Fine Paper Retention Specialist

David M. Bregman

*** ******* ***** ************ ** 32259

Email: **********@*.*** Telephone: 904-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position within Procurement that will allow me to utilize my analytical, written and verbal communication skills in a high paced working environment.

Supply Chain Professional with extensive purchasing and inventory management experience in JIT and Lean environments. Multiple functions managed include RFQ, RFP, negotiating of purchases and commodities. An interactive leader who mentors and works well as part of a team.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Over 30 years experience in Procurement, particularly in the Fine Paper and Corrugated Packaging Industry

Extensive and thorough knowledge in managing packaging and inventories to support ongoing end user deliveries as need be.

Items purchased include: Fine Printing Papers which encompasses the following: text and cover, bond, index, tag, and carbonless papers. Corrugated products, whether stock or manufactured, Chipboard products, all aspects of Poly products, including bags, and bubble, chemicals, including product lines such as Instapack, Tapes, including both paper and film types, Safety products, Strapping, including steel, plastics, poly pro, and polyesters, plus all the products that go along with Strapping such as tools, kits, buckles, seals and carts. Kraft & Bogus papers, Jansan and Chemical systems, and equipment off all types.

Set up stocking programs with preferred vendors on make and hold inventories to satisfy end user demand for just in time deliveries

Handling billing and invoicing from a purchasing aspect, resolving Invoicing discrepancies which include reconciliation with Accounting and Vendors.

Leader on cost savings projects, realized savings of over $500,000.

Skilled in price negotiations, sourcing, and vendor management, resulting in corrugated savings of over $400,000 and overall savings on other product lines of over $100,000.

Substantial understanding of proposal analysis, finalization of contracts and blanket purchase orders maintenance.

Expert in vendor negotiations and qualifications.

Maintained Bill of Materials to over 1000 inventory part numbers and 8MM inventory spend.

Implemented purchasing agreements and integration of key suppliers.

Identified and implemented best practices to other departmental functions.

Championed reporting capabilities to drive efficiencies in providing pricing market updates, Purchasing Price Variance, purchasing procedure updates, non-conformance recovery, and supplier performance status in both quality and service.

Maintained close relationships with vendors and resolved quality and service issues.

A focused leader with good analytical and problem solving skills, excellent written and communication skills, good organizational skills, action oriented, self-motivated problem solver, and results oriented.

Manage suppliers in conjunction with All KHL Policies, solve corrective action issues and educate suppliers in compliance with all KHL Standard policies and procedures.

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EXPERIENCE

ADT Security Services 2019-Current

Inbound Sales

Bernard LLC 2018-2019

Inbound Retention Specialist

EZ Pack & Post Supply Corp 2013 –Current

Running my own company

All Sales, Sourcing, Pickups, Deliveries, Accounting, Billing done by me alone

The Supply Source (Jacksonville Fl) 2012 – 2013

Senior Buyer

Provide key support for 10 outside salesman and numerous external and internal customers

Kent H. Landsberg Company (Cranbury, New Jersey) 2007 – 2012

Senior Buyer

Provide key support for 10 outside salesman and numerous external and internal customers at the other 53 KHL locations

Maintain inventory by analyzing purchasing usage reports.

Manage products through quality assurance

Negotiate cost and product lines with vendors.

Create purchase orders; update system requirements for confirmations, costs, debits and credits.

Expediting orders, review incoming products.

Prioritize sourcing and quotes.

Oversee a group of co-workers to evaluate orders to determine accuracy.

Revise and reorganize product lines to achieve gross sales growth from approximately 15 million in yearly sales to 20 million. An 11% growth factor over the last three years

Mooney General Paper Company (Hillside, NJ) 2005 – 2007

Purchasing/Outside Sales

Provided support for 25 outside sale personnel in the industrial supply side of the business including tapes, packaging, and other specialty items.

Specialized in Tape and Tape related products from several vendor sources.

Managed price negotiations on m ost product lines for the firm.

Perform Cold call and maintain end user accounts as an outside sales representative.

West Coast Paper Company (Redding, CA) 2001 – 2005

Outside Sales

Outside Sales responsible for the Chico California territory. Achieved success by building the territory into a 250,000/year business involving printing, paper, janitorials and packaging.

Unisource Paper (North Bergen, NJ) 1999 – 2001

Tonnage Specialist

Provided customer service for an extremely large printing paper accounts.

Provided customer service involving janitorial accounts.

Tonnage Specialist-Handling the needs of a group of 20 outside salesmen purchasing of Specialty papers.

EDUCATION

Union High School (Union, NJ) 1979

Liberal Arts Program

St. Leo University (Tampa, FL)

Anticipated degree -Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Management specialty in

Fall 2011-I am still 27 credits shy of my degree

U.S. Navy (Honorable Discharge) 1984

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ADDITIONAL

Earned a performance bonus in each of the last 3 years.

SKILLS

Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Office, PowerPoint

Working on the JD Edwards World Platform for the last 5 years

SPECIAL TRAINING

Price Negotiations Seminar

Corrugated Seminar

Folding Cartons Seminar

Time Management Seminar

Attended numerous training schools while in the Navy

References available upon request

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