Mary Katherine Parker

Global Strategic Sourcing / SME SAP Data

North Little Rock, AR 72118

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Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience: SAP SME with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. 15 years’ experience in Manufacturing Operations, involved at different stages of the order fulfillment process such as: Purchasing, CSR, Master Planner, Demand Analyst & Strategic Planning. SME for various listed SAP modules. Skilled in Strategic Sourcing, MRP, Supply Management, Global Sourcing

Technical Data Analyst

AMP, Tyco Electronics -

June 2022 to May 26, 2023

Contract W2 position:

Works directly with various engineering teams in effort to get up to date on the environmental side of RoHS / REACH. This will allow the team to quickly and accurately be able to respond to Customer Environmental request and help to REACH 100% compliance for the company. I review CAD Drawings; manually decipher the data, cross reference many PNs across numerous databases. All data is then entered into Excel format and uploaded into SAP.

Global Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Molex

April 2017 to October 2019

Streamlined Supply Chain Processes to enhance resources up to the highest level

Core member of New Product Development team for Molex Design centers (US, China, Singapore, Philippines, Mexico).

Lead Supplier RFQ process relative to components, conducting supplier analysis to ensure that competitive pricing, continuity of supply risk mitigation, delivery, quality, and lead time was being achieved.

Partner with the Molex design teams throughout the Product Development Process (PDP) to drive lower total cost of the BoM.

Identify, develop, and implement cost avoidance / reduction opportunities to increase overall business unit profitability

Supplier Scorecard Maintenance and communications

Continually seek opportunities for cost improvement across the supply base including vendor consolidation, Volume leveraging and commercial negotiations.

Provide the top 20% spend vendors with monthly forecasts to ensure an adequate and steady stock supply

Lead Procurement process working internal stakeholders to meet business requirements

Initiate ideas and actions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of purchasing activities

Negotiated ocean, air, land transportation pricing with VMI hub charges and supply chain managers to capitalize the logistics network and retain high profitable margins

Participated and contributed to the conclusion of the master agreement between 2 companies from a logistic viewpoint.

Forecast Analysis with different Sales Entities

Setting of inventory reduction strategies

Formal review of different PLMs to ensure products and components Supply strategies as in accordance with real product stage.

SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the following:

Materials / RoHS / REACH / SRM Purchase Order creation / STO / EDI / AP, ERP / MM / Info Records / Source List / Vendor Maintenance / Coupa / BW

Functional lead during SAP Ariba SLP deployment and later phases

Learning Management System Coordinator (SAP Success Factors)

●Procurement

Daily execution of purchasing activities for goods and services through multiple procurement platforms for both direct and indirect spend, Multisite Buyer, Interco STOs

MM/ERP Buyer for direct and indirect inventory

Manually kept watch of the inventory for indirect items purchased with an expense PO.

ECC and SRM purchase order supportive services

SRM Purchase Req to Purchase Order creation, release, and vendor confirmation.

Packaging requirements.

Medical grade material. Supported the “Cologuard” kit. This was the 1st time Molex had ever produced a Medical kit like that. The regulations were tougher than normal.

●AP

Workflow design, validation, and management (Agile Point and SharePoint) AP invoice reconciliation.

Release and submittals of invoices for timely vendor payments.

Resolved overdue account receivables of $7.5 million in 90 days

●Materials / ERP / BW

Material Reclassification

Change Management

Learning Management System Coordinator (SAP Success Factors)

Global process improvement and standardization

Helped create a “Waterfall” MRP tracking process with customer that provided accurate production planning, reduction of inventory redundancy and EOL Liability

Tooling Capacity and Life cycle

Review of Demand, Open orders, and expected delivery dates.

Maintain safety stock levels within the MM and specific MM fields for automatic PO generation.

●Material Master / Info Records / Source List

Mass Maintenance of MM (material master)

Gathering the required information from the approved vendor to ensure product compliance.

Creating Material Masters in SA

Gatekeeper of this data and Key resource for SAP entry, an extremely limited roll.

