SYLVESTER THOMAS

**** ****** *****, ***** ******* Illinois 60473

708-***-**** (Home) . 708-***-**** (mobile) . accmnr@r.postjobfree.com

Attn: Human Resource Manager

Thank you for this opportunity in allowing me to submit the attached resume

in response to your search for a Purchasing professional.

With several years of experience in purchasing, logistics, and planning

commodities such as packaging, corrugate, chemical, mechanical and

electrical components, co-packing services; I offer a wealth of diversified

knowledge and success within the manufacturing industries and distributions

of personal care, automotive parts, extrusion coating (Film lamination),

and contract packaging solutions.

Some of my major strengths and achievements have been global sourcing,

strong analytical planning with strategies to reduce cost, manage cash

flow, and strengthen vendor partnership, with effective negotiations,

timely deliveries, and inventory managements.

I bring good interpersonal and communication skills, with a full

understanding of manufacturing and operations process, and procedures,

system integrations, implementations, and objectives throughout while

working as a leader within a team environment and independently.

The attached resume will further detail my credentials. I am excited about

this opportunity and available at anytime to further discuss my candidacy.

Thank you

Sylvester Thomas

1360 Prince Drive . South Holland, Illinois 60473

Home: 708-***-**** . Cell: 708-***-****

SYLVESTER THOMAS

1360 Prince Drive, South Holland Illinois 60473

708-***-**** (Home) . 708-***-**** (mobile) . accmnr@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

With several years of experience as a purchasing professional, I offer a

wealth of diversified knowledge and success within multiple industries. My

major strengths include my focus towards company's objectives, goals, and

growth potentials. With success I am also concern with achieving cost

reductions with effective negotiating.

Skills

SAP, ORACLE, JD Edwards, MICROSOFT OFFICE (EXCEL, POWERPOINT, PROJECT

MANAGEMENT,ACCESS), MRP/ERP, AS/400

Experience

Aug 2011 - Aug 2012 Universal Beauty Products, Elk Grove

Village, IL

Manufacturer of Personal Care Products

Purchasing Manager

. Managed all procurement requirements, sourcing and selection of vendors,

developing and implement strategies towards planning and forecasting

inventories, and customer orders requirement.

. Participating with Marketing, Sales and R&D effort towards introducing

new and current products to new industry channels increasing growth.

Oversee all stability testing of packaging, label, and corrugate designs

to assure all are within compliance to FDA requirements and Europe

dossier request.

. Arrange logistics preparation with vendors to assure timely deliveries of

raw materials

2004-Aug 2011 Luster Products, Inc

Chicago, IL

Manufacturer of Personal Care Products

Senior Buyer

. Provided support to the Purchasing manager, by

suggesting strategies against forecast, developing cost

savings opportunities, implementing standard procedures,

enforcing policies, sourcing and selection of vendors.

Attend defined meetings internal and external with

vendors and/or customer with or during absence.

. Provided leadership and support to all buyers to meet

company goals and objectives towards timely deliveries

of over 1500 sku's with $8 million dollar spend budget

for plastics, corrugated and chemical commodities.

Schedule team meetings to review status of planned open

orders, inventory adjustments, and changes to production

scheduling to meet requirements..

. Worked closely with Master schedulers analyzing

requirements assuring all purchase orders are assigned

and scheduled, generating all MRP/ERP reports,

identifying issues, standard deviations to forecasts,

unusual demands, with suggestion to work orders

distributions to production.

. Kaizen team member providing leadership suggestions in

developing and improving various departments standard

operation procedures, 5S implements, production

improvement strategies, vendor performance evaluations,

waste reductions, safety and quality concerns within the

methodology to assure the environments are within

compliance.

. Managed all contract manufacturing services .

. Participated closely with Marketing, Sales and R&D

offering packaging solution with design suggestions,

vendor selections, and reviewing timelines and managing

project planning tools towards the development new

product launches provide follow up on compliance to FDA

regulations and Europe dossier request

. Work with IT towards improving Data Synchronization for

major customer scorecards, and managing data entry for

purchasing, inventory control, bill of materials,

material specification and drawings, vendor data entry,

and other perimeters.ERP programming.

2004 Helix LTD Long Island,

NY/Bensenville, IL

Demand Analyst

. Manage international procurement of raw material and

packaging inventories.

. Negotiating warehousing programs with manufacturers of

goods for distributions

2001-2002 Federal Mogul Skokie,

IL

Manufacturer and distributor of automotive components

Material Analyst

. Managed data base entries, inventory min/max planning's cycle audits and

bar code implementations, material specification, inspection guidelines

into SAP material management module.

. Provided support to the Purchasing manager in suggesting strategies,

reporting data analysis against forecast to new product development teams

as part of the efforts to introduction to launch new items

. Planned releases of automotive parts inventories internally and

externally from vendors, processing and follow up purchase orders based

on demand to promise as sourced within international sourced from Asian

and European manufacturer, managing 250 commodities, with $9 million

dollars spend

. Accomplished teams goal of 98 % fill rate

. Resolved invoice discrepancies with Accounts payables

2000-2001 Procurement Professional Chicago, IL

Consultant

. Advised managements of 7 clients- achieving immediate

and long-term goals by streamlining procurements,

implementing contract consolidations, JIT program, and

other cost savings and avoidance programs.

. Provide departmental leadership training while managing

data entry modules - preventative maintenance, inventory

maintenance, mechanical maintenance as process towards

SAP implementation.

1992-2000 GBC Film Products Addison, IL

Manufacturer of Lamination Film Products

MRO Buyer

. Processed all purchase order requisitions for

Engineering, Production, tool-room, machine shop, and

supplies inventories, fabricating services, chemicals,

mechanical & electrical equipment, and packaging.

. Implemented computerized maintenance management

systems(CMMS) to establish preventative maintenance

schedules, work order requisitions, and tool room

inventories and planning towards improving production.

Report $1 million dollar cost savings first year

implementation.

. Led negotiation of all outsourced laboring requirements

and facility contract services for Engineering and

maintenance departments.

. Provided implementation training towards ISO 9000, OHSA regulation, and

preventive maintenance teams

. Resolved invoice discrepancies with Accounts payables

1983-1990 Soft Sheen Products Company Chicago, IL

Asst. Manager

. Supervised all areas of administrative services assuming and providing

leadership to 13 employees in a day-to-day operation'

. Purchase packaging requirement for subsidiaries

production i.e. bottles, caps and cartons inventories

Education

1976-1980 School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Fine Arts

1975-1976 Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL

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