Purchasing Manager

Laural Siek

Phone **** E. Kathleen Road E-mail

480-***-**** Scottsdale, AZ 85254 ********@***.***

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Key Qualifications

SAP/Oracle/Peoplesoft MRP

MS Office Professional/Lotus Notes/Ariba

Six Sigma Training/Continuous Improvement

Xelus, MacPac, AS400

Contract Management

Supply Chain knowledge -16 years

Detail Oriented

Adaptable to Change

High Energy

Purchasing Manager – Nutraceutical company – January 2009 – June 2011

Maintain and build supplier/customer relations, inventory management, commodity management. Inventory management, materials management, purchasing and supply chain management. Managed staff of 6.

Advantage Staffing at American Express

Commodity Manager/Global Procurement – October 2007 – May 2008

• Analysis and negotiation of contracts for Labor Services at American Express/Ameriprise Financial nationwide.

• Facilitation of contracts through interfacing with internal and external customers/suppliers.

• Electronic Purchase Order system (Elance) and Ariba MRP systems utilized.

• Cost savings oriented.

Robert Half at Allied Waste

Procurement Analyst – March 2007 to October 2007

• Research and analysis of historical temp labor contracts covering 700 sites to determine cost effectiveness.

• Retrieval of pertinent information using Cognos Financial software for financial analysis of 700 sites across the U.S.

• Review and retrieval of contracts, comparison of labor and clerical rates unique to each site in order to obtain the best labor rate for a national temp labor provider.

Manpower at Honeywell/Supply Chain Management – January 2006 to January 2007

Materials Planner/Analyst/ R&O

• Ensure selected supply base is meeting initiatives for cycle time reduction, productivity, quality and delivery.

• Interacted with activities related to the purchase of material, material control, inventory control, shipping/receiving and stores functions. Ensures materials are ordered and in stock to meet company requirements. Establish and maintained good vendor relationships.

• Planner/Analyst for R/O Materials – Aftermarket for APU engines/commercial aircraft. Interacted with new parts Planners to meet forecast demands.

• Utilized Honeywell systems such as Xelus, Romacs, MacPac, MakeBuy (software and committee to determine parts to be repaired or not),various specified sites to verify parts for RE100/220 and Small 36 engines.

• Able to multitask and assess priorities under minimal supervision. Self starter and self motivater.

• Communicated with repair stations (cells) to meet planning schedules.

• Monthly metric reporting on inventory health, fillrate and cost savings meeting a high percentage success rate.

Buyer/Planner/Expeditor

• Interacted with Engineers on specific requirements.

• RFQ’s

• Buying and planning cable assemblies, connectors and labels for cabinets used for regulating flow of liquids such as petroleum.

• Maintained cable assemblies and labels for inventory, production, involving over 10,000 parts.

• Communicated with Quality Inspectors to meet demands of production.

• Negotiated and interacted with suppliers to meet needs of forecasted planning.

Applied Semiconductor Materials (ASM) – January 2005 to December 2005

Purchasing Associate

• Coordinated with planning and suppliers to maintain required inventory level.

• Track of PO’s and PR’s in SAP.

• Communicated and expedited parts with machine shop suppliers.

• Interacted with Quality Control in order to assure parts were in compliance for production.

• Negotiated pricing on parts.

Kelly Financial Services at Intel – January 2004 – September 2004

Purchasing Associate

• SAP Supply Chain Management functions to support procurement of various services and parts for production.

• Procurement from Asia.

• Capital equipment Commodity Management functions regarding contract processing, SAP/PO placement and change orders, BOM spreadsheet maintenance, statistical research, and forecasting.

3Com Corporation/Santa Clara, CA – 2003

Commodity Manager/Corporate Purchasing

• Initiated, renewed, negotiated and managed strategic suppliers in conjunction with corporate contracts in agreement with 3Com’s legal requirements. Obtained legal review of contract proposals.

• Driven to meet corporate-set discounts; created and expedited contracts along with purchase orders to meet company production deadlines. Communication with all levels of management.

• Managed Manufacturing/Facilities/Site Services contracts/commodities within the corporate structure located in our local and strategic facilities in the United States.

• Directed activities of buyers and expeditors to meet company objectives.

• Utilized systems: SAP, MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Word and Lotus Notes.

• Lean Six-Sigma training.

Read-Rite Corporation/Milpitas, CA – 1997 to 2000

Sr. Buyer/Capital Equipment/Direct Material/Corporate Purchasing

• Responsible for purchasing, negotiating and expediting direct equipment necessary for the production of thin film heads in the PC industry.

• Coordinated with engineering and manufacturing departments to manage and meet company’s tooling requirements such as collecting drawing specs, quotations, expediting orders and change order management. RFQ’s

• International purchasing and expediting.

• Negotiated contracts to meet corporate gains and discounts.

• Approved purchase orders up to $250,000.

• Responsible for meeting business objectives: defect reduction, cost reduction, lead-time reduction, on-time delivery and new supplier initiations.

• Blueprint interpretation.

• Satisfy requirements for quality, productivity and delivery.

The Atlantic Group/Arizona Public Service/Phoenix, AZ – 1994 to 1996

Sr. Buyer/Corporate Purchasing

• Responsible for analyzing client needs in order to purchase Microsoft programs, rectify invoices, validate contracts and maintenance for software and hardware at APS.

• Collecting and sorting data for tracking technical related data for validation of inventory using Excel and Access applications.

• Responsible for managing and applying the Microsoft Select maintenance program for Arizona Public Service MS software licensing.

• Asset tracking using MS Access.

• Manage annual contract renewal for peripheral equipment such as fax machines, copiers, etc.

Allied Signal Aerospace Company/Phoenix, AZ – 1989 to 1993

Secretary/Corporate Purchasing Department

• Project support for two Project Managers in the Purchasing/Quality Assurance Departments.

• Assisted buyers in planning efforts and distributed purchase requisitions.

• Solely responsible for updating monthly improvement reports/graphs and overtime for both departments.

• Developed and implemented spreadsheets on various projects within the corporation.

• Team oriented with other secretaries in the Purchasing department.

• Worked on Continuous Improvement projects to improve process flow in the department.

Education and Affiliations

• B. S. in Business Management – University of Phoenix, San Jose, CA

• Real estate certification

• Member of Institute Supply Management

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