Clyde Robertson

408-***-****

addrzl@r.postjobfree.com

Skills:

Purchasing, Planning and Contract Administration.

Familiar with MRP, RFQ’S, Professional Services, RFP’S, MSA’s, SOW’S process.

SAAS, Enterprise Software licenses, contracts, software, hardware, storage, data centers, cybersecurity and more

Worked with suppliers on contracts, cost savings, problem invoices and on time delivery metrics.

Familiar with FAR, FDAR, GSAM and government purchasing.

Proficient in Sap, Ariba, Apttus, Oracle OBIEE, OBIC, 11i, R12 and Cloud

Education:

Yerba Buena High School, San Jose, CA

San Jose City College

Experience:

Western Digital (Contract), San Jose, CA Dec 2019-March 2020

Sr. Procurement Specialist

Creating and maintaining custom dashboards for Finance, Procurement, Logistics, AP, Sales, Operations and Marketing

Creating custom reports for Multiple Departments.

Create and manage work orders and purchase orders based on forecast and sales orders for production and engineering.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Managed all contracts for IT and Network Operations.

Providing support to the multiple data centers including purchasing activities and the inventory of the equipment at the Data Centers.

Responsible for the inventory of all laptops, desktops, and miscellaneous product stored in the stockroom.

Issue all hardware, computer peripherals, office supplies and marketing products to the proper departments.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality.

Reviewed SOW’s for IT, FACILITIES and PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company

Monitor delivery schedule for all open orders to match production and development needs

Create and managed all current BOM’s in Oracle and Agile

Review all RFP’s and SOW’s assigned to me.

Deliver weekly status reports to the required business units.

Train the Jr Buyers and Planner in Oracle Financials including the Procure to Pay (P2P) process.

Responsible for updating all assigned commodities assigned to me including lead times, MOQ’S

Environments: Oracle Cloud, Oracle OBIEE, Oracle Financials R12 (PO, WIP, BOM, AP, and Order Management), Outlook, AGILE and MS Office

Geometrics (Contract) San Jose, CA July 2019-Dec 2019

Buyer/Planner

Creating and managing purchase orders and work orders for production and engineering.

Creating and managing reports for various departments

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company.

Place and expedite purchase orders for IT equipment, consulting services and much more

Providing support to the multiple data centers including all of the purchasing activities and the inventory of the equipment at the Data Centers.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Interface daily with Quality Assurance, Engineering, Network Operations and Accounting.

Responsible for managing the RMA process.

Responsible for the inventory of all laptops, desktops, and miscellaneous product stored in the stockroom.

Issue all hardware, computer peripherals, office supplies and marketing products to the proper departments.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality at all times

Monitor delivery schedule for all open orders to match production and development needs

Input data and file documents in a timely manner

Resolve discrepancies with POs, receiving, and invoices

Negotiate a wide range of agreements required to support business activities

Assist contract proposal process to ensure specifications are in accordance with business, and legal compliance requirements

Environments: SAP, SHAREPOINT, OUTLOOK, MS OFFICE

Soraa Lighting (Contract), Fremont, CA Feb 2019-May 2019

Sr. Buyer/Planner

Provide support during transition of material suppliers. Proactively communicate any material supply risks to management. Leverage communication tools (Office Tools) to provide visual documentation of risks and status.

Maintaining SAP master data including but limited to; supplier sourcing, supplier lead-times, lot sizing and EOQ.

Review purchase requisitions, delivery schedule lines and MRP exception messages.

Finalizes MRP and confirms quantities and dates, ensuring that all material delivery schedules are communicated to the suppliers on time to meet plan requirements (confirm PO’s)

Liaises with supplier to clarify potential plan constraints and interfaces between supplier and key internal stakeholders until issues are solved, updates SAP to reflect current delivery dates from supplier, notifies production plan & make of any delays.

Provides standard cost updates in collaboration with Source & Finance, for new and existing materials.

Manges potential abrupt deviations to the plan assessing with the suppliers the feasibility of the changes, rapidly highlighting to the affected internal stakeholders if the changes are not possible. Participates in daily tier production meetings providing material supply updates.

DRI for supply disruption for the materials managed, status updates at weekly supply meeting.

Participates in MRB (Material Review Board) meetings, interfaces with QA, Engineering and warehouse staff regarding rejected/defective materials, making the necessary physical arrangement with the supplier to ensure a prompt return of goods or disposal.

Liaises with warehouse staff to understand and adhere to space constraints, managing inventory levels within agreed targets.

