Dylan Schneider
Milwaukee,United States
Summary
I am a results-oriented professional with 9 years of experience and a proven track record of purchasing, analysis, inventory management, and vendor relations.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Onboarding Consultant
Schneider Consulting
10.2025 - Current
- Brought on as a subject matter expert for ERP/MRP onboarding for a construction ERP under development.
- Worked with an international team of developers to address client needs and concerns about the developing product.
- Helped set expectations in regards to AI integration.
- Created user documentation for current and prospective clients.
Buyer - OSP
Wrought Washer Manufacturing
07.2024 - 02.2025
- Created all outside service provider POs based on direct ERP demand as well as self generated forecasts.
- Created new Purchasing SOPs to allow for better on time delivery tracking and internal scheduling accuracy.
- Developed tool to facilitate better lot/heat control, reducing total OSP spend as well as improving material traceability.
- Developed new tools for the purchasing department as well as QC and logistics departments to facilitate faster completion to ship times.
- Researched, vetted, and onboarded new vendors to reduce single source risks like lead time and pricing concerns.
- Created and maintained supplier scorecards, on time delivery, and other metrics to allow trend visibility and predict vendor issues.
- Worked with struggling vendors to find solutions to on time delivery issues by having regular meetings and changing orders to fall in line with capability limitations.
- Worked with vendors to identify volume price break opportunities and transient capacity based incentives.
- Worked with sales and engineering to find vendors to meet customer driven specifications, lead time, and pricing needs.
- Arranged shipping for expedited orders and otherwise as needed.
- Saved at least $60,000 in material processing in 6 months and improved on time delivery of OSP materials from 64% to 91%.
Purchaser/Expeditor
Priority Inc.
12.2021 - 03.2024
- Created SOPs for purchasing and inventory maintenance after loss of institutional ERP purchasing knowledge.
- Analyzed existing vendors and developed new partnerships with vendors to reduce supply chain risk.
- Arranged customer showings for prototypes and first articles as part of a larger program bidding process.
- Performed vendor site visits during onboarding and as needed when issues arose.
- Worked with vendors in EU and England to import aluminum extrusion, electronics, and hardware.
- Worked with PMs, engineering, and operations to resolve program material over specification resulting in sourcing cost reduction.
- Managed facility capacity scheduling, order entry, shipping, and billing through JobBoss ERP.
- Managed client specific inventory for nationwide programs that was provided to program subcontractors.
- Led a team of 24 people during a 3 month period of transition with no operations manager and again from Dec 2022 until March 2024 with a team of 6.
- Chosen as the CEO award winner of our parent company in 2022 based on nominations and votes from management and coworkers.
Lead Purchaser
Connected Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 05.2021
- Sourced new vendors as well as analyzed existing relationships to ensure both target pricing and quality of parts was maintained.
- Created tool to assess quantity pricing break points for custom weldments.
- Estimated materials cost for pricing proposals on new projects.
- Analyzed and monitored inventory levels of over 1000 custom manufactured parts across several product lines.
- Worked with operations and finance departments to set appropriate inventory levels for items with long lead times or limited availability.
- Negotiated blanket orders for high turnover stock to reduce materials cost and ensure appropriate stock levels for assembly, for large volume products this resulted in a 37% materials cost reduction.
- Worked with both engineering and production teams to find alternative parts that decrease the time and cost of production.
- Resolved problems with vendor quality including RMAs, cost variance, as well as expediting of orders.
Purchasing Journeyman
The Outpost Nature Foods
02.2017 - 09.2018
- Purchased perishable food from internal and external vendors for wholesale and catering accounts.
- Accounts included Froedtert Hospital, Aurora Healthcare, The Medical College of Wisconsin, and Milwaukee Public Museum.
- Maintained inventory levels at accounts to minimize spoilage while maximizing sales.
- Worked with existing accounts to identify possible opportunities to increase sales while maintaining product diversity.
- By analyzing sales trends I was able to increase sales of high margin and high volume items while decreasing loss, resulting in a ~15% increase in net profits for the department.
- Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics, Business Spanish
UW Milwuakee
Milwaukee, WI05-2011
Skills
- JobBoss, Great Plains, & PLEX ERP experience
- Proficient with Microsoft Office and G Suite
- Multi-team communication
- Forecasting
- Vendor sourcing and onboarding
- Vendor review and scorecards
- Supply chain risk management
- Continuous process improvement
Timeline
Onboarding Consultant
Schneider Consulting
10.2025 - Current
Buyer - OSP
Wrought Washer Manufacturing
07.2024 - 02.2025
Purchaser/Expeditor
Priority Inc.
12.2021 - 03.2024
Lead Purchaser
Connected Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 05.2021
Purchasing Journeyman
The Outpost Nature Foods
02.2017 - 09.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Economics, Business Spanish
UW Milwuakee