WHAT I DO: I help sales staff with their clients to reduce expenses related to the procurement of office supplies, furniture, breakroom products and janitorial supplies while making their internal processes more efficient.WHO I WORK WITH: Within the organization, I partner with Customer Service, Warehouse Staff, Accounting, Sales & Marketing to achieve purchasing requirements.WHY IT WORKS: When you partner with AAA you receive a far higher level of personalized service and a customized purchasing program designed to meet your organization's specific needs and goals. Service benefits include stockroom reorganization, inventory management, 99% next day free delivery, customized online favorites lists, customized billing reports, online approvals and budgeting features and many other service enhancements.WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT: Over 17 years of experience in the office products industry has given me the expertise to work closely with clients to design for them a procurement program that helps them best meet their company's goals.HOW IT WORKS: Meetings with key personnel at your organization define your requirements which we incorporate into a program of services designed to do the following:* Manage assigned manufacturers achieving the team direct buy goal, inventory turn goal, goal set as to cost of buyouts for direct buy items, updating reorder levels, and proactively managing items to destock.* Manage auto short buyouts, sourcing as competitively as possible, while achieving the division fill rate to include leveraging wholesaler special cost programs.* Negotiate special pricing and maximize local support for assigned vendors, working with the marketing team.* Help manage the inventory database, updating pricing, fixing descriptions, adding cross references, and managing background pricing.*Provide research support for sales staff, responding to all request within 24 hours.*Provide quality backup support for Customer Service and for all purchasing functions.*Expedite and follow up on generated purchase orders. Invoice drop ship orders after recording all appropriate costs to the order.*Work directly with team manager to complete assigned purchasing projects & track measurements.