SUMMARY:

• A professional in the field of Supply Management with strong interpersonal, analytical, written and verbal communication, group facilitation, negotiation, leadership, decision - making, planning, forecasting, problem solving & computer skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP, Maximo, EPCOR, Khameleon, Discover, Oracle,OFFICE (Word Perfect, MS Word, MS Excel, MS, & PowerPoint) PO software via Turtle & Hughes, People Soft, & order entry/quality control system called IDDAA.
• Words per Minute: 80
• RFI, RFQS, RFPS, Purchasing Contracts, & Procurement Contracts
• EMT Certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Point, PA

Project Management Data Stewart

• This part of the project is to convert existing Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) equipment data to a standardized format to ready the data to be migrated to another CMMS system.
• Project will standardize Equipment Descriptions, Location Hierarchies and Location Descriptions.
• Project will standardize specific data fields in the MAXIMO Equipment screen.
• Equipment data will be migrated from MAXIMO (CMMS) to the SAP Plant Maintenance Module by another team.
• Engineers or equivalent experienced persons with pharmaceutical process, lab and/or utilities equipment knowledge. Must be detailed oriented to work with data.
• Position is mostly working in Excel spreadsheets and MAXIMO database.
• Person must have advanced Excel and database experience and must be able to learn MAXIMO.
• Qualifications for the job are as required.
• 1.1 Knowledge of pharmaceutical process, lab, and utility equipment
• 1.2 Knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
• 1.3 Advanced knowledge of Excel
• 1.4 Knowledge of Asset Data standardization
• 1.5 Ability to focus on small details
• 1.6 Ability to use table structures to build queries
• 1.7 Ability to follow specific standards
• 1.8 Ability to work within a group
• 1.9 Ability to be self-motivated and work independently
• 1.10 Ability to multi-task in an ever changing environment

Confidential - Norristown, PA

Buyer/Procurement Specialist/ Expeditor/Inventory Specialist

• Previous experience in a high-volume transactional environment and/or customer-facing role is ideal. Ability to master usage of customized IT applications (ERP systems, Workflow tools, etc.) quickly.
• Skilled in full MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint) helpful. Strong business communication skills and professional demeanor is a must.
• Purchases materials, equipment, supplies and services of a specialized or complex nature in accordance with prescribed purchasing regulations and procedures.
• Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions, investigates and develops sources of supplies. Interprets purchasing procedures to departments and suppliers. Interprets and communicates purchasing procedures to suppliers and requisitioning departments.
• Assists departments in initiating requisitions and orders, and solves problems with orders. This position requires the use of initiative and independent judgment.
• Identifies and confirms/selects suppliers to procure requisitioned commodities, meeting criteria such as price, quantity, quality and delivery date and places orders.
• Responsible for reviewing and processing requests from internal or branch office personnel to fulfill material shortages requested.
• Confirm existing inventory availability and issue/decline new purchase orders to fill the requirements.
• Communicate and provide post-order support where appropriate to internal or branch office personnel for activities including but not limited to PO expediting/modification/cancellation, order tracking and issue resolution.
• Work with suppliers to provide quotes and estimated ship dates when needed. Assistance with special projects as required.

Confidential, PA

B2b Supply Chain Integration, Jr. Project manager

• Responsible for supplier integration, P.M. activities and on boarding suppliers via VWR EDI compliance.
• Managed the Web Portal interface applications and maintaining master data of vendors.
• Completed 75% of the W.I.M.S. integration project in 6 months.
• Follow up on portal mailbox - Fallout review- follow up with suppliers on reoccurring issues to solve root cause, save updates to a shared file for business and technical team to review.
• Update and follow up on communication errors - ‘Outages or Interruptions’
• Functional acknowledgements missing on 850 PO (997).
• 850 failures / 810 failures / 856 failures / 855 failures.
• Created validation process on all Go-lives.
• Follow up on support issues/failed maps, etc.
• New setup monitoring on Compliance Link
• Created a qualification process for all on boarding suppliers for EDI compliance.
• Utilized Portal Admin to identify processed and non-processed orders. (SAP, Innovis works)
• Zcit- 855 PO ACK / 856 ASN fall out.
• Engaged in portal purge process for maintenance.
• Follow up with business team and suppliers to engage process workload.
• Weekly progress reports to both Director of Supplier Operations & Senior B2B Project Manager.

