Supply Chain Erp System, Buyer, Purchasing
Resume:
Theresa May
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Proactive, well organized and successful Buyer who has over 25 years of extensive purchasing experience in all aspects of the procurement process, seeking employment with a company who is looking to add a talented and ambitious employee to compliment and contribute to their existing team.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Microsoft office
Problem Solving
Multiple Vendor Management
Vendor Negotiation
Continuous Improvement
Lean Manufacturing
Excellent Communication
Inventory Management
Customer Service
Team Coordination
Detail Oriented
Productive
Ability to Multitask
EXPERIENCE
Lee Machinery Movers March 2023 – March 2025
Project Buyer
Prepare and issue purchase orders to vendors
Review purchase order requests to ensure compliance and resolve any issues with the requestor or manager.
Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers to ensure the quality of goods, timely delivery, and adherence to contract terms.
Handle all aspects of pricing, quotes, material, equipment availability and vetting new vendors.
Request quotes and negotiate contracts and prices with vendors.
Assist the executive team in developing the interaal ERP system from a purchasing and accounts payable perspective.
Review, receive, and process invoices against purchase orders in the WrightPlan ERP system.
Assisted with the implementation and golive of the new intacct SAGE ERP system
Researched potential new vendors and created an approved vendor list
Worked closely with accounting to clear up discrepancies and to clear up any issues with the new ERP system
Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience September 2021 – February 2023
Supply Chain Manager
Established the Supply Chain Department, nothing existed previously
Organized and hired needed staff
Key person for bringing on an ERP system to tie into accounting. Everything was done manually prior to this
Built and established a CAGE for main stocking area
Established a system and procedure for receiving stock
Used the new SAGE system to create reports, then used these reports to supply department managers with the information to help them monitor their expesnses
Researched potential new vendors and created an approved vendor list
Worked closely with accounting to clear up discrepancies and to clear up any issues with the new ERP system
Manually recorded every part and established a master inventory list
Balance Technology Inc. January 2017 – September 2021
Materials Manager
Interacted with engineering and Production Manager to determine the production requirements
Researched potential vendors and negotiated pricing
Maintained inventory levels for stocked parts
Purchased supplies and materials according to job requirements
Used the Encompix ERP system to maintain inventory, track job requirements to place orders for shortages or needs, ship and receive parts.
Worked closely with accounting to clear up discrepancies
Responsible for organizing and shipping of all finished balance equipment within the United States and International shipments
Supervised all of purchasing, shipping, receiving, and inventory crib
Managed an efficient team that handled all extra process ordering, stock and non-stock ordering, receiving, shipping, job pulls, and inventory management.
NLB Corporation November 2006 – September 2016
Production Buyer and Commodity Buyer.
Worked closely with engineering and all areas of production to ensure that there were no delays that would hindered our production of affect the delivery date to the customer.
Proactively addressed root causes of problems which resulted in continuous supply chain improvement and reduced the roadblocks to our production schedule.
Ensuring product volumes, and order flow are optimized in order to achieve target delivery dates
Identified new opportunities and negotiated pricing and timing with suppliers to meet strict production timing and sales goals.
Decreased cost and optimized supplier performances by working with engineering, receiving, and production.
Managed multiple vendors negotiating delivery, invoicing terms, and pricing.
Responsible for identifying areas of cost savings from vendors. This was accomplished by looking at all aspects of the relationship and by collaborating with other departments in the company.
Used the Syteline system to track inventory needs, place purchase orders, and monitor deliveries.
Maintained inventory maintenance and vendor x-reference data for all my commodity lines
Identified and qualified potential suppliers.
Worked daily with accounts payable and receiving to eliminate any discrepancies.
Key member of NLBelieve (A group formed by employees to improve the communication and relationship between departments and cultivate a culture of synergy and teamwork. )
Niche Retail, LLC April 2005 – August 2006
Buyer
Retail Buyer for a Direct to Consumer (D2C) and Direct to Business (D2B) company.
Placed all vendor orders and was responsible for keeping the Market Retail Price current.
Responsible for ordering, maintaining inventory, and vendor relations for all products on six different websites. Tracked the movement of all products.
Placed orders, maintained and monitored inventory, created part numbers for all parts in an AccPac software system.
Participated in the creation of a shipping manual and a vendor scoring matrix.
Performed inventory adjustments when needed and monitored non-moving inventory to shorten the amount of time it sat on our shelves.
Lowered our inventory cost by negotiating the return of non-moving product back to vendors.
Jostens – Tom Alward February 2002 – April 2005
Office Manager
Balanced accounts for over forty school customers, totaling $1.2M in sales yearly. Each of these school accounts had anywhere from 40-250 individual orders that I reviewed, edited, and approved before sending in to corporate.
Supervised office staff and was responsible for all ledgers, books, invoices, payments, and conducting payroll for the entire office.
Received orders on and off-site at various schools across the region.
Reported all sales, payments, and orders to the corporate office.
Interacted over the phone and directly with customers daily.
Expedited several individual orders personally through corporate to ensure that the customers cap and gown would be delivered in time for graduation.
EDS – Global Purchasing September 2000 – November 2001
Procurement Analyst
Coordinated and provided support for co-negotiated and non-co-negotiated software and bar-code suppliers for General Motors.
Negotiated master service agreements for General Motors.
In kickoff meetings with General Motors I collected the technical specs they required for the software product they were requesting.
I created software proposals of the RFQ's and comparative summaries to support the co-negotiated process with General Motors.
Provided quote validations to General Motors.
Responsible for the day-to-day interaction with various suppliers covering operations issues, disputes, margin enhancement, and price negotiations.
Maintained and improved our vendor relationships over the entire corporation by meeting and interviewing each department. Correlated all information into one spreadsheet to locate common denominators or root causes in vendor relationship breakdown.
Researched, reported, and performed due diligence on special projects. A Toronto Bank requested our confidential help in physically going through some of their banking records. I went to Toronto and helped to investigate and gather the information that they required.
Kay Automotive Graphics May 1995 – August 2000
Production and MRO Buyer
Responsible for various vendor accounts with a multimillion dollar Tier 1 automotive supplier.
Maintained a performance record of vendor late items and quality problems.
Daily activities included purchase order placement, expediting parts, reviewing quotes, correcting any discrepancies.
Negotiated pricing, delivery, and invoicing terms with vendors.
Prepared a summary comparison of RFQ's to executive office.
Played a key role in the implementation of an electronic software system for all of the inventory in the company. Created and imputed the part numbers into the system. Everything had been completely manual before this.
EDUCATION
University of Michigan – Flint
May 1994
Bachelor of Business Administration
Finance Degree
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