In partnership with Source, tracks and reports site level supplier service performance, communicating the information to the relevant parties. Provides supplier scorecard input.

Plant Slow Moving & Obsolete (SLOB) management.

Provided material supplier input to the S&OP process to allow for transparency of the risks and opportunities.

Effectively partners with all internal and external business partners.

Responsible for continuous improvement of the procurement and planning process.

Advance notification of end of life materials and working with management to procure last time buy and engineering to identify replacement.

Manages material phase in phase out processes.

Works with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice issues.

Supports NPI and provides quotations for new materials and new material revisions.

Environments: SAP, Ariba, SHAREPOINT, OUTLOOK, MS OFFICE

PG&E (Contract) Concord, CA June 2018-Oct 2018

Procurement Specialist/Contract Administrator

Creating and managing contracts for facilities, professional services, engineering and marketing.

Prepare RFQ’s and SOW’s

Creating and managing reports for various departments

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company.

Place and expedite purchase orders for IT equipment, consulting services and much more.

Providing support to the multiple data centers including all of the purchasing activities and the inventory of the equipment at the Data Centers.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Interface daily with Quality Assurance, Engineering, Network Operations and Accounting.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality at all times

Monitor delivery schedule for all open orders to match production and development needs

Input data and file documents in a timely manner

Resolve discrepancies with POs, receiving, and invoices

Negotiate a wide range of agreements required to support business activities

Assist contract proposal process to ensure specifications are in accordance with business, and legal compliance requirements.

Environments: SAP, ARIBA, SHAREPOINT, OUTLOOK, MS OFFICE

Dropbox (Contract), San Francisco, CA Aug 2017-Dec 2017

Procurement Specialist

Initiates process improvements for the development of the procurement organization.

Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information resulting in the development of improved procurement planning and execution.

Develops and ensures compliance with Purchasing policies

Perform company financial report analysis.

Work with engineers to select commodity materials at good quality, right cost and unification crossing the all product lines.

And team-up with quality group and engineers to qualify strategic suppliers.

Provide Market trend analysis on assigned commodity categories.

Responsible for overall unit cost management and ongoing cost reduction activity. Must negotiate cost reductions with suppliers through aggressive negotiations.

Quarterly price review with Suppliers to meet cost down target

Perform risk analysis for risk management. Report risks and communicate escalation requirements to management

Define and track all opportunities for business improvement and technical requirements to drive the success of the supplier relationship.

Manage the relationship with CM/ODM and component suppliers.

Manage tasks with cross- functional departments within the company to resolve problems related to CM/ODM and component suppliers.

Environments: Oracle Fusion, Google Docs, OUTLOOK, MS OFFICE

Pharmacyclics (Contract) Sunnyvale, CA Jun 2016-Aug 2017

IT Contract Administrator

Creating and managing contracts and purchase orders for facilities, professional services, goods and much more.

Prepare RFQ’s and SOW’s

Creating and managing reports for various departments

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company.

Place and expedite purchase orders for IT equipment, consulting services and much more.

Providing support to the multiple data centers including all of the purchasing activities and the inventory of the equipment at the Data Centers.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Interface daily with Quality Assurance, Engineering, Network Operations and Accounting.

Responsible for managing the RMA process.

Responsible for the inventory of all laptops, desktops, and miscellaneous product stored in the stockroom.

Issue all hardware, computer peripherals, office supplies and marketing products to the proper departments.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality at all times

Monitor delivery schedule for all open orders to match production and development needs

Input data and file documents in a timely manner

Resolve discrepancies with POs, receiving, and invoices

Negotiate a wide range of agreements required to support business activities

Assist contract proposal process to ensure specifications are in accordance with business, and legal compliance requirements.

Environments: MS Dynamics Ax, APTTUS, SERVICE NOW, OUTLOOK, MS OFFICE

NetApp (Contract) Sunnyvale, CA Aug 2014-Mar 2016

Supply Chain Analyst

Work with AP to resolve invoice issues due to how the requestors created their requisitions.

Gathered requirements from multiple departments and created a daily tactical process for creating requisitions and purchase orders

Training the end users on creating requisitions, purchase orders properly to cut down on the amount of the match exceptions that the system will generate.

Responsible for training multiple departments in several areas within Oracle financials including purchasing, planning, receiving, WIP, BOM and AP.

Train the end users in the Procure to Pay (P2P) and the Order to Cash (O2C) process

Building queries for running reports and customizing them for their specific needs.

