Purchasing/Inventory Manager
Resume:
Marc Jeffrey Frank
Bayside, New York 11364
acsozr@r.postjobfree.com
Inventory Manager/Purchasing Manager/Operations Manager Warehouse Distribution Center Manager/Product Manager
Managed product lines, Inventory, and supply operations for consumer product, fashion, and electronic part industries to rapidly grow sales and improve operating profit. Developed automation projects and restructure workflow to deliver high ROI, improve quality, speed delivery and contain costs. Strategic Planning/Ophthalmic Eyewear Design. Managed P&L / budgets to $10M.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
* Purchasing Systems, Design, Procedures, and Policy Development
* Product Management, Design and Sourcing * Inventory/Material Control
* Departmental Budgeting * Departmental Budgeting
* Sales and Purchasing Forecasts * Forms and Report Design
* Design & Display Development - Point of Purchase Fixtures
*Production Scheduling and Inventory Control Systems * Warehouse Manager
* Multi-Warehouse Operations * Cost Analysis
* RF Scanner Project Manager *MANUFACURING EXPERIENCE
*Computer Experience: Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Lotus Notes, AS400 and TREND.
February 2014-Present Stellae International Inc.
Purchasing & Inventory Control Coordinator
Responsible for all sourcing activity to purchase all items, including packaging, shipping supplies, office supplies, customer account requests, to specifications as well as best costs. Establish relationships with Vendors. Receive in and check all purchases for accuracy. Maintain monthly reports of all shipping cartons used to ship account merchandise in order to correctly bill accounts for carton usage. Maintain adequate inventory levels. Classify, label and warehouse all inventory for future use.
Maintain accurate physical inventory counts and records of counts for reference. Develop and implement best practices for inventory management and merchandise flow in the warehouse, including the movement of goods, location labeling and set up, as well as all ins and outs. Identify and report obsolete, surplus, and excess inventory. Work with all Account Executives to understand their clients needs, and develop ways to improve business processes as well as operating efficiencies. Overall lead person on clients Physical Inventories. Work with team members to perform clients accurate physical inventories and update systems after reconciling is completed in a timely manor.
September 2011-October 2013 Paint Applicator Corporation of America (PACOA)
Warehouse Operations Distribution Manager/Inventory Control Manager-Building Supplies
Responsible for total Inventory Management including receiving, storing, stocking, pick/pack operation and distributing a wide variety of materials and supplies. Overseas the enforcement of all distribution center procedures and practices. Supervise day shift employees as well as all warehouse staff. Strong interaction with night managers. Strongly focused on warehouse organization. Work closely with vendors and suppliers on quality issues as well as vendor returns. Arrange freight forwarders for vendor returns. Work with company drivers to resolve customer delivery issues and problems, at the time they are happening.
Ensure that immediate-same day orders are picked/packed and shipped and invoiced accurately. Same day customer pick ups are also included in this process.
Ensure that customer returns are being managed and documented efficiently and returns to inventory are being handled accurately. Follow up with Purchasing to ensure cost recovery efforts are being met.
Investigate all Inventory discrepancy issues to determine root cause of variances and develop corrective actions to be taken.
Currently using TREND as the main operating system.
June 2008-July 2011 Recognition Systems
Inventory Control/IT Project Manager-Graphic Arts Supplier
Responsible for and supervision of Inventory Control, cost analysis, warehouse storage systems, policy development. Inventory Technology including RF scanning gun systems development, training of warehouse staff, total integrity and accuracy of the Inventory and cost systems. Responsible for taking of Physical Inventory, variances, updating and tracking to insure 98% accuracy.
IT Projects include-Liaison with Programming Company to revise, create, test and implement programming changes and updates to systems. Creating new reports to insure accurate Purchases of Product needed. Testing all current modules of each program used to insure functionality and accuracy by all users. Training warehouse staff on the use of scanning guns, location systems, receiving purchase orders, Returns to Vendors processing,
August 2007-April 2008 JG Optical Lens Corporation
Operations Manager-Wholesale Lens Distributor
Overall responsible for Warehouse Management, Purchasing, Shipping, Procedures, Inventory Control and Management, Receiving, Vendor Relations, Customer Service and Sales Departments, Returns, Quality Control, Physical Inventory Procedures, Profitability/Mark-Up %.
November 2005-July 2007 Marchon Eyewear Melville, New York
Quality Control Manager
Responsible for making sure specifications are correct on first tooled samples sent to be examined. Designer names such as Coach, Fendi, Calvin Klein, Nautica and Michael Kors are included in the collections.
New tooled samples are sent for each model in advance of production shipments, to insure that everything is accurate, including stampings, sizes, colors, bar code labels, packaging. If there are any issues, the Brand Managers are notified and the issues are discussed in order to resolve them before first shipments are made from overseas. Report directly to the VP of Production
October 1990-February 2005 TURA L.P. Great Neck, New York
Product Brand Manager October 1997-February 2005 TURA L.P.
Design, development, and targeted market structure of the Women’s, Children’s and Memory Metal Eyeglass Collection. December 2004, completed the full range Lulu Guinness designer collection of 20 optical and 17 sunglass designs. Travel to Japan and Hong Kong, and London to work with designer Lulu Guinness and manufacturers. Weekly review of sales, to determine reorders, color distribution breaks, and sales forecasts. Daily correspondence with manufacturers. Gained 25% increase in sales from 2001 into 2002 which is equal to $2,000,000.Report directly to the VP Marketing
Operations Manager July 1996-October 1997 TURA L.P.
Responsible for Purchasing, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment, Shipping, Returns, Receiving, Quality Control, and Repair Departments. Responsibilities included control of the Annual Physical Inventory with 98% accuracy. * Report directly to the General Manager
Materials Manager October 1990-October 1997 TURA L.P.
Responsible for inventory control, sales and purchasing forecasts, cost analysis, vendor expediting, warehouse storage systems, purchasing systems and policy development, consumer display development, sales rep sample tracking. *Report directly to the General Manager
Major Accomplishments:
Designed and implemented an accurate computerized inventory control/purchasing system. Frame
Purchases are approximately $20,000,000 per year.
* Designed and implemented procedures and computer programs for taking the annual physical
Inventory, which brought accuracy up to 98%.
* Designed computerized sales rep sample system, tracking 100 sample cases at a total value of $2,200,000.
* Established new consumer display vendors thereby reducing display costs.
* Designed an efficient computerized Inventory Control/Purchasing System.
Report directly to the General Manager
October 1988-October 1990 ALSY Manufacturing Corp., Hicksville, New York
Director of Purchasing
*Designed and implemented an efficient computerized Inventory Control/Purchasing system.
Projected and sourced the needs of items purchased from overseas, without overbuying, taking lead times into account. Established inventory best practices to streamline manufacturing process.
Worked successfully with the Sales Department on revisions of monthly projections, saving the company thousands of dollars on purchasing unnecessary inventory.
Yorkville Industries, Inc., Amityville, New York December 1985-September 1988
Inventory Control Manager
* Maintained inventory levels for the New York warehouse and five other warehouses around the country.
* On site supervision of annual inventory at Chicago, California, and Florida sites.
* Implemented new warehouse Transfer System to transfer product from warehouses overstocked, to the warehouse needing the product for efficient sales and shipping.
* Created Merchandise Planning Reports for the timely purchase of inventory.
* Designed a Bill of Materials system, for manufacturing and inventory control.
EDUCATION: Bernard M. Baruch College, Manhattan, New York Bachelor of Business Administration 6/1977 TRAVEL: Agreeable to amount required by the position
REFERENCES: References both professional and personal available upon request.
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