EVELYN T. FERGUSON

La Mirada, CA *****

adce8a@r.postjobfree.com

714-***-****

SUMMARY

Dependable and reliable PURCHASING AGENT with excellent buying/negotiation and planning skills utilizing MRP. Well versed in inventory management and control. Diversified & trustworthy individual with outstanding track record of on-time delivery performance. A troubleshooter, detail oriented, and multi-tasking abilities. Areas of skills, assets and expertise include:

Purchasing, Negotiation, Expediting, Scheduling, Production & Inventory Control

Planning & MRP system on Manman: Omar and Manufacturing Software

AS400 PRIMS and EPICOR

Microsoft Dynamic – Great Plains & Smoothie

Microsoft Office, Outlook, HTML, Windows NT and Q & A Software

Team Player and cGMP Certified

Account, Change and Graphics

Management

MRP / BOM / CODES experts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

STILA and JANE COSMETICS, Los Angeles, CA 2009 - PRESENT

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL, INC, Commerce, CA

Cosmetics company with prestige and high quality products for Sephora, Nordstrom, Macy’s, WEB/Online and Retailer stores such as: AMAZON, Drug Store, ULTA and celebrity users.

Cosmetics manufacturer & packaging for largest company such as Wal-Mart, SAMS and Costco

Purchasing Agent, Inventory Control and Supply Chain Manager

Multi-tasking/function person who serves as Purchasing Agent, Production/Inventory Control during physical inventory and assisted in customer services such as customer complaints and product inquiries.

Successful and w/ extensive result and cost savings, finds competitive suppliers to increase company’s profits/financial stability & bring competitive products to the market. Saved more than $100,000.00 in 2 weeks and challenge vendors to find competitive vendors of theirs in order for us get more profitable business.

Worked with various department such as: Production/Inventory Control, QA/Regulatory, Sales, Marketing, Receiving, Engineering, Accounting and WEB products update

Eradicate and massive reconciliation inventory issue and maintain inventory accuracy

Processed Sale Orders such as: EDI, WEB, REGULAR and PLANOGRAM orders

Resolved & reconciled invoice issues and transaction discrepancies. Provided Auditor in supporting documents to explains inventory transactions issues

Coordinated with freight / shipments between company, freight company and suppliers

Expedited and assured Purchase Open Orders dates are met and On Time Delivery

Helped customers with their inquiries and answer customer complaints

Assigned/Built Items and UPC codes, BOM, Routing, Outsource / Manufacturing Orders

Excellent in determining quantities to make or buy to avoid excessive inventory

Closely worked with Web Company in maintaining products updates and active items

LEINER HEALTH PRODUCTS, LLC, Carson, CA 1995 - 2009

Pharmaceutical, nutritional supplements manufacturer, acquired by Nature’s Bounty

Senior Buyer / Planner

Served as Buyer/Planner for packaging materials and printed components, scheduling purchases with product manufacturing utilizing manufacturing resource planning (MRP).

Planned material purchases, initiated purchase orders, purchased materials, negotiated price and established new vendor contacts and partnered with suppliers.

Improved delivery performance from 80% to 98.2% by proactively monitoring & following up on orders. Achieved positive cost savings / PPV for $2.14M promoting success of new products in achieving/engaging extensive negotiation, result and cost savings

Expediter, helped receiving, quality issues and production’s issues & problems resolved.

Reduced OT and expediting charges by 70% by bargaining, proactive account planning and management. Diligently worked with vendors obtaining product information such as: delivery schedule, availability and price. Reduced 50% RMA vendor account reconciliation and customer returns. Worked closely in assuring forecast accuracy

Prepared requisition to assures up-to-date files and turns into POs. Finds competitive suppliers to increase company’s profits and competitive products to the market.

Received Outstanding Team Effort award for new product launch.

Recognized with a Commendation Award for being an outstanding team Player.

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE:

1. XEROX/DANKA, Los Angeles, CA à Facsimile - ELECTRONICS

Assistant Supervisor / Production Planner

Utilized MRP and Q & A Software for planning and initiating production order scheduling.

2. A.V.X. FILTER, Sun Valley, CA à Capacitors & Resistors - ELECTRONICS

Master Scheduler / Planner

Supervised ten employees planning and scheduling production operation.

3. INTEL PHILS, Manila Philippines à IC-Chips/Processor - ELECTRONICS

Source Inspector / TRAINOR ( out in the field )

Overseer outsourcing products with various companies.

Overseer products to assure products were produced compliance with specs.

Trained incoming personnel and cross-training internal employees.

PROMOTIONS AND AWARDS:

Outstanding Team Player of the Year @ LEINER HEALTH PRODUCTS

Awarded: Innovative of the year for most Efficient @ A.V.X. Filters

( Save company approx $ 300K to $ 400K a Year )

Received 5 to 7 promotions from entry level to current position

EDUCATION

Business Courses, Philippine School of Business Administration - Manila, Philippines

CPM Course – California State Dominguez Hills University – Carson, California

APICS Training / Courses – Bellanca and Carson, California

Guzman Institute of Electronics – Manila, Philippines

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