Project Manager Sheet Metal
Resume:
Arthur L. Bruno
Highland, NY ***28
Purchasing Manager
Super Steel
Glenville NY 2008-2009
- Managed a department of two senior buyers reporting to the Director of
Purchasing.
- Supplier base consisted of laser steel cutting, sheet metal fabricators
and cable assembly
operations
- Daily operations include executing production control orders, placement
of purchase orders,
expediting of supplier shipments and the management of the suppliers
performance criteria,
price, delivery and quality.
- Requirements include the ordering of sheet metal part numbers and the
ability to read
blueprints and engineering specifications.
- Proprietary MRP/ERP system knowledge and the daily use of both Word and
Excel.
Material Manger
Mettler Toledo
Ithaca NY 2007-2008
- Managed a muti functional department of 15, to include senior buyers,
buyers, production
control specialist, schedulers and shipping and receiving personnel.
- Managed a large supplier base consisting of mainly machine to print and
sheet metal suppliers
- Lead production procurement and production control team s to work with on
site MRP
consultant to implement product configuration
- Negotiated a 10% price reduction from the top 25 suppliers
- Implemented a number of blanket purchase orders for the top 500 part
numbers. Inventory
reduction of over 1 million dollars and increase in inventory turns from
8 to 10.
- Requirements include the ordering of sheet metal part numbers and the
ability to read
blueprints and engineering specifications.
- Proprietary MRP/ERP system knowledge and the daily use of both Word and
Excel.
Materials Manager
SP Industries
Gardiner NY 2005 - 2007
- Responsible for managing and training of 6 team members in a two site
manufacturing
operation.
- Authorize, direct and approve the spending of $50 million per year
purchase budget.
- Negotiate multi-year contracts with both domestic and international
suppliers.
- Implemented supplier consolidation which reduced total suppliers by 15%.
Machine to print
and sheet metal suppliers were the main focus of this exercise.
- Monitored stainless steel pricing to accurately ascertain the validly of
any request for price
increases from the supplier base due to the volatility in the worlds
metal's market.
- Directed and lead supplier RFQ initiatives that resulted in first year
savings of $4,250,000, and
second year savings of $3,750,000.
- Negotiated and implemented supplier managed inventory which increase
inventory turns
from 9 to 12 in a 2 year period.
- Changed supplier managed inventory invoicing format that resulted in
payment terms that
approached Net 75 days.
- Negotiated and instituted blanket purchase orders with key suppliers,
which resulted in a
reduction of processing 1800 purchase orders and a decrease of 50%
supplier invoices in one
year.
- Implementation of blanket purchase orders allowed for the elimination of
one head count,
procurement assistant and estimated hard and soft cost savings of
$250,000 per year.
- Introduced supplier partnering with key suppliers documented improvements
in quality of 20%
less defects and on time delivery performance increase of 18%.
- Challenged engineering team to practice early supplier involvement in the
new product design
phase. This culture change produced the financial result of new product
cost reduction of
$1,750,000 over a two year period.
-Partnered with key suppliers to value engineer existing product design to
help maintain cost in
a stainless steel market that has risen 40% in two years.
- Introduced and negotiated with major domestic supply company for stocking
parts at their
facility with one day delivery and bar code re order point on production
floor.
- Made2Manage MRP/ERP systems knowledge and the daily use of both Word and
Excel.
- Sheet metal, and stainless steel procurement and blueprint reading were
required to complete
the purchasing assignments.
Project Manager Supplier Development for Packaging
U.S. Engineering Duracell Global Headquarters
Bethel Ct 2003 - 2005
- Develop, negotiate and manage Duracell's packaging and label $30 million
supplier base.
- Implement value stream at supplier's location to identify cost savings
opportunities by utilizing
facility with one day delivery and bar code re order point on production
floor.
- Leader of strategic sourcing initiative team that achieved $3,500,000
supplier cost savings
through re negotiation of existing contract.
- Interfaced with the Duracell's engineering team and our supplier base to
provide the highest
quality printed cards for blister battery packages.
- MRP/ERP system that was used was JD Edwards, also daily use of Word,
Excel and Power
Point.
Global Procurement Manager
IBM Corporation
Poughkeepsie, NY 1973 - 2002
- Managed a diverse team of 55 suppliers responsible for procurement of
parts and sub
assemblies for the server production line.
- Authorize, directed and approve spending of a $60 million purchase budget
per year.
- Extensive experience in the source selection process for the following
commodities: sheet
metal, machine to print, plastic (to include fabricated, thermoformed
and injected), fiber optic
cables and contract manufacturing services.
- Lead major contract negotiations of $40 million with large international
company.
- Extensive contact and negotiations with senior level managers at
international companies such
as AT&T and Siemens to name a few.
- Responsible for the implementation that all suppliers will achieve six
sigma quality as a
condition of doing business.
- Responsible for supplier managed inventory program that set levels of
onsite inventory to
maintain a 2 week "rolling" supply of agreed upon parts.
- Developed and implement the "best of breed" supplier selection process.
- Trained and evaluated junior, senior, and supply chain managers.
- MRP/ERP systems requirements were IBM's proprietary design and SAP.
Education
Pace University
Pleasantville NY
Bachelor of Business Administration
Mount Saint Mary College
Newburgh NY
9 Masters of Business Administration Credits
IBM Professional Development Classes
Certified Purchasing Manger 1993, re certified 1998.
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