MARTHA PLILER

Dallas / Fort Worth, TX *****

972-***-****

acxwn3@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/martha-pliler-43b96525

GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL

Inventory Management Operations Logistics Order Management

Materials Management Professional with extensive planning, cost estimating, scheduling and sourcing/purchasing experience for a global Fortune 500 technology enterprise. Outstanding analytical, organizational and communications skills, able to effectively interface with all levels of both internal and external customers, vendors and management. Very proactive and capable of successfully completing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline centered environment. Proven ability to deliver cost savings, on-time results and high levels of customer satisfaction. Experience in telecommunications industry. Additional expertise includes:

Process Documentation

Negotiations

Data & Channel Analysis

Supply Planning & Forecasting

Scheduling & Sourcing

Process Improvement

Business Partnering

Performance Management

Inventory & Asset Management

Procurement Purchasing Tools

SAP / PeopleSoft

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NOKIA, Irving, TX 2002-2016

*

Procurement Specialist, Latin & North America / Head of Purchase Order Center (2014-2016)

Nokia Solutions and Networks

Collaborated and communicated with key stakeholders in Business Units. Single point of contact in NAM & LAT regions. Providing Customer Service resulting in seamless interaction, and two day SLA maintained.

Monitored and updated Preferred Suppliers, Total Payment Days and APIP. Evaluated supplier performance, including supplier development, process and cost improvement.

Project Coordination and led cross functional teams in supplier sourcing actions

Global key user and SME of Procurement Software Purchasing tool / key user of SAP

Educated end users on purchasing tool, resulting in a reduction of maverick spend to less than 1% in region. In turn increasing PO coverage for NAM & LAT regions

Investigated and provided back up information for tax audits, ending in tax refund of $ 2 million dollars

Invoice clarification working with Procure to Pay end to end process. (Local and Budapest)

Drove process improvement for internal efficiencies. Upheld internal and external policies

Provided purchasing tool advanced training to stakeholders in NAM & LAT

Coordinated with Purchase Order Center Buyers, and internal stakeholders in the order processing to ensure policies were followed

Educated internal stakeholders to follow internal processes for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance

Created, administered and managed (RFP) and competitive bid processes

Performed Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Audits

Served as active member of the Consequence Management team and process implementation

*

Regional Category Manager (2012-2014)

Nokia Solutions and Networks

TMFE, R&D, New Rentals & Recalibrations / Professional & Corporate Services - Auxiliary Supplies, Consulting, Training, Marketing

Price Negotiations, Contracts, Agreements, NDA’s, Supplier Management

Monthly reporting in Savings Collector tool, managed spend and savings in my Categories

Created new Vendors in SBMHot. Storage of Contracts in SBMHot, and Sharenet. APIP & Preferred Suppliers

Worked with FSS to resolve invoice issues

Conducted quarterly, bi-yearly and yearly forecasting

Managed additional average cost savings over set objectives, of 6.5% through negotiations of pricing &Vendor selection

Managed and monitored supplier performance, worked with them to set development plans, serving as main interface between internal customers & external Vendors

MARTHA PLILER

*

North America Purchase Order Center Lead (2010-2012) / Senior Buyer (2007-2009)

Nokia Siemens Networks - NSN

Coordinated activities of Purchase Order Center for NAM. (Liaison with Indirect Procurement Team)

Provided all local Purchasing functions before POC outsourcing. (i.e., PO’s, Workflow, Invoice clarification, Sox Audits, tool testing when we integrated with SAP.)

Led team lead of four local Buyers. Coordinated with Buyers, and internal stakeholders in the order processing to make sure policies were followed

Worked with FSS procure to pay to resolve variance in invoice issues

Pulled & published reports from Purchasing tool as required by Finance, Line Managers or Sourcing Managers

Operational supplier management (supplier meetings, Procurement Key Performance Indicators (KPI) controlling, corrective actions etc.) Catalog Creation for multiple categories

Global key user and SME of Procurement Software Purchasing tool. Technical support also / Key user of SAP

Trained team lead of Service Provider on our local tools and processes. Managed the operational Purchasing process by facilitating and guiding our Service Provider Buyers in Prague Czech Republic

Supported and trained tactical buyers to improve on handling NSN internal processes

Provided Customer Service, monitored and answered questions submitted via our shared mailbox, 24 hour SLA

Posted Goods Receipts in SAP R3 for all invoices from our External Resource Vendor Tapfin. Notified them of any issues or concerns

Ramp up/Roll out and deployment of Purchasing tool in NAM region - USA & Canada

Monitored weekly performance of our Service providers. Key User for Purchasing tool, RMT tool, NOSS

Monitored, updated and uploaded the weekly GR/IR variance report for all previous NAM Buyers, to the Nokia SAS share-net. Processed all the NAM Procurement Card (P-CARD) request, submitted via Purchasing tool

Educated internal stakeholders to follow internal processes and SOX compliance

Reduced maverick spend, in turn increasing PO coverage for NAM & LAT regions

Liaison with Head of Indirect Procurement, and Regional Category Managers and Tactical buyers to support purchasing activities

Contributed to process and tool system testing and implementation

Raised RMT(Remedy) tickets for technical support of Purchasing tool

*

ORS Buyer (2006-2007)

Nokia Mobile Phones

Sourced and placed all External Resource and IT Hardware PO’s in SAP

Entered all internal company Sales Orders for purchases and internal Work Orders for repairs, moves, redesigns

Worked and reported any workflow issues so that Vendors were paid in a timely manner

Processed RMA paperwork and tracked and reported all credits were completed.

Worked SAP workflow issues to resolution

Followed-up weekly on the open order backlog status, proactively worked to keep customers and suppliers informed of any changes

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

NOKIA, Irving, TX

Software Subcontracting Coordinator

Financial Business Control Administrative Assistant

SINCERELY YOURS, Lewisville, TX

Drop Shipment Buyer / Coordinator

NEC BNS, Irving, TX

Senior Contract / Order Administrator

TECHNICAL TRAINING

myOrders purchasing tool, Key User Global

SAP - Key User & Audit Controller

Concur

Distributed Project Management (DPM)

MPR-INV-BOM-SUA

SBM House of Tools

Share-Net

Proposal Tracking System (PTS)

Microframe (MPM)

Cost Based Billings (CBBS)

Contact this candidate