Erika M. Meng

*** * **** **. #** South Lyon, MI *8178 u 734-***-**** u acyy0g@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Buyer

Oversee all aspects of procurement throughout the business. Support, promote and report compliance within purchasing system. Work with departments within the business to fulfill procurement needs and maximize efficiencies within set and established corporate guidelines. Ensure the business is supplied with the required materials, and at the same time, work to procure purchases at the lowest cost while maintaining proper inventory levels.

Profile

I am a motivated, personable business professional. Capable of working independently as well as with teams at all levels. I am recognized as a result-orientated and solution focused individual. I possess excellent organizational, communication and multi-tasking skills. I take pride in what I am working on with attention to detail and accuracy. I have a willingness to learn and explore opportunities for continued success, growth and advancement.

Work History

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Livonia, MI November 1985 - present

Technicolor is a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector. Packaging and Distributor of DVD’s and CD’s for most major film studios.

I started in the manufacturing environment. Through determination and my desire to make advancements in my career, I progressed to administrative, coordinator, and Supervisor/Management positions. Tape Load Operator (5 yrs.) Recorded Staging Data Entry Clerk, (2 yrs.) Customer Service Order Entry Clerk, (2 yrs.) Order Entry-Invoicing Coordinator, (3 yrs.) Accounts Payable Supervisor, (12 yrs.) Jr. Staff Accountant, (1yr) Buyer, (5 yrs.) and Senior Buyer (3 yrs.).

Professional Experience

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Livonia, MI July 2013-Present

Senior Buyer

Lead monthly meetings with the North America Buyers team. We brainstorm opportunities to maximize savings at the plant level for NPP, (non production purchases) and manufacturing vendor spends 50K and less. Ideas include: negotiate with vendors for lower prices, volume discounts or extended payment terms. Collectively as a team, this activity allowed the Buyers to save the business over $1MM on purchases across North America in 2014.

In 2014, I reduced packaging material expenses by 48%. I analyzed usage reports and re-established min/max levels to maintain no more than 10% working capital in inventory.

Assisted in the hiring selection and training of Buyer temp to support Tennessee and Michigan operations with their procurement needs.

Point of contact for annual Procure to Pay corporate internal and external audits.

With the closure announcement of Technicolor Michigan operations, I lead the task to coordinate the movement of all Technicolor owned material to Tennessee. I also coordinated the return of other non-production Technicolor leased equipment, to include: fork lifts, storage trailers, copier and printer equipment.

Traveled to Technicolor-Memphis to help train their new Buyer

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Livonia, MI April 2008 - June 2013

Buyer

Trained Purchasing Assistant Temp.

Assumed full responsibility for the Tennessee site’s NPP eProcurement PO processing due to TN staff reduction. I worked with the TN user community to assist them with making leaner ways of processing their PO’s, tracking product savings and provide the JBA open PO report tool for order tracking. This action helped reduce 80% of non-receipt order issues within the system. Corrected established suppliers and product categories in the eProcurement vendor base. This action helped Sourcing Management and Finance better collect spent data for the budget categories.

Worked with the IT team and site buyers to redefine a SOP, (standard operating procedure), for vendor creation/maintenance in AS400 application system/JBA software work program to accommodate the change in finance requirements. I lead the buyers to organize a plan to execute and complete the assignment to update the active vendor table for all US Technicolor sites, California, Tennessee and Michigan and met Managements deadline of requested completion.

Helped support the operations teams in MI and TN for a smooth transition from one lease equipment account to another. In effort to help close the prior account, I assisted TN Operations and the AP team to settle several past due invoices, most of which I disputed and was able to save Technicolor nearly $95,000.00.

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Livonia, MI December 1995 - April 2007

Accounts Payable Supervisor

Supervised AP clerk.

Short of check printing and processing wire transfers, (which was handled by our corporate office in California), I oversaw the full Accounts Payable process from our Michigan site.

Played a key role in the movement of Accounts Payable from our corporate office in California to Michigan.

Team member of the company’s mainframe financial application, (JBA) conversion from the manual payment structure to the mainframes 3-way match invoice payment process.

Actively participated in the training sessions and learned the functions and processes of the company’s intranet based online NPP Easy Source Purchasing Program. I was the local support point of contact for users of the application.

Team member of the implementation intranet based American Express procurement program and administrator of the account for North America HES card holders. I worked closely with the Financial IT group in its development and roll out to users. I was the cardholder’s point of contact and application support for the site.

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Livonia, MI May 2007 – March 2008

Jr. Staff Accountant

Transitioned into this position when Technicolor announced the outsourcing of the Accounts Payable function.

Prepare monthly miscellaneous cash receipts schedule.

Month end closing process-includes inter-companies, reconciling and tying off the inter-company balances. Accounts reconciliation, which is preparing reconciliations for the balance sheet accounts.

Prepare weekly labor transfers and corresponding journal vouchers.

Skills Summary

Management/Supervision

Team Leader

Strong communication skills: both oral and written

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)

AS400/JBA Purchasing/Finance applications

Intranet Eprocurement application- Easy Source

Intranet SharePoint

General office skills

Computer Savvy

Negotiations

Training

Interaction Management Series I & II

Time Management

Problem Solving

Report Writing

Lean Manufacturing

Corrective Action

Stress Management

Diversity

Violence in the Workplace

Thomson COP Management

Accounts Payable Seminar March 1996

Accounts Payable Workshop March 1997

Star 12 Training

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