Michele Langhorst
CA
Summary
Enthusiastic and motivated professional with extensive experience in project coordination, special events, customer service, and administrative support. Demonstrated success in managing and evaluating the design, development, and coordination of projects over a span of 10 years. Skilled at working in a culturally diverse environment, responding to changing conditions and priorities. Known as an aggressive self-starter, active listener, quick learner, proficient communicator, and problem solver with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Planner
Teledyne
01.2023 - Current
- Draws up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders
- Plans and schedules workflow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times
- Confers with department supervisors to determine the status of assigned projects
- Prepares production reports
- Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions
- Maintains timely control of orders, amendments, shipping notices, and other documents to assure accurate retention of records.
Warehouse Analyst
Siemens Mobility
- Working under direction of WH Logistics to reconcile purchase order (PO) receipts to align with supplier invoices in SAP using receiving and material transfer order functionality in SAP
- Evaluating existing and provided receipt documentation to confirm PO Items, Materials, and Quantities align with invoices and transactions in SAP
- Moving receiving transactions between purchase order items while maintaining the accuracy of the warehouse managed inventory bin stock locations and quantities in SAP
- Coordinating with warehouse logistics operations to perform cycle counts of physical materials across various storage bins
- Communicating transaction status and information requests with order management and invoicing teams
- Understanding and following company and industry safety rules, practices, and procedures
- Ability to unearth insights and communicate analytics with multiple platforms.
Planner
Siemens Mobility
- Analyze supplier invoices and purchase order, to resolve discrepancies
- Reconciliation and research on Past Due Invoices
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, delivery, and invoice issues
- Coordinate with AP for payment related topics and reconciliation
- Communicate with various departments to resolve Receiving issue
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures
- Escalate the approval process for urgent order placement
- Interpret internal / external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
Purchasing Agent
Building Engineering and Maintenance
- Manage the entire bid process, from bid set-up through negotiation, bid award and contract execution with suppliers and all providers
- Negotiate, finalize the details of the contract, produce and follow up on Trade Partner & Vendor contracts
- Understand and perform the techniques of Should Costs
- Should Costs methodology is a different approach to traditional bidding
- It is completed with a collaborative effort with trade and supply partners where there is complete visibility to costs
- It is a method of understanding each component of a bid to reduce or maintain costs
- Setting up new vendors
- Organize and maintain material bids and takeoffs for each product
- Manage all contract documents including the preparation of plans and documentation for bid process, verify accuracy and completeness of all documents including complete option list
- Responsible for all aspects of assigned categories/cost codes
- Perform cost per square footage and budget comparisons
- Audit and analyze existing trades and suppliers, on a regular basis, to ensure best price and pursue cost saving opportunities as they arise
- Target bid and negotiate as needed per policy
- Maintaining electronic trade partner files and regular vendor files (originals)
- Maintaining specifications and assist with rebate submittals
- Maintaining scopes of work
- Check plans against contract, computer take off and plan master
- Attend frame walks providing pricing and product expertise
- Understand construction codes by city entities
- Review and approve variances, provides variance analysis.
Buyer
Brand Energy and Infrastructure
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise, machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or services necessary at the lowest price and in correct amounts to meet manufacturing and branch operational needs
- Evaluate vendors on their ability to deliver products in a timely, cost-effective, and quality manner and make recommendations for changes in source of supply where appropriate
- Prepare purchase orders (POS), and review requisitions for goods and services
- Research and evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history
- Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, and in the event of problems trace shipments handle vendor discussions to determine corrective actions
- Follow-up undelivered goods or services when defective or unacceptable good or services are provided.
Buyer/Planner
Landsberg Orora
- Utilized SAP Purchasing and Planning system in order to buy products needed to full-fill customers packaging needs
- Monitor inventory and storage of packaging materials and labels for customer production needs
- Manage and be accountable for stock levels and inventory turns performance for all Distribution Centers
- Responsible for materials availability and stock levels at Company Distribution Centers and Branch Installation Warehouses
- Analyze and assess demand for packaging products production projects.
Project Manager /Purchasing Agent
Fluoresco Lighting & Signs
- Set up and maintained Governmental Job Order Contracts with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
- Principle duties include but not limited to: Purchasing and management of all purchased materials
- Creating and dispersing all job invoice packets
- Creating and maintaining all project 'as built audits'
- Work with vendors to manage the timing of project and deadlines
- Maintain listing of sales materials, updating quarterly/as needed
- Share responsibility for key decisions such as vendor selection, guidance on selecting equipment to best meet customer needs
- Point of contact for overall project
- This includes scope of work review, risk assessment & management, project planning, estimating, tracking, reporting, internal & external customer communications
- Managed the success of installations
- Process change orders, releasing equipment, filing, Certificate of Insurance & Warranty Letters
- Apply for permits and business licenses.
Education
MBA -
University of Phoenix
Sacramento, CA12.2003
Skills
- ERP: SAP, AS400, Nextgen
- Office: Office XP, Publisher, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
- Contract Management: Progen Government Job Order Contract System, Government Contracts and Procurement
- Project Management/Coordination: Microsoft Projects Master Planning and Scheduling, Implementation of ISO Procedures
Timeline
Planner
Teledyne
01.2023 - Current
Warehouse Analyst
Siemens Mobility
Planner
Siemens Mobility
Purchasing Agent
Building Engineering and Maintenance
Buyer
Brand Energy and Infrastructure
Buyer/Planner
Landsberg Orora
Project Manager /Purchasing Agent
Fluoresco Lighting & Signs
MBA -
University of Phoenix
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