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Greater Pittsburgh Region

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Oversee management of Covestro’s dedicated package fleet, allocation of resources, and balancing and repositioning movement of materials during planned and unplanned events. Responsible for the 3PL for all package truckload, LTL, and air freight transportation originating in the US to destinations across the NAFTA region.Analyze freight exceptions and work with freight pay group to eliminate freight pay exceptions.Identify intermodal opportunities to reduce carbon footprint and achieve freight opportunities.Work with distribution safety and 3PL on claims. Work with complaints coordinator on complaints and root cause failures.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Serving as the main point on contact for Northern bulk shipments, duties include finding coverage for loads, relaying all order changes to necessary personnel and reporting all late delivery notices.Corresponding with carriers, plants, warehousing, product planners, order management, regarding shipments coming from Northern sites

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Performed in-depth business unit engagements with supply chain teams to trouble shoot and solve business issues to lead to improvements in service, working capital, and cost.Designed and developed a global supply chain newsletter communicating information on major initiatives, employee spotlights and internal best practices.Led Corporate Supply Chain recruiting efforts by representing PPG at career fairs, serving as the main point of contact for candidates, and leading interviews for intern and full-time positions for the Supply Chain Rotational program.Created company-wide eLearning Supply Chain training materials and informational papers on topics including Inventory Management, Sales and Operations Planning, Logistics and Product and Portfolio Management.Coordinated a two-day in person training event for over 40 supply chain professionals.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Graded 100 students' weekly SAP assignments. Assignments involved aggregate production planning procedures, dis-aggregation methods in hierarchical production planning, master production planning, material requirements planning, lot-sizing and capacity planning.Provided assistance to professor and students with SAP assignments. Set up all assignments in the SAP system including: creating all material masters, work centers, routings, and multi-level BOM's.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Provided holiday coverage for full-time Warehousing Representatives.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Activities in inventory management, working with warehousing sites daily, order processing and troubleshooting orders.Created a daily report of stock transfer orders and open orders for use by warehouses, order management, and product planning.Post production for end consumers from packaged good facilities in SAP.Monitored planned orders, deliveries and exceptions for 10 warehouses/transload sites.Completed book to book inventory reconciliations at the end of each month for various warehouses.Communicated with representatives from 38 warehouses collecting inventory information to comply with external auditing standards.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Provided holiday coverage for full-time Order Management Representatives with no interruption to customer service and on-time deliveries.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Managing the customer experience, processing sample and export orders, and tending to special customer needs and exception management.Corresponded with customers, warehousing, product management, and transportation regarding shipments, order changes, material inquiries and rush deliveries.Provided vacation coverage for full-time Order Management Representatives with no interruption to customer service and on-time deliveries.Monitored status and corrected exceptions concerning bulk, package and sample orders using SAP.Created customer service survey that was sent to 188 of Bayer’s clients to assess the performance of BMS’s overall customer service.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Tracked commodities worth 5M and developed weekly financials to analyze and identify inflationary and deflationary locomotive parts.Recovered $60K of cost savings from various company suppliers through financial review of all purchase orders from Q1 through Q2 2015.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Assisted in expanding start-up company into Europe, identified service providers within European regions for installation and service of radiant tube inserts, and researched and presented findings for the development of partnerships with European companies

Millvale, Pennsylvania

Supervised and developed a scheduling process for a team of 8 employees that had to fulfill scheduled appointments to read inside gas meters.Some of the daily tasks included scheduling appointments with customers, developing schedules for the meter readers, entering results into the utility tracking system built using Alpha Five software, and handling all customer service calls.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Project And Supply Chain Management (3.89), Management Information Systems Minor; Sap R/3 Certification, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Lambda Sigma National Honors Society, Schreyer Honors College scholar, Behrend Honors Program, Project.