Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
I have experience with creating long and short term forecasts for both well established and low running product lines. I have experience in new product launches as well as specific part transitions. Conversely, I have managed the supply chain aspect of obsoleting product lines and parts, minimizing excess inventory as a product goes end of life, and managing the signals to suppliers as parts are transitioned. I understand how changes in forecast can impact suppliers and the challenge of working with them to identify part issues. I have worked in conjunction with many areas of the business including marketing, sales, production, and the supply chain and have a good understanding of the challenges each of these departments face. I seek to constantly reduce waste, bring in innovative ideas to the forefront, and look for creative solutions to issues. Specialties: Forecasting knowledge, product transitions, Oracle software experience, creating lead time improvements, e-sourcing techniques, negotiating, invoice discrepancy resolution and process improvement plans.
• Administer and train users on Procure-to-Pay system • Find the optimal products, solutions, and suppliers for our organization • Oversee and add Supply Chain insight to critical company projects and initiatives
• Manage purchases of raw materials for over 20 product lines. • Create and update bills of materials with input from engineering and production. • Represent Supply Chain on NBD projects, prepared receipt of new materials, and established new suppliers. • Implement integrate, and train employees on Paramount Workplace, a requisition approval system. • Participate and collaborate in scheduling standup meetings. • Establish, update, and monitor inventory part parameters. • Work closely with Regulatory and Quality groups on projects • Earned Quality Investigator role and works to investigate and resolve nonconformities. • Operate in regulatory environment of Pharmaceutical/Medical Device industry. • Generates and sends out monthly forecasts for review by major customers and suppliers. • Resolves supply chain issues stemming from incoming raw material deliveries. • Create and update standard operating procedures and work instruction documents.
• Successfully motivated and managed two classes of 20 students ages 6-8. • Independently developed 52 weekly lesson plans that engaged, developed, and molded students. • Wrote student reviews each trimester to help identify their strengths and advised how to build on areas that needed improvement. • Developed management techniques to motivate students and promote proper social interactions. • Mediated issues between students and fostered a cooperative and cohesive classroom that reached its learning objectives. • Skillfully balanced the expectations of parents, students, and management to accommodate desires of all parties.
I planned, scheduled and managed materials for the our main, Pressure, product line for the North and South American markets. I have also successfully managed the lower volume, higher variation DP Level and DP Flow product lines for the America's region. I worked closely with Marketing and Operations on a monthly basis to forecast upcoming demands and balance production capacity. I managed the lead times of my product lines to deliver the best lead times to our customers based on what we have forecast, safety stock, and supplier lead time factors. I made adjustments which directly improved our promise and request date service level metrics. I developed a process that has enabled one of our biggest customers to quickly order large quantities of units same day, without a lengthy quoting process.
I worked as a indirect buyer in the Environmental and Combustion Control business group. Here I primarily worked with the commodity managers on projects they navigated, negotiated with suppliers to buy ICT and FCT test fixtures, and worked with our accounts payable department to resolve invoicing issues. I also: • Purchased indirect commodities and capital equipment for multiple sites in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. • Frequently negotiated with suppliers concerning pricing and terms. • Developed and implemented an electronic PO delivery method, decreasing paper usage and allowing improved PO receipt confirmation. • Created e-RFQs in the SAP system and participated in multiple e-auctions.