Buyer Resume Cary, Illinois - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Seeking a full - time, buyer position with a company where I can apply my business management skills and 15 years of corporate buying experience to make a positive and profitable impact on the company
Background includes 15 years of procurement experience including purchasing fabricated parts and instituting cost saving measures.
Background in wire processing equipment for the automotive industry, hand tools, JIT and SPC.
Recent experience with forms, Promotional Printing, Manifolds, Adapter Cages for the Hydraulic Industry, raw materials and plastic rigid materials.

SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:

Microsoft Office Systems - Word, Outlook, Excel

Great Pines Manufacturing Systems

Pinta Database Systems

Signode Mainframe Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cary, Illinois

Buyer

Responsibilities:

Run stock, non-stock and demand reports for parts and needed (MRP)
Collect return information from suppliers to process rejected materials and obtain corrective action to complete the return process
Expedite parts as needed for continual changing schedules

Confidential, Northfield, Illinois

Buyer

Responsibilities:

Collect data for year-end dollar updates and expenditures
Assist procurement with discrepant invoices
Work with over 25 local and Canadian suppliers to obtain the common goals of the procurement department

Confidential, Elgin, Illinois

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Purchase metal, wood and hardware for store displays
Responsible for shipping on schedule and inventory levels, price sheets and budgets for each project

Confidential, Elgin, Illinois

Purchasing Agent

Responsibilities:

Work with over 150 domestic and overseas suppliers to insure quality and timely delivery
Update hot list as needed to ensure continual knowledge of hot parts status using Excel
Evaluate new suppliers to broaden supplier base and to insure constant flow of parts without compromising price or quality
Responsible for the commodities including adapter cages, core tubes, coils, connectors and “C” class parts such as O-rings
Member of the Material Review Board for quality control
Acquire pricing to accommodate engineers for new products
Coordinate all outside operations for parts manufactured in-house, heat treating, plating, brazing, assembly and grinding or honing

Confidential, Crystal Lake, Illinois

Order Scheduler

Responsibilities:

Confidential, Elgin, Illinois

Buyer

Responsibilities:

Certify a growing number of supplier base to support the Confidential
Perform background checks on selected suppliers
Prepare proposals for all promotional materials and services such as pest control, dead weight surveys, uniforms, playing cards, parts for slot machines and complementary supplied tours

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Buyer

Responsibilities:

Work with over 150 suppliers purchasing commodities such as fabricated pneumatic and electronic parts
Purchase approximately $2 million dollars of materials annually
Initial and maintain “early pay” discount programs with suppliers
Institute bin-stocking programs for fasteners and hardware

Confidential, Glenview, Illinois

Assistant Buyer

Responsibilities:

Place orders with suppliers for all parts of hand tool division including all raw materials
Assign proper credit for return of defective material
Notify vendors of engineering changes and set up subcontract orders, vet new suppliers
Review costs and computer prices, lead times, lot sizes, past lot sizes
Annual usage for over 8,000 standard and specialty manufactured parts
Participate in implementation of Signode’s first JIT manufacturing systems