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Erica C. Beck
Troy,Texas
Summary
Experienced professional and dedicated team member with over 10 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, forecasting, replenishment buying, inventory management and demand planning. Procurement professional with proven track record in sourcing quality materials and managing supplier relationships. Known for collaborative approach and consistent delivery of results in dynamic environments. Expertise in market analysis and contract negotiation, ensuring seamless supply chain operations and cost-effective purchasing.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Sonoco Flexible Packaging
Plant Buyer, Inventory Analyst & Planner
09.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Purchase and manage food grade raw material on a daily basis for a food grade flexible packaging production plant
- Review and manage service level, inventory, and overstock inventory reports utilizing Oracle and Citrix systems
- Track and evaluate plant level and corporate level KPI’s
- Communicate sales orders have ready dates with customers and csr’s
- Implemented and managed inbound and outbound freight utilizing OpenDock systems
- This process helped reduce receipt errors and increased time management
- Manage raw material and supply cost changes and customer specific deals
- Identify income opportunities through procurement strategies
- Engage in various communication with customers and suppliers for film delays, seasonal, new business, existing business, and customer exits
- Highly involved with seasonal planning, analyze demand and procurement strategies, and collaborated on seasonal exit strategies
- Utilize aged inventory from other Sonoco facilities by converting film to use at Waco plant
- Created KPI tracking forms for supply chain, operations, and quality departments
- Purchase and manage one time buys and stocking programs with Sonoco sales team and customer service to ensure fulfillment, start date, and end date
- Maintain supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance
- Participate on multiple safety teams such as fire evacuation, bad weather shelter, CRP, and first aid
- Preform and follow standardize practicing procedures that are enforced through a global auditing standardization
- Preform and participate in monthly safety audits, daily cleaning audits, and food grade safety audits
- Initiate, monitor, and close supplier quality claims for damaged/unusable product, including credit, root cause/corrective action, and disposition
- Purchase plant office supplies, safety PPE, food grade pallets and any other production material needed utilizing Coupa Systems
McLane Company, Grocery
Purchasing Specialist
06.2014 - 08.2019
Job overview
- Purchase and manage inventory on a daily basis for 23 McLane Grocery nationwide distribution centers
- Review and manage daily service level, days of inventory, and overstock inventory reports by McLane division
- Manage inbound and outbound freight utilizing internal logistic department, supplier and carrier resources
- Manage cost changes and customer specific deals
- Identify income opportunities through procurement strategies
- Engage in various communication with customers and suppliers for seasonal, new business, resets, sku change, and customer exits
- Highly involved with seasonal planning and collaborated on seasonal exit strategies
- Collaborates with sales team regarding customer’s forecast and promotions
- Manages new item setup, communicates and corrects any issues during the process to the customer and supplier
- Purchase and manage initial distribution fill with McLane sales team and divisional customer service to ensure fulfillment and start date
- Contribute and participate in team building and assistance
Battalion Roofing and Construction
Sales Representative
05.2014 - 07.2014
Job overview
- Targeted customers with home damages from weather and storms
- Surveyed customer’s home exterior damages
- Met and discussed customer’s exterior damages and examined their insurance adjusters report
- Calculated costs of repairs
- Used necessary phone and field selling skills to sell services to customers
- Develop new business opportunities through cold calls and lead generation
- Organize sales activities so that face to face selling time to the customer is maximized
MWR Fort Hood, Marketing and Advertising Branch
Intern (Unpaid)
09.2013 - 10.2013
Job overview
- Public Relation: Wrote and published articles in Fort Hood’s monthly magazine Hood Happenings
- Created verbiage for electronic billboards
- Created announcements detailing upcoming events on social media
- Proofread articles, signage, social media announcements, and sponsorship information pamphlets
