SUMMARY:

• Professional expertise in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Data Analysis and Budget Analysis and Reporting.
• One who demonstrates heavy technical experience in SAP and who has been involved in the SAP (ERP) software implementation projects.
• Readily, takes on new challenges as learning and development opportunities.
• Purchasing/RFP/RFQ/RFI
• Budget Development
• Database Management
• Contract Management
• Supplier Consolidation
• Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Procurement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated on the development of the commodity monitoring process through spend analysis and product evaluations.
• Monitored the supply market and identified opportunities resulting from new product offering/market shifts.
• Improved monitoring model by adding functionality that allows Supply Chain to efficiently benchmark pricing across suppliers.
• Supported the RFP process by performing spend analysis, developing market baskets and evaluating supplier proposals.
• Analyzed purchases on a quarterly basis to ensure correct pricing and contract compliance as well as communicated the results of the analysis to the Supply Chain Regional Services.
• Monitored price lists on a weekly basis to identify pricing errors and to ensure the use of mark - ups according to the contracts.
• Managed transportation costs and focused on reducing total landed cost.

Confidential

Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consolidated an estimated amount of $300 million in spend data for 87 countries and 14 sectors, by generating financial models and templates, utilizing excel spreadsheets.
• Normalized the Global Insight spend data to enhance the functionality of pivots to run better, improving the integrity of the data.
• Prepared PowerPoint presentations to management for the finalization and completion of budget reports.
• Utilized web base application to import, aggregate and calculate spend and productivity to Point of sale categories.
• Developed request for proposals (RFP), evaluate, analyze and access results and document recommendations.
• Conducted qualitative and quantitative supply analysis.
• Managed supplier selection prices and provided recommendations to ensure informed selection decisions.
• Created supplier scorecard dashboards, while documenting the RFx process to support accountability of each supplier’s performance.
• Supported the vendor management process for 56 vendors by analyzing the spend data to provide a means to export data to excel for custom reporting /manipulation.

Confidential

Procurement Analyst- Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Build quarterly bottom-up procurement price and volume forecasts, based on policies and procedures to perform comparison reporting between actual versus forecast.
• Analyzed and maintained monthly budget variance reports that accurately showed variances to halp reduce business risk factors.
• Build credibility, established rapport and maintained supplier relationships with the objective of reducing cost and eliminating efficiencies.
• Demonstrated project management skills by coordinating multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Initiated and managed monthly vendor reconciliation of approximately 85 purchase contract commitments that gave management better information to make decisions.
• Facilitated monthly meetings with buyers confirming project timelines and participating in negotiations while improving the quarterly true-up process with distributors.
• Resolved discrepancies and or issues as they occur during the purchase order cycle supplier development and performance improvement.
• Supported the Quality Assurance and Research and Development teams which involved the Ingredient Specification review and sign off by vendors and co manufacturers, resulting to the creation of a vendor master database for the integration of the new SAP software system.

Confidential

SAP Master Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided the Business with expert knowledge, training, guidance and support on master data modules by keeping record of master data documentations and processes.
• Monitored the routing and completion of master data modules, by capturing the Material Master and Customer Master Workflow tasks by key performance statistics in SAP.
• Managed the maintenance of pricing records in SAP in accordance to established controls.
• Achieved high competence in executing mass updates through SAP transactions.
• Involved in the material management enhancement project while initiating testscripts, correcting program bugs as well as performing validation tests for the final product.
• Performed testing of general controls, automated application control, and IT dependent manual reports relevant for Sarbanes-Oxley compliances (SOX).
• Performed Data Cleansing by way of Data Profiling/Data Governance resulting to eliminating duplicates/obsoletes while analyzing reports and tracking specific activities to ensure records are synchronized.
• Communicated with stakeholders at multiple levels by troubleshooting client concerns and analyzing/completing service requests to drive profit growth.
• Interpreted requests from the business, using independent judgment to make decisions on whether requests followed policies.

Confidential

SAP Administrator/Sourcing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with PO Requestors, accounts payable, and the vendor to ensure invoicing issues were resolved, while providing vendors with payment/invoice inquires on a constant basis.
• Monitored inventory levels and adjusted reorder points and minimum and maximum levels to minimize inventory and maximize serve levels.
• Monitored open Purchase Orders to ensure they are closed on a timely fashion, resulting to an enhanced tracking system of any unused monies to the resetting of the purchase order commitment back to the budget.
• Analyzed KPI’s for the department, PO creations, closing, and timing of good receipts, utilizing the best practices of the company, while performing efficiency and visibility of purchasing activities.
• Ensured validations are performed through SAP on Purchase Orders exceeding dollar limits with budgets yielding the delay of any invoicing payment.
• Performed monthly reconciliations of budgets with the Shopper Demand, Category Management, Shelf Obsession, and Trade Marketing managers providing accessibility of actual versus commitment.

Confidential

SAP Business Analyst / Procurement Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business scenarios to fit into the SAP SCM module resulting for more consistency, more efficiency, better planning and higher visibility of all purchasing activities.
• Created learning materials and facilitated SAP classes for more than 20 employees resulting in a workforce of well-trained employees yielding TEMPfewer errors, decreasing man hours and allowing for Administrators to perform readily accessible cost analysis reporting.
• Tested configurations of the Globe Template, including troubleshooting and identifying inconsistencies for the E-Procurement end to end process of the purchasing card and Enterprise Buyer Professional catalogue resulting in reduced entry and higher efficiency.
• Produced reports on vendor analysis and use information to leverage purchasing powers, while measuring and track performance within each spend category and define budgeting impact.
• Managing the purchase order replenishment process with a focus on matching inventory levels (supply) with the needs of the customer (demand).
• Utilized the SAP Business Warehouse Vendor scorecard report to analyze and evaluate vendor performance, yielding better strategic purchasing.
• Performed analysis on the Enterprise Buyer Professional software, which enhanced the ability of the business to capture important spending data and negotiate better prices.