Buyer

LA'TES WILLIAMS

**** * ***** ******  Compton, CA 90222  323-***-****  ******@*****.***

Objective

Purchasing & Inventory Control position seeker, with more than 8 years experience in the filed of Purchasing, Inventory Control, Warehouse Management, Shipping & Receiving, and Customer Service.

Profile

Motivated, personable business professional with a successful task record for saving and inventory accuracy of 98%. Talent for quickly mastering technology. Accustomed to handling sensitive, confidential records. Demonstrated history of producing accurate, timely reports, SOP manuals, SAP traning, goal setting, and conflict resolution.

My supervising skills consist of delegating task, supervising over 35 people in two facilities, training, and providing supervision to others through motivation, direction, review and feedback of assigned tasks.

Flexible and versatile –Aggressive and energetic self-starter. Thrive in deadline-driven environments. Excellent team-building skills.

Skills Summary

 SAP

 Adobe Photoshop CS3

 Adobe Illustrator CS3

 General Office Skills  Computer Savvy

 Customer Service

 Vendor Sourcing

 Microsoft Office  Project Management

 Contract Negotiation

 Supply Chain Management

 Physical Inventory Opp.

Professional Experience

Writer / Book Cover Designer

C'est la Vie Publishing, Perris, CA 2009 - Current

• Author

• Marketing & Distribution

• Media Buying

• Graphic Designer

• Book Cover & Interior Designer

• Web-site Designer

Buyer II

Soboba Casino, San Jacinto, CA 2007 - 2007

• Developed new supply sources where vendors and suppliers where inadequate. Saved the Casino over 10K yearly by obtaining three quotations on all promotions & highly used products. Examined bids, negotiated contracts & improving SOP.

• Centralized all purchasing in the Casino and worked closely with Marketing and the GM on promotional give-a-ways.

• Approved requisitions and generated purchase orders requested by all departments.

• Conquered task of training Shipping & Receiving on SOP and set goals to improve delivery accuracy.

• Analyze and recommend disposal of obsolete and excess inventory.

Buyer II

Superior Communications, Irwindale, CA 2005 - 2007

• Analyze and recommend disposal of obsolete and excess inventory. Stocked balanced over 700K in excess & obsolete material.

• Reviewed requisitions and generated purchase orders requests, to procured OEM product for Cingular, Alltel, and T-Mobile from our major vendors' like, Sandisk, Jabra, LG, and Nokia.

• Reviewed customer forecast when ordering and worked closely with the Demand Planning team.

• Discuss defective or unacceptable goods with vendor, and determines source of trouble and took corrective and preventative action.

• Coordinated all vendor returns (DOA and NCMR). Processed RMA documents received by Superior's Return Department. Generated vendor purchase credits & coordinated with the shipping department to return defective products back to vendor.

INVENTORY & PURCHASING MANAGER

Hunter Douglas / M&B, Los Angeles, CA 2000 - 2005

• Rapidly grow with the company started off as a Customer Service Rep in 2000 and was promoted to a Purchasing Assistant in 2000 to 2001.

• In 2001, I accepted the position as a Buyer I.

• A year later, I stepped into the position of Inventory & Warehouse System Data Base Supervisor; in 2004, I became the Inventory and Purchasing Manager.

• Centralized purchasing and I procured raw material and packaging good.

• Managed Physical Inventory for over 19, 000 thousand Sku's valued at over $ 80 million, in the Los Angeles and Atlanta facility; which included PIOP (Physical Inventory Operating Procedures), Data Entry Control, Reconciliation, and GL Posting.

• Locally outsourced all Sku's that represented 80% of the top value and negotiated over seas vendor to stock locally in the states, while increasing on time performance and reducing stock outs from 60% to 97%.

• Exquisite ability to obtain quotations, examined bids, negotiated contracts, out source, and developed new supply sources.

• Responsible for directing and monitoring the Supply Chain Management (SCM) functions, that related to vendor management, forecasting, planning, and inventory control.

• Reported Inventory turns, days of supply, annual usage, daily activity reports, and Inventory dollars on hand by Material & MRP Groups.

• Trained Purchasing on ERP lean process, posted it in SAP manual, and emailed the process to all Inventory & Purchasing Managers. This improved the Physical Inventory process and enhanced all SAP modules. Compliance with all healthcare facility, HMO, and insurance requirements.

Education

• Biological Science, Southeastern Louisiana University; Hammond, LA, 1992 – 1996

• Medical Billing, Certification, Cal State Dominguez University; Carson, CA, 2002

• Production and Inventory Management Certification, Cal State Dominguez University; Carson, CA, 2005

• Affiliation with APICS; Los Angeles, CA, Chapter - S016

• Business Writing & Grammar Skills, SkillPath Seminars; Irwindale, CA, 2006

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