Purchasing Manager Supply Chain

David D. Stephens

**** **** ****** **. ***** Park, Texas 78613 512-***-****

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*Available Q1, 2025

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Thirty plus years of purchasing and materials management experience. Technically skilled professional offering solid experience in Planning and Materials Leadership roles with specific experience in procurement, inventory control, quality, budget management, staff supervision, inventory reduction and improving earnings.

Expert Negotiation Skills

ERP Knowledge - 15 Years of SAP, 8 Years of Macola/Synergy, and 1 Year Service Titan.

Great Prioritization Abilities and Highly Organized (5S)

Practical Process Improvement Champion (8 Step Methodology)

High Level Planning and Scheduling Capabilities (MRP)

Advanced Shipping/Receiving/Warehouse/Packaging (Logistics Expertise

Strong Interpersonal and Analytical Skills

Spend Aggregation and Leveraging Experience

Low-Cost Region Sourcing and Lean Inventory Management Involvement

MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, ManMan, SAP, Macola, Synergy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stan’s HVAC, Austin, TX 2024 – 2025

Materials/Purchasing Manager

Responsible for managing warehouse, inventory and all procurement activity.

Establish supplier managed blanket agreements to increase department productivity and streamline the material delivery process.

Manage Inventory Level $2M

Annual materials savings – YTD 2024 $300K, 2.5% of spend

Responsible for developing and executing purchasing strategies, tracking metrics to reduce expenses, negotiating deals, developing partnerships and managing suppliers. Ensuring we have clear requirements, forecast market trends, mitigate risks, and collaborate with stakeholders.

CORVALENT, Cedar Park, Austin, TX 2016 – 2023

Strategic Buyer/Purchasing Manager

Create and manage a new supplier surveillance program (SRM) mitigating supply chain risks on the following categories (Quality, delivery, cost and overall business business).

Launch packaging efficiency program and establish annual blanket orders for the tremendous number of custom supplies.

Leverage and aggregate in and out bond logistics spend. Corvalent routing guide distributed to all suppliers for domestic and international freight.

Responsible for day-to-day operations of all suppliers. Partners with suppliers in strategic development. Provides summary on risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management and operation strategies.

Purchase all direct and indirect materials for the site. Successfully achieved annual savings of 3% year over year.

Establish a supplier “EPP” (evaluate, prioritize and plan) contingency plan for supply chain emergencies during the pandemic. Program manager finding solutions for driver shortages, logistics provider capacity issues, surcharges, inflation, shipping delays, increased freight costs, depleted inventory levels, labor shortages and demand peaks.

Update, create and develop departmental ISO policies and procedures.

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC, Austin, TX 2005 - 2015

Strategic Buyer/Materials - Purchasing Manager

Managing the procurement of all sourcing contracts (electrical mechanical assemblies, machining, cables, electronic components, and printed circuit boards. Including: supplier certification and audits, corporate sourcing saving scorecards, presenting quality metrics, delivery performance, global pricing initiatives, low-cost region sourcing and negotiated regional and divisional corporate spend aggregation contracts.

Establish supplier Consignment Kanban and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs reducing inventory levels by millions of dollars.

Maintained inventory days of supply (DOS) levels to less than 60 days.

Leading the weekly materials meeting (SIOP) compiling bookings, backlog charts shipment linearity and revenue summary for the entire product line.

Planned, scheduled and load the sites MPR plan and maintained this program monthly.

Purchasing representative to daily Production and Material Review Board meetings.

Transitioning orders, suppliers and history from legacy Man man system to SAP materials management system. SAP successfully implemented 2/2/04.

Successfully managed annual purchasing volume of $40 million

Managed supplier reduction program. Reducing the current supply base by 50%.

Site Sourcing Leadership responsible for report month key business metrics related to sourcing savings, inflation, supplier reduction, payment terms conformance, purchase price variance, spend under formal agreements, lean or supplier managed inventory, and supplier risk assessments.

TRACOR / TREMETRICS, Austin, TX 1984 – 2005

Planner/Expeditor/Commodity Specialist/Senior Buyer

Purchased machine and electrical mechanical assemblies.

Successfully coordinated $500K price reduction within one year.

Responsible for planning, negotiating and purchasing specialty type commodities.

Developed supplier performance related to quality, delivery and cost.

Expedited and managed the activities related to procurement of Printed Circuit Boards and various other electronic components.

Coordinated purchasing activities with Engineering, Quality and Manufacturing.

Accurately performed supplier quality evaluations and source inspections.

Served as voting member of Material Review Board for rejected material.

Prepared work instructions, created bills of material, part drawings, assembly procedures to comply with customer requirements.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, REGISTRATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS

Practical Process Improvement Certification (Ed Zunich), 2015

APS “Certified Purchasing Professional” – CPP #114574P, 2012

American Purchasing Society ID #122625, Member 2012 to Current

APICS ID # 374111, Member 1987 to Current

Institute for Supply Management ID # 164542, Member 2004 to Current

ThermoFisher Corp. Global Sourcing Award 2008 – Best Practice: Regional Spend Aggregation

ThermoFisher Corp. Global Sourcing Award 2007 – Best Practice: Low-Cost Region Sourcing.

ABS, Certified Supplier Quality Auditor, 2007

Certified Purchasing Manager, Module 1 Version 25 2005

SkillPath, Managers and Supervisors Certification 2004

University of Texas, Excel beyond the Basics 2003

University of Texas, Developing Interpersonal Skills 2001

ABS, ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor Training 2001.

SAP, LO020 Procurement and LO050 Manufacturing Planning and Execution 1999

AMA, Basic Supervision 1998,

AMA, Supplier Negotiation and Better Buying Certification 1997

Supplier Certification Training 1995

APICS Certification Inventory Management 1992, JIT 1990, Production and Inventory-Management 1989, Production Activity Control 1989

Management Development Systems – Waco, TX, Emory Rose 1988

EDUCATION

Austin Community College, Austin TX

Attended from August 1984 to May 1987

Completed 40+ credit hours of study in Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES & RECOMMENDATIONS

Stan’s HVAC – General Manager. Roland Arrisola

Fusion Worldwide – Strategic Accounts Manager, Zac Champigny

FedEx – Account Manager, Keith McElroy

IMI Adaptas – VP, Jay Ray

Picarro, Inc. – VP of Global Supply Chain. Chris Chaves

Belilove Engineers – CEO, Hussain Khazze

Western Industries – Account Manager, Rick Bauer

Western Industries - COO, Don Peterson

Jetway Computer – Business Manager, Patrick Barry

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