Olga Maritza Estevez
Haverhill,USA
Summary
Accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic procurement and planning, notably at Hewlett-Packard Co. Demonstrated expertise in SAP and strong analytical skills, leading to a 25% reduction in lead times. Committed to operational excellence and efficiency, with a focus on driving innovative procurement strategies.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Procurement Specialist II
Xylem/Evoqua Water Technolgy Co.
Tewksbury, MA
09.2016 - Current
- Participated in monthly SIOP meeting and Tier 1 and Tier 3 board
- Facilitate the implementation of product line transfer and consolidation across company divisions.
- Manage the MRO procurement process for facilities and engineering.
- Utilize SAP to create and monitor purchase orders, and process purchase change orders to meet inventory targets.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Quality Control, and Suppliers to resolve all quality issues (NCR/SCAR).
- Monitor and manage inventory turns. Report the status on backorders in Tier 1 and Tier 2 meetings.
- Manage vendor on-time delivery report and scorecard.
- Monitor procurement and material master data accuracy in SAP.
- Manage the subcontract process of inventory parts to the subcontractor for external manufacturers
- Responsible for sourcing products when needed.
- Develop production planning forecasts, procure-to-pay processes, including accounts payable resolution.
- Collaborate with the S5 program to simplify processes.
- Managed relationships with key suppliers by regularly communicating updates about pricing changes or new products
- Provided training sessions on procurement processes and procedures for staff members.
- Reviewed and approved vendor invoices.
Production Planning/Procurement Specialist II
Materion Technical Materials
Lincoln , RI
- Analyze and execute production data to forecast demand variations, adjusting inventory procurement to stabilize production flow, and avoid a potential loss in revenue.
- Optimized production schedules using SAP, leading to a 25% reduction in lead times.
- Generates purchasing requisitions and schedules production orders based on forecasts and immediate needs.
- Resolves customer quality complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions, preparing reports, and making recommendations to stakeholders.
- Contribute to the engineering and production team.
- Analyze production dates, market trends, and forecasting using MRP to develop production plans.
- Monitor inventory levels to avoid production shortages, providing recommendations to Procurement.
- Release, maintain, and manage production orders based on the forecast and production schedule.
- Collaborate with Engineering on the design specifications for suppliers and customers to meet purchase and sales goals for day-to-day operations.
- Cross-functional interface with Finance, Supply Chain, and Engineering to.
Business Operations Mgr - ProcurementPlanning Lead
Hewlett-Packard Co
Andover, MA
- Regional, - managing SAP system and process implementations for America's HPS
- Update the process documentation for Procurement, Material Planning, and Commodity and Supplier Management functionalities.
- Operations support to resolve configuration issues, together with IT, to identify root cause and solutions.
- SAP Super User – MM, APO, and SD; Test Lead for E2E User AT; Test script creation and execution.
- Procurement/Planning Regional lead of migration from SAP ECC 5.0 to 6.0, and successfully replaced legacy systems with SAP, APO, BW/HANA in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.
- Identify procurement and material planning business requirements for SAP implementations.
- Liaison between business operations and IT for end-to-end supply chain.
- Master Data setup/maintenance to support NA Region
- Solid process development and implementation.
- Standardization of processes within global and cross-functional organizations to drive efficiency and effectiveness, including process simplification.
- Training curriculum development and delivery for Purchsing/Plannning
- Cross-functional interface with IT, business, manufacturing operations, and third-party partners to provide requirements for the SAP upgrade.
Supplier/Commodity Manager
Hewlett-Packard Co
Andover, MA
- Responsible for strategic procurement and planning, and managing all interactions with third-party vendors that supply goods and/or services, maximizing the value of the interactions with those companies.
- Created closer, more collaborative relationships with key suppliers to uncover and realize new value, and reduce risk within the Procurement function.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and partners.
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers.
- Evaluate and manage suppliers for quality, pricing, and delivery performance.
- Contract Revision – Renegotiate pricing, payment terms, and pricing with suppliers when needed.
- Monitors contracts to ensure that vendors comply with contractual terms and conditions.
- Ensure to track, measure, report, and evaluate vendor performance – Report Card.
- Coordinate all vendor management tasks, inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees.
- Collaborate with IT areas to ensure vendor partners effectively manage, plus contracts are completely leveraged.
