Manager Sales

RAYMOND ANTHONY

***** *******

Macomb, MI ***** Tel.: 586-***-****

email: *********@*******.***

QUALIFICATIONS for PURCHASING:

Offers 16 years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment.

Effectively balances multi-task requirements and purchases goods and services in fast paced JIT industries.

Plans, writes RFQ’s for all solicitations, analyses all bids, negotiates, writes the order to the winning bidder, manages contract milestones, and closes out the contract

Expedites all orders.

Maintains all purchasing records and ISO records pertinent to the purchasing department.

Negotiates discounts from vendors.

Interfaces with all other departments, engineering, manufacturing, project

management and accounting

Estimates and manages small projects, dealing with the end user as well as Tier 1 andTier 2 suppliers.

AREAS of EXPERTISE:

Vendor relations.

Bringing projects within or under budget.

Solves problems between the supplier and the company. Handles problems which require expedited delivery.

Estimating experience to determine if the price quoted is justifiable or can be Negotiated for a better price or delivery.

Familiar with all manufacturing techniques: machining, precision and production,fabricating, stamping and injection molding, injection mold making.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Organized the purchasing department so that it could handle a 300% increase in the amount of work it handled. This was accomplished by being part of a multi departmental team on how the Bill of Material was presented and it eventual conversion to an excel based format. Organized the purchasing method into a format that assured on time delivery of the goods and services purchased. Voluntarily took over the purchasing department and performed project estimating and purchasing during the first two years.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Purchasing Manager

Sure-Fab LLC: 2012

• Manages one direct report

• Establish purchasing procedures

• Purchased raw material (steel) and perishable tooling and welding equipment, repair parts for machine tools.

• Created the Vendor Data Base

Personal Property Management: 2009 to Present

• Purchased condo’s for rental income and manage same

Purchasing Agent:

FL Industries Inc. (division of Fives DMS): 2008--2009

• Purchasing and strategic sourcing complex capital equipment for an international manufacturer of goods and services that makes furnaces and

rolling mills for the steelmaking industry

• Responsible for all North American Purchasing

• Responsible for establishing the North American Purchasing Department

• Creating and developing a North American Vendor Database.

• Liaised with the buyers and engineers in France

• Sourced international container freight.

Machine Parts Buyer

Stolle Machinery Co. Dates; 2007 – 2008

• Purchasing machined parts through an MRP system (IFS), managing

• $6 million dollar annual spend.

• Responsible for sourcing new vendors, monitoring vendor performance. Sourcing to lower the overall costs to the Company (positive PPV). Produced the best Positive PPV out of 6 buyers

Purchasing Manager

Overhead Conveyor Co. Dates: 1992 – 2006

A general contractor who manufactured and installed capital equipment.

• Lead all phases of the Purchasing Department

• Interfaced and helped solve problems with engineering, management and production to produce an on time quality manufactured conveyor and the installation of these conveyors.

• Handled 5 to 6 multi-million dollar projects at a one time

• Purchased all the MRP and MRO (office and manufacturing) products for the company. Purchased everything from pencils to capital equipment. I

• Purchased capital equipment in excess of $1,000,000.00 and understand the Total Cost of Ownership as it relates to this expenditure. In MRP, effectively was engaged in purchasing gear reducers, bearings, air and hydraulic equipment, hoists, cranes, sprockets, conveyor chains, fasteners, electrical supplies, capital equipment, controls, electrical subcontractors, mechanical piping, cement work, field painting, outside fabrication, plastic, steel, fire protection MRO: shop tooling and equipment, capital equipment, office supplies, computers, IT items, printers, copiers, large format copiers and large format copiers.

• Established an effective methods for obtaining goods and services in a JIT

• environment for short term projects, (6 week purchasing timetable)

• Able to work with vendors to obtain items asap, e. g. pneumatic cylinder

• manufactured overnight, a gear reducer assembled and shipped within 4 hours.

• International Experience: primarily with Canada and Italy, handled all issues, sourcing analyzing bids, placing the order with best supplier, logistics in getting the materials Delivered, dealing with the vendor, custom brokers, freight forwarders, authorizing payment after the material has been received.

• Outbound international freight, I wrote all the export papers, handled any problems that occurred during the shipping process.

• Experience working for a Tier1/Tier2 supplier.

Engineer

Production Industries Inc. Dates; 1982 – 1992

• Estimated and won all projects for a conveyor chain company.

• Sourced all the material used in every project, steel in mill and warehouse quantities, plastic, tubing, bearings and fasteners, outside processing.

• Ran the day to day operation of a multi plant company.

• Checked all drawings before manufacturing.

• Did sales and ran a sales team.

• Came up with new product ideas when required.

• Established SPC system at manufacturing facilities

• Wrote all of the export papers for international shipping, dealt with custom brokers.

EDUCATION HISTORY:

Western Michigan University

Mechanical Engineering

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