Purchasing Manager / Buyer
Resume:
WAYNE BOUCHARD
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Experienced and highly qualified purchasing manager seeking employment to lead a successful purchasing department in a busy manufacturing environment. My focus will be to learn the flow of raw materials through the production process as they produce the finished goods. Proven track record of implementing successful cross-functional teams to succeed in lean manufacturing Twenty years experience in Sourcing, Negotiating, Cost-Reduction Lean Manufacturing, and Contract Sourcing & Managing. Lean team participation has consistently achieved successful business results by increasing productivity while reducing costs. Affective communicator / liaison and known for building strategic partnerships and alliances with other employees and our preferred suppliers.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Purchasing Manager 2001 - 2010
Hi-Tech Duravent (Division of Smiths Group London, England,)
Georgetown Massachusetts
• Applied the dynamic strategic planning, prioritization, and project management skills toward consistently achieving critical deadlines while maintaining high quality standards.
• Maintain full accountability for overseeing all aspects of daily activities, including creating and implementing staff schedules, maintaining uniform workload and handling the ordering of all materials for medical and industrial hose manufacturing operation schedules.
• Ensure the accurate and timely performance of maintenance repair orders (MRO), Raw Material Inventory, and Re-sale Inventory for the facility. Abreast of current market conditions in order to negotiate and execute all pricing for contracts of material, parts, and sub-contractors.
● Directed all facets of warehouse shipping & receiving, inventory control as well as material movement first-in-first-out procedure and just-in-time (JIT).
● Played a key role in collaborating with the quality department on maintaining document control including supplier lots for customer traceability.
● Worked with the accounts payable on pricing or billing discrepancies.
● Served as the Auditor for ISO 14001 environment and safety program.
● Successfully completed training in: Lean Manufacturing, Working on APICS, and CPIM.
Purchasing Agent / Purchasing Manager 1998 – 2001
Andover Health Care (Formally Andover Coated Products)
Salisbury, Massachusetts
• Prioritized and coordinated multiple simultaneous projects to maximize efficiency and achieve critical timelines.
• Proficiently handled a diverse range of day-to-day business, including soliciting bids, and running the Mas90 software system while training and implementing the new Made2Manage software system the company has chosen as the future software package.
• Securing written and telephone quotations from vendors, analyze bids, and performing value and cost analysis.
• Researched select products and vendors in accordance with company goals and objectives and negotiated competitive contracts.
• Hired, trained, and mentored new agents in accordance with company policies and procedures and established raw materials in Made 2 Manage System.
• Teamed with Director of Marketing and Engineering Manager on all new product development, with accountability for requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, and client communication.
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WAYNE BOUCHARD
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• ISO 9001 auditor, created all documentation for the sop file for the ISO9001 certification.
• 1999 Promoted to Purchasing Manager after taking the packaging buying responsibilities on way before the timeline was scheduled. Example below was an accomplishment of the packaging buying. Implementing a checklist and a system to flow-up on all packaging materials as the company was growing strong to reduce any stock outs of materials.
• Cost saving Example: I showed a cost savings $275,000.00 in corrugated boxes. I simply put the business out to bid. After doing this bidding practice this became law to me in the purchasing department. All commodities would go to bid annually this is a good and honest way to keep all supplier pricing, information, and our customer specifications current.
Purchasing Clerk / Facility Buyer 1989-1998
Morton International
Seabrook, NH
• Managed the daily workflow buying all products to manufacturing urethanes.
• Worked with Engineering and Maintenance on all parts and all requisitioned MRO materials needed.
• Supported the Accounts Payables in Chicago on any pricing discrepancies.
• Once I was the Purchasing Agent I would attend monthly purchasing meetings in Chicago we would collaborate to see what we could merge together for bulk buying.
• I started this job as a purchasing clerk moved to the buyer position 1991 then to Purchasing Agent 1993 as the Facility Buyer 1996 and closed the facility in 1998
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
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ISO Standards; Ergonomics Training; Basics for Buyers II; Supervising People; Drug & Alcohol Training; TQM (Total Quality Management); Bargaining with Vendors; Dealing with Difficult People; Project Management; Hazardous Communications; Supervisory Training; Sexual Harassment Training; Emergency Evacuation Procedures; Managing Multiple Projects
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
_______________________________________________________________________________________Windows 95 and XP, MSWord, MS Excel, AS400/JD Edwards, Made 2 Manage, MAS90, OS2 Communication software, DOS
EDUCATION
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Associates Degree, Business Management - Hesser College
Candidate for Certified Purchasing Manager (CPIM) under APICS Classes Attended: Basics of Supply Chain Management, Master Planning of Resources
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