Lerisa Wilkins

• Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
• Maintained complete documentation and records of all purchasing activities.
• Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
• Maintained key item stock levels and wrote or expedited purchase orders.

• Establishes effective materials procurement management procedures including goals and objectives for improved performance of vendors in pharmaceutical industry.

• Develop and manage all aspects of processes relating to APO (Advance Planning Optimizer), MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning) functions of SAP.

• Ensure printed material is purchased which is essential in providing medicine to patients.

• Manage activities of purchasing planning and inventory control area to include effective and proper production planning and scheduling programs, with third Party Partners, to meet sales forecasts, minimize stock outs while maintaining Inventory at optimal level.

• Establishes and maintain best purchasing practices and policies to ensure honest, fair and ethical relationships with vendors and key partners according to GMP and FDA. As well as following all company SOP's and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.

• Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements

• Coordinated paperwork, updated spreadsheets, and maintained permanent records.Generated reports, documents and analysis in SAP for senior management review and approval.

• Calculated MRP for 130+ part numbers weekly.

• Issued PO's to domestic and international suppliers based on MRP calculation.

• Monitored open PO backlog and processed supplier invoices in SharePoint.

• Coordinated logistics international suppliers and placing all FCL, LCL boat and air shipment overseas.

• Responsible for stocking warehouse to supply automotive parts to factory.

• Worked with US Customs Broker (Yusen) on ISF filing and US customs clearance.

• Entered all inbound deliveries (VL31N), good receipts (MIGO) and invoice receipt (MIRO) in SAP.

• Worked with warehouse on any discrepancies and scrapping issues.

• Documented and maintained technical specifications for SAP applications.
• Designed deployment automation solutions to expedite implementation of SAP solutions.
• Works within purchasing better practices framework regarding supplier sourcing, product quality, part availability, product and transportation costs, international sourcing and legal/regulatory requirements.

• Ensure suppliers meet externally sourced requirements demanded by Manufacturing, Regional Distribution Centers (RDC), and service plants.

• Support externally sourced requirements which include finished goods, components and services purchased from suppliers, as well as semi-finished goods not used in Wireless Packaging purchased from Shure manufacturing plant.

• Avoiding unnecessary excess/obsolete inventory by processing vendor contracts, scheduling agreements, and purchase orders in SAP.

• Ensures weekly forecasts are distributed in a timely basis to suppliers by open order reports/schedule agreements/contracts).

• Analyze demand and forecasting to procure merchandise based on location (El Paso, China, and Wheeling) to assure production continues.

• Attend supplier meetings as needed to manage supplier relationship.

• Reconcile inventory weekly for contracts and purchase orders with key suppliers.