JUDY KEO
Senior Buyer
Fitchburg,MA
Summary
Senior Buyer with 4 years of progress experience, with a proven track record of success in strategic sourcing, and negotiation. Adept at analyzing market trends, implementing cost-effective procurement strategies and building valuable supplier relationships. Committed to driving operational efficiency, optimizing supply chain processes, and delivering exceptional value to the organization.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Buyer
Segue Manufacturing Services, LLC
01.2023 - 11.2023
- Documented purchasing information in Visual to maintain detailed and accurate records.
- Interfaced with engineering, document control, and accounting disciplines.
- Negotiated policies and contracts with vendors to achieve optimal pricing and consistent availability.
- Dispensed purchase orders to suppliers with accurate pricing, deadlines and terms and conditions.
- Managed and tracked suppliers' performance metrics and on-time delivery.
- Analyzed inventory usage and assessed trends to provide maximum coverage for purchasing and reorder points.
- Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
- Established relationships with vendors to secure competitive pricing and discounts.
Buyer
Boston Semi Equipment
01.2021 - 12.2023
- Materials Administration: analyze MRP forecast and usage, generate, adjusts, and expedite purchase orders based on MRP requirements
- Streamline supply chain processes, optimizing inventory levels and reducing lead times.
- Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
- Developed new strategies to reduce purchasing costs and maintain quality standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement supplier risk management strategies, ensuring supply chain resilience.
- Analyzed current vendors and products to stay abreast of market trends and evaluate new suppliers.
- Negotiating favorable, effective, and precise terms and conditions for price competitiveness while preserving supplier relationships.
- Support Engineering and manufacturing in research and development projects by defining details plans and objectives for each project per organization guidelines.
- Expedite and administer complex international arrangements for the logistics department.
- Interface with Engineering and Manufacturing on EOL items, ECO, and part changes.
- Forecasted purchasing trends and improved merchandising strategies.
- Assist with spares pricing, cost, and modeling to ensure cost advantage.
Test Equipment Coordinator II
Tektronix
01.2016 - 12.2021
- Produce invoices and purchase order requisitions.
- Entered data, generated reports, and produced tracking documents.
- Prepare documents for inventory adjustments, RMA's, and vendor returns and file claims for damaged or factory defects.
- Review customer purchase orders and coordinate with the network lab for services required.
- Perform a variety of coordinating, routing, and inventory management duties to meet manufacturing schedules.
- Identify additional work performed beyond scope of the original quote.
- Track KPI metrics and support data daily.
- Assist in assessments of device failures as part of complaint analysis.
- Conferred with managers, sales teams, and engineering personnel to revise plans and achieve demanding targets.
Buyer
Revertech Solutions
01.2013 - 12.2015
- Collaborate with the purchasing team to develop tactical strategies to improve performance and meet the needs of the department.
- Computed and created purchase orders to monitor stock levels, verify purchase requisitions, and expedite customer orders.
- Administer responsibilities for all returns on non-conforming goods with domestic and international suppliers.
- Expedited Return to Vendor merchandise upon rejection of Quality Control.
- Collaborated with the Engineering department to source parts to their specifications
- Maintain open lines of communication with established suppliers, prospecting clients, and product management to enhance and improve supply alternatives.
- Managed vendor purchase order process including dispatch, delivery, and invoicing to set contractual guidelines and maintain budgetary regulations.
- Reviewed order updates to identify best practices aligned with corporate goals.
- Solved diverse supply chain problems involving numerous sources, logistics, and scheduling factors.
Education
Associate of Science -
Middlesex Community College
BS Business Administration - Organizational Leadership -
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NHMaster Certificate Global Supply Chain/Operations - Global Supply Chain
Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business
East Lansing, MISkills
- Strategic Sourcing
- Negotiating
- Purchasing
- Analyzing MRP Forecast
- Cost Reduction
- Inventory Management
- Cost-Saving Evaluation
- Experience in Foreign and Domestic Sourcing
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Continuous Process Improvements
Timeline
Senior Buyer
Segue Manufacturing Services, LLC
01.2023 - 11.2023
Buyer
Boston Semi Equipment
01.2021 - 12.2023
Test Equipment Coordinator II
Tektronix
01.2016 - 12.2021
Buyer
Revertech Solutions
01.2013 - 12.2015
Associate of Science -
Middlesex Community College
BS Business Administration - Organizational Leadership -
Southern New Hampshire University
Master Certificate Global Supply Chain/Operations - Global Supply Chain
Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business
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