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Procure packaged products for a major grocery chain through the analyses of historical product movement, price points, and competitors’ activity that include buying for dairy and refrigerated, deli, dry grocery, frozen, general merchandise, and perishables categories for major consumer packaged goods companies such as Clorox, Kraft, Proctor and Gamble, Quaker Oats, and Unilever using SSIMS and QMF to manage over $13 million in inventory.• Actively collaborates with cross functional teams including supply chain management, vendor partners, consumer demand, and warehouses to maintain service and inventory levels.• Turn around agent who successfully has turned low performing vendors to become vendors that consistently meet supply chain metrics.• Selected to be part of vendor managed inventory (VMI) pilot in which vendors forecast, write orders and managed Safeway inventories against key performance indicators (KPIs). Use QMF and QlikView to chart weekly performance. Vendor went from never meeting all four major KPIs (service level, inventory, aged inventory, and turns to consistently meeting them week after week. Over a 200% improvement within a year.• Teach and train new buyers on buying systems and best practices. Training coordinator for the Seattle team, 2006 – 2008.

Contract manufacturer of personal care products and cosmetics. Production Scheduler January 1998 - August 1998• Generated, published, and maintained the Master Production Schedule.• Published daily report on actual production vs. goal and line efficiencies using Excel spreadsheets.• Coordinated the inputs of incoming raw material ls, quality assurance released products, processing and plant engineering to meet production schedule.• Procured raw material as needed for production using ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. Pre-Weigh Manager June 1997 – January 1998 • Managed four hourly workers to precisely complete the first stage of processing by weighing batches following GMP (good manufacturing practices) guidelines. • Reduced batch weighing times from days to hours.Quality Assurance Manager March 1995 – June 1997• Responsible for the complete product quality of personal care products from incoming raw materials to finished, packaged product. • Direct reports included two supervisors-one who managed the laboratory, the other managed quality auditors in packaging. Laboratory Supervisor April 1992 – February 1996• Supervised eight chemist/technicians who performed routine chemical/microbial analyses on raw materials, in-process, and finished products. • Wrote, implemented, and monitored compliance to GMPs (good manufacturing practices) and United States Food and Drug (USDA) requirements for chemical/microbial analyses and validations. • Preformed bench/chemical analyses on in-process batches and calculated formula adjustments based on results.• Developed operational procedures for HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatograph) that provided in-house results in 45 minutes rather than sending samples to an outside lab that took 2 – 3 days for results.• Promoted from bench chemist to lab supervisor after six months.

Quality Assurance Analyst• Ran routine chemical / physical testing on raw materials, in process materials and packaged product. • Created test procedures and designed forms for better data collections and presentation. • Utilized statistical process control (SPC) techniques to communicate production trends to line supervisors.Supervisory Training, Chamber of Commerce 1987Leadership and Supervisory Skills for Women 1987

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology, General