Cory J. Dull

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Willow Grove, PA 19090

H: 215-***-**** M: 215-***-****

im1cfj@r.postjobfree.com

Summary: CPM and CPIM certified Supply Chain Professional with extensive experience in sourcing, developing, and managing an international supply base. Solid record of leadership, cost savings, lead time reduction, quality improvement and project management.

Professional Experience:

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (May 2008 - Present)

Strategic Sourcing Manager

• Initiated and lead program with CHOP’s Pediatric Offices, Specialty Care Centers and Ambulatory Surgery Centers, 37 Unique locations, to rebid all support services and to reduce vendor base. Reduced overall spend by $300K, reduced vendor base by half.

• Organized and led cross functional team of Facilities and Ambulatory Directors to better manage capitol and facilities oriented spend at CHOP’s 37 off site locations, resulting in vendor reduction from 12 to 3 and a capitol plan to replace damaged or obsolete non-clinical equipment

• Trained 37 Site mangers in invoice management and basic vendor management to aid in enforcing contracted services and costs, eliminated payment of Fuel Surcharges and various other up charges through this effort

• Implemented process with Finance to improve payment with vendors to reduce double and over payments, saved $136K

• Implemented Vendor Managed inventory throughout hospital for MRO and HVAC goods reducing inventory on hand and eliminating outages, reduced on hand inventory by $29K

• Working with Environmental Services Director bid CHOP’s Janitorial products, reduced spend by $101K on $420K of spend

• Implemented best practice inventory management for Linen and Janitorial/ Sanitation goods to reduce space usage as well as reduce overall spend reduced spend by $118K

• Supply Chain leader on Cross Functional Purchased Services ReVision team reduced spend by over $4.5 million through renegotiation of existing agreements, service elimination and service realignment.

Dorman Products Colmar, PA (July 2004 - May 2008)

Purchasing Manager

• Manage 5 Senior Buyers

• Supervised sourcing efforts which generated over $2.1M in actualized cost savings on sales of $18M during 2007

• Managed staff’s sourcing effort for new product launches which generated $4 million in new revenue during 2007

• Led initiative to resolve chronic fill misses, raised overall category fill rates from 75% to 92% in 5 month period. Currently tracking at 96% overall.

• Coordinated the sourcing to support category growth on Window Regulator line, in 2 years line has grown from $1.5 million in annual sales to $40 million. Added over 240 new SKU’s to support growth.

• Oversaw sourcing efforts which reduced vendor base and realized annualized cost savings of $700K on $11M in spend.

• Worked in conjunction with cross functional team to establish packaging needs with vendor base in order to reduce inefficiencies, resulting in $120K in cost avoidance as of January ‘08.

• Led sourcing initiative developing vendors to support new business objectives to support sales to Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and Target.

• Managed the integration of Dorman’s Swedish purchasing group into headquarters purchasing group

• Oversaw negotiations to have current packaging vendors support new operation without cost increase or service break

• Led cross functional team and multiple overseas vendors to implement full compliance to California Proposition 65 and RoHS standards

• Led Team to develop and implement standard requirements and corporate policies with entire vendor base.

Dorman Products Colmar, PA (November 2002- July 2004)

Senior Buyer

• Responsible for leading a Cross Functional Product Team

• Negotiated cost reduction based on volume growth, netting $871,000 in PPV

• Developed an Access report to track new product sales figures to aid in preventing lost sales due to demand spikes

• Led meetings to coordinate Engineering specifications, Marketing requirements and vendor abilities to ensure the best vendors were chosen during the sourcing phase, reducing speed to market time lines

• Led meeting with vendors and engineering to resolve quality and receiving issues, reducing rejections by over 8% during a one year period.

• Developed and implemented a Corrective Action system within Access for vendor quality issues

• Developed a new product tracker to ensure that all sourcing requirements were met in a timely fashion and to track the speed of the vendors development time

• Negotiated a reduction in lead times and minimums resulting in a 10% reduction in on hand inventory dollars

• Lead an initiative to translate all blister card art work from analog to digital, resulting in a cost reduction of $473,000 on $1,286,000 in purchases in 2004

• Negotiated with vendors to use less expensive chipboard material resulting in a $65,000 yearly savings

Mitsubishi Chemical of America, Exton PA (March 2001- November 2002)

Purchasing Agent

• Negotiated over $2 million in price reductions through consolidation of existing suppliers as well as developing key strategic partnerships

• Reduced on-hand inventory by $600,000 in first six months by developing and implementing Material Requirement Planning criteria for all raw materials purchased.

• Responsible for generating and expediting all material procurement requirements for over 900 raw material items with inventory value averaging $2.5 million.

• Developed and wrote processes for both the purchasing and receiving functions with regards to pending ISO certification.

• Designed criteria to effectively evaluate supplier performance in areas including lead-time, shipping and invoicing accuracy.

• Assisted Engineering personnel in researching and developing new products to market.

Mitsubishi Chemical of America, Exton PA (January 2000- March 2001)

Production Planner

• Responsible for generation and fulfillment of all finished good packaging work orders/requirements, including made-to-stock and made-to-order products.

• Reduced backlog/Increased fill rate on customer orders 15% in first three months.

Cardone Industries, Philadelphia PA (May 1997-January 2000)

Position: Supply Chain Coordinator, Motors/ Electronic Control Modules

• Managed weekly staff meetings to resolve manufacturing issues and establish capacity planning requirements.

• Responsible for finished goods inventory valued at $10 million. Reduced inventory by 10% within six months while achieving customer order fill rate above 97%.

• Managed introduction of 2,000 new SKU=s including bill of material creation, establishment of benchmark and milestone schedules and securing raw material availability for initial production runs.

• Supervised planning personnel training, including the development and implementation of a Master Scheduler/Planning training manual.

• Created and implemented Master Production Schedule for over 15,000 items within 14 varied product lines.

• Participated with Human Resources cross-functional team in developing performance metrics, which encouraged employee achievement within a merit pay program.

• Two-time honoree of Owner=s Excellence Award.

Computer Skills:

MS Office with advanced skills in Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Proficient user of Power Point. Intuitive Corp ERP/MRP II. QAD (Pro Release).

Education:

CPM-ISM

CPIM-APICS

B.S. B Evangel University; History

Professional Organizations:

APICS, Philadelphia Chapter

ISM, Philadelphia Chapter

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