Worked in collaboration with the sales team and the operations team to ensure a smooth and timely receipt of purchase orders to fill sales orders received from our customers. Work with international vendors to place and expedite Purchase Orders to ensure high order fulfillment rates, as well as keeping inventory levels at levels dictated by the board of directors in Finland.• Review and analyze inventory levels against outstanding sales orders to find what items need expediting.• Review open purchase orders, and work with vendors to ensure data between the vendor and our company matches.• Review goods available reports vendors (line by line), and advise whether items should ship via sea shipment (LCL or FCL) or by Air shipments (courier or Air freight)• Worked to input shipments to Customs Canada, in order to have goods clear customs in as quickly a time as possible.• Work as a liaison between product development and the vendors on ordering new product.• Provide updates to the president regarding the Outstanding Sales orders, and the status of unfilled orders.• Review existing reports, and suggest possible new reports, within Microsoft NAV, to help improve the workflow and make it more efficient.

Worked with vendors in order to procure all parts used to build mass spectrometers built in a value stream build cell. Collaborated with vendors and AB Sciex AP department to relieve any invoice discrepancies that may cause delays in payment. Produced the cell's build schedule to deliver finished goods to meet the company's delivery schedule. Dealt with build cell on a daily basis to ensure triggering of parts happened properly, and to try to avoid any possible issues and shortages before they would happen. Implement Engineering Changes on timely basis.• Achieved $500K in saving in FY08 through negotiating with vendors to lower costs.• Reduced companies Received Not Invoice (RNI)’s by almost $2 million, as part of the RNI team, by reviewing invoices entries in Oracle, PO’s and invoices.• Implemented Net Payment Terms by negotiating with vendors in order to maximize the company’s working capital.• Organized build cell’s bin sizes based on build plan, and set them up/label, as a part of lean conversion team while converting the build cells from MRI based cell to a lean cell.• Negotiated with vendors to hold stock, thus allowing the company to minimize stock on hand and to reduce the chance of shortages.• Developed process for dealing with unplanned demand ordering, eliminating shortages and downtime for build staff.• Developed metrics system for tracking and reporting (daily, monthly) shortages within the build cell.

Store Manager 2002 – 2006Responsible for all day-to-day operations of the front shop of a retail drug store.• Controlled inventory levels to ensure fresh stock, minimum out of dates and maximize the number of inventory turns.• Maximized sales through doing purchasing and forecasting for the store, including regular everyday items, season items and supplies.• Implemented all corporate loss prevention initiatives procedures and followed through to keep shrink to a minimum.• Balanced cash and safe and all daily banking procedures.• Hired new staff members for the store, trained them on store policies and operating procedures.• Created the weekly work schedules for a staff of 20.• Provided excellent customer service and ensured the staff provided optimum service to all customers.Assistant Store Manager 1999 – 2002Responsible for day-to-day ordering of certain sections of the store, to avoid shortages, and keep inventory to a minimum.• Provided excellent customer service to all customers and ensured all staff provided optimal service.• Supervised store staff to facilitate optimal productivity.• Balanced the cashier floats and the safe daily.• Responsible for merchandising and creating effective product displays.• Selected to train all management in Eastern Ontario on PharmaPlus's first internal email system (lotus notes system).