OFFICE MANGER 2023 - Present
Winchester Division
CORPORATE INVENTORY AND WAREHOUSE CONTROL 2021-2023
PURCHASING MANAGER/PARTS CLERK 2016-2021
Winchester Division
INVENTORY CONTROL 2014-2016
Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
- Work with plants to maintain organization and accurate inventory.
- Work with plants to clean up inventory issues and problems.
- Entry of parts and all information needed to inventory and order parts with SAP.
- Work within SAP to clean up multiple and inaccurate parts.
- Work with corporate accountants to classify parts for accurate accounting.
- Visit each plant quarterly to recognize area's that may need improvement. Work with those plant to implement plans to improve those areas and generate reports that make management aware of those areas.
- Work with vendors to negotiate better pricing.
- Fastenal negotiation on grease tank locks saving an estimate of $30,000 per year
- Work with maintenance to train on SAP maintenance console.
2014
SAP DEPLOYMENT TEAM
Responsibilities:
Organize plant parts storage area's.
Accurate inventory of all parts.
Prepare plant maintenance and parts departments for SAP go live.
2008-2014
PURCHASING AGENT/PARTS MANAGER
Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
PLANT LEVEL
- Ordering of all parts for production including projects.
- Negotiate with vendors, receive bids.
- Negotiate better pricing and shipping costs.
- Research more efficient/more cost effective parts.
- Handle purchase orders from start to completion.
- Continually inventory parts for inventory accuracy.
- Log out parts on work orders and division transfers
- Continually work with maintenance personnel on proper work order usage.
- Work with maintenance manager to continually improve accuracy of work orders.
- Handle uniform control for 100+ employee's.
- Track usage and order #6 boiler fuel.
- Negotiate contract pricing with vendors.
- Capital Tri-State.. Additional 8% discount.
- Capp USA.. Level 5 Corporate Discount.
- Applied.. Highest level Corporate Discount offered.
- Consolidate billing to reduce amount of PO's being processed.
- Fastenal.. 1 monthly invoice in lieu of countless small invoices throughout the month.
- Work to lower the amount of vendor's used, to cut down on the amount of PO's needed processed.
- Transition to Maintstar
- Redesigned/Organized parts department.
- Reduced inventory levels by over $300,000 by lowering inventory levels, transferring parts no longer used to other divisions still using them and when possible sending back to vendors for credit.
- Keep parts department clean and orderly.
CORPORATE LEVEL
- Negotiate Corporate pricing.
- Grainger.. 3 years negotiations have led to a standardized discount and free shipping. $30,000+ first year savings.
- Fastenal.. Class 5 standard discount and free shipping. $10,000+ first years savings.
- Assisted in negotiations and set up a vending machine trial for safety and consumable items.
- Mainstar.
- Data entry of parts for all divisions, including designing of stock numbers
- Assist in stock number consolidation.
- Assist other divisions in questions concerning Mainstar.
- Assist other divisions in queries for setting up reports.
- Ordering, inventory and control of all grease tank locks corporate wide.
- Negotiated with Grainger to simplify grease tank lock process. We no longer tie up money in inventory of 5000 locks ($41,000). Direct free drop shipping from Grainger with a lower price on the locks save thousands of dollars per year and man hours
2007-2008
PLANT PRODUCTION
- Fully trained as a 320U cooker operator.
- Basic training on boiler maintenance.
- Basic hammermill training.
- Basic environmental training.
1995-2007
ROUTE TRUCK DRIVER
- Class B CDL
- Valid DOT medical card - 2024