Purchasing & Inventory Manager - PS Industries
(2019-01)
Perform daily direct and indirect purchasing and procurement functions to meet production and operational needs.
- Since 2025, utilized CRU metal market indexes to obtain 15.95% in cost savings on carbon, stainless, and aluminum material when negotiating contracts with metal distributors.
- Purchased over $60 million in inventory.
- Perform procurement cost reduction strategies and spend analytics.
- Perform demand forecasting analytics.
- Manage the companywide procurement budget.
- Create work orders for outside services (e.g., galvanizing, anodizing, CNC parts, and hardware kit assemblies).
- Provide material certification and chemical analysis documentation for government agency contracts that must meet American Iron and Steel (AIS) and The Buy America Act (BABA) requirements.
- Supplier management.
- Negotiate contract costs and payment terms with suppliers.
- Oversee daily cycle counting, weekly metal counts, and monthly finished good counts.
- Developed and implemented vendor performance metrics. Identify room for improvement in terms of on-times deliveries and reduction of quality related nonconformances.
- Created 'Inventory Integrity' report to aid in category management.
- Developed and implemented lead time tool in ERP software to more accurately calculate order and reorder quantities that maximum inventory certainty.
- Revised order-reorder calculation system by setting usage limits on assigned certainty factors (i.e., Z-Scores), as well as utilize months' supply calculations to optimize appropriate safety stock levels.
- Created inventory sort codes to streamline the process of identifying items that require outside services.
- Perform mass inventory database updates via SQL statements.
- Meet with design, engineering, and R&D teams to determine optimal inventory quantities for new products, as well as inventory reduction strategies for soon to be obsolete products.
- Inform design, manufacturing, engineering, and sales teams of item and material cost increases. Suggest solutions to reduce cost (e.g., produce items in-house with stock material).
- Monitor item cost percentage changes over time via database supported Excel reports.
- Monitor overall inventory value.
- Identify and scrap aged inventory in ERP software, as well as coordinate the disposal of material with the warehouse team.
- Set up new items and vendors in ERP.
- Coordinate inventory organization with warehouse and shopfloor personnel.
- Perform regular maintenance on items by deactivating aged inventory, as well as making sure items have the proper product lines, sort codes, vendor information, and sources (e.g., purchase to stock, purchase to job, manufactured to stock, and manufactured to job).
- Participate in internal company audits, as well as ISO-9001:2015 audits.
- Manage purchasing & inventory coordinators and warehouse team.
- Conduct interviews and hire new employees.
- Train new employees.
- Conduct quarterly employee reviews.
- Balance daily time punches.
- Approve PTO requests.
Inventory Analyst - PS Industries
(2018-05 - 2018-12)
- Developed new daily cycle counting procedure that focuses on ABC usage and using smaller sampling methods to ensure accuracy in reporting, as well as leave time for investigation.
- Decreased 2017 year-end inventory loss from $135,000 to $480 for 2018 (99.64% reduction).
- Inventory accuracy levels at or near 100% from May 2018 to December 2018.
- Create purchase orders for raw materials, parts, and outside services.
- Coordinate all cycle counting activities.
- Update inventory master values.
- Remove obsolete, damaged, and vendor credited items from inventory through the quality system.
- Troubleshoot and expose the root cause of inventory discrepancies, and communicate findings with design, sales, production planning, and shop floor teams to ensure problems do not occur again.
- Work with production planning and designers to resolve inventory quantity and material problems on work orders.
- Alert purchasing department when inventory levels fall below reorder points.
- Share inventory adjustment documentation with operations and accounting staff, displaying quantity, percentage, and accuracy fluctuations.
- Lead in developing and maintaining inventory organization in all areas of the shop floor.
- Analyze inventory quantity and cost variances.
- Calculate and analyze inventory turns.
- Prepare and analyze forecasting reports.
- Set up new inventory items.
- Set up and assign stocking bins.
- Label and relabel stocking bins, as well as perform inventory transfers.
- Manage warehouse team.
- Conduct interviews and hire new employees.
- Train new employees.
- Conduct quarterly employee reviews.
- Balance daily time punches.
- Approve PTO requests.
Inventory Coordinator - Acme Tools
(2015-03 - 2018-05)
- Obtained an additional 5% discount on all Air-Tow trailer orders for Acme Tools.
- Increased inventory turns by 84.7% and reduced aged inventory by 79.2%.
- Obtained over $1.5 million in Kubota invoice savings by applying for various sales incentives and rebates.
- Created and entered purchase orders for service, sales, and rental departments.
- Created return purchase orders and shipped items back to vendors.
- Ordered equipment, parts, and retail items for sales, rental, and service departments, as well as other store locations.
- Fulfilled backorders.
- Ordered direct shipments for E-Commerce equipment customers.
- Updated sales staff and customers on order statuses.
- Entered purchase order confirmations.
- Ran open purchase order reports and checked on order statuses with vendors.
- Negotiated invoice terms and item costs with vendors.
- Requested order quotes from vendors.
- Identified new vendors to purchase equipment and parts at lower costs.
- Contacted vendors on shortage and damage claims, as well as invoice term and cost discrepancies.
- Ran aged inventory and sales reports.
- Calculated inventory turns.
- Prepared and analyzed profit margin equipment sales reports.
- Prepared and analyzed company-wide quarterly Kubota sales reports for Financial Controller.
- Subscribed to vendor items on Edgenet.
- Set up new equipment, retail, and service items in S2K.
- Changed vendor and list prices for items in S2K by obtaining current price sheets from vendors.
- Updated item information in item maintenance and deactivated obsolete items in S2K.
- Processed E-Commerce equipment sales orders.
- Shipped E-Commerce equipment sales orders via various ground and freight carriers.
- Gathered freight broker quotes to ensure the most cost-effective shipping methods.
- Received purchase order items into inventory.
- Entered and received store transfers.
- Labeled inventory items.
- Corrected serial number inconsistencies in S2K.
- Cycle counted inventory and adjusted discrepancies.
- Entered and billed out customer orders.
- Managed company-wide floor plan inventories for Kubota and Land Pride.
- Electronically paid for whole goods and open account invoices for all Acme Kubota and Land Pride dealers.
- Registered serialized Kubota equipment.
- Entered and processed Kubota finance contracts for all Acme locations.
- Contacted Kubota Credit Corporation to resolve funding issues with finance contracts.
- Corrected item and customer information, as well as accounting discrepancies, on Kubota finance contracts.
- Matched, entered, and coded invoices, credit memos, and debit memos in S2K.
- Kubotalink website administrator for all Acme dealer locations.
- Trained sales, service, and rental staff on inventory management software.
Distribution Center Associate - Acme Tools
(2013-07 - 2015-03)
- Picked, verified, and shipped internet customer orders via UPS, FedEx, and various freight carriers.
- Received inbound freight via RF scanning technology.
- Identified and resolved purchase order and inventory discrepancies by effectively communicating with warehouse management, buyers, and E-Commerce employees.
- Provided excellent customer service when answering long-distance radio calls and pulling orders for the retail store.
- Trained lead and associate warehouse employees on shipping and receiving procedures.
- Received warranty transfers from retail stores.
- Assisted the warranty department in returning items to vendors, as well as processing online returns and warranty claims.
- Performed general warehouse upkeep.
