Senior level Buyer/Planner

Summary

Material Management and Supply Chain Professional with extensive experience working for OEM and contract manufacturing sites. APICS CSCP certification in process. Key skills include:

Forecast Analysis

Strategic Planning

New Product Introduction

Global Inventory Consolidation

Professional Experience

Ice-O-Matic (Mile High Equipment) – 2017-present Buyer Planner II Interfaced with manufacturing floor, planning and receiving.

Managed and maintained over 2000 parts.

Purchasing representative for ECO changes while doing a full redesign of manufactured units.

SMA AMERICA LLC – 2010-Dec 2016

Production Planning Manager (2014 to 2016)

Interfaced with manufacturing floor and purchasing; managed production schedule. Led, organized and supervised production planning of commercial size inverters.

Coordinated from “building to stock” to “building to order” reducing lead-times from over two months to two weeks.

Managed and maintained forecasting, continual adjustment, optimizing and customization of operational planning, ensuring correct components were ordered and reducing excess.

Program Manager/Senior Buyer (2010-2014)

Corresponded between key EMS supplier and the company, overseeing new product launch transitions from Germany and Denver to Canada. Served as single point of contact for world wide inventory re-allocation. Established and maintained finished goods levels purchased from corporate location in Germany.

Established hierarchy for resolutions of SAP issues and other system hurdles, minimizing down time.

Oversaw switch from consignment to turnkey/forecast based buying with Celestica for Canadian based demand while minimizing North America excess liabilities.

Calculated forecast for new and ongoing demand build in Canada, ensuring correct availability of materials.

ADVANCED ENERGY – 2005-2008 Senior Commodity Buyer As OEM strategic buyer, managed four to seven contract manufacturers building circuit board assemblies. Collected data for performance reviews and issue resolution. Escalation path for long lead time, difficult to find and obsolete material.

Facilitated move of over 500 printed circuit board assemblies with a mixture of high and low volume to multiple contract manufacturers, resulting in a 20 percent cost reduction.

Spearheaded a team to redistribute worldwide inventory by reviewing excess and forecast at each contract manufacturer to determine strategic inventory movement.

Moved 50 high volume circuit board assemblies to alternate contract manufacturers, due to plant shutdown, in eight months time with no line down to external customers.

Participated in strategic team for 2nd tier suppliers, specifically raw printed circuit boards for reliability and cost reduction, resulting in a 42 percent decrease of 1st pass failures at the contract manufacturers.

CELESTICA CORPORATION – 2000-2005 NPI Buyer Sourced and procured material for new product introduction builds. Transferred completely sourced assemblies to production buyers for future demand.

Negotiated with suppliers for 1st time smaller quantities of material while negotiating production quantities of the same material for future cost reduction.

Supported a four day turn for bill of material quotation for multiple customers.

Worked directly with customer on production schedules of their new assemblies, worldwide inventory and issues.

HEWLETT PACKARD CO via VOLT TECHNICAL – 1999-2000 Buyer Procurement of strategic component for internal procurement organization

Generated forecasting and shipment reports from contract manufactures to Hewlett Packard sponsoring divisions, preserving build schedule integrity.

Escalated production schedules with other Hewlett Packard divisions to meet shipment goals.

Additional Relevant Experience

JABIL CIRCUIT - Buyer Procurement of production quantities of ASIC’s, SRAM/DRAM, memory, microprocessors, and crystal oscillators with coordination of same for Bergamo Italy site.

MICRON ELECTRONICS – Buyer/Planner Managing member of commodity team responsible for transitions and placement of the newest technology materials into production.

SEQUENT COMPUTER CORPORATION – Production Planner Supported fast passed spares operation to keep customers running a full capacity.

Training/Education

Currently pursuing APICS CSCP certification

Certified Dental Assistant, Front Range Community College

Advanced Excel courses, Microsoft Office Bachelor's degree

Bachelor’s degree

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