Robert Bishop Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Procures specialized labor, engineering, supplies, equipment, outside fabrication, and raw materials as required to support production and sales team.• Forecast and establish yearly Service/Blanket agreements for facility, maintenance, shipping and production in collaboration with Controller and Management staff. • Cultivate and maintain positive business relationships with vendors, ensuring materials or services are delivered with the shortest lead-time, at the lowest cost, and highest quality possible and improve payment terms when possible.• Evaluate and select suppliers for obtaining bids, identifying alternate sources for commodities to meet company requirements. • Expedites delivery and arranges shipment of materials and services to meet production schedule address discrepancies or returns and obtain credits.• Work with quality managers and suppliers to resolve quality issues and corrective actions. Adheres to all company health and safety procedures. • Identify suppliers that can be moved from P-card and non-PO invoicing to the PO process.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Prepare purchasing requisitions and purchase orders including both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical supplies.• Review and maintain inventory levels create purchase orders place orders for new drugs with outside vendors to be delivered to retail store.• Provide excellent customer service to all internal and external customers.• Interact with Finance to resolve avg. cost variances, and analyze Oracle ERP sync mismatches.• Assist internal departments by researching and providing information for products to stock, products currently stocked, or product non-availability.• Review the daily invoices and daily backorder sheets.• Perform duties affecting purchasing and inventory control as needed by the department.

United States

• Process Import purchase orders, with a yearly spend of five million dollars, oversee maintenance, expediting and receiving. • Maintaining the relationship with our import vendors on subjects of quality, delivery and payment terms. • Maintain Import PO notes in Commerce Center system which includes how much product will be delivered in for monthly spend forecasting.• Make inventory adjustments for all three warehouse locations as needed.• Managing inventory transfers and Import shipping costs. • Run requirement reports for forecasting and planning of new import purchases. • Travel to and perform onsite physical inventories at all of the branch locations yearly.• Process Import vendor return and obtain credits.• Approve Import Invoices from suppliers which include tariffs, duties and freight charges monthly.• Oversee Bi-monthly purchasing meeting with management and sales teams for all location.• Run Bi-monthly meeting with sales team to review slow moving or dead stock items for potential sales ideas.

United States

• Responsible for acquiring indirect MRO materials, supplies, and service for five facilities for capital equipment and project purchasing. • Lead the recruitment, evaluation, and selection of suppliers and service providers through strategic sourcing, identification of suppliers capabilities for the creation of RFQ documents, review proposal and risk analysis. • Monitoring and maintaining acceptable inventory levels by lean concepts with regard to achieving inventory reduction utilizing JIT or VMI programs.• Conduct annual reviews with preferred vendors to drive positive outcomes with creative solutions to sourcing and supplier development.• Track orders via open reports to assure timely delivery of product and services; resolve any quality or delivery issues of product and services • Coordinate project purchasing activities with engineering department. Initiates purchase orders and amendments for parts and/or services; arrange for the submission of samples to production as required with close coordination with suppliers. • Identify and achieve best in price opportunities with new and preferred suppliers. Recommends suppliers for cost, quality, and delivery. • Analyzes and secures quotations; negotiates prices and payment terms with suppliers; • Conduct supplier evaluations by on site visits with suppliers as needed, qualify suppliers as new sources if applicable. • Oversee the day to day workflow with MRO buyers and purchasing associate. Provide coverage for the direct material senior buyer and Junior Steel buyer when needed.

United States

• Purchase Direct and In-direct sourcing for Kennametal North America, Europe, Asia and South America with an annual spend of 13M • Utilize strategic contracts with key suppliers as a means of achieving cost savings in excess of 1M while ensuring both internal and external customer expectations are met.• Process yearly service agreements and scheduling agreements• Prepare detailed RFP quotation and proposals by working closely with key stakeholders to ensure product/service meet performance levels and delivery schedules • Identify opportunities to leverage buying power, optimize service, price and extend the companies DPO• Developed a comprehensive savings plan followed by proper monitoring to ensure results and savings totaling over 1M.• Conduct supplier negotiations, qualify potential suppliers and award business.• Develop and maintain supplier business relations by conducting supplier evaluations, establishing supplier scorecard and performance feedback• Address all daily issues related to plants/supplier purchase requisition, purchase orders and payments by establishing recommended selling price, accurate cost estimate and proper lead time

United States

• Initiated supplier invitations/relationships through the Ariba Supplier Network (ASN)• Set up supplier and supplier catalog information per the Supplier Enablement Checklist• Provided Supplier Enablement data required for setting up suppliers, catalogs via ASN Test and Production accounts• Maintained and validated supplier catalogs for both Test and Production environments • Managed multiple catalog implementations in parallel • Test catalogs with suppliers and appropriate sourcing managers • Validation/Mapping of master data fields UNSPSC, UOM, Supplier and Currency

United States

2004 - 2008 Contract Buyer - Surgical Services• Provided support to the senior buyer by processing capital purchase orders, consignment agreements, bids and contracts. Prepared all cost analysis and cost savings reports as required. Maintained records of all purchasing and vendor activities in the area of service and performance• Served on the surgical service committee for product review, standardization, cost reduction and performance analysis• Facilitated User Meetings and reported activities to key stakeholders• Communicated contracts and bid status to end users and service line members2003 – 2004 Item Master - Data Integrity Group• Managed and maintained the Item Master and Vendor Master to ensure data integrity. Assure contractual compliance of pricing through Sourcing team analysis.• Manage all item master issues related to: Accounts Payable; Inventory, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, E-Procurement, Information Services and end users2000 - 2003 Sourcing Specialist - Surgical Services, Facilities and Laboratories• Processed purchase orders assigned within the defined timeframe• Maintained updated documentation as it pertains to in-process orders. Directed purchase orders to contracted vendors as needed • Maintained accurate documentation on orders over 10K in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. Informed vendors and end users of pricing issues. Reported savings greater than one thousand dollars in Savings Tracker