BARBARA MILAZZO
Piscataway,NJ
Summary
Dynamic Distribution Manager with proven success, skilled in inventory management and budget preparation. Expert in Excel and leadership, Accomplished Procurement and Supply Chain Management professional with a proven track record in strategic sourcing, cost reduction, and supplier relationship management. Expertise in optimizing procurement operations, negotiating favorable contracts, and ensuring efficient inventory management to drive profitability. Adept at implementing procurement strategies that align with business goals while maintaining compliance and operational excellence. I am proficient in SAP, Excel, and data analytics to enhance decision-making and streamline supply chain processes.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Distribution Manager
Frensco Building Products
11.2024 - Current
- Established procedures for inventory management, order processing, and customer service
- Oversee and monitored departmental operations and employee activity in support of business objectives
- Supervised team members in unloading, stocking, packaging, and shipping products
- Reviewed daily cycle counts and researched inventory discrepancies to verify accuracy
- Reviewed performance data from employees to identify areas for improvement
- Managed budgeting activities related to purchasing supplies
- Manage a team of 7 people and 60,000 square foot warehouse
- New location helping to build customer base
Distribution Center Manager
Primesource Building Products
07.2021 - 10.2024
- Responsible for one of the largest facilities holding over 18 million dollars of inventory in 173,000 sf facility + 1/2 acre yard
- Coach and guide 22 operation employees: 20 warehouse and 2 admins
- Handle day to day challenges and implement improvements and solutions for success
- Problem solve any inventory issues
- Create and log monthly cycle count of various products
- Speak with various purchasers, sales team and other operation leaders daily
- Manage daily delivery calendar
- Create shipments using 3PL and keep track of LTL's & Full truck shipments and receiving
- Create and maintain monthly business reports, goal tracker
- Daily check and enforcement to meet all safety standards
- Oversee the dispatching of 15 drivers to accomplish daily delivery requirements
National Category Manager
Primesource Building Products
02.2021 - 07.2021
- Responsible for overseeing all purchasing for 34 locations throughout the United States for roofing and domestic fasteners
- Oversee 4 purchasers
- Studied technical aspects of managed categories to identify attributes and cost containment levels
- Coach and guide purchasers into this new direction of purchasing
- Roofing products from various vendors combined over 100 million dollars annually, Domestic fasteners from various vendors over 70 million dollars annually
- Meet weekly via Teams calls with Sales department heads and other National Category Managers
- Creating and reviewing ideas for category growth
- Speak daily/weekly with various vendors to negotiate price and products
- Daily review of roofing and domestic fastener stock at various locations to see if transfers needed to move dead/slow moving stock to where it will sell
Regional Category Manager
Primesource Building Products
11.2019 - 02.2021
- Responsibilities still include day to day purchaser tasks listed below
- Oversee 6 purchasing agents and 7 locations in the Northeast - Maryland, New Jersey, Albany, Rochester, Boston, Connecticut and Maine
- Meet with vendors to negotiate best possible cost
- Pool orders where necessary
- Review stock with purchasers for all 7 locations to identify slow moving/dead stock items
- Meet with Category Managers and Sales Managers to come up with plans to move slow moving/dead stock
- Weekly conference calls with 6 purchasers
- Review buys, collaborate ideas and work through challenges
- Monitor performance of 6 purchasers
- Offer training and tools to enable purchasers to improve performance and product knowledge
- Travel to sites to coach and walk yards to identify challenges and report findings with possible solutions
- Review and approve stock transfers to other locations throughout the company
Purchase Manager
Primesource Building Products
10.2014 - 11.2019
- Responsibilities include daily review and purchasing various domestic products for 173,000 sf warehouse + yard
- Purchase on average approximately $500,000 of various products monthly
- Always stock and maintain on average 15 million dollars worth of products in warehouse
- Studied technical aspects of managed category to identify key quality attributes and cost containment levels
- Maintaining stock levels and input for specials to help sell slow moving/dead stock products
- Daily calls to vendors to negotiate pricing and availability of product needed
- Meetings with vendors to keep up to date on market information and strengthen relationships
- Keep in contact with other Primesource purchasing agents to see where and when we can combine orders in order to buy at a more aggressive price
- Help smaller locations keep their stock levels and pricing competitive
- Daily emails and calls with Outside and Inside sales reps
- Daily contact with Sales manager and Distribution Center manager
- Problem solving various situations, either for customers or with vendors
- Quotes and product information provided to customers
- Enter special orders and directs into SAP
- Review invoices for accuracy and preparation for payable
- Create purchase orders in SAP and receive product into SAP
Office Manager/Inside Sales Representative
Primesource Building Products
07.2006 - 09.2014
- Responsibilities include performing incoming/outgoing calls to/from customers to provide product information, quotes and give quality customer service
- Follow up on quotes to customers and addressing any concerns
- Taking dozens of orders by phone/fax daily, enter into SAP for delivery
- Creating and editing excel sheets for price changes, product code changes and description changes
- 10 to 20 calls made daily to customers with new product opportunities and specials
- Prepare payables for high volume of direct orders for various customers
- Calls with accounts payable of various companies for returns/credits
- Work with Outside Territory Managers to establish strong working relationships with them and customers
Education
Masters Degree - Business Candidate
DeVry University Chicago Campus
Chicago, IL06.2028
High School Diploma -
05.1986
Skills
- Excel
- SAP
- Microsoft Work
- Tableau
- Outlook
- Powerpoint
- BOBJ
- Organizational Requirements
- Monitoring
- Windows 9
- Windows 11
- Windows XP
- Browsing and retrieving information from Web
- Leadership
Timeline
Distribution Manager
Frensco Building Products
11.2024 - Current
Distribution Center Manager
Primesource Building Products
07.2021 - 10.2024
National Category Manager
Primesource Building Products
02.2021 - 07.2021
Regional Category Manager
Primesource Building Products
11.2019 - 02.2021
Purchase Manager
Primesource Building Products
10.2014 - 11.2019
Office Manager/Inside Sales Representative
Primesource Building Products
07.2006 - 09.2014
High School Diploma -
Masters Degree - Business Candidate
DeVry University Chicago Campus
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