Steve Thompson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Chanhassen, Mn, Us

A strong systems background with experience implementing and utilizing manufacturing,purchasing, and production scheduling software. I analyze inventory to ensure wealways have necessary manufacturing materials on hand. Monitor materials flow toidentify bottlenecks and forecast potential problems. Observe trends and customer requests tocreate and maintain inventory schedules.Commodities: Primary Packaging in personal care & Plastic Injection MoldingKey Responsibilities•Determining the required materials necessary to meet customer demand inventory and generatingpurchase orders• Planning and purchasing of materials and services for Assembly production• Ensuring supplies meet specifications, quality standards, and are cost-efficient• Ensuring the consistent and adequate supply of materials necessary for production.• Coordinating with other departments regarding production goals, and timelines• Review daily MRP demand and take action necessary• Source materials to meet specifications for current and new materials• Place purchasing orders with suppliers to meet demands of the production schedule• Tracking production volume and monitoring customer demand patterns and purchasing trends.• Scheduling and overseeing the supply and delivery of materials and products

Arden Hills, Mn, Us

Experienced Sr. Buyer optimizing procurement, movement of materials, analyzing trends, coordinating with personnel for supplier selection, while maintaining records.•Initiates purchase orders for raw materials, production supplies, services and special projects.•Secure and analyze quotes from suppliers, and negotiate price and terms of purchases.•Manage the primary suppliers with ensuring appropriate levels of product availability and communicate changes.•Utilize the ERP system (JD Edwards) with all purchasing, part numbers, and inventory levels. •The responsibilities for this role involve producing monthly reports for upper management and creating tailored reports for various departments, including Procurement.•Reviews and approve document changes; Maintains accurate purchasing master data, AVL, inforecord, etc.: Interfaces with Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning and Quality to ensure timely through put and proper prioritization of materials received.

Bellingham, Washington, Us

Perform a variety of duties to assist clients in buying or selling properties, including but not limited to studying the property listings,interviewing the prospective clients to determine their needs and financial abilities, and discussing the terms and conditions.• Identify the client’s specific preferences to effectively provide options that best suit their needs, requirements, and status.• Assist clients during the selling and buying process while advising them on market conditions, prices, and other related matters.• Establish profitable relationships with clients through direct communication, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.• Serve as the intermediary for multiple clients, handling the overall negotiation process between the buyers and sellers.• Conduct screening and interviews to ensure that all potential buyers are fully qualified and have the ability to pay within the agreed terms.• Provide after-sales services to assist clients with everything they need during and after the move to their new home.

Waldkirch, De

• Responsible for the preparation and approval of purchase orders. • Issue purchase orders and complete buying assignments which have procurement contracts or fixed pricing agreements. • Comply with companies current Delegation of Authority for all purchase orders placed • Research new products and processes and make recommendations to management based on findings. • Resolve technical and pricing issues and ensures predetermined schedules are met. • Review and process various types of purchase requisitions. • Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule. • Prepare bid requests including verification of all pricing. • Process returned products for repair by parent company and affiliations. • Maintain records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance and inventory. • Comply with all company and ISO purchasing requirements and policies. • Resolve and approve assigned open invoice issues. • Expedite late deliveries. • Solicit cost reduction ideas from suppliers and initiate follow up action to implement and record these savings for the company. • Carry out other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned or required.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Perform a variety of duties to assist clients in buying or selling properties, including but not limited to studying the property listings,interviewing the prospective clients to determine their needs and financial abilities, and discussing the terms and conditions.• Identify the client’s specific preferences to effectively provide options that best suit their needs, requirements, and status.• Assist clients during the selling and buying process while advising them on market conditions, prices, and other related matters.• Establish profitable relationships with clients through direct communication, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.• Serve as the intermediary for multiple clients, handling the overall negotiation process between the buyers and sellers.• Conduct screening and interviews to ensure that all potential buyers are fully qualified and have the ability to pay within the agreed terms.• Provide after-sales services to assist clients with everything they need during and after the move to their new home.

