• Manage entire manufacturing process for handcrafted skincare products consisting of over 20 items• 15 consecutive years of steady sales growth, with 100% growth in 2020• Lead successful marketing and advertising campaigns via social media and other digital platforms• Built a strong brand and loyal customer base through repeat sales• Represent company and brand at national trade shows and vendor events, including speaking engagements• Lead company with an entrepreneurial spirit and tenacity to drive sales growth and customer loyalty• Use strong communication and interpersonal skills to educate customers on product features, resulting in encouraging numerous first-time buyers• Collaborate with businesses to sell company products in their stores• Invited to speak on entrepreneurship to Western Michigan University business students and elementary school students for their class career week

Coordinate SAP/Ariba and international ERP systems implementation with zero disruption to supply. Plan and organize training sessions to guide new staff on ERP, engineering change requests, and daily metrics for buying center. Improve and monitor safety stock levels to minimize supply chain risks. Orchestrate and attend cross-functional meetings for new product development projects, including training on PO management, product launch progress, and inventory metrics. Define KPIs, project updates, and business status for procurement team. Maintain day-to-day supplier metrics to assure compliance, PO lead times, and shipping receipts. Evaluate vendor performance to achieve monthly shipment and cost targets. Directed improvement initiatives by devising SOPs for process mapping, including JDE POs and engineering change request buyer activities. Improved customer returns, missing shipments identification, and requests fulfillment to stock outs while collaborating with distribution team. Examined and accomplished supply chain needs of internal stakeholders and customers.● Managed inventory accuracy for 13 vendors worth $43M including top spend suppliers of company.● Minimized supply chain risks by keeping optimal safety stock levels.● Cleared payments worth $4.7M to suppliers by promptly fixing invoice issues with AP staff.● Implemented cost avoidance by $120K by solving erroneous receipt issues with suppliers.● Expedited shipments and increased delivery quantities to avoid back-order situations.● Managed the change of an international entity, modifying 2,000+ POs that impacted $13 million in COGS, resulting in zero customer back order and no service issues.

Identified qualified vendors and procured 1000+ components at competitive rates through negotiation. Delivered process improvement projects and participated in meetings in close collaboration with the operations assembly team. Supervised all procurement and inventory control operations for MedSurg stretcher production line. Directed supplier negotiations, enhanced lead-times, and product quality. Addressed quality issues, including part procurement for supplier-related product field action.● Achieved Days in Inventory budget for 11 out of 12 months in 2012.● Minimized inventory cost by $1M for Stretcher line within two months through Kanban and reduction of minimum order quantities with suppliers.● Surpassed variance goal by 1.87% on approximately $7M in inventory through physical inventory reconciliation process for entire assembly team.

Purchased products for six Midwest Viking Supply locations. Evaluated monthly forecasts to make global spending decisions. Examined and met inventory needs of location managers. Maintained inventory metrics, including keeping records and accomplishing DII targets. Fostered relationships with suppliers, trucking companies, and warehousing staff for cost-effective and on-time product delivery. Resolved shipping errors for damaged materials, order shortages, and overages. Crafted monthly reports for suppliers to monitor performance and share productive feedback accordingly.● Reduced number of stock out days and fulfilled product safety stock levels while confirming availability of inventory.● Minimalized inventory levels to free up company dollars.