Supply Chain Analyst - Solvita - Kettering, OH
(2025-04)
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Excel reports supporting operational, labor, and cost-related decision-making.
- Validate data across ERP, Power BI, and Excel, identifying and resolving inconsistencies to ensure accurate reporting.
- Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports used by leadership for forecasting, planning, and operational reviews.
- Investigate data discrepancies using root-cause analysis and collaborate with cross-functional teams to correct issues.
- Maintain reporting documentation and standardized workflows to ensure accuracy, consistency, and audit readiness.
- Provide timely and accurate data to operations, finance, and planning teams to support labor and cost tracking.
Buyer Planner - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY
(2025-04 - 2025-08)
Expanded role that combined all Production Planning responsibilities with new Buyer functions
- Added ownership of procurement functions, purchasing materials from Parker divisions and external suppliers to support production schedules.
- Negotiated tariffs and pricing agreements to reduce costs and strengthen supply chain resilience.
- Expedited material deliveries and sourced alternates to minimize shortages and prevent production delays.
- Allocated raw and finished goods across multiple production lines to meet delivery and customer targets.
- Maintained MBOM accuracy and revision control within ERP system to support engineering changes and production requirements.
- Processed and managed sales orders, manufacturing orders, and purchase requisitions/POs, ensuring timely fulfillment.
Planner - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY
(2024-04)
- Created and maintained production schedules using Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory methodologies to meet customer demand efficiently.
- Maintained effective cross-functional communication with customer service, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and leadership to align priorities and reduce backlog.
- Implemented stocking parameters and economic order quantities (EOQs) for high-run items to support lean planning, reduce rework for planners and manufacturing, and increase on-time delivery performance for stocked orders.
- Trained and onboarded new team members—including a senior planner with 35+ years of experience and an entry-level LDA—by teaching material flow, planning processes, and ERP system usage, demonstrating leadership early in tenure.
- Led cross-functional alignment between planning and manufacturing by fostering collaboration and co-developing build schedules, improving schedule accuracy and enabling more reliable customer promise dates.
- Supported Supply Chain High Performance Team (HPT) initiatives by documenting planning workflows and creating standardized work instructions, reducing process variability and expediting new hire onboarding.
Supply Chain Leadership Development Associate - Parker Hannifin - Lancaster, NY & Jeffersonville, IN
(2022-06 - 2024-04)
- Completed structured rotations across core supply chain functions—including SIOP, procurement, production planning, logistics, and warehouse operations—developing a well-rounded understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
- Facilitated and managed intercompany transactions between the Parker IGFG division and other U.S.-based Parker divisions to ensure seamless order fulfillment and alignment across business units.
- Collaboratively implemented a Kanban process for buy-and-resell products using PFEP (Plan for Every Part) principles to optimize inventory levels while supporting the successful integration of KanbanBox as a new digital scheduling tool across the facility.
- Reduced logistics costs by supporting freight rate negotiations, lane bidding processes, and benchmarking activities to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Participated in cross-functional Kaizen events focused on continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to planning efforts that identified process inefficiencies and supported workflow enhancements.
Materials Co-Op - Emerson Climate Technologies - Sidney, Ohio
(2021-08 - 2022-01)
- Support Planners with material buying and planning requirements.
- Assist with issuing purchase orders for raw materials and components, expediting orders as needed, and verifying delivery dates.
- Identify and resolve issues that impact on-time delivery due to COVID-19.
- Work in conjunction with production, customer service, sales, suppliers, and procurement to meet customer requirements.
- Manage Kanban's to meet production and inventory targets.
Purchasing Co-Op - Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems - Elyria, Ohio
(2019-12 - 2020-08)
- Managed and maintained over 40 RFQs.
- Entered daily parts information into SAP IBP that totaled over 700 at the end of the Co-Op
- Created PPAP POs and Sample POs in SAP
