Brian Schwan

**** ******* **. / *******, ** *****

440-***-**** / accer0@r.postjobfree.com

Objective A Purchasing Management position that utilizes my negotiating

skills and purchasing

experiences in a manufacturing environment to help support the

supply chain.

Experience Transdigm - Aerofluid Products

March 2012 - Present

Buyer

. Managing supply chain of machined components for the Fuel

Valves division of a $121 million Aerospace company.

. Yearly spend $7.3 million with $220,700 in annual savings.

. Implementing 3year supply agreements ($662K annual) and Web

based demand for purchase orders with monthly releases to

support JIT requirements.

. Budgeting monthly inventory to expedite/defer components to

meet monthly inventory goals, inventory turns, and

manufacturing demands with the use of a MRP.

. Partnered with suppliers to deliver machined parts in as

completed assemblies with helicoil, anodizing, bonding,

painting and testing to reduce internal handling of the part.

. Moving the vendor base to local manufacturing and

consolidating the active suppliers for a newly acquired

division of the company.

. Flow down government specification to the vendors and

coordinated with vendors on critical safety parts that need

government source inspection.

. Worked with Quality Department to resolve logged Corrective

Actions with vendors for nonconforming machined parts.

Midwest Precision LLC

May 2011-March 2012

Purchasing & Materials Manager

. Managed purchasing department for a $7.1 million machine shop

that services the Aerospace and Military market segments.

. Responsible for contracts in procurement of metals, which

includes Aluminum, Copper, Nickel Alloys, Stainless Steel,

and Titanium.

. Developed vendors for secondary process of parts, which would

include Anodizing, Grinding, Painting, Plating, and Welding

to meet customer specifications.

. Utilize engineering drawings to verify flow down requirements

on purchase orders.

. Implemented a vendor scorecard that monitors vendor

performance on Quality, On-Time Delivery and Risk Assessment.

. Designed a visual management system in the Receiving

Department for processing outgoing/incoming material for a

secondary processes during a Kaizen event.

. Designed a database of Metal Vendors/Secondary Process

Vendors that is used in quoting and monitoring pricing.

. Worked in the preparation and participation in the AS9100C

certification.

Prestolite Performance

November 2010 - May 2011

Senior Buyer

. Procured for an $80 million company for replacement part for

the Marine and Automotive Racing Industries from domestic

/international sources.

. Responsible for purchasing automotive/marine components,

metals, packaging, secondary processes, and MRO products for

Prestolite Performance Manufacturing Plant.

. Responsible for the daily activities of a purchasing

Assistant.

. Analyze a MRP weekly to process 150 purchase orders that

total $400 -$700K.

. Resolve quality issue on defective products by returning

materials for credit and having vendor implement corrective

action for future orders.

Cleveland Craftsmen Corp.

May 2008 - October 2010 Project Manager / Owner

Amresco

May 2005 - May 2008 Purchasing Agent - Facility Manager

. Responsible for the maintenance of four buildings, contracts,

sourcing, purchasing domestic and international products for

a $35 million bio-pharmaceutical company.

. Saved the company $84,908.06 in the first quarter of 2008

through cost reduction decisions based on management goals

and departmental requests.

. Analyzed MRP & Kanban systems to procure packaging materials,

which includes bags, bottles, labels, plastic wraps,

Styrofoam boxes, and tapes.

. Purchased $2,488,536 in materials and equipment for the new

manufacturing facility.

. Designed and managed a procurement spreadsheet used between

multiple departments for kit components that totaled $839,000

annually for Amresco's second largest customer.

. Provided corrective action for customer complaints, by

conducting a tubing validation project which designed new

ways of manufacturing six core chemicals, netting a company

savings of $41,087.77 over one year.

Tuthill Coupling Group - Hansen Couplings

July 2004 - April 2005

Buyer / Planner

. Responsible for purchasing components for production,

analyzed a MRP list, cut production orders, scheduled daily

work, confirmed production orders, and insured products

shipped on time for a pneumatic/hydraulic coupling

manufacturer.

. Scheduled work for employees in two manufacturing cells based

on a MRP list, MRS for finished products, and same day

orders.

. Managed three employees and personally scheduled daily

deliveries for shipments of finished products that exceeded

$40,000 for pneumatic couplings.

. Redesigned two manufacturing cells to install Kanban Systems

for purchased components replenishment and to increase the

efficiency of the worker within the manufacturing cell.

. Analyzed two cells inventories and increased the inventory

turns from 5.74 to 13 and 1.57 to 13 turns with no stock

outs.

. Participated in Kaizen events to streamline purchasing as

well as present the information to the Company in order to

implement new ideas for lean manufacturing.

Chromium Corporation

December 2003 - July 2004

Purchasing - Materials Management

. Purchased all materials for an $8 million chrome-plating

factory, researched new products, created a monthly budget,

and reported directly to the Vice President of Operations.

Ryan Herco

August 1999 - December 2003

Sales / Service

. Managed inventories for an industrial plumbing supply company

by knowing historical sales, seasonal products, projects, and

customer's requests to maintain proper stock levels.

Lucent Technologies (Atlantic)

September 1998 - June 1999

Account Representative (Sales)

Education University of Toledo

August 1998

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Major: Marketing Minor: Business Management

Deans List: 1998

Software Proficient using Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint,

Word, SAP, People Soft, Mapix,

Harris Data Systems, Fourth Shift, E2, ACS, and Mincron

Systems.

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