KRISTEN KOLLIEN
** ******* ** • SOMERSET, NJ ****3(SOMERSET COUNTY) • PHONE 732-***-****
• E-MAIL *****@*****.***
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