Saundra ODay

• Support needs of users with skill and efficiency in SAP Ariba.

Solicted bids and bought goverment parts for the Navy, submarines and ships. Handled CPSR compliance requirements to the FAR and DFAR regulations for the goverment.

• Set up the first New Production Introduction, NPI group for this division for evacuation slides for Embraer
• Worked with engineering from inception, design, prototype, qualification through the transition to production
• Negotiated contracts for production putting parts on long term contracts
• Hired, trained and mentored new hires and interns

• Buying and planning fabricated machine parts for aerospace planes, helicopters and the Abram's tank engines
• Manage transitions from poorly performing suppliers to preferred suppliers
• Develop and maintain quality relationships with key suppliers
• Maintain 95% or better on time delivery in rapidly changing environment with unstable forecasts
• Resolution of receiving and invoicing issues
• Heavy travel to supplier on the East coast to work recovery efforts with troubled supplier
• Improved this troubled supplier from over a million past, 2% on time delivery, to 100% on time delivery, 98% on time to request by right sizing their capacity, and working to improve drawings saving over 2 million over three years in sayings and millions more in hidden costs, expedites and missed shipments to customers
• Resolution of ongoing problem with Department of Commerce Military Acquisitions on Government Source Inspection issues - received letter from the government to Honeywell who awarded a bravo in 2012
• Numerous awards for cost savings, along with million dollar savings in 2014
• Work with engineering to develop new products and improve existing products
• Worked on a lean team to develop flawless launch program for new products
• Flawless launch allows, new product ISC, I, to be involved from inception through release to production
• This includes reviewing drawings with the supplier and engineering to improve producability, provide cost savings opportunity, design improvement, and review of supplier's capacity ensuring the supplier can handle the capacity and any increase in future opportunity from my customer
• Work with Go Team to help primary suppliers with single source sub-tiers to improve delivery particularly on castings and forgings
• Regular capacity studies of suppliers on probation with the Supplier Design Engineer and Field Quality Engineer
• Highest score on my team for submission of continuous improvement ideas
• Highest score on my team for safety improvement ideas
• Through implementation of Kanban system for class C parts saved $900,000 Through implementation of packaging dock to stock program saved 2.1 million
• Have bought a variety of products from small complex machined parts to fire resistant blankets, to screws, and front frames
• Excelling in Ariba online auctioning with millions in cost savings through the inception of online auctioning
• Wrote and executed contracts

• Owned and operated a startup document preparation business as a paralegal.
• Aggressively pursued contracts through marketing and sales to attorneys and the general public.
• Preparation and filings for client's documents including bankruptcy, divorce, wills and trusts.

• Managed administrative staff for high level purchasing group
• Management of relationships between buyers and sales
• Developed training and retention policy reducing turnover