Ann Donabauer
Saint Joseph,MN
Summary
Reliable professional recognized by peers for my teamwork, flexibility and effective time management and organizational skills. I bring 13 years’ experience as a corporate Buyer and 5 years’ experience as a Value-Added Service Coordinator. Overall, 18 years’ experience in optimizing supplier relationships through purchasing and logistics, acting as liaison to customers and suppliers on value added service and delivery concerns. I am a dedicated employee and people manager driven to perform with a high level of accuracy to ensure customer satisfaction. I am seeking to leverage my skills to help deliver desired results and contribute to meet your organizational goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Value Added Services Coordinator
GREDE
St. Cloud
10.2018 - 01.2024
- Built and maintained strong relationships with over 40 suppliers, by communicating expectations and coordinating efforts to aid in improved timely acknowledgments, vendor lead times, vendor cooperation, service, preferred pricing, and innovation
- Scheduled and managed suppler work through collaboration with departments and suppliers to leverage capacity to achieve consistent and accurate workflow, to ensure compliance with quality standards and to capitalize on financial objectives
- Conducted data analysis related to inventory levels, orders, production schedules, shipping schedules and vendor schedules to ensure processes run smoothly across the supply chain
- Coordinated and plan logistics schedule with production to pick up and deliver product
- Tracking and document shipments and delivery to verify quantity received, produced and shipped
- Do root cause analysis if there were any shortages or process defects and quickly identify any delays
- Established and maintained the standard process documents to ensure a balanced execution of work to help the company achieve KPI’s and meet customer commitments which keep the business flowing to meet financial goals
- Developed relationships with cross functional teams working on new work projects and new job startups to meet project deadlines
- Conducted weekly vendor inventory audits to ensure accurate inventory levels
- Seek out inefficiencies to drive process improvements, efficiencies and eliminate waste.
Corporate Buyer
PILGRIMS (acquired GNP Company)
Cold Spring, Minnesota
01.2005 - 01.2017
- Successfully reached or exceeded annual cost savings goals of 3% annual spend the last 5 years
- Developed and installed an Excel Model for packaging items not in MRP system, which shortened processing time for orders from 40 hours to 4 hours
- Annual purchases valued in excess of $24 million
- Sourced and negotiated pricing to purchase quality material, at correct quantities, at best price to deliver on time
- Initiated and created a standardized requisition form implemented companywide which decreased error rate 10 percent
- Generated, negotiated and managed 30 contracts and created multiple RFI’s, RFQ’s
- Including an RFQ of entire label segment, which consisted of 300+ SKU’s and over $1 Million in spend annually
- Ensured label content was accurate for products and FDA approved before ordering
- Consolidated ingredient vendors, 40% decrease, resulting in savings and improved service for the company
- Maintain timely processing of invoice reconciliation and submission to finance.
Education
Associates Degree - Drafting Technician
Hutchinson Area Vocational Technical College
Skills
- Procurement
- Business Relationships
- Effective Communication
- Logistics
- Time Management
- Critical & Analytical Thinking
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork & Collaboration
- MS Excel, Word, Power Point
- AS400, Bliss, Odyssey
- Outlook
Certification
- Certified Purchasing Professional
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Timeline
Value Added Services Coordinator
GREDE
10.2018 - 01.2024
Corporate Buyer
PILGRIMS (acquired GNP Company)
01.2005 - 01.2017
Associates Degree - Drafting Technician
Hutchinson Area Vocational Technical College