SUMMARY:

Supply Chain/Purchasing/Procurement/Sourcing professional with experience in the machinery, aerospace & defense, metals, oil & gas, fire safety systems, automotive, forestry products, pulp & paper, and chemical industries. Proven track record in cost reduction, improving supplier performance and quality, and team productivity. Experience includes ABS, AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Nadcap, OHSAS 18001 and QS9000/TS16949 standards; and CMS, COMPASS, JD Edwards, Jobscope, JUMBO, Marcam, Maximo, Oracle, SAP, SBSS, Symphony and TRANS4M business enterprise software systems. Holder of several professional.

EXPERIENCE:

Regional Supply Chain Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a functional supply chain organization resulting in improved expertise among assigned personnel, more effective supervisory oversight, and an organizational alignment consistent with supported customer functions.
• Instituted comprehensive weekly team reviews tracking key performance metrics resulting in record improvements in multiple performance areas for the value stream.
• Developed automated products resulting in standardized buyer work products and reduced record maintenance requirements.
• Developed and implemented supplier metrics resulting in 95 percent reduction in the number of late purchase order lines and a 96 percent reduction in the number of late purchase order days - both within a ten month period - and achieved record highs in supplier on-time in-full rates.

Purchasing Manager

Confidential, Ravenswood, WV

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a commodity based purchasing organization resulting in improved expertise among assigned personnel. Reduced organizational levels within the department. Established an investment recovery function where none previously existed.
• Reversed a year - long pattern of declining supplier performance. Implemented a monthly supplier rating system and other initiatives resulting in record high supplier performance improvements.
• Revised the inventory management processes for Stores material that reduced on-site inventories by 1.3 million while increasing order fill rates to 98 percent.
• Implemented a contract management program. Formalized undefined ad hoc agreements. Instituted structured process of addressing the plant s on-going needs for indirect goods and services.
• Developed a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan for the relocation of key plant functions to an off-site location that would be furnished, equipped and staffed within 48 hours of a labor dispute.
• Restored credibility to the purchasing function. Resolved long-standing commercial disputes.

Senior Procurement Manager

Confidential, Duncan, OK

Responsibilities:

• Managed an annual spend of nearly 650 million dollars at one point growing at an annual rate of 54 percent and representing 12 percent of the entire Confidential spend for production material.
• Revitalized the program. Increased the number of Certified Purchasing Managers from one to 22 in less than two years - more than three times the national average.
• Reversed a year-long pattern of declining supplier performance. Implemented a monthly supplier rating system and other initiatives resulting in repeat increased supplier performance records for the manufacturing center, and was only center to meet 2008 corporate-wide supplier performance goals.
• Reduced the number of late supplier lines by 85 percent and total supplier lateness by 96 percent.
• Instituted a comprehensive monthly team review process tracking key performance metrics resulting in month-over-month records in multiple key areas for the manufacturing center.

Director of Purchasing

Confidential, Marinette, WI

Responsibilities:

• Filled buyer positions vacant for up to 14 months within the first 90 days of assignment.
• Reduced the fall - out rate for supplier communications from 70 percent to less than one-half percent.
• Integrated the corporate strategic sourcing team into local supplier management efforts. Ended the traditional hands-off disconnected approach of the local sourcing organization.
• Successfully underwent both an ISO 9001 re audit and ISO surveillance audit with no discrepancies noted. Underwent nine other audits conducted by various national and international approval agencies associated with the fire suppression industry with no items noted.
• Developed basic reporting for supplier spend, production material usage, and supplier performance.
• Established a data driven monthly supplier performance rating system which increased supplier performance by more than 57 percent in the first five months of implementation.
• Division Purchasing Manager, Innertech, division of Intier Automotive Interiors of America Inc (an operating unit of Magna International Inc), Nashville IL, Automotive ( ) Selected as the first purchasing manager for a rapidly growing manufacturing division expanding to four production facilities utilizing the Toyota Production System.
• Reversed growth trend in production material costs. Established climate of constant cost reduction. Achieved multi-year multi-million dollar savings across multiple commodity lines.
• Integrated the supplier development function. Established a data driven supplier-rating system resulting in measurable reductions in the number of supplier quality, delivery and response issues.
• Absorbed a geographically separated corporate based program buyer function. Achieved a buyer-to-dollar spend ratio two and half times average for industrial manufacturing operations.
• Established a world-class matrix. Assigned personnel earned the Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) professional at three times the national average.

Director, Member Purchasing Programs

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided specialized expertise to three site - level PSS functions providing day-to-day purchasing, industrial stores (industrial supply), receiving and investment recovery services to one paperboard mill, two softwoods lumber mills, one hardwood lumber mill, and two short-line railroads.
• Responsible for developing and implementing best practices in support of upgrading and improving customer support throughout the region.
• Often called upon to provide extraordinary assistance requiring unique attention or expertise.
• Regional site-level functions routinely lead the corporation. Overall the region experienced active inventories at a level more than 50 percent of corporate average, inventory turns exceeded corporate average by more than 47 percent, and lead times were less than 84 percent of corporate average.
• Revised process used for the determination of reorder points and reorder quantities for industrial stores materials, resulting in a 71 percent reduction in purchasing workload and a 43 percent reduction in total acquisition and carrying costs.
• Authored a complete corporate-wide standardization program for indirect material incorporating elements of both the regional and plant purchasing and materials management functions, the corporate-wide electronic mail system, and the existing supplier base and national contract structure.

Confidential, Clarksville TN

Senior Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Reestablished basic plans and programs for a purchasing function operating at a 73 percent increase in activity over the previous year.
• Reworked the local agreement structure.
• Efforts resulted in cost savings of over quarter million dollars identified and implemented.