Experience

Montupet

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sr. Project Buyer-MRO

  • Mar 2007 - Present

  Service all departments, with purchasing needs and develop the following responsibilities:• Responsible for acquiring all MRO for plant. • Evaluate department requirements (production, engineering, RH). • Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans. • Standardized payment terms net 30 days.• Update supplier records, and inventory control • Negotiate price and lead-times reduction while improving or maintaining the level of quality. • Negotiate all contract and scheduling agreements for assigned commodities.• Follow-up on placed orders, bring all open PO's to a closure and fulfillment on-time and under-budget. • Support engineering team on all future and open projects.• Diversify supplier-base management• Achieve savings of over $90,000 usd in less than 6 months in all indirect articles and projects.



Austin Powder

• United States
• Mining
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Purchasing Manager

  • Aug 2005 - Mar 2007

  Analyses manufacturing plant requirements and supplies all raw material accordingly, responsible for the acquisition, ground, train and air logistics (customs clearance) and delivery on time. Leader of purchasing team and responsible of managing work load between team members to service all indirect (NPR) requirements needed for the manufacturing plant like maintenance, spare parts, tools, machined parts, etc. • Standardized payment terms and raised the % of suppliers from 25% to 80% on 30 day net payment terms.• Implemented requisitions follow-up system, with all the purchasing team members to track and give updated information to clients and users. • Reorganized purchasing department, setting goals to raise the level of service to our internal customer and keep accounts payable under control at the same time. Managing to accomplish all requirements purchased in less than 2 weeks.• Key team member of the SAP ERP system implementation, that will help maintain control of whs inventory and there fore have a better requiring planning method.• Stared up SIX Sigma project to reduce suppliers lead time and reduce manufacturing plant’s emergencies.



GENERAL ELECTRIC Consumer and Industrial

• Customer Service Representative

  • Aug 2004 - Aug 2005

  Principal link between customer and manufacturing plant. Analyses customer requirements to meet plants capacity, and provides promise dates deliveries to customer with shipping information making sure promises are kept. Responsible for maintaining a performance Indicator of 5 day range between customer request date and plant delivery date. • 50% Reduction in expedited models by opening a communication channel between client and manufacturing plant with a file used as a monitoring tool and creating a team working environment.• Achieved 100% - 24 hr. feedback to customers on expedited lines by constant communication and priority alignment with scheduling, purchasing, production and logistics teams.• Reduced SPAN from 47 days (4th quarter, 2004) to 27 days (FW4, 2005) by monitoring and analyzing past due orders throughout the supply chain.• Increased RK from 88% (4th quarter, 2004) to 92% (FW4, 2005) by monitoring YTB orders and following up with inventory releasing at FG’s warehouses.• Reduced past due orders with inventory at warehouse from $500K to average $50K by following up with CAS’s and Whse teams to release orders on time



LG-PHILIPS DISPLAYS

• Sr. Commodity Buyer----Buyer, MRO

  • May 2001 - Jul 2004

  Planed and directed the purchasing and inventory control activities for an international Joint-Venture manufacturing operations between Philips and LG, which included: evaluating functional departmental requirements (materials, engineering); developing and implementing strategic sourcing plans; diversified supplier-base management, updating supplier quality records, and inventory control and reduction through supplier negotiations such as Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and consignment agreements.• Successfully started up and installed all the production lines, along with team members. • Successfully negotiated all contract and scheduling agreements for assigned commodities.• Scouted for and developed new ISO-9000 qualified sources that enabled us to obtain price reductions and reduce lead-times while improving or maintaining the level of quality.• Skillfully followed-up on placed orders, bringing all open PO.s to a closure and fulfillment on-time and under-budget within a 20-day period.• SAP super user.