Rhonda Martindale

• Purchase Order Management: Generate purchase orders, track orders, and manage the procurement process from requisition to delivery, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies.
• Freight Audit and Payment: Oversee the freight audit and payment process, ensuring accurate billing and resolving any discrepancies with carriers.
• Route Optimization: Analyze shipping lanes, delivery schedules, and transportation modes to optimize routes and minimize costs while meeting delivery requirements.
• Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels of MRO materials, optimize stock levels to meet demand while minimizing excess inventory and carrying costs.
• Cost Optimization: Continuously seek opportunities to reduce procurement costs through supplier negotiations, alternative sourcing strategies, and process improvements

• Coordinated cross-functional teams to drive improvements in the MRO procurement process.
• Maintained accurate records of all MRO purchases, ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.

•Coordinated and monitored project activities, ensuring compliance with time frames and budgetary constraints.•Developed and maintained comprehensive project schedules, bills of material, and procurement documentation.•Facilitated communication between departments including production, purchasing, and engineering to streamlineprocesses and meet deadlines.•Sourced, evaluated, and onboarded new vendors, overseeing procurement processes to ensure compliance andquality standards.•Generated and issued purchase orders and vendor requests for quotes, mitigating delivery delays and addressingquality issues through corrective actions.•Primary MRO/Facilities Buyer, including RFQ’s and scheduling Maintenance on Machines. Forklifts and Buildingrepairs.

romoted to Sales Operation Manager responsible for supervising the work of 4 individuals at factory and 20outside dealers
•Collaborate closely with dealers to review proposals submitted within Salesforce ensuring margins required bythe company are met.
•Achieved financial objectives by working with Senior Management in preparing annual budget, schedulingexpenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

Responsibility of the after-market parts fulfillment center
•Transform stock organization, streamline process for top10 requested items in order to maximize brands
effectiveness and accuracy of shipments
•Evaluated warranty requests

•Translated mechanical drawings into bill of materials for the purchasing function within 5 business days of an order.•Reviewed Bill of Materials for completeness and ensured no over-purchasing of parts•Actively performed vendor analysis to drive costs down while maintaining quality and delivery times•Responsible for procuring $10 million of parts requiring deep understanding of mechanical nature of each item•Worked closely with accounting, mechanical, and electrical engineers to ensure project needs were fulfilled and budgets were honored•Advised accounting department on financial decisions regarding product costs including negotiating with Vendors on pricing•Integrated the purchasing, BOM builder, project manager roles•Assessed new proposals for manufacturing viability.

Managed over $10 million of parts representing over 5000 unique items including both internally made
stock and items procured external from suppliers
•Ensured incoming and outgoing shipments of materials are recorded into the General Ledger System within 24
•hours
•Closed jobs within three business days of a machine shipping
•Performed and lead annual & periodic physical inventory counts
•Implemented improvement processes and systems to reduce inventory, minimize costs and maximize workflowas well as working capital stock management system to ensure a minimum 95% inventory record accuracy.