Jesus Solorio
Hollister,CA
Summary
Analytical Senior Buyer with 15+ years of experience conducting in-depth research and negotiating pricing with vendors and suppliers. Successful in maintaining business relationships with existing vendors and identifying new business opportunities to engage with potential suppliers. Efficient in carefully reviewing pricing, terms and conditions prior to forming agreements.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Buyer
Venture-Backed Stealth Startup
2021.02 - 2023.11
- Provide rapid market research, supplier finance, and risk research, spend analysis, risk buy proposals for relevant stakeholders such as Engineering, IT, Legal, Finance, Manufacturing, and sales.
- Keep MRP and ERP systems up to date for inventory management and operations teams.
- BC Systems, Dynamics, Jira, Confluence.
- Conduct site visits, send RFQs, review bids, NDAs, and trade references, payment terms, and discounts.
- Process Purchase Orders and Work Orders for all company purchases.
- Monitor supplier delivery.
- Negotiate price/volume/delivery dates.
- Process RMA's Expedite and reschedule as necessary to meet production requirements.
- Responsible for resolving AP/AR issues through analysis and investigation.
- Drive profitability through a good understanding of material and labor costs as they relate to the desired business goals.
- Continue fostering existing relationships and resolve any discrepancies as they occur.
- Manage implementation of engineering changes, interpretation of procurement policies, process improvement projects, contract negotiation, and approval of PPVs.
- Review quotations to ensure competitiveness is maintained.
- Weigh trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality to strike agreements that secure long-term supply continuity.
- Negotiate with suppliers for optimal sourcing terms.
Operations Manager/Company Strategic Buyer/Planner
Solorio and Company
2020.10 - 2022.02
- Developed the operational systems, processes, and policies in support of the company mission - specifically to support better company reporting, information flow and management, business process, and organizational planning.
- Shipping and Receiving duties.
- Manage/Plan and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Support Services (Inventory Dept/ Purchasing/ Sales) through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions.
- Played a significant role in long-term planning, including an initiative geared toward operational excellence.
- Oversee overall financial management, planning, systems, and controls.
- Management of the company budget with the owner of the company.
- Support customer's business needs using a standard process where possible and customized solutions where necessary.
- Identifies areas of opportunity and/or risk for continuous improvement.
- Investigate key issues (material shortage) impacting supply/demand, which requires immediate escalation.
- Development of individual program budgets via contracts.
- Payroll management, Disbursement of checks to company vendors and employees.
- Organization of fiscal documents.
- Supervised and coached company employees weekly and evaluated employees.
- Worked with international vendors and transportation logistics vendors.
Production Planner - Covid
Mass Precision
2019.10 - 2020.10
- Construct efficient build schedules to meet customer demand within the allowed inventory and capacity resources of the Master Schedule
- Launch and maintain all work orders to reflect the latest build schedule and promptly close them after reconciling variances
- Coordinates with Buyers, Production, Engineering, and Program Managers to ensure execution of the plan and to review schedule changes
- Monitors production attainment to identify, communicate, and help resolve any materials or capacity constraints that are risks to the established schedule
- Assists the Senior Planner in the development of part fulfillment strategies across the entire product life cycle
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts, including identifying waste and collaborating with others to apply creative solutions
- Review engineering change orders and take effective actions to implement them
- Supported the Planning Manager in the detailed analysis of customer forecasts and operational capacities
- Maintains proper interface of the schedule to the warehouse, production, and shipping to ensure process signals are received and executed
- Participate in the material review process of quality hold parts to provide the Materials perspective to potential dispositions
- Attends daily production meetings with teams from both the United States and Mexico.
Buyer/Planner
LSG Skychefs
2018.11 - 2019.10
- Scheduled and planned purchase orders per the MRP system
- Daily reconciliation of invoices and purchase orders
- Ensure the accuracy of invoices, data entry of invoices into the computer system, and maintain invoice files
- Establish and maintain vendor history in the computer system
- Assist with the resolution of vendor issues
- Coordinate the processing/delivery of all invoices with the controller for payment
- Ensure all incorrect price discrepancies are resolved
- Assist the Accounts Payable/Purchasing departments as needed in all functions
- Perform other clerical duties as assigned
- Check the waste log sheet daily from the Hot and Cold Kitchen
- Daily date input for Gatekeeper and print out a requisition for storekeeper
- Responsible for controlling inventory
- Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, and directed and that all delivery times are being met timely
- Attend the daily operations briefing
- Ensure par levels of customer inventory and customer-specific goods.
