SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, results - driven planning & procurement professional with multi-industry and global execution experience in supply chain management, demand planning, contract negotiation & implementation, and direct/indirect procurement/sourcing. Contract development, including risk analysis to ensure appropriate payment terms are negotiated.
• A career with a proven track record of significantly impacting bottom line for operations through strategic planning and collaboration with high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
• Expertise in quarterly sku planning, global procurement, vendor content & relationship management, and reporting analytics. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, creative problem solving, and outstanding service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Demand Planning Execution Vendor Content Management Multidisciplinary Contract Administration
• Supply Chain Management Data Analytics (SQL) Supplier Relation Management
• Life-Cycle Forecasting Production/Capacity Planning Sales Operations/Order management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, CA

Production Planner

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with teh team to ensure a maintained visualization board.
• Perform all SAP activities related toplanning.
• Cross-functional teams, to ensure optimal realization of TechOps strategies (considering LEAN methodology, pipeline re-design, sourcing strategies, assortment optimization/complexity management).
• Perform analysis on business trends (forecasts, inventory development, other parameters of teh value chain like yield,productionlosses, throughput time, etc.).
• Perform risk and sensitivity analysis for TIP.
• Execute teh global demandplanningprocess (mid-long termplanning feeding into budgeting, target setting, capacityplanning, and investment decisions), obtain buy-in for teh corresponding demand plans for FP, PP, DP, and DS.
• Participate / run local (within Pharm Ops site) and global (together with CPOs) S&OPplanning.
• Performed resource and capacityplanning.
• Represent site within Supply Support Teams for all life-cycle related projects (launch, change, transfer, divestment and pruning) and ensure dat local tasks are completed on time.
• Represent site within Brand Pipeline Performance Team and ensure dat local tasks are completed on time.
• Define, set-up and maintain material master data andplanningparameters.
• Track inventory development and adjust parameters if necessary (e.g. MOQ, coverage, frequency).
• Manage / optimize slow- and non-movers as well as write-offs.
• Establish strong relationship to QA and QC to anticipateproductiondelays.
• Maintain MRP to ensure materials are provided according to schedule
• Collaborate with finance to improve engineering standards
• Ensures compliance with GMP/HSE regulations, Client policies, procedures and standards as appropriate for teh role. Champions a Quality Culture and ensures a safe working environment
• Delivery service: Timely delivery of batches
• Quality ofPlanning: Adherence toproductionschedule; Changeover times; Productiondelay due to missing raw materials of consumables
• Throughput Time: Scheduling activities to ensure compliance with Throughput Time Goals

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Business operations manager

Responsibilities:

• Business execution processes related to lifecycle planning; order management including allocation management, Available to Promise (ATP) / commit processes, business attainment tracking; logistics management (including inbound/outbound coordination and consolidation of domestic and international systems to support shipments); and inventory management (including analysis, optimization, and velocity).
• Execution of demand signal processes, validate for alignment with transition plans, supply constraints identified, and an executable plan dat meets financial and market share goals.
• Partners cross-functionally to develop, track and manage business metrics for teh organization (may include customer availability, service levels, on-time delivery, supplier response time (SRTs), supply chain costs and inventory).
• Develop subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex business issues within established guidelines and recommends appropriate alternatives.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Strategic Sourcing

Responsibilities:

• Negotiated, implemented and managed complex contracts, including key terms and conditions related to vendor performance, implementation and delivery of goods and services. Multidisciplinary contract types including licensing, one-time purchase agreements, subscription services, web-based and Cloud services, and hardware agreements.
• Content Management: item adds, changes, and inactivation of items/SKU and vendor in OL purchasing system.
• Responsible for timely and accurate loading of national and regional price files.
• Perform in depth analysis of items and vendors to insure accuracy and availability to materials management, ePro users, and HealthConnect.
• Vendor relationship management to insure item master is kept up to date. Ensure part numbers are valid, units of measure are consistent with invoicing UOM’s and pricing is reflective of contract price files.
• Utilize expert knowledge of vendor and product info and data analysis for decision making relative to item availability, national accessibility, and price resolution.
• Responsible for timely and accurate response and resolution to item master mailbox requests as well as KPHC/ITR requests, with all agrees upon SLA’s.
• Work closely with Match Exception team, AP, EDI, and GPO in ensure exception resolution and contract compliance are handled and communicated to pertinent stakeholders and leadership.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SALES oPERATIONS aNALYST

