Supply Chain - Procurement - Sr. Buyer/Planner

DAVID R. ROCKHOLD

**** **** **** ~ Redding, CA **003

530-***-**** ~ *****.*.********@*****.***

SUPPLY CHAIN / MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Results-oriented supply chain / materials management professional adept at creating and implementing processes and procedures that improve productivity, decrease costs and increase profitability. Proven track record of working across organizational channels and collaborating to achieve objectives. Known for meeting costs, quality and availability while delivering the highest level of client relations excellence.

Areas of Expertise:

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* Expediting

* Negotiations

* Supplier Selection

* Quotation Requests

* Inventory Management

* NCM / Obsolete Management

* Tooling

* Logistics

* Capital Equipment

“David approaches each challenge with enthusiasm and creative problem solving. He’s a team player with excellent business acumen. He’s always willing to take on new responsibilities and development opportunities.”

Royal Cleland, Sr. Supply Mgr, Sun Microsystems

SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Reduced maintenance costs by 15% by renegotiating with local vendors.

Accelerated discrepant inventory from over 30 days to 10 by converting to on-line tools and aligned processes to corporate best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Purchasing Manager, KNAUF INSULATION GmbH, Shasta Lake City, CA 2010 – 2011

* Generated purchase orders, resolved purchasing related problems and ensuring deliveries were made according to schedule.

* Inventory Management: Daily monitoring of raw materials, store room and receiving dock to resolve quality/quantity discrepancies with suppliers.

* Interfaced with Production Planning and Production Manager to best optimize factory capacity, raw material sources and shipping goals.

* Assisted with and recommended invoice resolutions with A/P.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, OR and CA 1995 – 2010

Buyer-Planner III, Customer Systems Integration, Hillsboro, OR, 2004 – 2010

* Served as operations interface with key OEM accounts: Xerox, Wall Street and Telco ensuring orders were scheduled, built and shipped to department metrics.

* Managed internal and external manufacturers, 3p supply chain on delivering product to consistently supporting a 15 day lead time book-to-ship goal.

* Tracked and updated 3p parts in internal databases to ensure accuracy of Bills of Materials (BOM), drawings, manufacturing part numbers, approved vendor listings and Engineering Change Orders (ECO) to avoid delays in production releases.

* Daily inventory management – monitoring consumption, adjust supply accordingly to meet current demand and MRB review to optimize inventory.

* Outsourced high volume/low dollar inventory to national vendor-management inventory company.

* Consistently managed Inventory, Expense and Tooling orders are delivered on time.

Buyer-Planner II, Servers, PCBAs, Memory, Power Supplies & ASICS, Hillsboro, OR, 2000 – 2004.

* Worked with key commodities on both Sun's Starfire and Starcat Platforms to manage $20M quarterly inventory meeting production targets.

* Advised senior management on critical part shortages, extended lead times and quality issues which potentially impact product releases to the production floor.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Continued

* Participated in product NPI and EOL teams to meet production pilot builds and identify parts for asset recovery.

* Collaborated with vendors to streamline returns and improve return processes.

* Drove suppliers to meet lower costs, improved quality and availability goals.

Buyer-Planner II, Beaverton, OR, 1999 – 2000

* Coordinated procurement on common and supplier parts required for Starfire production which included NPI, expense and tooling charges .

* Streamlined regional ordering and procurement process for Oregon and California including collaboration with material owners and suppliers.

* Managed inventory levels in CA, OR, Scotland & Holland sites on parts owned.

* Met Excess and Obsolete goals as directed by senior management.

Global Materials Analyst, Hard Disk Drives, Newark, CA, 1998 – 1999

* Managed worldwide procurement and inventory of assigned hard disk drive line; actively participated in global commodity team providing required input and assisting in new product implementation process.

* Facilitated transfer orders, material transfers, EOL and Excess and Obsolete materials to meet deadlines.

* Issued and maintained Forecasts, Purchase Orders, and delivery schedules to suppliers.

* Communicated to suppliers the global and site-specific supply requirements.

* Reduced aged MRB from 3 months to 3 weeks resulting in 500K savings.

Financial Customer Service Representative, Newark, CA, 1995 – 1998

* Managed order activity in sales for higher education assigned accounts and ensured sales support requirements were met in a timely and effective manner.

* Collaborated with Order Management, Revenue Management, Area Business Managers, and Logistics to help meet quarterly financial goals.

* Supported backlog management and logistics to achieve on time delivery.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

BA, Radio-Television-Film, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Cross-Cultural Communication

Problem Solving Process Improvement

Effective Presentations and APICS Foundations

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

PC

SAP

UNIX

Apple

Mozilla,

Oracle 10.7

OpenOffice

Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Institute for Supply Management, American Purchasing Society

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