Rachel Pharris
Fort Worth,Texas
Summary
Buyer with over 5 years of experience. Well-versed in planning and executing daily and special inventory buys. Proficient in purchasing and procurement environments. Expert at supporting businesses with high-quality, reliable goods delivered on consistent schedule.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Corporate Product Buyer
TTI, Inc.
08.2022 - Current
- Maintains inventory within company goals and minimizes stock-outs of A & B items
- Considers a variety of purchasing related decision factors, including but not limited to, lead time, mover code, pricing, customer requirements and sales history to modify or approve purchase orders
- Works closely with Product Operations or Product Manager to review and approve new part number set-ups and sequence legends
- Effectively supports sales to increase business by providing assistance as requested, including but not limited to; processing hot buys, recommending substitutions, and pulling in orders
- Ensures on-time delivery to customers from suppliers in a pro-active manner by contacting suppliers to expedite deliveries as needed
- Processes and resolves accounting, receiving and customer rejected concerns in an expeditious manner by researching the issue, determining appropriate resolution and by providing disposition for nonconforming product to the appropriate parties.
Buyer
Hollman, Inc.
Irving, TX
01.2021 - 08.2022
- Enter purchase orders per the material management system as needed
- Collect order acknowledgements from suppliers
- Research and resolve pricing disputes
- Identify and drive cost reduction opportunities
- Supports Sales and Project Managers
- Monitors internal min/max levels and vendor safety stock to maximize inventory turns while ensuring material availability
- Resolves problems related to poor product quality, order inconsistencies, and damaged products
- Established and maintains good vendor relationships.
Operations Administrative Assistant, Purchasing Assistant
Ventura Foods
Saginaw, TX
06.2016 - 12.2020
- Processes and distributes daily production schedule
- Maintains and distributes daily reports pertaining to plant labor, schedule evaluation, scheduled vs
- Produced, production audits, schedule attainment
- Works with outside storage warehouses to ensure pallet, product information is correct
- MRO purchasing for Plant
- Enters purchase orders, requisitions and maintains supplies inventory for manufacturing plant
- Works directly with distribution, production, planning and management to achieve plant goals.
Program Assistant
Photo Etch
Fort Worth, TX
01.2015 - 06.2016
- Performs and completes order entry
- Upon receipt of PO, assembles relevant information and functional teams for Contract Review
- Maintain filing records of customer orders
- Evaluate and maintain the accuracy of customer orders (backlog)
- Provide all required reports related to customer bookings, delinquencies, performance measures and part shortages
- Reviews customer portals daily and processes all requests and actions accordingly
- Enters schedules in the MRP in accordance with customer promise dates
- Releases orders to manufacturing in a timely manner with all required documentation included in shop packet
- Ensures production supplies checklists are reviewed and completed in a timely manner
- Reviews materials daily to ensure kits are released to the production floor on time
- Performs all transactions and reports required for MRP month end close outs.
SMART Coordinator/Customer Service Representative
Martin-Brower L.L.C
Roanoke, TX
03.2004 - 12.2014
- Managed Promotions for over 700 McDonalds restaurants
- Responsible for purchasing all LTOs and overseeing that they were delivered to each participating restaurant on time
- Resolved food cost issues at the restaurant level
- This included updates on inventory items that had price and/or WRIN updates
- Maintained monthly company newsletter and inventory list (sent out to customers)
- Issued credit for items missing or damaged on or at delivery
- Researched any invoice discrepancies that were called in by the restaurant
- Issued customer pickups and finalized those credits upon return
- Documented all customer inquiries to ensure accurate credit data
- Worked with vendors on any customer concerns on product that may be defected
- Worked with management to resolve any inventory issues
- This included monitoring inventory on LTOs and new products coming into the DC.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Supply Chain Management
Texas Wesleyan University
Fort Worth, TX01.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX01.2018
Skills
- Strong verbal communication
- Risk management processes and analysis
- Freight and scheduling software
- Software applications relating to inventory control
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Customer Focus
- Purchasing Processes
- Verbal and written communication
- Relationship Building
- Purchasing strategies
- Strategic Planning
- Reliability
- Critical Thinking
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Problem-solving abilities
- Strategic negotiation
Timeline
Corporate Product Buyer
TTI, Inc.
08.2022 - Current
Buyer
Hollman, Inc.
01.2021 - 08.2022
Operations Administrative Assistant, Purchasing Assistant
Ventura Foods
06.2016 - 12.2020
Program Assistant
Photo Etch
01.2015 - 06.2016
SMART Coordinator/Customer Service Representative
Martin-Brower L.L.C
03.2004 - 12.2014
Master of Business Administration - Supply Chain Management
Texas Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
Texas Christian University