KRISTEN KOLLIEN

** ******* ** • SOMERSET, NJ ****3(SOMERSET COUNTY) • PHONE 732-***-****

• E-MAIL ac9j2w@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

May 2011 – December 2018 Humanscale Piscataway, NJ

Senior Material Planner

Place future required Purchase Orders for components, and finished goods using a re-order point system.

Update usage figures in the re-order point system, and safety stocks at least once monthly

Maintain accurate delivery schedules of P/O’s in the operating system.

Expedite and re-schedule P/O’s as needed to support manufacturing and customer demand.

Negotiate, and formalize purchasing agreements with selected vendors (material, and service supplies).

Qualify New Suppliers on the following criteria:

oCost

oQuality

oLead Time

oTechnology

oCapacity

oFinancial stability

oCompetitive conflicts

oAbility to move freight

Improve costs, minimum purchase quantities, and purchasing payment terms.

Coordinate quality issues with suppliers as follows:

oInsure CAR’s are submitted by our quality and engineering group to the supplier.

oInsure that the CAR’s are returned with corrective actions in place.

oWork with our A/P department to insure credits are applied for supplier non-compliance.

oMonitor, and track in transit goods for both domestic and overseas vendors.

Maintenance of system data integrity in the Operating System

oVendor Files

oVendor Names

oAddresses

oContacts

oPayment Terms

oFreight Terms

oBanking Information, and remit to data.

oItem Master Files

oCost

oBuyer/Planner Name

oMake/Buy Indicators

oProduct Family

oLead Time

October 2010 – December 2010 Allentown Inc. Allentown, NJ (Temp)

Buyer

Purchasing

Sourcing products

Managing inventory

Sourcing vendors for price and quality

Coordinating delivery

Request for quote

Tax regulations

Special projects as needed.

Major items purchased stainless steel sheet metal, tubing, wire, rubber products, hardware, and injection molded parts.

Negotiating

May 2006 – November 26, 2008 GE Healthcare Bio-Science Bioprocess Corp. Somerset, NJ

Associate Buyer

Purchase materials per authorized requisitions.

Expedite product needed to fulfill stockroom requirements.

Coordinate with Shipping Dept. on purchasing and scheduling shipping supplies.

Coordinate the return of all non-conforming materials.

Maintain accurate failure information in the Non Conforming Material log, upon the return of non-conforming product.

Supply pricing and Bill of Materials in Excel spreadsheet format to Management.

Perform other work related duties as assigned.

Comply with all company policies and procedures as well as ensuring a safe work environment.

Multitask and efficiently manage time to produce multiple orders.

Clarify job specifications and requirements; respond to client questions, and cost-saving alternates.

Develop specifications for all purchased material.

Respond to questions from outside vendors and production.

Utilize the Internet to source materials.

September 2004 - March 2006 Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply (Onsite to Bristol Myers Squibb) New Brunswick, NJ

Junior Buyer

Accept incoming orders from customers via email, fax & in person.

Administrative duties maintain stock of office supplies, maintain reference materials, and replace old catalogs with new

ones as received.

Customer notification contact customer to let them know special orders are in.

Expedite open orders on a daily & timely basis.

Maintain filing system.

Maintain Order Log in Excel to keep track of orders & the status of them

Maintaining customer relations for Bristol’s maintenance, electrical, and engineering departments.

Maintaining vendor relations.

Ordering various supplies for maintenance and repair operations (MRO) supplies, electrical, industrial, perishable tools,

chemicals and surface finishing products.

Processing billing.

Research products to acquire a cost savings for customer while still obtaining the same exact product.

Review orders to insure that all necessary information has been provided.

September 2001 - September 2004 Kirby & Allen, Inc. North Brunswick, NJ

Purchasing Agent

Answering phones

Creating and updating new reports on a regular basis.

Customer Service

Edit purchase orders and files in Microsoft Excel.

Cubing out freight containers to fill to the maximum amount with our product to ship via international water way.

Entering new purchase orders or editing purchase orders with QuickBooks.

Fax and email completed purchase orders to vendors.

Filing

Mailing invoices to independent vendor representatives weekly.

December 1997 - April 2001 Technology Acceptance Group Hillsborough, NJ

Database Administrator

Administered a custom coded database of approximately 33,000 companies.

Data entry pertaining to incoming mail.

Database was used to populate web pages dynamically.

Filing numerically and alphabetically.

EDUCATION

1991 –1995 Franklin High School Somerset, NJ

High School Diploma

1996–1997 Raritan Valley Community College Raritan, NJ

Some courses completed.

SKILLS

I am well versed with many skills in the workplace such as blue print reading, data entry, filing, internet

research, inventory cycle counts, INFOR Cloud Suite, planning, mass mailing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft

Word, Oracle, QuickBooks, and typing.

LIST OF PURCHASES

AC & DC Drives

Adhesives

Polyester Air Filter Pads

Bearing Products

Belt Drives

Building Maintenance Services

Cables

Cellbags (Disposable bioreactor bags)

Cleanroom Furniture & Equipment

Controllers

Couplings

E-Stops

Elastopor Isocyanate & Resin

Electrical Components

Fabrics – Raw, Lamination & Made into seat cushions

Fasteners

FibraCel Disks (Microcarrier Disks)

Gases: Oxygen, Nitrogen & mixes of both.

Gears

Grease - Silicone Di-Electric

Hand & Power Tools

HVAC

Lighting Products

Loctite

Material Handling: Bubble Wrap, Bubble Mask, Boxes

Metal Products (Custom): Body Frames, Brackets, Hinges, Panels, Structural Enclosures, Trays

Nuts

Office Supplies

Plumbing Products

Polyurethane Additives

Power Supplies

Pulleys

Profile Extrusions (Custom)

Raw Materials: Delrin, PVC, & Vinyl, Vivak Sheets

Recalibration Services

Relays

Safety Supplies (latex gloves, polypropylene disposable lab coats etc.)

Screws

Sensors

Software

Solder & Soldering Equipment: Bar Solder, Flux, Paste & Wire Solder

Terminals: Crimp on

Test Equipment

Touch Screens

Transformers

Tubing: Animal Derived Free, C-Flex, Heat Shrink, Pharmed, PVC, & Silicone.

Washers

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