Assisted in updating the Oracle item master and also the Org items with up to date lead times, MOQ’s, and mfg part numbers.

Assisting with the implementation of Oracle into a higher version.

Doing UAT Testing in all of the different Oracle test instances.

Purchased IT material such as desktops, laptops, servers, switches and several different peripherals as needed.

Negotiated, review and managed contracts and SOW’s for IT, FACILITIES and PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Environments: Oracle Financials R12 (PO, WIP, BOM, AP, and Order Management) and MS Office

Morpho Detection (Contract) Newark, CA Jun 2013- May 2014

Sr. Buyer/Planner

Place and expedite purchase orders for manufacturing for commodities such as electronic components, pcb’s, machined parts, cable assemblies, IT equipment, consulting services and much more.

Create and manage work orders for production and engineering

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Interface daily with Quality Assurance, Engineering, Network Operations and Accounting.

Responsible for managing the RMA process.

Managed all of the service contracts for IT and Network Operations.

Responsible for the inventory of all laptops, desktops, and miscellaneous product stored in the stockroom.

Issue all hardware, computer peripherals, office supplies and marketing products to the proper departments.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality at all times

Reviewed SOW’s for IT, FACILITIES and PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company

Monitor delivery schedule for all open orders to match production and development needs

Input data and file documents in a timely manner

Create and managed all current BOM’s in Oracle and Agile

Assist contract proposal process to ensure specifications are in accordance with business, and legal compliance requirements.

Review Requests for Proposal from potential customers

Deliver weekly status reports to the required business units.

Educate and train our business partners

Train the Jr Buyers and Planner in Oracle Financials including the Procure to Pay (P2P) and the Order to Cash (O2C) process.

Familiar with FAR, FDAR, GSAM within government purchasing

Environments: Oracle EBS R12 (PO, WIP, BOM, AP, and Order Management), Outlook, AGILE and MS Office

Kaiser Permanente (Contract) Oakland, CA Aug 2012-May 2013

Sr. Procurement Specialist

Worked on resolving Match Exceptions for Accounts Payable

Preparing reports for Operations, Supply Chain and finance

Extracting data from the legacy system and entering it into Peoplesoft manually and through a batch process.

Doing system testing to make sure data transferred from the Legacy system is transferred accurately in Peoplesoft.

Building queries in Peoplesoft for gathering certain data for end user usage.

Training the end users on creating requisitions and purchase orders properly to cut down on the amount of the match exceptions that the system will generate.

Train the end users in Peoplesoft Financials including the Procure to Pay (P2P) and the Order to Cash (O2C) process

Gather information for various departments and created processes

Place and expedite purchase orders for IT, engineering, production and all other departments.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, and manufacturing lead times and invoice issues.

Interface daily with the Design Group, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Engineering, Production and Accounting.

Responsible for updating Peoplesoft with current information on a daily basis.

Responsible for data entry of all of my Purchase Order and creating shortage reports on my products.

Updated the Peoplesoft item master with current product info.

Environments: Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, MS Office

Good Technology/Motorola, Santa Clara, CA Aug 2007 – July 20012

Buyer/Planner

Place and expedite purchase orders and work orders for production, engineering and IT for such commodities such as wireless products, desktops, laptops, servers, routers, switches and other miscellaneous accessories.

Resolve issues with suppliers regards to on time deliveries, pricing, lead times and invoice issues.

Provided open Purchase Order and Shortage Reports on a daily basis to the IT team.

Responsible for managing the RMA process.

Knowledge and experience with SAAS, Consulting Services, Software and Professional Services

Review RFP’s, RFQ’s, SOW’s for IT, FACILITIES and PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.

Responsible for the inventory of all laptops, desktops and miscellaneous product stored in the stockroom.

Issue all hardware, computer peripherals, office supplies and marketing products to the proper departments.

Set up new service and ESN changes.

Assist contract proposal process to ensure specifications are in accordance with business, and legal compliance requirements.

Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with existing accounts and new suppliers with the objectives to minimize cost and maintain highest quality at all times.

Obtain and compare quotes from different suppliers to select the ones that provide the best value (quality and price) to the company

Experience in Telecommunication billing and order management for Enterprise or Telecom vendors like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.

Train end users in Oracle Financials including the Procure to Pay (P2P) and the Order to Cash (O2C) process

Environments: Oracle Financials R12 (PO, WIP, BOM, AP, and Order Management) and MS Office

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