Anders Nilarp
Phoenix,AZ
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Outside Sales Representative
Industrial Supply
Chandler, AZ
08.2024 - Current
- Increased territory sales by building relationships with various types of customers and identifying new opportunities
- Identified and implemented new VMI locations
- Visited customers on a periodic basis to evaluate requirements, showcase product offering, and propose application-based solutions
- Established new accounts through cold calling
- Attended networking events such as trade shows and industry-related gatherings
- Worked with specific customers on gathering KPI's such as cost savings and cost avoidance
- Reviewed high-level contracts with customers to ensure proper understanding
- Provided reports to suppliers on metrics related to spend and inventory
- Worked with supplier sales reps to execute deals, warranty programs and rebates for customers
- Worked with various departments on a daily basis to manage and track status on important orders
- Worked hand in hand with supplier & manufacturer reps to provide on-site product demos and training
Sr. Production Control Planner
Paragon Space Development Corporation
Tucson, AZ
02.2024 - 06.2024
- Created production schedules for individual programs on Excel with MRP data
- Reported procurement & production status to PM's on a daily basis and communicated priority to the shop floor manager
- Maintained SQCDP scorecard with monthly KPI's and displayed it in the shop
- Worked with manufacturing and quality engineers to make sure non-conformance re-work jobs got created and worked on in a timely manner
Sales/Part Owner
NC TOOL SERVICE
Los Angeles , CA
08.2020 - 02.2024
- Managed day-to-day business operations
- Met with 6-8 customers on site daily and made tooling-application suggestions based on availability/manufacturability/material they are working with (steels, aluminum, exotic alloys etc.)
- Worked with PVD coating vendors (3), manufacturers (13), grinders (3), brazer (1), and material suppliers (5) to maintain lines of tools, distributor pricing, discounts on goods & services etc.
- Gathered costs from suppliers to create competitive bids and contract proposals to new and existing customers
- Worked with QuickBooks daily for quotes, purchase orders, aging report, receivables etc.
- Worked with ZoHo CRM software daily to maintain a schedule for sales calls & visits
- Sourced hard-to-find tooling and materials
- Managed ~150 customers via call, text, email etc. (primarily aerospace machine shops)
- Reviewed and acted upon aging report (weekly) and profit and loss statement (biweekly)
- Adjusted business model to incorporate new positions with different duties to make company more dynamic and open up capacity (hired a driver and inside salesman)
- Closely maintained vendor-managed inventory for 12 customers to help company cash flow
- Helped accounting with collections as needed and maintained/purchased company property (work truck, van, payed rent on building occasionally, etc.)
- Gained technical knowledge of tooling and tooling trades from work experiences, off site education and conversations with workers in the industry
Supply Chain Department Supervisor
Stanford MU Corporation
Carson, CA
05.2019 - 08.2020
- Managed Supply Chain Department (Inventory Coordinator and Production Planner)
- Prepared for 3rd party audits with mock audits and reviewing standards
- Created a Supplier Rating database to help other departments evaluate suppliers based on their respective criteria
- Gathered costs from suppliers and vendors to produce department information needed for bids and proposals to new and existing customers
- Created a systematic way of identifying different types of Purchase Orders to help Accounting and Quality departments
- Created flowchart board and had Production Coordinator update this daily with current status of each department on all open projects & tasks
- Helped produced various documents such as As-Built Configuration List, Acceptance Data Pack (ADP/EIDP), Routers, Shortage Lists, WIP Inventory, NCR's (non-conformance), CAR's (corrective actions), SCARS's (supplier corrective actions), RMA's (return material authorization), etc.
- Participated in & held daily status meetings with customers up to 2 times a day
- Conducted on-site audits of suppliers to make sure their quality system such as AS9100 AND ISO 9001 is up-to-date & created Supplier Audit checklist
Buyer
Stanford Mu Corporation
Carson, CA
08.2017 - 04.2019
- Created Purchase Orders for standard and built-to-print production parts, non-production items, outside processing, raw materials, third party testing, inspection, contractual labor, calibration services, test media (gasses etc.), and miscellaneous facility maintenance
- Helped under-performing suppliers complete orders by purchasing materials and re-negotiating payment terms & milestones
- Managed vendors both big (100+ people) and small (1 person)
- Helped qualify 17 production welds (worked with suppliers to produce qualifying weld coupons with proper documentation)
- Responsible for domestic and international shipping (Worked with freight forwarders, Export licenses, STA's) to make sure customer requirements were satisfied
- Successfully outsourced key production activities such as assembly & welding and added 4 new machine shop suppliers and 3 new processing/testing vendors
- Worked with parts that require multiple processes (machining, dye pen, radiography, ultrasonic inspection, magnetic particle, passivation, treating & non-destructive testing)
- Performed cycle counts and complete counts to verify accuracy of on-hand inventory for over 170 part numbers & maintained weekly stock of gasses for pressure testing and in-house welding
- Held discussions with engineering team about manufacturing challenges and worked with engineers to make sure parts and components are being made the most efficient and cost effective way
- Collected purchase order certifications and made sure that vendors provided test reports and NDA's
- Worked with PeachTree and Quickbooks to produce RFQ's, PO Requests and PO's with quality clauses
- Responsible for calibration of various test/inspection equipment (NIST Standards)
Marketing Specialist
Snugtop Custom Fibreglass Manufacturing Co.
Long Beach, CA
02.2016 - 08.2017
- Participated in Safety program by bringing up safety concerns with photos during monthly safety meeting
- Helped implement 5S lean manufacturing techniques
- Prepared new product introductions
- Coordinated press release distribution such as newsletters
- Managed promotional mailings that included e-mail and fax blasts
- managed and worked with outside web developer
- Managed company websites (4) and all social media pages
- Increased traffic on website by 60%
- Implemented Facebook advertising
- Coordinated projects with ad agencies and photographers
- Supported sales staff in helping with distributor needs
- Managed outside vendors borrowing product for production&photography
- Processed and answered incoming emails from distributors and consumers
- Produced various tracking reports for sales figures and online traffic in Excel
Social Media Intern
Sunrider International
Torrance, CA
06.2015 - 12.2015
Marketing Intern
Yvolution USA Inc.
Torrance, CA
06.2014 - 08.2014
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, CA, United States2015
Timeline
Outside Sales Representative
Industrial Supply
08.2024 - Current
Sr. Production Control Planner
Paragon Space Development Corporation
02.2024 - 06.2024
Sales/Part Owner
NC TOOL SERVICE
08.2020 - 02.2024
Supply Chain Department Supervisor
Stanford MU Corporation
05.2019 - 08.2020
Buyer
Stanford Mu Corporation
08.2017 - 04.2019
Marketing Specialist
Snugtop Custom Fibreglass Manufacturing Co.
02.2016 - 08.2017
Social Media Intern
Sunrider International
06.2015 - 12.2015
Marketing Intern
Yvolution USA Inc.
06.2014 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
California State University Long Beach