Ron Erle
Cell Phone: 727-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***
St. Petersburg, FL 33734
Purchasing Coordiantor
Key Skills
Organized, analytic, detail-oriented, problem-solver. Veteran of high-tech ISO and GMP manufacturing supply chains. Proficient use of SAP, Oracle, or Excel to manage MRP. Excellent communication skills. Manages sourcing to increase profits, cut costs and improve product quality. Accustomed to working in a fast-paced interrupt-driven environment with constantly changing priorities.
Supply Chain Experience
• Manage multiple, concurrent fast-moving NPI programs from engineering BOM inception, to hand-off to contract manufacturing.
• Sourced all NPI material; qualified new suppliers, negotiated contracts.
• Created and presented monthly status reports to senior management on risk parts and program margins.
• Coordinated global material shipments to multiple domestic and international manufacturing sites (Korea, Mexico, China and Europe).
• Noteworthy manufacturing operations and cross-functional knowledge.
• High volume PO transaction experience.
• Fast and accurate reconciliation of AP, PO and inventory discrepancies.
Supply Chain Accomplishments.
• Recognized by Engineering VP for negotiating a $10 million ASIC contract.
• Salvaged $4 million in write-offs canceling open orders from changing demand.
• Resolved $340,000 in purchase order discrepancies with accounts payable.
• Reduced open orders $600,000 by re-negotiating supplier contracts.
• Responsible for $15 Million in annual spend.
Work History
Buyer, (Temp) Analogic, Peabody MA. FEB - JUL 2011
Small Business Owner, (FT) Beverly, MA. 2004 - 2011
Buyer, (Temp to FT) Celestica, Salem, NH. 2003 - 2004
Senior Engineering Buyer, (FT) Power-One, Andover, MA. 2001 - 2002
Senior Buyer/Planner, (Temp) Celestica, Portsmouth, NH. 1998 - 2001
NPI Manager (FT) Wellfleet, (Nortel), Billerica, MA. 1995 to 1998
Computer Systems Sales Executive, (FT) DEC, Chicago, San Francisco. 1985 to 1995
Education
B.S., Marketing, Honors, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
A.A.S., Data-Processing, SUNY at Morrisville, Morrisville, N.Y.
Veteran. Honorable discharge.