- Process documentation based on business requirements and system capabilities.
- Risk assessment to determine where changes are needed.
- Interface with IT to make sure the requirements were configured in SAP.
- Team member of the migration from legacy systems to SAP ERP in the US and MX.
- Business Controls audit lead for buyer/planning functionality.
- Department lead for compliance initiatives, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO.
- Procurement liaison for contract implementation in SAP and APO – compile requirements, data migration/integrity on both systems.
- Create/close Sales Orders in APO/ATP – follow the order through the end-to-end supply chain process, making sure it’s delivered to the customer on time.
- Strategic procurement for different commodities.
Purchasing/planning Trainer
- Using system and process
- Process documentation based on business requirements and system capabilities
- Risk assessment to determine where changes were needed
- Interface with IT to make sure requirements were configured in SAP
- Accounts Payable resolutions
- Team member of Migration from Legacy Systems to SAP ERP in US and MX
- Business Controls audit lead for buyer/planning functionality
- Department lead for compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO
- Procurement liaison for Contract implementation in SAP and APO – Compile requirements, data migration/integrity on both systems
- Create/close Sales Orders in APO/ATP – follow the order through the End-End Supply Chain process making sure it’s delivered to customer on time
- Ensure data is maintained correctly in the SAP and APO systems for accurate plans and schedules accuracy
Senior Buyer/Planner Analyst
Hewlett-Packard Co
- Perform buyer and material planning
- Responsible for and manages purchasing, materials requirements planning, supplier relationship management, product life cycle, RFQ/RFP
- Monitor plans and schedules to determine inventory needs
- Run daily MRP reporting queries for available to sell, purchase order management, inventory management, data analysis and customer orders
- Generate, monitor forecasts and schedules for Supplier Fulfillment Centers (SFC) subcontract and create/maintain annual purchase orders, production orders and requisitions utilizing SAP
- Generates requisitions and purchase orders based on MRP requirements
- Maintain data integrity in operating inventory system to ensure ordering accuracy
- Determine and develop appropriate sources of supply and maintain contact with vendors
- Prepare bid requests and specifications
- Negotiate pricing, delivery, terms and conditions with suppliers
- Place of purchase orders with suppliers based on requirements
- Supply Chain to facilitate timely and accurate processing of purchase orders and delivered products
- Monitor Backorder report providing regular updates and reports to management identifying potential issues
- Interface with cross-functional teams, engineering, production, quality control, to develop and meet schedules and goals targets
- Participate with engineering on ECOs and implementing ECO directives for materials, including purging stock, repair, scrap with suppliers and in-house
- Expedite, follow up with suppliers to improve or confirm expected delivery dates as required
- Manage Purchase Orders and production orders for specific commodities
- Monitor vendor compliance with all terms and conditions of the purchase order
- Determine and prepare inventory stock for obsolescence packages – work with warehouse, logistics, finance to obsolete products on a quarterly basis.
Education
Bachelors of Arts - Business Administration and Management, General
Greenville College
Skills
- Work well in stressful and fast paced environment
- Excellent customer service skills
- Coordinating shipping programs and managing the delivery of company products and services
- Good computer application skills, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- SAP, Business Warehouse, Master Data - PLM, Planning, MRP
- Excellent analytical skills
- Advanced cross-functional relationships
- A positive individual and a hard worker
- Ability to manage a diverse and deadline-oriented workflow
- Fluent in English and Spanish
- More than 20 years of experience
- SAP expertise in procurement and planning modules
- Contracts and Material Production Planning
- Sox Compliance
- SAP Master Data Management
- Production Planning Strategy
- Strategic procurement processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, developing solutions
- Indirect spend management and negotiations
- MRP demand forecasting requirements
- Purchase order creation and management
- Support budget development, contract negotiations, and all other procurement and planning operations
- Process improvements
- Proficiency in SAP ERP
Timeline
Procurement Specialist II
Xylem/Evoqua Water Technolgy Co.
09.2016 - Current
Production Planning/Procurement Specialist II
Materion Technical Materials
Business Operations Mgr - ProcurementPlanning Lead
Hewlett-Packard Co
Supplier/Commodity Manager
Hewlett-Packard Co
Purchasing/planning Trainer
Senior Buyer/Planner Analyst
Hewlett-Packard Co
Bachelors of Arts - Business Administration and Management, General
Greenville College
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