Purchasing Manager Resume Bethlehem, PA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

To seek a full - time, challenging opportunity that would give me a rewarding experience in the manufacturing, production, and service industries; moreover, contributing to the growth of an organization by utilizing my knowledge, skills, and experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Purchasing Manager

Confidential - Bethlehem, PA

Responsibilities:

Purchase Order Management: Review purchase requests to ensure both vendor contract terms compliance and budget compliance. Gather all needed approvals for purchase requests and issue purchase orders using ERP (SAGE) application.
Vendor Management: Negotiate contracts with vendors. Monitor contract terms to services and goods provided. Monitor shipment records and follow up on undelivered goods with vendors, proactively problem solve with vendor. Coordinate with operations and vendors defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine any corrective actions. Analyze market in order to assess present and future material availability.
Request For Proposal Management: Solicit bids and proposals for vendors. Evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, type of goods and services, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities and the supplier’s sustainability. Work cross functionally with other departments to ensure products are ordered in a timely manner and meet business needs.
Parts Requirements: Work with cross functional teams in the identification of specific parts, equipment or products. Determine any available substitute materials from vendors. Coordinate “special material” request with engineering department.
Unsure Purchase Order Management is in compliance with regulation standards (i.e ISO 9000).
Manage any other assignment as described by management.

MATERIAL EXPEDITOR

Confidential - Breinigsville, PA

Responsibilities:

Followed work processes and best methods to proactively expedite parts.
Determined the appropriate level of expediting during the firm bid stage.
Maintained regular contact with suppliers to obtain process status updates, production schedules, impacts on delivery and evidence of meeting milestones.
Kept Progress Tracking database up to date and record relevant communications into the text history of an order.
Drove resolutions on issues to develop solutions and strategies and coordinate the recovery plan with supplier.
As needed, challenged the supplier to prove their progress is per plan and delivery will be on schedule.
Provided supplier feedback into database for every expedited order.
Achieved high percentage of on time material deliverance.
Reported regularly to Management and Project teams.

FORECASTER / DEMAND PLANNER

Confidential - Breinigsville, PA

Responsibilities:

Performed Demand Planning and Forecasting functions for the Company’s product categories.
Worked with China based staff to ensure demand is accurately fore-casted, required demand is placed on supply base and appropriate in stock position is maintained.
Provided strategic focus for improving forecast accuracy to the item level.
Lead cross-functional efforts to maximize forecast accuracy, yielding optimal operational outputs. (Facilitate Sales/Operations planning process, seamless communications of major changes to the supply chain, collaboration with Sales/Marketing on item/category forecasts.)
Developed and implemented forecast model for managing demand of approximately 1500+ sku's.
Analyzed forecast information and recommend forecast changes based on seasonal profiles, promotional schedules etc. Interpret data to further refine forecast for accuracy and planning.
Formulated, and scheduled ad hoc reporting, as well as present information both formally and informally.

PRODUCTION PLANNER /SCHEDULER

Confidential - Schuylkill Haven, PA

Responsibilities:

Planned and scheduled production, manpower, machine capabilities, material availability and forecasting customer requirements.
Ensured inventory levels were maintained to support materials and manufacturing.
Actively pursued continual maintenance of MRP data required to create an accurate and achievable production schedule.
Responsible for planning, data entry, work order release and work order closing variance.
Coordinated the implementation of engineering bill of material changes.

PRODUCTION PLANNER

Confidential - Maplewood, NJ

Responsibilities:

Converted monthly demand / forecast into weekly production schedules to meet shipping dates. Ensuring inventory levels are maintained to support materials and manufacturing.
Independently purchased raw materials needed to meet production requirements.
Expedited/De-expedited components for operations that delay schedules and alter schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
Effectively schedule plant machine capacity and manpower to meet weekly schedule.
Prepared daily production reports.
Managed production reports/cycle count, maintained inventory in the AS400 system.