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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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

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.
• 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.