Buyer/Planner-Seasonal
Sambrailo
2018.02 - 2018.10
- Interfaced with technical and management personnel, regarding changes in material, quantity, quality, or delivery schedules and interfaced with logistics issues on product delivery and time
- Quickly analyzed problems, investigated, and determined solutions for those problems
- Monitor production rates to ensure there are enough materials to meet daily production demand and adjust as needed
- Addressed, returned, and received credit for defective materials every month or as needed per company guidelines
- Planned for and procured materials necessary to meet requirements for one or several products lines
- Requested and analyzed quotes to ensure reasonable prices, and that specifications are met
- Initiated purchases and contracts required by the MRP system
- Reviewed forecasted requirements and assessed when to execute orders based on the Warehouse Manager's requirements for each location
- Prepared complete purchase orders and arranged for specifications on product delivery locations and dates
- Pulls, pushes, or cancels orders per production plans and field requirements
- Ensures materials are available to meet requirements at several customer locations
- Investigated and resolved issues with receiving invoices or suppliers.
Buyer/Planner
Javad EMS
2017.05 - 2018.02
- Purchase materials for ongoing products, use demand reports, identify source plans, and clear to build reports
- Manages NPI requirements by identifying and selecting vendors to procure requisitioned commodities, meeting criteria such as price, quantity, quality, and delivery date, and placing orders
- Writes and distributes bids or requests; receives and analyzes bids, quotes, and proposals
- Minimize, monitor, and dispose of excess and obsolete materials or last time buy components
- Monitor supplier action reports for any delivery or cost changes, as reported by suppliers
- Maintenance of MRP purchasing module data
- Provide material analysis and disposition related to customer Engineering Change Orders
- Resolve invoicing and debit memos with suppliers
- Report Team statistics, as required
- Evaluate all planning/purchasing orders to ensure the most economical quantities are procured and delivered on schedule for production.
LusAmerica Production Manager
Production Manager
2013.05 - 2017.03
- Manages the activities of department supervisors concerning production volume, cost, quality, and delivery deadlines
- Monitor production employees to ensure achievement of financial, safety, quality, and on-time delivery goals
- Plan and establish work schedules and assignments to meet production objectives
- Follow and enforce programs instituted by the Food Safety Manager to ensure a healthful and safe working environment and to comply with Federal and State regulations
- Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment
- Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions
- Ensure effective employee relations
- Confer with management or supervisors to resolve worker problems, complaints, and grievances when necessary
- Interpret specifications, job orders, Company policies, and procedures for workers
- Ensure that established policies, rules, regulations, and procedures are followed
- Assure efficient and economical utilization of materials, improvement of methods, and elimination of wasteful practices
- Organization of fiscal documents.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ01.2021
Bachelor of Science - International Business Administration
California State University
Fresno, CA05.1997
Skills
- Global Procurement
- Staff Training
- Supply Chain Management
- Ordering and Purchasing
- Price Negotiations
- Competitive sourcing
- Supplier Negotiations
- Product procurement
- Industry Expertise
- ERP System Knowledge
- Contract Negotiation
- Continuous process improvements
Certification
- Six Sigma White Belt-2017
- Project Management Essentials
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Buyer
Venture-Backed Stealth Startup
2021.02 - 2023.11
Operations Manager/Company Strategic Buyer/Planner
Solorio and Company
2020.10 - 2022.02
Production Planner - Covid
Mass Precision
2019.10 - 2020.10
Buyer/Planner
LSG Skychefs
2018.11 - 2019.10
Buyer/Planner-Seasonal
Sambrailo
2018.02 - 2018.10
Buyer/Planner
Javad EMS
2017.05 - 2018.02
LusAmerica Production Manager
Production Manager
2013.05 - 2017.03
MBA - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - International Business Administration
California State University
- Six Sigma White Belt-2017
- Project Management Essentials
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