Buyer/Planner
Resume:
Thomas P. Pirro
**A Newcomb Road
Westminster, Ma. 01473
**********@*****.***
Profile:
Over twenty years of experience in a high volume, fast paced purchasing and materials management environment. Proven results in cost savings, inventory reduction, vendor management with a focus on high quality customer service. Re-entering the materials management field after choosing to leave a pursuit of the teaching profession.
Strengths:
•Procurement/negotiation • RFP Management
•Inventory Control •Vendor Management and evaluation
•MRP •Multi-plant Operations
•Forecasting •High Level Customer Service
•Plant Consolidations •Lean process
Substitute Teacher; School years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012
Managed a wide range of classes in the science field (biology and chemistry)at the high school and middle school levels. Collaborated with teachers to develop meaningful substitute-led lessons and augment with own lessons, activities, and materials if needed to fully occupy students classroom time; assisted students in understanding course material; assessed class work, homework, and tests; work with school administration and department staff to ensure school policies and procedures are followed and students’ academic objectives are kept on pace.
Substitute teaching engagements included:
• Long-term 4th term high school biology and environmental science classes at Murdock High School, Winchendon, MA
• Long-term high-school biology classes at Naragansett Regional High School, Templeton, MA
• Ongoing multiple and single day assignments for high schools and middle schools at Gardner, Lunenburg, Monty Tech, Narragansett and Winchendon school districts in MA
Deluxe Corporation 2005 to 2009:
Senior Inventory Analyst:
• Partnered within supply chain, engineering, manufacturing and marketing, to optimize inventory levels while maintaining high level customer service.
•Managed inventory levels, forecasts, reorder points of 2500+ SKU’s, with annual COGS of $3.5M per year.
•Reduced inventory investment by 15% over a two year period, without compromising customer service levels.
•Partnered with purchasing to manage vendor relations with over 100 suppliers.
•Worked closely with production planning to redistribute materials for the alignment of regional plant volume shifts.
New England Business Service, Inc. 1993 to 2005
Buyer/Planner:
•Supplier management and selection for products including packaging (corrugated and chipboard), printing (forms, checks and 4 color process) and injection molding.
•Foster a close working relationship with production, quality, receiving, marketing and finance.
•Initiated, managed and successfully completed large RFP's across multiple plants, divisions and regions of the US.
•Results included vendor consolidation, improved service levels and cost savings as high as 20%.
•Member of NAPM and attended several developmental seminars including Effective Negotiating® (Karras).
New England Business Service, Inc. 1987 to 1993
Materials Planner:
•Analyze sales and usage data to develop SKU specific forecasts for MRP system.
•Execute MRP output to schedule material deliveries.
•Cultivate key vendor relationships, through vendor scheduling programs.
•Partnered with purchasing and marketing to balance to optimize inventory investment.
•APICS CPIM certification.
Computer Skills:
SAP, Word, Excel and Powerpoint
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science 1982 (University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
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