Corey Henderson

Design and Construction Purchasing Manager responsible for managing construction material procurement including forecasting, conducting request of proposals, contracting, tracking commitments, project schedule & lead time management, pricing analysis and historical cost benchmarking. Negotiates with vendors and overseeing national and local purchasing contract compliance.

• Managed over 20+ generator, lighting and Roof Top Unit projects within ten states for a combined total of $28MM.
• Assisted Construction Managers with new hospital DeNovo Projects, Bed Additions and Major Renovations. Yearly budget for all projects $700MM.
• Developed cost reduction strategies and saving plan that enabled department to receive a 3% rebate on all equipment and supplies purchased per project.
• Managed the purchasing, invoicing and contracting process for over 30 vendors and contractors.
• Reported quarterly spend and saving to leadership and stakeholders to show data and market trends.

Responsible for developing specifications, negotiation with suppliers, preparing professional sourcing projects and bids, driving site cost savings, ensuring proper execution of procedures and process, coordination delivery of materials, goods and services and assisting in the management of inventories and site assets.

• Purchasing of high dollar maintenance/plant operations/service items
• Responsible for Capital buying up to $100,000.
• Ensure plant assets and inventories are aligned with company’s standards, helping to maintain multi-million assets.
• Working closely with the Leadership and Engineering groups on execution of capital projects successfully.
• Execute bids, quotes and RFQ’s for competitive products and services.
• Performing daily, tactical purchasing typically under $50K for Maintenance, Operations, Mining and Logistics
• Overseeing a combined total of $2M worth for chemicals and packaging for Site needs.
• Work closely with Operations to competitively source plant contractors and service providers.
• Provide advice, best-practice guidance and training to the Procurement Buyer and Purchasing Assistant.

• Overseeing the daily warehouse, and shipping functions with 14 direct reports and over $10 million of inventory.
• Coordinate with customer service to optimize shipping schedule and on time deliveries. Ensuring orders are picked and processed in timely and accurate manner based on requirement.
• Perform daily cycle counts to ensure the overall inventory integrity of the department, while getting the maximum capabilities from production.
• Meeting warehouse operational standards by contributing information to strategic and financial plans and reviews
• Accomplish warehouse and organization mission by mentoring, coaching and cross training team members, enabling plant to ship over $8 million worth of material to our customers worldwide.

• Responsible for maintaining inventory and supplies by receiving, storing delivering items; securing warehouse and supervising staff of 8 employees. Moving inventory by scheduling material to be moved to and from warehouse, maintain storage area by organizing floor space and recommending improvements.
• Managing 2.8 million dollar inventory of raw and packaging material. Meeting warehouse operational standards by contributing warehouse information to strategic plans, helping implementing positive production yields and best practice quality and safety culture for employees.
• Within five months inventory has been cut by $700,000 while remaining the basic production and customer needs to sustain a profitable department.

• Responsible for supporting Production, Maintenance. Planning and Operation Excellence through the timely availability of goods and services. Oversee the effective, efficient and safety operation of the storeroom. Support and contribute to mill objectives and goals. Monitor min/max of storeroom items to ensure limited overmax. Working vendor invoices on a daily basis to ensuring the receipt of payment on all purchase order and non-purchase order items.
• Relocated two satellite locations into one location, while maintaining a cycle count accuracy of at least 96%. Also reviewing all discrepancies to determine root cause.
• Check accrued liabilities with controllers daily to free up open funds from the bottom-line to use for upcoming projects or venture.
• Conduct periodic review and analysis of the inventory of slowing moving and critical items. With decision rights up to $60,000 quarterly to dispose of inventory that wasn't creating value economically or had been upgraded.
• Initiate all material releases for repair items and review all items still outstanding over 30 days. Remain constant contact with suppliers on quality of repaired good and process of elimination if goods economical value isn't worth company's commitment to retain in inventory.
• Set overmax regulations on excess inventory reductions by communicating daily with Material Coordinator on closed or finished work orders and Plant leadership monthly to review possible recommendations.
• Ability to set-up new vendors in company's supplier system, if insurance requirements and Master Service Agreements (MSA) are within company's guideline and compliance.
• Purchasing duties which consist of bidding of contracts on projects and the issue of daily purchase orders. Negotiation of pricing and payment terms on items based previous spend year to date or economical change in materials.

• At an Automotive Tier One Supplier responsible for supplying the production lines with the necessary materials needed to cockpits and floor console for the Mercedes Benz M-Class and R-Class 251, 164 & 166. Managing all aspects of product manufacturing, detailing shipping schedules, quality records, and order status along with training and supervising employee.
• Duties include supervising 22 material employees and 40 production employees ensuring and verifying adequate inventory levels and quality daily, with a two-week inventory turn. Coordinating the storage of all material, perform employee audits both safety and job description related.
• Accounting for all discrepancies and supplier quality issues ensuring zero impact to the customer Mercedes Benz of North America.
• Overseeing the production and shipping of material for all new model year engineering changes.
• Ensured correction of ASNs and daily shipment of all RANs.
• Reduced plant scrap by $20,000 within three months.
• Verified MRP levels to reflect Backflush and provided FIFO for material usage to track quality defects and establishing guidelines for zero down time caused by the material department.

In Charge of direct material support for 93 aircrafts in Ali Al Salem, Kuwait and Jalibah, Iraq during Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.

• Planned, organized and managed daily meeting to inform superiors on the status of backordered high priority items that enabled flight of aircrafts and FISP (Flight in Support Package) was always up to date with daily inventories done to prevent no more than a one day outages.
• Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of Awaiting Parts Branch, responsible for reconciling needed materials with 29 work centers and 7 Heavy Helicopter and 6 Fixed Wing squadrons on a daily basis.
• Duties included supervising a shift of 8 Marines within my direct department and up to 60 in total depending on the mission to ensure materials were processed before end of business, along with working a high priority report with Repairable and Consumable Management Division.
• Good Conduct Medal
• Received two Certifications of Commendations
• Received two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals
• In Iraq posted an astonishing 94 percent issue and 85 percent supply effectiveness inventory rate.
• Received Global War on Terrorism and Expeditionary Medal
• Supplied USS Saipan, Kearsarge and Ponce to have complete supply readiness.
• Managed the CH-46E Fly in Support Package worth 5.7 million dollars.
• Promoted to rank of E-5 within three years
• Two Commanding General Inspections with zero discrepancies.