Katherine Henning

Purchasing:

• Implemented processes for ensuring compliance with purchasing policies and procedures.
• Reviewed existing contracts for renewal opportunities or areas of improvement and cost savings.
• Provided guidance to junior team members regarding purchasing procedures and best practices.
• Implemented purchasing strategies to cut costs and improve efficiency.
• Developed strategic partnerships with key suppliers through regular communication and collaboration.
• Prepared purchase orders, solicited bid proposals and reviewed requisitions for goods and services.
• Managed vendor disputes effectively utilizing problem solving skills while protecting company interests.
• Processed payment requests for approved purchases promptly according to established timelines.
• Understand, interpret, explain, and apply applicable federal, state, and local policies, laws, and regulations
• Assists in system upgrade testing and system implementations
• Coordinated with legal department to ensure contracts were in compliance with laws and regulations.

Facilities/Lease Administration:

• Review and abstract lease agreements into the lease database.
• Manages, reviews, and maintains lease financial information and inputs into lease database
• Manages security deposit payments and records, initiates security deposit adjustments and refunds
• Maintains lease documentation in database and lease files
• Requests, provides, and maintains insurance documentation as required by landlords
• Prepares and provides accounting with monthly rent payment details and adjustments
• Performs monthly reconciliation of landlord statements, liaises with property managers/landlords to ensure financial accuracy, and resolves discrepancies
• Reconciles and manages CAM, OE and Tax reconciliations ensuring accuracy and timely payment or credit throughout the year as needed, and at year end
• Monitors critical dates and advises Facility Director
• Keeps detailed and organized records of all lease transactions
• Prepares and distributes lease related reports and summaries to Facilities and Finance
• Manages lease/office work order invoices and ensures prompt payments
• Assists in initiating and onboarding new storage facility leases
• Manages storage container inventory and monthly payment reconciliations
• Generates year end reconciliation statements for Exponent tenants
• Assists Facilities Managers with facility related purchases ensuring compliance with lease terms, insurance requirements, and purchasing policies
• Acts as liaison between local office staff and facility managers
• Assists in system upgrade testing and system implementations

• Developed, implemented and responsible for purchasing, inventory control, shipping and receiving, project, and contracting systems and functions
• Identified and realized areas of cost savings and eliminated or reduced services/products to eliminate unnecessary costs
• Assumed responsibility and streamlined process for inter-company work
• Established/strengthened relationships with key vendors/subsidiary counterparts
• Instrumental in establishing and conducting monthly program/project review and management analysis programs
• Negotiated contracts
• Issued, administered and monitored government contracts to ensure compliance
• Implemented MRP and Accounting systems

• Developed six month rolling average, seasonalized forecasting system
• Increased and maintained fill rate from 89% to 96%
• Adjusted MRP system parameters to better serve the business
• Created ROP/ROQ system for all locations
• Identified and returned $85,000 in excess inventory
• Instrumental in devising overseas purchasing/delivery plan
• Responsible for production control/planning
• Developed and maintained MRP reports to manage business

• Responsible for manufacturing planning and control process including: production planning, inventory management, MRP, production control, purchasing, warehousing
• Created centralized purchasing function resulting in annualized savings of $850,000
• Implemented inventory control system, improving physical inventory count to 99.8% accuracy
• Developed reporting model of forecast to actual sales/inventory to determine necessary adjustments to production plan
• Coordinated production plan to accommodate three separate marketing divisions

• Created and maintained production plan
• Responsible for directing activities of purchasing and inventory control departments
• Responsible for determining and maintaining field service inventory requirements
• Implement and maintain inventory control system
• Provided monthly manpower, profitability and financial analysis reports
• Instrumental in implementing and maintaining computer and software systems
• Oversee and assist A/P and AIR functions, month end financial statements and reporting for 2 subsidiary companies
• Set up and responsible for payroll system

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• Emphasis on branch office operations and management of branch employees
• Coordinated sales, office and delivery functions
• Assisted customers with invoice, credit and product problems