increase our business. Manage the customer service team and manufacturing facilities for processing sales orders Supervisor for one customer service associateDeveloped new reports for tracking customer sales and inventory to support business decisions Created training material for the On-Line customer vendor sites

Boca Raton, Florida

EPOCA INTERNATIONAL, INC., Boca Raton, FL 2013-presentOne of the fastest growing companies in housewares, a family owned business with sales of $20M. Some of their major customers are Macy’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Ross,TJ Maxx and Amazon.Senior Forecast Analyst and Inventory PlannerForecast analyst and inventory planner for $4.5M of inventory items, manage all orders placed with China facilities, developed strategy for reducing inventory and overall freight costs. Work closely with sales team andmanaged forecast plans and replenishment of stock to ensure shipments are as scheduled.• Automated an Inventory by Product Line report to improve efficiency for replenishing inventory.• Provided freight cost comparison analysis to management to ensure freight costs were in line with industry standards.

Plantation, Florida

Business Operations Analyst for Sprint and Virgin Mobile Accounts managed daily shipments of 35K units and $2.2M in sales. Developed the demand plans for both domestic and international business. Led multiple projects, directed and coordinated work activities of project staff. Evaluates, analyzes, and develops business processes and methodologies to implement and enhance cost-effective standard operating procedures. Audits existing procedures for effectiveness and compliance. Investigates and develops solutions to operational business needs. Coordinated Sprint Nextel NASCAR launches with the operations and manufacturing teams. Attended several product shows Ferrari/Maserati races at Lime Rock track, NY fall fashion show, Next Tech in Chicago and Ft. Lauderdale Air show.• Supervised order administration team (four associates), which ensured customer orders were prioritized effectively. • Managed the Boost Mobile and Bloomingdales accounts 2010-2012• Achieved customer rating of Excellence for accessory shipments made on time in 2011 and 2012• Accomplished customer rating of 99% technology file accuracy in Q3 and Q4 2010. • Participated as member of Oracle 11i and R12 implementation team 2011and 2012.• Achieved accessory forecast accuracy of 90% awarded First Place for Sprint account 2009.• Reduced cost by 20% for order entry by streamlining the total order process to automated process• Awarded Team Excellence for business planning at Global Sales Conference in 2007.

Plantation, Florida

Market Planner for Motorola Mobility handset and accessory business with experience in developing forecast plans, pricing platforms and market analysis. Managed customer accounts from initial order placement to shipment.• Tracked all shipments to customers worldwide for 12M units. • Achieved 90% accuracy of shipments to customer requested ship date.• Initiated tool for tracking Bill of Material (BOM) changes for current products resulting in cost savings of 20%.• Managed Bloomingdales and Boost Mobile account for Motorola products.

Procurement specialist responsible for purchasing batteries, chargers, adapters, Sim cards, and car kits for cell phones.• Reduced inventory costs by 25%, resolved accounting discrepancies and reviewed pricing quarterly.

Purchased resistors, capacitors, switches and fuses for audio and video equipment.• Achieved cost saving of 18% on total products purchased.• As Inventory Team leader, reduced inventory from $10M to $7M in 6 month period. • Successfully reduced lead times 30% by establishing partnerships with suppliers and providing monthly forecasts to secure bonded inventory.• Selected as International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 14001 representative for Procurement Department.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl

Worked closely with Operations, Sales, Contracts and Order Administration. Maintained responsibility for the forecasting and planning of the division’s monthly Production of $16M.Acted as the Marketing Representative for developing EDI (electronic data interface) system with British Airways.Team member on Total Quality Team successfully reducing forecasting cycle time by 50% (reduced time from one month to two weeks). Developed and presented monthly business sales plan to the management staff. Selected out of 2,000 associates to be one of six Total Quality Trainers.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl

Supervised two contract associates.Proud to have been a part of the Production group responsible for the overall reduction of inventory levels from $38 million to $28 million over a one-year period. Organized and assigned specific duties for periodic “cycle count” activities and the annual physical inventory. Successfully effected a $1.2 million savings by developing a program focused on “cost avoidance” of stocking high dollar (top 70%), inventory line items.

Bba, Marketing, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Marketing Association, Tennis Team, Women's Business Association

Mba, Business, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi OmegaAssisted professors in their Business classes as a intern training program.

Executive Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations