MARY KENDALL

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Bartlett, Illinois **103

708-***-**** Cell

630-***-**** Home

acvtoq@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Experience

Skilled professional with over 20 years of extensive experience in procurement, materials management and production operations in a high-technology manufacturing environment. Skilled in prototype build procedures, alternative source identification, and product specification assessment.

Core Competencies

Contract Management Supply Chain Management Materials Management

Cost Control Procurement Inventory Tracking

Production Operations Quality Assurance Time Management

Material Forecasting Negotiating Supervision

Client Management MRP Systems Product Tracking

Oracle JIT/ Kan Ban Project Management

Nu-way Industries Des Plaines, IL 03/14-7/15

Manufacturing and assembly services to custom make your products from small precision parts to large enclosures.

Supply Chain Supervisor

Responsible for day to day operations with a focus on Purchasing and New Product Introduction.

Communicated all customer material related requirements through design of models and processes in a strategic group.

Coordinated with strategic customer manager to acquire material liability coverage prior to initiating planning transition and purchasing to ensure proper material for new products.

Cook County Health and Hospital Systems, Chicago, IL Temporary position through STW. 06/13-03/14

Cook County Health and Hospitals System works to provide a Comprehensive program of Quality healthcare with respect and dignity.

Contract Manager

Plan and execute contracts in order to support daily operations in order to maintain a quality process flow of services to patients.

AIM INC, Addison, IL Temporary position through Sterling Engineering. 03/13-6/13

Industry leader in manufacturing of CNC wire bending equipment.

BOM/Engineering Support Coordinator

Structured and entering bill of materials and new parts into SAP. Clean-up and monitor new and existing product clean-up prints and change part numbers to reflect the manufacturing process. Set-up Kan-ban so vendors were stocking on a by-weekly bases.

ITW BRANDS, Bartlett, IL Temporary position through Purchasing Professionals. 01/12-4/12

ITW Brands extends a broad range of professional-grade anchoring and fastening products.

Planner/Buyer

Responsible for the day to day activities buying and planning for a range of fastener products. Maintaining scopes of work including tracking design changes, scheduling import shipments and ensuring paperwork is in order. Clean-up of data from old ROI system while new Navision system was being implemented.

Plan, forecast, and buy material in support of production activities being conscious of total landed costs.

Interact with China based suppliers to maintain schedules and correct any potential issues in cost, delivery

communicate any quality issues.

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SCHLEIFRING MEDICAL SYSTEMS, Elgin, Illinois 10/10-5/11

Industry leader in the medical machine sector. Schleifring Medical Systems has developed and manufactured medical slip ring systems mainly for the US market.

Material Manager

Oversee a staff of four ensuring accuracy including all material transactions, ordering, receipt, storage and distribution of material.

Perform root cause analysis of production inventory discrepancies.

Establish goal for team members that align with organizations overall performance. Perform performance reviews to determine progress.

SENIOR FLEXONICS, Bartlett, Illinois 10/07-10/08

An industry leader in the development of fabricated metal components and assemblies for automotive industry.

Senior Buyer NPI

Responsible for coordination, negotiation and purchasing of material for three development groups for cost-effective and timely delivery of proto material.

Accountable for $5,000,000 annual spend for production material.

Managed hand-off of all prototypes to production buyers, specializing in aluminum, stainless and zinc casting subassemblies for medical and automotive industries.

Established and controlled reduction in supplier base and additions of new preferred suppliers.

Focus and determine stocking volumes and inventory reduction for current production products.

GRACE DAVISON ALLTECH ASSOCIATION, Deerfield, Illinois 01/06-03/07

A leading manufacturer of silica for the chromatography industry.

Purchasing Supervisor

Responsible for directing a team in the management of over $10,000,000 in purchasing a year.

Participated in establishing goals and objectives for cost savings and subsets of financial targets.

Assessed new supplier qualification and recommended selection of awards and contracts.

Coordinated goals and activities for team.

Managed team off 6 supporting both manufacturing and distribution activities utilizing SAP systems.

MOTOROLA, Schaumburg, Illinois 1978 to 2004

A global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions.

Project Manager 1/2001-2/2004

Responsible for utilizing Oracle and M-Gates systems for a wide range of product tracking and management activities.

Senior Buyer 11/94-2001

Materials Project Leader/ Purchaser 1/91-5/94

Manufacturing Coordinator 9/90-1/91

Senior Process Technician II 9/89-9/90

Senior Process Technician I 11/87-9/89

Senior Industrial Engineer Analyst 12/83-10/87 Industrial Engineer Analyst 2/78-11/83

EDUCATION: MBA, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

BS, Business Management, National Louis University, Evanston, IL

COMPUTER IBM PC dbase III Basic; Internet; MS Windows Vista, Office, Excel, Word,

SKILLS: Access; familiar with Macintosh, SAP, JD Edwards, and Oracle systems.

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