Senior Production Planning & Purchasing Specialist
Resume:
REBECCA SHAW
SPECIALIST PRODUCTION PLANNER/SCHEDULER/BUYER
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BECKY SHAW LINKEDIN
EXPERIENCE
Specialist Production Planner/Buyer
Amgen, Inc. West Greenwich RI
September 2017 – October 2023 6 years 1 month
Responsible for supply of all single-use assemblies, filters and sampling materials to support manufacturing based on the production plan
Place purchase orders via SAP based on demand
Report and mitigate raw material scrap risk
Collaborate with global planning and other plant buyers to network share raw materials
Ensure there are no material stock outs
Coordinate with quality, warehouse and suppliers to return rejected materials
Work with inbound receiving team to achieve a level loaded delivery schedule.
Coordinate with the warehouse, suppliers and logistics broker to align inbound shipments.
Work together with internal teams from all departments for new product introductions
Collaborate with the product lifecycle management and material science teams to identify and procure alternate materials to mitigate stock outs.
Meet with suppliers on a weekly basis to communicate on order priority and expedite if needed.
Attend daily meetings with plant managers, planning and capacity team and quality/receiving teams to discuss any raw material issues and coordinate movement of materials in and out of the warehouse
Assess raw material inventory levels to confirm we can support manufacturing when there are potential schedule changes
Ensure any expiring material is disposed of in accordance with FDA guidelines
SOP document author/owner utilizing CDOCs
Special Projects:
Worked with internal departments and an outside contractor to identify a way to forecast non-BOM materials to avoid stock outs and rolled out the new reporting to the other site buyers to utilize Production Scheduler
Toray Plastics (America), Inc North Kingstown RI
January 2005 – September 2017 18 years 6 months
Forecasted components needed to complete and schedule orders for multiple value-add product lines
SAP subcontracting buyer for outside vendors producing value-add material and secondary processing
Maintained good communication and supplier relationships with all vendors
Created and maintained part codes, BOMs, Routes, and production orders for 3 machines
Communicated internally to prioritize, schedule and expedite raw material production runs in order to fulfill sales orders for finished goods
Process all conversion transactions of raw material to finished goods in SAP against subcontracting orders
Reported scrap and yield analysis for each order filled at subcontracting vendors and distribute monthly to upper management and accounting to track cost analysis vs. profitability
Schedule all polyester New Product Development (NPD) projects
Placed purchase orders, arranged for line time R&D support trials and ensured raw materials for trials were delivered to the subcontractor on time.
Coordinated ISO training and qualified subcontracting vendors to manufacture finished goods including protocol, traceability, packaging, labeling, product specifications and claims
Forecasted and ordered packaging supplies for four (4) lines of production
Reconciled and balanced up to 14 million pounds of inventory being stored at 46 outside warehouse facilities on a monthly basis and provide a summarized report to management Special Projects:
Implemented a customer recyclable packaging program to return our packaging supplies. Total savings in 2012 was $450,000. In 2013 it was $739,000 and in 2014 it was over $1,000,000.
Initiated an inventory cost reduction plan to decrease the number of warehouses from 46 to 36 resulting a reduction of overall inventory levels from 14 million lbs down to 8 million lbs over an 18- month period saving over $7K per month/$84K per year Corporate Marketing Coordinator/New Business Development Coordinator Toray Plastics (America), Inc North Kingstown RI January 1998 - January 2005 7 years
• Coordinated new product development projects between international sister companies
• Tracked and reported statistics on all new product development projects and customer trials
• Analyzed and sorted through a web-based reporting system by HS Code and description of imported polyester film brought into the U.S. on a monthly basis and reported to management with what our competitors were selling into our markets
• Participated in website development projects to design and build a new company website and customer portal
• Designed product datasheets, brochures and other marketing literature
• Purchased raw material components from Toray affiliates outside of the United States to be converted to a finished product at Toray
• Organized and attended/worked all company participated trade shows
• Worked with a P.R. agency based out of New York City to promote new products
• Worked the IS department to create a database for tracking product samples sent out Special Projects:
• Initiated a paperless system for customer service and sales department. New paperless standards include fax via email, voice mail via the internet, converting the copier to also be a scanner and saving scanned documents sent to a central server by user.
• Initiated a web-based reporting tool allowing supply chain vendors to review any open purchase orders
EDUCATION
Johnson & Wales
2001-2021 BA in Business Management
Katharine Gibbs School
1993 Certificate in Administrative Information Processing SKILLS
Adobe Acrobat
BOM creation
Purchasing
SAP – MRP & ERP
Outlook
Kinaxis/Rapid Response
CDOCs
DocuSign
SmartSheet
MES
Microsoft Office
Proficy Plant Applications
Purchasing
Warehouse/Inventory Control
TrackWise
SAP
Supply Chain Management
Communication
Logistics Coordination
GMP
SharePoint
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