Loreen DePerna

• Monitored delivery schedules to ensure timely receipt of products.
• Provided administrative support in preparing reports on purchasing activities.
• Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
• Collaborated with internal departments to better understand needs and determine purchasing requirements.
• Forecasted purchasing trends and improved merchandising strategies.
• Developed and improved account relationships.

• Assisted in sourcing and evaluating suppliers for product selection.
• Conducted market research to identify trends and pricing strategies.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on purchasing needs.
• Maintained accurate records of purchase orders and inventory levels.
• Supported negotiations with vendors to secure favorable terms and conditions.
• Utilized procurement software to track orders and manage supplier relationships.

• Places purchase orders to secondary operation vendors for most cost-effective savings
• Introduced new vendors to lighten load on a back logged machine
• Works closely with accounting to assist in forecasting
• Helped set up VMI for shipping and packing, resulting in a 25% cost reduction

• Strategically places tooling orders for outsource or machine inside
• Grow the outsource business to reduce lead times and backlog of work
• Negotiate contracts to get best pricing out of family of parts
• Reduced costly part by 23%, fitting a vendor which better suits manufacturing of part
• Works closely with production manager to ensure on time delivery for outsourced parts

• Prepare purchase orders and review bids for all machined components

• Ordered all electrical components
• Assisted in setting up a Kanban system, creating greater quantities to order at once, resulting in lower prices, and fewer PO’s which produces lower overhead costs.
• Brought in a larger vendor base, we were able to receive a wider variety of pricing on machined components, getting our prices lower and having other prices to compare our current costs to in order to make sure they are in check.
• Set up a VMI and substituted comparable manufacturers for a 20% cost savings, able to do so with having a vast knowledge of electrical and manufacturing back round.
• Negotiated a 10% reduction in cost for all machined parts in a tightly budgeted project