SUMMARY A business professional with more than 20 years of progressively increasing responsibility in job costing, purchasing, training and supervision. Led continuous process improvement of purchasing policies and procedures while evaluating the cost effectiveness and efficiency on productivity. Experienced in delivering value through design and execution that support business strategy and growth. ACCOMPLISHMENTS * Responsible for decreasing on hand inventories by 60%. Included in that number, decreasing obsolete items and lowering days on hand * Successfully implemented a JIT program on packaging components * Decreased outside storage inventories and cost by 60% by implementing JIT program lowering on hand volumes to be more realistic to need and utilizing available space within own facility * Assisted in implementing and training co-workers on MRP system * Implemented a Supplier Approval Program to fit needs for SQF compliance

Highlights:

• Pricing
• Management
• Project Management
• Buying
• Inventory
• Inventory management
• Product Development
• Purchasing
• Forecasting
• Accounting
• purchasing management
• manufacturing
• steel
• production
• "project management"
• reliability