Buyer
Resume:
Lenora Morrow
Algonquin, IL **102
******.******@*****.***
Objective: 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.
Work Experience:
Durex Industries, Cary, Illinois 5/2011 – Present
Buyer – Machined parts, standard hardware, production, shop and foundry supplies
-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
Kraft Foods, Inc., Northfield, Illinois 12/2010 – 5/2011
Buyer – Rigid materials and plastics
-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
Colony Display Corporation, Elgin, Illinois 6/2008 – 10/2009
Project Manager – Retail Display
-Purchase metal, wood and hardware for store displays in Kohl’s, Home Depot and Lowe’s
-Oversee projects in value of $2 – $5 million dollars
-Responsible for shipping on schedule and inventory levels, price sheets and budgets for each project
Command Controls Corporation, Elgin, Illinois 11/2006 – 3/2008
Purchasing Agent – Hydraulic Industry
-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
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-Other accomplishments with Command Controls, Corp. include:
. 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
Eisenmann Corporation, Crystal Lake, Illinois 9/2003 – 10/2006
Order Scheduler – Custom Fabrication
-Enter work orders for the shop which contained approximately 100 fabricators
-File and keep track of German and American postal shipments
-Complete engineering revisions and customer changes as requested
-Code work orders to move through the process
Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin, Illinois 2/2002 – 7/2002
Buyer – Gaming Industry
-Certify a growing number of supplier base to support the Illinois Gaming Board
-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
Komax Corporation, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 9/1994 – 1/2000
Buyer – Wire Processing Equipment for Automotive Industry
-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
-Reduce electronics inventory by over $15,0000
-Institute bin-stocking programs for fasteners and hardware
Signode Corporation of ITW, Glenview, Illinois 5/1983 – 8/1994
Assistant Buyer – Industrial Packing Equipment 5/1983 – 5/1986
-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
-Coordinate change of fabricated parts to purchased, complete parts realizing savings of 35% - 45% per part
-Participate in implementation of Signode’s first JIT manufacturing systems
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Inspection/ assembly GC 300 Impulse Tool 5/1986 – 5/1987
-Receive parts and assembled tools
-Perform testing and quality control
-Inspect and work with suppliers to improve quality
Sales Territory Analyst 5/1987 – 8/1994
-Update all territory files, construct new territory map for all sales territories, assist sales personnel in reviewing their bonus earnings
Education:
2010 First Institute of Crystal Lake, Illinois - Completed Medical Assisting Program
1985 – 1986 College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois – General college course work
1981 – 1982 Signode Corporation, Glenview, Illinois - Completed courses in word processing, JIT manufacturing and Statistical Process Control
Software and Computer Experience:
Microsoft Office Systems – Word, Outlook, Excel
Georgia Pacific Accounting Systems
Pinta Database Systems
Signode Mainframe Systems
References available by request
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