- Composed marketing plans for numerous events
- Attended a teambuilding workshop and a stress reduction class
- Advertising: Collaborated and researched website design layout for MWR clients
- Researched and gathered promotional items for upcoming events
- Assembled and displayed announcement signs for upcoming events
- Telephoned potential advertising sponsors to inform them about upcoming events and how they can become a sponsor
- Setup and participated in numerous events ranging from 75 to 250 people
- Created welcome signage for events
- Escorted sponsors to assigned area
- Developed survey’s for events and gathered results
- Set-up and participated in weekly soldier orientation
- Graphic Design: Learned and applied basic design features and techniques to daily activities
- Knowledge in graphic design programs such as Windows & Macintosh O/S, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
- Learned the communication verbiage between account executives and graphic designers and how to interpret into design
- Implemented skills and designed posters for advertising events on Fort Hood
- Designed the layout and created the graphics for the sponsorship information booklets
Shelley’s Day Spa and Salon
Administrator
07.2012 - 03.2013
Job overview
- Exhibited outstanding customer service and leadership to clients and colleagues
- Surveyed clients about their experience and examine results on a weekly basis
- Attended leadership and sales meetings alongside salon team members
- Preformed daily selling techniques such as up selling and cross selling
- Purchasing and inventory experience
- Designed sales merchandise displays
Scott and White Memorial Hospital
Volunteer for Critical Care Unit
01.2010 - 04.2010
Farm Bureau Insurance Company
Agent personal secretary
05.2008 - 07.2008
Job overview
- Purchase and manage food grade raw material on a daily basis for a food grade flexible packaging production plant
- Review and manage service level, inventory, and overstock inventory reports utilizing Oracle and Citrix systems
- Track and evaluate plant level and corporate level KPI’s
- Communicate sales orders have ready dates with customers and csr’s
- Implemented and managed inbound and outbound freight utilizing OpenDock systems
- This process helped reduce receipt errors and increased time management
- Manage raw material and supply cost changes and customer specific deals
- Identify income opportunities through procurement strategies
- Engage in various communication with customers and suppliers for film delays, seasonal, new business, existing business, and customer exits
- Highly involved with seasonal planning, analyze demand and procurement strategies, and collaborated on seasonal exit strategies
- Utilize aged inventory from other Sonoco facilities by converting film to use at Waco plant
- Created KPI tracking forms for supply chain, operations, and quality departments
- Purchase and manage one time buys and stocking programs with Sonoco sales team and customer service to ensure fulfillment, start date, and end date
- Maintain supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance
- Participate on multiple safety teams such as fire evacuation, bad weather shelter, CRP, and first aid
- Preform and follow standardize practicing procedures that are enforced through a global auditing standardization
- Preform and participate in monthly safety audits, daily cleaning audits, and food grade safety audits
- Initiate, monitor, and close supplier quality claims for damaged/unusable product, including credit, root cause/corrective action, and disposition
- Purchase plant office supplies, safety PPE, food grade pallets and any other production material needed utilizing Coupa Systems
Education
Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration from Marketing
12.2013
Temple College
Associate Of General Studies
05.2013
Troy High School
High school or equivalent
01.2009
Skills
- Purchase order management
- Project management
- Vendor relationship management
- Demand forecasting
- Data analysis
- Inventory management
Timeline
Plant Buyer, Inventory Analyst & Planner
Sonoco Flexible Packaging
09.2019 - Current
Purchasing Specialist
McLane Company, Grocery
06.2014 - 08.2019
Sales Representative
Battalion Roofing and Construction
05.2014 - 07.2014
Intern (Unpaid)
MWR Fort Hood, Marketing and Advertising Branch
09.2013 - 10.2013
Administrator
Shelley’s Day Spa and Salon
07.2012 - 03.2013
Volunteer for Critical Care Unit
Scott and White Memorial Hospital
01.2010 - 04.2010
Agent personal secretary
Farm Bureau Insurance Company
05.2008 - 07.2008
Troy High School
High school or equivalent
Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration from Marketing
Temple College
Associate Of General Studies
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