Heather Kresser

• Managed 3 buyers for support of all procurement for US and MX site.
• 2024 spend $24M on track for $34M spend in 2025
• Current 2025 savings $150K
• Approve procurement of 2260 per year
• 225 diff inventory suppliers in 2024
• OTD on avg of 94%
• DPPM on avg of less than 2500
• Support and creator of qualifying new vendors
• Define copper contracts with top suppliers
• $80K in freight savings

• Managed shipping, receiving, purchasing, and inventory for a total of 10 associates
• Inventory accuracy currently at 99%
• Freight compensation of $500K
• E&O reduction of $42K
• Identify and monitor raw material risk caused by procurement conditions and demand
• Establish liability of excess inventory for high risk raws
• Expand employees’ strengths and support areas of improvement and growth.
• Evaluate and determine the best protocols and purchasing guidelines to support sales demand
• Work on alternative sources to provide flexible support to customer/manufacturing

• Achieving an avg of 18 turns per month on assigned commodities.
• Work with engineering to standardize materials to prevent excess and obsolete and avoid min buy issues as well as cost breaks for higher volume buys.
• Define and set system settings within raw materials to drive ERP system in an accurate method. Including understanding GL accounts and settings, multiples, min or quantities, period order quantity, interplant settings, freight lead time, manufacture lead time, cost breaks, planners codes, que and wait settings, terms, freight settings, etc…
• Procure materials needed to support production with an annual spend of around $15-18 million.
• Quote and establish new parts/suppliers needed for production working with engineering and drawings.
• Train all new buyers coming into the facility
• Point person for all outside ISO audits most recent for AS9100
• Key driver during physical inventories dealing with auditors and running actual counts and data input within the system.
• Help create reports and cycle count schedule for warehouse to create accurate inventory within ERP system.

• Reviewed customer complaints and responded with corrective actions if necessary.

• Managed multiple departments to a total of 85 associates
• Shipped an annual value of $50 Million
• Consistently sustained DPPM during the move
• OTD increased by 21%
• Efficiency increased by 8%
• Sustain Safety measures striving for zero accidents/injuries.
• Created job descriptions for production operators as well as group leads.
• Evaluated and defined measurements for review of group leads.

• Saved 25% in savings for all outside services
• 36% savings on overall commodities ordered

• Sustained state regulations for home facility
• Cared for six to nine children in ages of 3 months to 12 years at a time

• Remotely performed demand analysis and procured for a Mexico facility. Facility is responsible for 17MS in annual revenue.
• Manage make and hold stocking programs for high-level customers.
• Initiate root cause analysis on inventory errors to maintain accuracy.
• Develop accurate production schedules through over/under capacity planning, customer forecasts, and historical data.
• Identify and manage bottleneck work centers/operations to insure on time delivery.
• Evaluate cost and efficiency impact of customer expedite requests. Determine if the request made is cost effective and process accordingly.
• Initiated processes to improve on time delivery performance from 75-95%. Maintain and report OTD data to senior management.
• Executed the implementation of Axiom MRP system from Oracle MRP system.

• Purchased raw materials consisting of several commodity types including connectors, contacts, covers, hardware, PCB, and packaging.

• Planned and scheduled three different product lines that represented annual sales of $9M.

Manufactured cables from start to finish.

• Implemented safety protocols, reducing workplace accidents and maintaining a safe work environment for all staff members.
• Improved assembly line efficiency by implementing new production strategies and techniques.