Laura A. Johnson

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Toledo, OH *****

Home 419-***-****

Email acdi1g@r.postjobfree.com

An accomplished operational, sales, and purchasing professional with over 20 years experience in the

industrial and automotive manufacturing space with a discipline in electrical supplies. Strong

relationship building skills with both end user clients as well as suppliers. Excellent negotiating skills

that have resulted in successful contractual agreements as well as measurable benchmarking and cost

savings optimizations. Some of the savings have equated to 25% reduction in both spend and inventory

carrying costs for power transmission items such as motors, gear reducers, bearings, as well as other

mro commodities.

WORK HISTORY

2013

Ventower

Purchasing/Material Planner

Currently assigned as a buyer and material planner for a new manufacturing facility that

produces turbine towers for the windmill industry.

• Main responsibilities include working with production and engineering to ensure all

purchases of material are obtained and delivered to meet our stringent production

schedule.

• Responsible for purchasing all material

including raw materials, mro consumables, and janitorial items.

• I must ensure all orders are entered and received in the Xtruple database.

• I help accounting reconcile invoice discrepancies.

• Other responsibilities include setting up and qualifying new vendors, negotiating

blanket pricing, arranging all inbound and outbound freight

• Setting up an open bin fastener program for all our metric fasteners.

• Do quarterly reviews with main supplier base to overview performance and pricing.

• I sit in on daily production meetings with upper management to ensure daily

production is on target and help resolve any material issues.

• Work with different department team leads to ensure min/max levels are set to

accommodate increased production schedules

2005-2012

Syncreon MRO

Npm Manager/Operations Supervisor

Develop and manage the MRO operations strategy for the DCC Toledo Machining Plant

including approximately $1 million in annual non productive spend. While reporting

directly to the SME Senior Operations Manager, this position matrix reports to the DCC

Production Control Manager as well as daily interface with Area Managers, Maintenance

Supervisors, and key Production Management Staff. This position directly affects

production continuity in the overall facility.

• Directly manage UAW staff

• Directly manage all activities and HR functions for UAW DCC MRO attendants

(including payroll, discipline, and work schedules)

• Provide weekly metric reports relative to material flow, budget, and cost savings

utilizing the NPIC database system

• Facilitate supplier meetings and evaluate performance on delivery, part

performance, and cost.

• Monthly plant management status meetings conducted to evaluate program

performance and standardization.

• Directly responsible for program cost savings and material standardization with

engineering and plant management staff.

• Facilitated several cost saving initiatives resulting in 25% inventory reduction.

These include implementing a one for one exchange on motors,

gear reducers, hydraulic pumps, valves, and tooling.

• Tasked with locating material, setting up expedites and ensure the order was

completed to acquire material in a timely cost effective manner.

• Instrumental in offering alternative material to engineering to help with both cost

savings and time.

2002 2004

Optivue

Inside Sales

Primarily responsible for client communication, data verification and resolving

customer service issues. This involved significant understanding of the client and

their respective situation to ensure the best solution was offered to them as well

as concurrently profitable for the organization.

• Client services

• Retail sales

• Barrier removal and overall customer satisfaction

1999 2002

Kiemle Hankins Supply

Inside Sales

Develop and manage the need to cash process for clients inclusive of reporting,

Standardization, and optimization for Industrial, Automotive, Oem and Contractor

customer base resulting in an annual spend of about $2 million annually.

• Processing daily client orders

• Expediting

• Resolving client issues

• Negotiating and closing various client contracts that included

standardization and cost savings opportunities in several different

commodities resulting in an average 25% savings.

• Developing and implementing the standard operating procedures for

national contracts.

1995-1999

Automatic Handling Inc

Buyer

As the electrical buyer for this OEM my responsibilities included buying all electrical

components used in building their equipment. Which had an annual spend of about $1.5

million dollars. I. was involved in setting up numerous contracts with applicable vendors.

These contracts ranged from vending machines to MRO supplies. I developed and set up

consignment inventory for their stockroom, and did numerous benchmarking reports

showing cost savings for the company, which included $150,000 annually on enclosures.

• Managing inventory levels and setting up a min-max system that generated re-

ordering or parts.

• Daily interactions and advisement to plant manager, engineer, and shop floor

supervisors.

• Vendor contract management and compliance

• Advisement representative for events such as the Hanover Fair in Germany

• Negotiated several pricing proposals from several manufactures representatives to

ensure annual cost freeze and savings.

• Set up job kitting programs to help with delivery of material for ease of

manufacturing of machinery.

1988 1995

Kiemle Hankins Supply

Inside Sales

I handled daily customer requirements as described previously. I

was later promoted to Inside Sales Specialist, and with this

promotion came the responsibilities of setting up sales promotions

and contests to help boost sales dollars. Received numerous sales awards and contests

Professional Enrichment

Attended Allen Bradley Motor Control, Industrial Control, PLC, and Drives

Schools. Also attended Siemens Contractor School.

EDUCATION

1978 1980 University of Cincinnati

Energy Management

1976 Whitmer High School

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