SUMMARY:

• Proven professional, with many years of multi - tasking experience, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• I have been employed in teh Purchasing, Supply Chain and Inventory Control related job fields for teh past 17 years.
• I am familiar with Lean Six Sigma principles and have had many safety courses while working in a manufacturing environment.
• I have successfully completed teh Essentials of Human Resources Management program and had some experience in some HR functions as well.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MFGPro, TCM, ERP, MS-Office: Word, Excel, DSS Micro Strategy, OMI PowerPoint, Access, Lotus Notes, & Outlook, JD Edwards, PCM, SharePoint, Mainframe

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Data Analyst/Buyer/Customer Service

Responsibilities:

• Supply Chain Management- Supplier set up and management. Min/ max for plant supplies and kanban.
• Purchase Order Management -Creating purchase orders for supplies for deliveries for 2 start-ups.
• Inventory Control - Maintain adequate inventory levels for plant performance
• Logistics - Shipping and Receiving and delivery of goods and services
• Customer Interaction for RFQ and all things customer related
• Sales and Service- Invoicing and purchase order reconciliation
• Scheduling - Scheduling of spraying and heat-treating of leap shrouds, liners and nozzles for GE engines
• Collabera/ Confidential
• Check MRP for material overages
• Data analysis using Excel
• Root cause analysis for obsolete and slow-moving inventory
• Updating Spreadsheets for obsolete inventory
• Reporting manufacturing overdue work orders on trend charts
• Escalate issues to planners to close overdue work orders
• Coordinate global calls for collaboration on projects to eliminate obsolete and slow-moving materials
• Updating finance for late orders with averages vs. predictions
• Confirm and record shortages
• Run Macros to create shortage sheets
• Work order analysis for complete and incomplete work order operations
• Receive packing slips into MFG Pro
• Reporting for parts put away vs. receipts
• Reporting for number of parts put away per individual
• Data analysis for parts delivered vs. demand
• Reporting and root cause analysis for red tagged parts unable to be received
• Root cause analysis for parts/buyer discrepancies

Confidential, Mooresville NC

Product Information Analyst/ Services Platform

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project Management for Item Conversion for Production
• Lead cross-functional department meetings
• QA of MDS for data uploads to lowes.com
• Communicate discrepancies to vendors for data quality
• UAT for Solutions Projects
• Customer service both internal and external
• Knowledge of PCM applications for Marketing
• Report Analysis
• Lead and created webinars for vendors and internal compliance

Confidential, Cleveland, NC

Assistant Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Issue requests for quotes to suppliers and validate production requests
• Create purchase orders based on production requirements
• Support plant operations for supplier related issues
• View stock reports for future requirements to meet production demands
• Investigate purchase order pricing discrepancies
• Report Analysis for late deliveries

Confidential, Salisbury, NC

Pricing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Create spreadsheets and charts of data for analysis using Excel
• Report data to Category Management and root cause analysis
• Key pricing, promotions and cost changes
• Supply Chain Project Analyst
• Data analysis and entry for Supply Chain initiatives
• Test Script documentation for process system change deliverables
• Manage phone line for vendor questions
• Manage Excel sheet changes for forms questions for vendor initiatives

Confidential, Statesville, NC

Inventory Control Manager

Responsibilities:

• Address and reconcile inventory adjustments daily
• Reconcile manufacturing accounting variances daily
• Created Bills of Materials
• Manage plant-wide physical inventory two times per year
• Worked with associates to correct work/sales orders as well as bills of materials
• Gatekeeper for display room inventory with $ value of over $50,000.

Confidential, Mocksville, NC

Cycle Count/Kanban Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team that decreased shortages of purchased parts to assembly line.
• Achieved a 40% decrease in shortages.
• Increased inventory accuracy in warehouse from 30 to 75% through teh phased
• Implementation of teh cycle counting program.
• Implementation, management and maintenance of cycle count program using MFGPro.
• Maintenance and implementation of kanban process
• Audit Kanban for internal and external compliance, communicating gaps in process to maintain 85% accuracy.

Confidential, Statesville, NC

Material Order Analyst / Back-up Purchasing Agent

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed customer orders for complexity and material requirements and maintained work in-process inventories.
• Increased inventory turns of JIT materials to meet internal customer demands, reduce carrying costs
• Bill of Materials Management and Maintenance
• Scheduled and performed cycle counting
• Daily/weekly contact with vendors to ensure timely delivery of products.
• Coordinated plant routings and maintained plant MRP Master Item database
• Resolved customer complaints around vendor errors.
• Assisted with teh development of browser-based ERP system.
• Generated reports using plant TCM inventory system.
• Generating purchase orders while serving as back-up to teh Purchasing Agent/Buyer.
• Scheduling deliveries from suppliers to meet production needs.