Confidential

Project Buyer

• Created Purchase orders referring to the purchase requisitions received from the user departments.
• Make sure all the purchase orders approvals are complete by following up with the managers.
• Maintained various office supplies by raising purchase orders directly on direct accounts.
• Responsible for creating purchase requisitions, Purchase orders and Outline agreements.
• Capitol Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing for 7 brand new locations.
• Works closely with and reports to Contract Manager.
• Project buying with the supply chain team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
• Analytical-ability to analyze complex data within different systems
• Teamwork-work well within a team and
• Organization-well organized, timely, plans and meets deadlines
• Confident-self-assured and experienced
• Ability to work under pressure
• Analyzing current practices, standardizing, improving, documenting, and supporting the hospital’s supply chain processes enabled by the inventory management system
• Customer Service- above average service to the end user/customer
• In addition specific assignment-
• Review budgets and item spreadsheets
• Coordinate and execute purchase plan
• Bid Bundles of items to various vendors to assure best pricing
• Place capital equipment orders
• Assist with Budget tracking
• Coordinate logistics
• Coordinate delivery schedule
• Work on invoices issues

Confidential

Buyer/Planner

• Frequent periodic review of MRP system and determine job needs using forecast, history and lead time factors.
• Purchased and arranged deliveries of materials, goods and services to support the repair of products and materials.
• Release jobs to floor ensuring parts are available for build and latest drawing is included.
• Periodic cycle counts as needed and /or requested and disposable of obsolete parts as directed.
• Yearly inventory counts and all pre and post support required.
• Coordination of non-conforming material with suppliers, finance, and internal Quality department ensuring no interruptions to production floor.
• Preparation of equipment manuals as needed.
• Manage all activities related to procurement of material beginning with initial requirement through delivery, and release jobs to shop floor based on need.
• Analyzes the requirements of the material, including preliminary specifications, preferred supplier, and date material is needed.
• Solicits and evaluates proposals for the requested material.
• Identifies potential suppliers to determine if they meet the specified requirements and reports to team members or management on the appropriate supplier selected.
• Negotiates the lowest possible cost for the material balanced against the optimum quality and schedule needs.
• Works with internal technical and quality personnel to identify secondary material sources.
• Implements purchase contracts that comply with company and government regulations.
• Assures that the material is delivered on schedule, at the negotiated price, and meets the quality standards of the company so that jobs can be released to the floor with ample time for completion.
• Maintains timely control of orders, amendments, shipping notices, and other documents to assure accurate retention of records.
• Coordinates appropriate methods needed to distribute commodity in a cost effective manner.

Confidential

Buyer/Planner

• Buyer of inventory management at ABB Warminster, PA facility
• Buyer of purchase resale over 1 million dollars in sales volume monthly
• Point of contact for ABB sales (electro-pneumatic positioners, electromagnetic flow meters, Vortex and swirl flow meters, Coriolis mass flow meters, variable area flow meter VA master FAM541 and associated component parts with ABB Germany & ABB China)
• Support the Sales and Operations Planning process and the Pre-Enterprise Planning Process, where appropriate and drives improvements in Global Supply Chain Projects processes.
• Provide input for Global Supply Chain strategy across projects and platforms, support the Supply Chain Project Leaders on the team, and potentially coach/mentor Associate Supply Chain Project Coordinator(s).
• Always in corporate Six Sigma, Project Management Excellence and Lean.Utilized SAP system to:
• Materials requirements are identified either in the user departments or via materials planning and control. (This can cover both MRP proper and the demand-based approach to inventory control. The regular checking of stock levels of materials defined by master records, use of the order-point method, and forecasting on the basis of past usage are important aspects of the latter.)
• Identify potential sources of supply based on past orders and existing longer-term purchase agreements. This speeds the process of creating requests for quotation (RFQs), which can be sent to vendors electronically via SAP EDI
• Vendor Selection and Comparison of Quotations information from the requisition and the quotation to help create a purchase order.
• Purchase orders follow ups with Goods Receiving and Inventory Management.
• Checking and matching of invoices. The accounts payable clerk is notified of quantity and price variances because the system has access to PO and goods receipt data using Basware Invoice automation. Manual processes such as invoice coding, workflow, review and approval are also handled on case by case scenario.

Confidential

Buyer/Smc Controller

• Strategic Buyer of integrated supply site at Merck & Co’s West Point, Pa facility
• Research and purchase over 2 million dollars in sales volume monthly
• Participated in daily production meetings with other department supervisors in an effort to open lines of communication and handled procurement meeting deadlines for shipments.
• Point of contact for all of manufacturing/production supervisors, engineers, directors, scientists, etc. for one of Merck's largest pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities with approximately 7000 employees.
• Collaborated with the engineers, scientists and mechanics to meet deadlines and source parts needed for maintenance and utilities operations
• Utilized ERP system to interpret material requirements planning (MRP) reports to ensure that the materials were purchased to fill customer orders while also avoiding purchases of unnecessary materials
• Maintained excellent quality of buyer supplier trust and relationship, quality of ICT system and intensity of information sharing with many VMI sales reps.
• Generated cost savings reports of 45-75%, purchase order turnaround time reports within 24 hrs of request, open order reports completed within 24 hrs, and all aspects of expediting for end users
• Responsible for training, and instruction of 3 new employees in accordance with company policies and procedures only after being with the company for 3 months
• Accounts Payable purchase order exception resolution for over $300,000.
• Establish pricing agreements with vendors
• Source materials from suppliers domestic and internationally