Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Results-driven professional with expertise in logistics coordination, international and local purchasing supervision, and regional financial planning. Seeking a challenging role where I can utilize my skills and experience to contribute to the success of an organization.
-Leads the coordination of daily procurement activities and ensures that all goods are purchased in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner. - Initiates frequent materials requirements planning to ensure that delivery schedules align with manufacturing requirements. - Balances and manages team workload and daily execution of procurement activities in line with category management principles and manufacturing targets - Drives Continuous Improvement activities and Lean Sourcing and Inventory Management Practices within the team. - Reviews, Analyses, and Manages Inventory Health (At Risk Items, Healthy Inventory, Overstock). - Works closely with Engineering and Strategic Sourcing Group to find solutions for identified risk items and to avoid any negative impact to production. - Lead sourcing projects for prototype builds, including all required planning, sourcing, and data-tracking activities. Collaborates closely with the Special Projects Team to ensure Prototype Build schedules remain on track from a component’s perspective. - Lead the cut-in of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) from a procurement perspective in close collaboration with the Document Control, Warehousing, Manufacturing, and Procurement team. - Works closely with Manufacturing Warehouse and Field Warehouse Group to ensure components are available to support Maintenance and Repair activities across North America - Reviews and monitors identified vendor quality issues from a procurement perspective and works closely with Quality, Manufacturing, and Engineering team and Vendor to jointly resolve. - Continually look for areas where costs can be reduced, and processes can be improved without sacrificing quality. - Develop, build, and ensure team targets and KPI are met. - Build and maintain healthy, reliable, and positive relationships with internal groups, vendors and suppliers. - Participate in cross-functional, continuous improvement teams as the opportunity presents itself.
- Coordinated all aspects of logistics, including transportation, according to customer instructions (inside Canada, USA, and Mexico) - Controlled ETD of purchase orders. - Placed purchase orders for materials and office supplies - Purchase order follow-ups and customer service. - Created quotations in the Zoho system then convert them into sales orders. - Prepared documents for shipping (BOL, Invoices, packing slips). -Oversaw the movement of goods and materials to ensure timely delivery to clients. -Managed Relationships with customers and negotiated favorable terms for transportation freight services. -Placed requisitions for coils, and materials for production.
- Purchased and Guaranteed raw material availability for Ceramics and Conformal plant, coordinating shipments with multiple suppliers. - Work with the planning department to purchase materials according to customer requests. - Place purchase orders, logistic coordination, and FIFO control on deliveries. - Managed the import process of materials and issue local permits (based on Country requirements). - Managed all paperwork for customs clearance and follow-up. - Executed control of cost freight and raw material forecasting. - Negotiation with suppliers. - Implemented inventory control measures to minimize stock-outs and excess inventory. - Prepare the forecast consumption of raw materials and also purchase price variance. - Managed Past due payments and any discrepancies. - Collaborated with internal departments to forecast demand and plan procurement activities - Claimed to suppliers of non-conforming material and also expiration problems. - Managed obsolete inventory and decrease their levels. -Led a team of purchasing professionals in sourcing and procuring goods from international suppliers. -Developed and maintained relationships with overseas vendors to ensure timely and cost-effective procurement. - Evaluated supplier performance and negotiated contracts to secure favorable terms and pricing.
- Led a team of purchasing professionals in procuring raw materials, spare parts, and services from local suppliers based on the needs of the plant. - Coordinated the purchase of spare parts, machinery, and supplies for all plants located in El Salvador. - Managed continuous updates to plants based on production requirements and fulfilled the needs on time. - Coordinated and authorized purchases orders for raw materials and local services, verifying the compliance with the procedures and regulations established by the company. - Analyzed weekly inventories in the Oracle system, reviewing KPIs, weekly plant consumptions, and expiration dates of products, providing visibility of the status of the raw material and services, and achieving the proper procurement for production. - Managed the logistics coordination of international loads for different importation products for the company such as chemicals, spare parts, machinery, etc., quoting and evaluating the best alternatives for forwarders companies and freights. - Managed and authorize purchase orders for raw materials and local services, verifying the compliance of the procedures and regulations established by the company. - Coordinate and manage local and international payments to all suppliers. - Managed the inventory for all raw materials, supplies, and spare parts - Analyzed market trends and conducted supplier evaluations to identify potential vendors. - Negotiated contracts and pricing agreements with suppliers to achieve cost savings. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of goods to support production. - Monitored supplier performance and resolved any issues or disputes that arose.
- Analyzed sales, and retail KPIs such as inventories, sell-off, sales, clearance per department, and class for all the stores in order to distribute budgets, maintaining the optimal distribution of inventories. - Created promotional strategies to increase sales and product sell-off. - Planned the annual financial budget, by class, department, and store, based on the tendency and history of sales by means of Oracle MFP tools. - Scheduled monthly meetings with senior managers to present the available items for purchase (OTB, open to buy), together with the purchasing personnel, to evaluate the performance per buyer, considering the indicators of sale, turnover, old market, clearance, promotion, overstock, sell-off of each one of the different classifications by the department. - Analyzed sale prices to prepare increase strategies in product turn at the regional level. - Coordinated an implementation projects for products developed according to the requirements of the different plants in the El Salvador site.
- Supervised the inventory of chemical products through the SAP tool, verifying the turnover of the different chemical products to reach the budgets of monthly sales established by the company. - Analyzed and manage monthly sales according to the current demand and create a plan for the inventories. - Supervised the raw material, verifying that have the quality according to the specifications that the company needs, in order to develop projects with new clients in the food division. - Created annual sales budgets based on goals established by the company and according to the sale records provided by SAP, preparing monthly projections according to the company needs.