Senior Buyer/Planner

Deborah Dennis

Phone: 201-***-****

acaq2x@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Senior Buyer Planner for major Orthopedic Company. Responsible for

Instruments, Implants and MRO Purchasing. Extensive experience in

Production Control/Planning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BTBS, Parsippany, NJ

2006-2013

Division of Biomet Corporation Warsaw, Indiana

Senior Buyer / Planner

. Purchased Instruments & Implants for Trauma and Spine with

Domestic / International suppliers.

. Accessed and selected suppliers based on price effectiveness and

ability to meet

over 85% quality and delivery measures.

. Reduced delivery time on vendor to stock on A code items from 8

weeks to 2 weeks

thru VMI and vendor partnerships.

. Yearly spend started at $15M up to overseeing spend of $45M.

. Team member on the weekly conference call with our own

International supplier.

. Purchasing and Planning representative to New Product

Introduction team for Spine

and Trauma.

. Responsible for on time delivery of New Product Launches.

. Worked with the International team for our distribution center

in Europe.

. Interfaced with Regulatory, Design Engineering, Customer

Service, Quality and Marketing departments.

. Representative for Trauma Procurement in the monthly SIOP

meetings.

. Liaison between NJ and Warsaw Accounts Payable department.

. Responsible for Trauma Product relocation to Warsaw, Indiana.

. Trained Trauma Buyers in Warsaw on Trauma Product and

Procurement.

Significant Accomplishments

. Developed VMI with existing vendors for the first time.

. Successfully transitioned Trauma product lines to Warsaw,

Indiana.

. Transferred legacy product line to new vendor saving

$500,000 on the first buy.

. Improved lead time on new launches from 24 weeks to 20

weeks.

. Decreased vendor base from 50 to 25 core vendors.

. Reduced trauma backorders from 800pcs to 200pcs in 6 months

and maintained level.

SEQUA CAN MACHINERY, East Rutherford, NJ

1992-2005

Division of $1.6 Billion NYSE listed Sequa Corporation (OEM of high-speed

dry offset printing presses).

Acquired by Stolle Machinery and relocated to Colorado.

Production Control Supervisor/MRP Planner

. Supervised the Production Control department.

. MRP Planner for all product lines.

. Responsible for the scheduling of the machine shop.

. Produced reports for cycle counting and reconciled cycle count daily.

. Expedited with Vendors, Machine Shop and Inspection Department.

. Purchased commercial and manufactured parts.

. Reported weekly on deliveries for customer orders.

. Maintained reorder points and safeties on top sellers.

. Earned Green Belt in Six Sigma program.

. Involved in CAP and Kazan programs.

. Training of new personnel for Production and Inventory Control

Departments.

. Team Leader on yearly physical inventory.

. Part of the transition team for relocation to Denver, Colorado.

Significant Accomplishments:

. Streamlined inventory control procedures eliminating

unnecessary functions.

. Established equations for re-order points.

. Increased on time deliveries for customer orders.

. Decreased excessive and obsolete inventor

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Excel and Word Proman

Honeywell Manufacturing System IFS System

Culinet Manufacturing System BPICS

ASK MANMAN System MAPICS

XA Browser

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Kean University: Completed two years (68 credits)

Company Sponsored Training:

. Kazan 5S

. Purchasing Seminar (Arthur Anderson)

. Lean Manufacturing

. CAP Change Acceleration Program (GE)

. Six Sigma

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