Madison, Nj, Us

Provided effective guidance and assistance to multiple clients in selling and purchasing properties for the right price and under the best terms.• Developed and implemented effective marketing plans and strategies to sell homes and properties that meet client needs.• Effectively generated more sales through strategic networking, expanding the company’s existing customer base.• Delivered exceptional customer support by communicating with clients throughout the selling and buying process of the property.• Ensured maximum customer satisfaction to establish and maintain mutually-beneficial relationships to generate continuous sales.• Demonstrated effective communication skill to negotiate the strongest deals for clients, acquiring the highest possible salesprice while also securing their equity.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Functioned as the operational leader who is in-charged in the overall management of the company projects, ensuring all assignedtasks and activities necessary to complete the projects were executed efficiently within the quality, delivery, and cost guidelines.• Coordinated with the associated departments to gather information including the project requirements, materials needed, and schedules.• Completed all project deliverables within the safety, quality, delivery, and cost guidelines in alignment with the business objectives.• Provided recommendations and assistance to develop new project management processes, improving the existing procedures.• Supervised global, cross-functional teams to ensure all projects were completed within the agreed timelines and objectives.• Accountable for the effective and timely communication on project status, risks, issues, and action plans to internal stakeholderswhich develop, establish, and maintain strong and sustainable client relationships for the business’ continuous growth.• Offered ongoing assistance to sourcing group to effectively identify and implement cost reduction opportunities.• Was assigned the responsibility of monitoring, updating, and maintaining the master data in the company’s ERP (SAP) system.• Expertly utilized the appropriate tools and techniques to measure the project’s performance and efficiency.

Duderstadt, Niedersachsen, De

Oversaw the overall operations and activities in the company warehouses, including the movement, storage, distribution, as well as the physical inventory counts conducted for the company’s materials, supplies, and all customer-consignment inventories.• Worked collaboratively with Marketing and Product Management to facilitate the launching of the company’s new products.• Functioned as the Project Leader, managing and monitoring over 15,000+ material numbers in the company’s SAP (ERP system).• Coordinated and updated all process changes involving inventory and purchasing within the company for efficient business workflow.• Collaborated with other department heads to continuously develop and improve the existing processes of the business to staycompetitive in the healthcare industry.Key Accomplishments:• Contributed to the successful launch of new products with Marketing and Product Management, that increased the annual sales by 10%.• Successfully implemented the cycle count processes that reduced the annual shrinkage to under 3% on a total inventory of $15M.• Effectively managed and supervised the activities of inventory control and purchasing groups, achieving the fill-rate level of98%, acquiring 15 turns at the Turns of Stocks, and reducing the non-moving inventory to under 3%.

Duderstadt, Niedersachsen, De

• Reduced warehouse space by 10% and the cost by 20% by leveraging one vendor to provide a consistent ordering and packaging process.• Restructured over 50+ clinical warehouses’ inventory that reduced the shrinkage from 38% to under 15% as an effective project leader.• Streamlined the procurement processes that decreased similar Orthotic vendors by 30%, reducing the cost and improving theavailable inventory levels.

Duderstadt, Niedersachsen, De

Prosthetics & Orthotics• Monitored inventory levels of all product groups I was responsible for in purchasing.• Purchased products for distribution and manufacturing of goods, along with sourcing new vendors and products.• Communicated with the Business IT team in Germany to create new SAP material numbers and prod-uct groups.• Followed up on over-due purchase orders and made sure the purchase orders were resolved.• Working with other Departments to setup forecasting and monitor life cycles of product lines.

Duderstadt, Niedersachsen, De

Prosthetics & Orthotics• To answer phone and assist customers in purchasing products.• Represented Customer Service in Product Core Team meetings on a monthly basis.• Main contact for the Customer First program at Ottobock, which gave select customers a dedicatedCustomer Service person to contact.• Constantly maintained a knowledge base on all products.

• Locate rental properties for my clients to rent, and worked with landlords to maximize rent and quickturnarounds.• A continued focus on clients’ needs and made sure they received excellent service.• Constantly built relationships with property management and found creative ways to fill vacancies. • Stayed on top of a changing portfolio of product, and recruitment of new clients.

Hartland, Wi, Us

Oversaw the sales associates’s duties and helped with work schedules.Arranged all the purchasing of inventory on a weekly basis for the store, along with inventory counts conducted.Sold to retail customers and arranged daily deliveries to large commercial customers.Built custom battery packs, installed car batteries, and solved multiple customer problems.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Finance, Minor In Economics

Certification, Six Sigma Green Belt

Major In Economics