Load vendor quotes into the IR when loading a new purchased part. Followed by creating the specified Source list.

● Vendor Onboarding / Vendor Maintenance

Molex

June 2008 to April 2019

Solely responsible for vendor onboard vetting process for the entire Americas region. This included the following duties:

●Researching potential new supplier and presenting them to the business lead team for approval to load.

●Mass Maintenance of vendor master

●Load new vendors in SAP after ensuring the vendor was not already loaded in SAP to avoid having multiple Vendor #s and POs for a single vendor in efforts to harvest the maximum buying potential.

●Daily, would work directly with global vendors to ensure all the necessary requirements have been met and the documentation is on file prior to creating the vendor in SAP. Ex. NDA, DoNU, W9, etc.…

●Once verified, I would manually enter the vendor information into SAP generating the Vendor Code.

●All vendor documents would then be uploaded into SAP for verification

●Lead the recruitment, evaluation, and selection of suppliers through sourcing,

●Identify supplier capabilities, creation of RFx documents, proposal, review, risk analysis, and complex commercial contract negotiations.

●Worked with Coupa Deployment team as Lead buyer to help define business needs, worked on user acceptance testing at pilot site and sites as roll out of solution occurred, helped to define Buyer Processes, and apply best practices.

●Coupa Change Management member, trained the AME region requisitioners, approvers and buyers continued support through Q&A Sessions

●Member of the Coupa Triage team to troubleshoot issues after “go live” of sites continued testing and monitoring as software releases and config updates occur

●Interact with Global Category Management for supplier negotiations and contract development.

●Ensure and monitor company compliance with contractual obligations, sourcing policies, and preferred supplier arrangements.

●Communicate necessary updates to internal stakeholders.

Skills

• Strategic Global Sourcing (10+ years)

• SAP Procurement Practices, OTC; PTP, PO release; Req creation to Conversion (15+ years)

• Data analysis skills with extreme attention to detail (15+ years)

• Tough Contract Negotiation Skills for Hard Cost savings and Risk Mitigations (7 years)

• Financial acumen through SAP (15+ years)

• Supplier Scorecard Management (10+ years)

• SAP Supply Chain Management (10+ years) •)

• Contract management (5 years)

• Risk mitigations (5 years)

• Accounts payable / Invoice PO conflict Resolution (15+ years) SAP, Optura, Oracle

• Microsoft Excel (15+ years); Microsoft PowerPoint (15+ years)

• SharePoint (15+ years)

• EDI, Interco STO,

• Forecasting for Suppliers (5 years)

• Six Sigma (10+ years)

• Business analysis (5 years)

• SAP ERP, MM, PP, WM (15+ years)

• Sap EHS (15+ years)

• XML (15+ years)

• Electronic Manufacturing (15+ years)

• Quick Turn Sourcing for Medical product procurement and ion (8 years)

• Import Export ITAR compliance expert (10+ years) • Sap

• Ariba (5+ years)

• EU RoHS/REACH/WEEE COMPLIANCE (10+ years) •

• New Product Development (10+ years) •

• TCO (10+ years)

• Pricing (10+ years)

• Compliance management (10+ years)

• Research & development (10+ years)

• Conflict management

• Demand planning; Production Planning

• SAP4/ HANA (15 years)

• ISO 9001 (5 years)

• ISO 13485 (5 years)

• ISO 20000 (5 years)

• Inventory control

• Packaging research, design, and procurement with forecasts

• Microsoft Word / Excel

• Data analysis skills

• Agile

• Budgeting

• Pivot tables; Databases, Tableau, Microsoft Word

* KPI

• RFP, RFQ (10+ years)

Languages

• English - Expert

Education

Associate in Science (AS) in Funeral sciences

University of Arkansas CC Hope

Certifications and Licenses

Associate of Applied Science

University of Arkansas CC Hope:

May of 2001 4.85 gpa Mangum Cum Laude

Nationally accredited through the National Board of Funeral Directors & Embalmers

Notary Public

August 2022 to August 2032

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