Lorena Lea

**** *. **** *****

Tulsa, OK *****

719-***-****

adxaby@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To grow personally with a company while becoming a valued asset. Qualifications

• 30+ years of Purchasing, Inventory Management and Planning in the manufacturing environment

• CPM, CPIM & CSCP

• Proficient with LEAN Six Sigma

• Working knowledge of MIL specifications

• Strong knowledge of ASTM, ASME, EN-10204, DFARS, ITAR and NORSOK specifications

• Extensive knowledge of DCMA requirements

• Extensive knowledge of NQA1 requirements

• 8+ years of experience with imports and exports to and from Mexico and several other countries.

• Wrote SPC manual

• Strong communication skills

• Excellent negotiation skills

• Great track record creating partnerships with vendors

• Managed yearly physical inventory

• Reconciled cycle count discrepancies

• Tracked and managed department budgets

• Over sought parts and labor for repair of production machinery based on a MRO system

• Negotiated with steel suppliers for JIT deliveries on raw materials

• Generated and analyzed various monthly reports to reflect inventory on hand, cycle count variances, and forecasting market pricing variances

• Increased and maintained inventory turns from 3 - 6 turns per year. Education

BS- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Masters – DePaul University, Chicago, IL

APICS – CPM, CPIM & CSCP

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt – University of Tulsa

Work History

Aug. 2022 – Present Layco Electric (LEI) Tulsa, OK Supply Chain Manager

• Oversee Shipping Department, Receiving Department, Materials Department, Inventory Department and Procurement.

• Analyze current inventory and procedures, suggest improvements to increase efficiency of supply chain and profitability for the company.

• Develop policies to increase efficiency throughout the Supply Chain Department while ensuring quality and safety.

• Review PO’s for all raw material, components, MRO, Machinery, etc.

• Negotiated terms, pricing, contracts and freight.

• Resolved receiving, inventory and accounting discrepancies.

• Work closely with Project Managers with specifications and material requirements Sept. 2020 – July 2022 Springs Fabrication, LLC. Colorado Springs, CO Supply Chain Manager

• Oversee Shipping Department, Receiving Department, Materials Department, Inventory Department and Procurement.

• Performed same duties that I performed at US Pioneer and BS&B Premco

• Organize and run YEI

• Analyze current inventory and procedures, suggest improvements to increase efficiency of supply chain and profitability for the company.

• Develop policies to increase efficiency throughout the Supply Chain Department while ensuring quality and safety.

• Analyze data from shipping and delivering processes to find bottlenecks and other issues. March 2017 – August 2020 U.S. Pioneer, Inc. Tulsa, OK Purchasing Manager

• Purchased all raw material, components, MRO, Machinery, etc.

• Negotiated terms, pricing, contracts and freight

• Resolved receiving, inventory and accounting discrepancies

• Monitored department budgets

• Run end of year physical inventory

• Research and resolve cycle-count discrepancies

• Backed-up planning

• Set-up part numbers, vendors and new accounts in the system.

• Schedule outsourced orders and monitor their status

• Prequalify vendors and/or potential vendors

• Created BOM’s and assist in creating routers

• Scheduled and maintained truck schedule

• Implementing Kanban on MRO items.

November 2006 – March 2017 BS&B Premco LLC, Tulsa, OK Procurement / Logistics Specialist

• Review contracts for Valve Department (for the 1st five or six years at Premco)

• Work closely with Project Managers with specifications and material requirements

• Document control

• Purchase all raw material, components, MRO, etc.

• Process all orders that enter the system, from Planning to Purchasing

• Run year end physical inventory

• Create BOM’s and Routers

• Set-up part numbers, vendors and new accounts in the system.

• Manage, process and review all cycle counts (for the 1st two or three years at Premco)

• Audit and manage Kanban process

• Process all export documents to Mexico, Ireland, China and Brazil

• Assist engineering with material specs, and requirements on DFARS, DPAS, FAR, PIT and NQA1 orders.

• Key person when dealing with ISO audits, ASME audit and CE audits.

• Assisted in quoting on PNP’s and Premiums

• Assist in quoting new orders based on sales backlog May 2000 – October 2006 U.S. Pioneer, Inc. Tulsa, OK Purchasing and Inventory Manager

• Reviewed contracts to make sure we maintain compliance with DCMA.

• Purchased all raw material, components, MRO, Machinery, etc.

• Negotiated terms, pricing, contracts and freight

• Worked closely with subcontractors, vendors, manufacturing and internal departments

• Resolved receiving, inventory and accounting discrepancies

• Ran end of year physical inventory

• Backed-up planning

• Set-up part numbers, vendors and new accounts in the system.

• Created BOM’s and assist in creating routers

• Scheduled and maintained truck schedule

• On LEAN MFG Team

• ISO internal auditor

Certificates

CPM, CPIM, CSCP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, ISO9001, Personal Clerk, Account Receivable, Account Payable, Sales and MRC-Report writing.

Volunteer Experience

Volunteered at Rape Crises Center (Chicago)

Taught seniors and disabled children craft classes (Park District, Round Lake, IL) Volunteered at Rape Crises Center (Tulsa)

Volunteered at Cancer Center of Tulsa

Computer Experience

Visual, Great Plains, MAS90, MAX, AS400 (Data3 and BPICS), MRP II, MPS, SAP, Novell, Word, Excel PowerPoint Auto Cad, NC- Polaris, Symix, SYSPRO, Traverse

References available upon request

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