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis and processing of complex Direct and Channel orders with NetSuite and Salesforce.com.
• Provide backend support and sales order creation for APAC orders with secondary responsibilities of processing Direct Orders, RMA, and credit memo requests.
• Maintains Order Inbox for order issues and routing all unrelated to correct channel.
• Completes and verifies all worldwide Renewal Tagging and Co-terming.
• Maintain current channel contact information and complete all irregular none-process orders.
• Assisted with special pricing quotes and obtaining approvals.
• Served as teh single point of contact for APAC sales region.
• Responsible for record keeping and file maintenance.
• Worked cross functionally with departments - Legal, Accounting, APAC sales office, sales, and management.

Confidential, San Leandro, CA

Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Purchased direct materials for production and MRO supplies for equipment and facilities and related sourcing activities.
• Utilize Enterprise IQ real-time ERP to issue purchase orders, conduct inventory management, report generation & analysis, supplier management, PR & RFQ’s generation, past dues, supplier forecasting, and scheduling.
• Generated reports (MRP & Ideal vs. Existing) and provided purchase projections to assigned suppliers.
• Create purchase orders from BoMs.
• Served as teh single point of contact for assigned suppliers and conducted quote and delivery negotiation.
• Responsible for record keeping and file maintenance, PO files, vendor info files, and quoting.
• Worked cross-functionally with various departments; production, engineering, accounting, receiving, finished goods, and management.
• Frequently visited warehouse and participated in quality inspections, receiving, and cycle counts.

Confidential, Pleasant Hill, Ca

Jr. Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Deltek ERP to issue purchase orders, purchase requests(PRs), requests for info/quote/proposal(RFPs), transfer freight requests(TFRs), and other related documents.
• Conducted strategic sourcing activities, quote analysis, and vendor selection proposals.
• Commodities include from construction and manufacturing materials to transportation.
• Partner with vendors though sourcing through delivery logistics.
• Made revisions and updates to ISO documents such as work instructions and procedures (obsolete folder, watermarks).
• Data extraction from system to Excel.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Jr. Buyer/FINANCE

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analyses of large data sets of company finance/purchasing data within Excel spreadsheets.
• Complex computations from teh acquired company for use by Riverbed senior management.
• Conducted analysis of product serializing and pricing data to determine pricing information.
• Opened and analyzed dormant accounts within teh Oracle system database and SQL.

Confidential

PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Responsibilities:

• Administered and developed a 16-week rolling forecast table used as teh primary tool of procurement for teh production of notebook computers. This tool was essentially an Excel ERP system used to communicate desired product quantity and shipping instructions to teh manufacturing facility. Purchase orders would often exceed five million USD weekly.
• Used a general requisition (PR) process. Commodities were primarily full system notebooks, components, and accessories.
• Worked with suppliers purchase orders, quotes, negotiation, RMA, obtaining samples, and rejections.
• Processed requirements, open orders, backlog, and lead-time management data.
• Worked closely with manufacturing, engineering, sales, and production.
• Additional experience: International Freight, Proposals, Contracts, Letter of Credit, Uniform Commercial Code, OEM, and Logistics.

Technical Experience SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle R12, Steelwedge, Onelink, NetSuite, Salesforce.com, SFDC, Ariba, GHX Nuvia, Cypress, Enterprise IQ, IQMS, Deltek, SQL, MS Office, GoogleDocs, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, MS Access.