JOE ORTIZ

Roseville, CA

Cell: 916-***-****

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PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST / COMMODITY PARTS MANAGER

Purchasing Professional with more than 15 years of experience working at a Fortune 500 Company with expertise in New Product Introductions, Negotiations, Commodity and Supplier Management enabling me to provide a low cost, high quality product to satisfy customers.

Successful history driving strategic improvements while managing operational responsibilities.

Track record taking initiative to influence others while creatively seeking win-win solutions.

Highly effective at establishing and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with suppliers and contract manufacturing sites.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE

Procurement / Supply Chain Planning: SAP Procurement system, ICON-SCP system (supply chain planner), Spies system (Forecast management), PIM (Part Information Mgmt) system

Vendor: Managed the AVL (Authorized Vendor List) system

Costing: HP iCost finance software

Applications: Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Other: DSI System Planning software knowledge, Electronic Engineering data base system knowledge

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE

Volunteer Work Teaching A Public Speaking class / Family Care giver Nov 2010 – Present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HEWLETT PACKARD 2004 – Nov 2010

Commodity Parts Manager

Six years as a Procurement Commodity Manager and Data Analyst.

Inventory Management:

Responsible for supplier and factory inventory management for $10M of inventory.

Managed inventory excess and obsolescence with a yearly 10% reduction goal.

Coordinated inventory site balancing to ensure full production capacity.

Maintained forecast generation, delivery and accuracy management.

Set up (SMI) Supplier managed inventory programs to reduce lead times.

NPI manager using Project Management tools to ensure time to market goals were met.

Costing:

Ensured the costing system was regularly updated to reflect accurate costs.

Collaboration / Support:

First point of contact to resolve escalated inventory supply shortages.

Ensured NPI’s with suppliers and manufacturing sites to meet time to market goals.

Managed engineering memo implementation and provided suppliers and manufacturing entities with timely notification of engineering change notices for a high quality product.

Managed three contract manufacturing sites, ensuring uninterrupted manufacturing production operations.

Provided Buyer and Master Data backup coverage with iCost, SAP and Vista system knowledge.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

HEWLETT PACKARD 1995 – 2004

Supply Chain Buyer

Responsible for defining and optimizing the supply chain including managing suppliers’ performance.

Purchased materials in accordance with the MRP system in response to customer orders using the SAP procurement system.

Negotiated an SMI (supplier managed inventory) contract to reduce company asset costs.

Led a team of buyers, procurement specialist, and a materials engineer to document best practices, backup coverage, cost savings and process improvements.

Resolved rework issues to repair $1M of inventory and make it available for sale.

Presented Vendor Supplier performance measures to supply chain representatives.

As an integral team member, set up new business relationship coordinating IT, Finance and other cross-functional teams to test and ensure new products were set up on time.

Implemented new product introductions with cross-functional teams to meet time-to-market goals.

Resolved customer delivery issues and escalations as the first point of contact.

Utilized System Software tools to ensure Data accuracy for Finance and Procurement transactions.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE

HEWLETT PACKARD

Lead Electronic Technician

Repaired and tested refurbished computer products within stated repair guidelines to ensure quality and customer satisfaction.

Supervised a mass storage production line: set up repair and test workstations while providing mentoring, training and documenting test procedures.

Presented production costs, delivery and quality measures to mgmt. on a quarterly basis.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Electronic Technical Degree, Bay Valley Technical Institute, Santa Clara, CA

Electronic Manufacturing Technology major, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA

Knowledge and experience equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts degree

Other Courses:

Contract Writing

Negotiations

Supplier Management

Business Metrics

Supplier Managed Inventory Strategy

Total Quality Control Methodology

CPM (Certified Purchasing Mgr)

Leading for business results.

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