Ralph Burk, C.P.M. Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, AZ, US

Prescott Valley, Arizona, United States

Since the closure/relocation of Eberle to Texas, I have been busy transitioning my LLC to open a real estate brokerage in the Prescott Valley area. It's now open for business. While I thoroughly enjoyed a long career in Supply Chain and Ops, I am looking forward to having the time and flexibility to pursue new interests at this stage of life. See more at.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Phoenix, Arizona

Tempe, AZ

Tijuana Area, Mexico

Responsible for leading the purchasing, planning and warehouse functions to achieve improvements in the overall supply chain performance. Identified, recruited, and developed talented individuals looking for challenging careers in the supply chain field. Applied logic and data to define, monitor, and improve performance by 30% setting the stage to enable.

Prescott, AZ

Responsible for procurement function, and during my tenure, placed 90% of annual material spend on long-term contracts with key suppliers resulting in 6% material cost savings. Created departmental metrics package, including supplier performance report cards, established quarterly performance reviews w/ key suppliers, lead consolidation of the division's.

Phoenix, AZ

Responsible for negotiating and managing major development and supply subcontracts valued from $10 to $100 million for critical avionics/aircraft subsystems.

Santa Barbara, CA

Responsible for Purchasing, Planning, and Warehouse functions for this OEM manufacturer of high reliabilty position sensors and optical encoders.

A contract manufacturer of electronic and electro-mechanical assemblies to various aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial companies.**Director of Materials-Phoenix Operations**Lead the Procurement, Warehouse, Shipping/Receiving, and Production Planning functions (30 individuals). Brought stability, leadership, and structure to the department resutling.

A senior staff position as liaison between product engineering and the integrated supply chain to effectuate a seamless transition from development to production. Responsibilities range from strategic planning for material acquisition, conducting negotiations with key/critical suppliers. Requires broad knowledge of business practices, and ability to work.

Completed Six Sigma Black Belt training and acted as resource for deploying continuous improvement philosophy to over 100 individuals for this start-up business unit. The business unit ceased operations and was dissolved shortly after September, 2001.On interim basis assumed responsibilities for both Materials Manager and Quality Manager positions at.

Responsible for centralizing the procurement of strategic materials for three divisions, along with strategic systemic improvement projects. Accountable for Year 2000 supply base risk mitigation plan for 1000 suppliers representing over $500 million in purchases.Consolidated supply base by 20% yielding $13 million of annual cost savings.Developed.

Provided leadership and training to department of 12 exempt and 14 non-exempt personnel purchasing over $100 million of electronic, electro-mechanical and mechanical components for multiple production lines. Responsible for annual department budget $2.2 million, staffing, strategic planning and overall department performance.Instituted department-wide.

Leader and supervisor for 10 exempts and 3 non-exempts buying $60 million of mechanical and electro-mechanical components.Maintained performance during extraordinarily difficult business conditions requiring recruitment, selection, hiring, and training of new staff in response to 80% employee turnover. Improved supplier on-time delivery performance to.

Responsible for material logistics, scheduling, cost, and supplier performance for over $16 million of complex surface mount and conventional technology circuit card assemblies and staff of 3 support personnel.Streamlined and automated a cumbersome manual process for quarterly re-pricing reducing labor by 50% and cycle time from 21 to 5 days.**Commodity.

for the mechanical section and supervisor for 8 exempt personnel purchasing $30 million of machined parts, castings, injection molded parts, forgings, powdered metal, printed wiring boards and flex circuits, sheet metal, stampings and hardware for both high-volume low-volume production for Department of Defense programs. Developed and qualified alternate.