Product & Purchasing Manager

ANDREW M. WOOD

Parker CO 303-***-**** ******@*****.***

Professional Profile

I am a self-motivated Manager and Planner with expertise in product and project coordination, including collaboration with business units both vertically and horizontally. Decisions are based on industry knowledge, positive relationships with suppliers and collaborative vision. Critical to the business is getting the Right product in the Right place at the Right time at the Right Price.

EXPERIENCE:

June 2003 – Oct 2025 Charter Communications, Greenwood Village, CO

Item Master Manager Responsible for all aspects of the setup of new and maintenance of existing products in the SAP database.

• Created exception reporting to clear the database of unused and duplicated items. Created consolidation reporting of new and maintenance requests Provided dashboard views of monthly activity. Scrubbed over 30,000 items for comprehensive descriptions and UNSPSC codes. Created over 300 abbreviations to maximize character space in database

Purchasing Manager

• Collaborated on development of Commercial Business materials ordering/Inventory program Supervisor of Commercial Business program Managed/purchased product segments: Fiber cable and apparatus, Test EQ, Set Tops, modems, CPE products, Head End and Network EQ, repair Cost avoidance/savings YOY averaging ~$1M

• Maintained 8.5% savings of direct, field to supplier orders. Managed aging reports and credit memo activity of $5M Manage Head End Item Master of over 10,600 items Project Manager of serialization program for ISP BU Developed and conducted training courses for purchasing group

ANDREW M. WOOD 303-***-**** ******@*****.***

May 2000 – May 2003 Broadband Services Inc, Highlands Ranch, CO Distributor for Telecom/CATV Product Manager

• Developed strong rapport with suppliers across all product line types Created and maintained RFQ process for several focus products Realized cost savings of ~25% across focus products ~$1M Created efficiencies by cutting vendor list from 350 to 120 Increased turns by 50%, lowered inventory by $3.75M Developed ABC product priority codes Proficient in usage of Excel, Word, JD Edwards

Nov 1989 – May 2000 TELEWIRE SUPPLY/ANTEC COMMUNICATIONS, Englewood, CO Distributor/Manufacturer of Telecom/CATV products Product Manager

• Management of commodity products, negotiated pricing, Monitored and managed turns of product line, managed inventory levels. Developed marketing programs for new products Worked closely with buyers on inventory purchase patterns Created customer profile worksheets to optimize targeted sales Responsible for sales of 50 million dollars across the entire US

Nov 1988 – Nov 1989 ANIXTER CATV/COMMUNICATIONS, Cincinnati, OH Distributor/Manufacturer: Optical-Electronics, voice, video, data cable

Regional Materials Management, Cincinnati, OH

• Responsible for 12 state region including 26 warehouse locations • Monitored monthly turns of 15 million dollars of inventory

JUNE 1986 – NOV 1988 TAFT CABLE PARTNERS, Cincinnati, OH Corporate

Purchasing Director

• Monitored capital purchasing with monthly budget report Developed Lotus spreadsheets for purchasing and budgeting. Created guidelines for ordering capital projects Left company due to leveraged buy out.

EDUCATION:

Regis University - Colorado Working on Bachelors of Business Admin/Communications minor 90 credits completed

ITT Technical Institute Ft. Wayne, IN Associates Degree in Electronics

Member of the Society of Cable Television Engineers, ISM, Knights of Columbus

Database/Spreadsheet proficiencies Excel, Word, JDE, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ariba, IBM4

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