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0-5 years of experience
Applied leadership experience across a range of logistics functions in forecasting, inventory management, transportation and customer service.
- Identified customer ordering opportunities and saved on wasted and over 150K on transportation expensive
- Assisted the Sales team to achieve revenue goals by providing revenue analyst reports on a weekly and monthly basis
- Maintained a 1.6 billion dollar customer accounts using Vendor Managed Inventory
- Supported the addition of Cadbury Company integration with Kraft system by running varies test scripts
- Planned direct store deliveries from warehouse with a 99% successful rate with on time delivers
0-5 years of experience
Day-to-day management of Government property under joint contract between Raytheon/ Lockheed Martin and also assistant manager of 10+ employees under sanitation and housekeeping operations.
- Authored job instructions for SAP and equipment operations; quickly lead veteran property team in innovative ways to utilize computer programs and SAP-error rate decreased by 25%
- Generated, researched and analyzed historical data records; lead to recovered assets valued at over $250,000.
- Conducted physical inventory, developed and mapped out strategic plans; highest inventory accuracy rate for two consecutive years at over 98%–first time in company’s history.
- Trained and assigned daily task for Raytheon property personnel and approving official for time management resources under joint contract-deterred fraud, waste, and abuse
0-5 years of experience
Improved the planning process of low volume high mix aftermarket parts by using value stream mapping, as a result improving DSA from 60 to 90%
- Forecasted sporadic demand of service parts and determined optimal safety stock levels of materials which led to a 10% reduction in inbound and outbound premium freight
- Created matrices for costing manufacturing of aftermarket parts after they are out of current production- these matrices took into account the life cycle of products and the cost involved in manufacturing them at different stages
- Created the sales, operations and inventory management plan for aftermarket parts for North America
- Successfully negotiated one time build quantities with OEM’s which led to a reduction in manufacturing and inventory holding costs
0-5 years of experience
- Maintained 95% Service Level for 4 categories to 207 stores by ensuring product availability at all times.
- Forecasted inventory needed for promotions and ensured accuracy of normal turn forecast.
- Maintained Microsoft Access database used within Supply Chain department.
- Communicated daily with C&S merchandisers, account executive, and demand planning team.
- Provided accurate and timely daily booking files to C&S team.
6-10 years of experience
Oversaw Samson’s corporate office and MRO (Material. Repair, Operation) supply system
- Sourced, purchased, and expedited special requested items in the most cost effective manner
- Managed all aspects of Samson’s fitness center, kitchen, and beverage supply chain system
- Designed and oversaw assigned inventory management systems
- Performed cost model analysis on all products and supply chain systems as needed
- Performed customer and/or supplier relations to ensure prompt resolution of orders and issues
0-5 years of experience
Developed product transfer process and priorities for outbound and in-bound product transfers by coordinating with regulatory affairs, supply planners, export and customer service teams.
- Coordinated with supply planners, external suppliers, and global external supply team to fulfill supply requirements for over 600 divested products.
- Managed animal health product launches for about 50 skus to global markets by coordinating with planning, systems solutions, market demand managers, and regulatory teams.
- Established label transition process for making changes in Global Supply Chain systems for domestic and international markets to ensure continuous supply and avoid market recalls.
- Prepared project status update reports for Pfizer, BIVI, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Ensured product visibility in all supply planning systems after transition to new Pfizer labels
- Tracked product registrations in domestic and international markets as products receive USDA regulatory approval to switch to Pfizer labels. Managed ERP system item creation for over 5000 transferred products.
- Tracked all open purchase orders worth over $20 million during transfer period to maintain good customer service level.
6-10 years of experience
Processed Purchase Orders, Investigation Requests (IRs), Request for Quotes (RFQs) and Negotiation Documents
- Monitored open order items over one year old and worked to improve export shipment dates
- Worked with Financial Shared Services personnel to resolve payment issues
- Expedited approvals for payments through the program offices
- Initiated wire transfer payments for FSS processing and [company name] Treasury and maintained metrics log
- Implemented and maintained key metrics of activities
- Provided Network Activity (NWA) charges to FSS for all “No P.O.” billings: American Express, telephone charges, car rentals, Citibank, Visa billings, etc.
0-5 years of experience
Managed hundreds of food items weekly and set minimum/maximum levels which reduced emergency inventory and availability issues.
- Participated in contract negotiations with top suppliers to secure consistent and quality service, competitive pricing, on time delivery, and discounted terms.
- Maintained, created, and placed purchase orders.
- Managed procurement files to guarantee it met all certifications required by the government and for auditing purposes.
- Supported the Team Lead within the Provisions (Food) Department and worked closely with Conus (Mainland) vendors.
- Sourced qualified new vendors to support organization’s goals and to achieve quality and cost effective product lines. Interviewed suppliers regarding the ordering of supplies and to keep informed on market trends.
6-10 years of experience
Provided logistical support by ensuring the accuracy, completeness and condition of both incoming and outgoing shipments for an organization consisting of approximately 1800 military personnel. Used various automated supply systems to process supplies and maintain inventory accountability. Ordered and received supplies upon customers’ requests. Tracked shipping notices for supply usage and to regulate cost expenditure. Ensured quality control for over $2 million worth of excess repair parts by conducting inventories. Studied and standardized procedures to improve efficiency and job performance of logistics personnel in the Battalion. Organized, maintained, and managed supplies which included the acquisition, storage, accountability and distribution of repair parts. Supervised, trained and motivated personnel. Provided logistical customer service and support during deployment operations in Iraq.
- Successfully retrograded excess equipment from various locations in a combat zone to a central location
- Planned, prioritized, and orchestrated the upgrade and relocation of more than 3,000 military vehicles, mail vans and other equipment from Iraq to US, a task never previously accomplished by any junior enlisted logistician in the Battalion
- Advised members of the Iraqi Army in leadership capacity on logistical operations in Mosul, Iraq
- Assisted in coordinating and implemented a plan with a Mechanized Infantry Battalion to ensure the Battalion’s basic load of ammunitions were maintained and serviced at regular intervals during deployments and during training missions in the US.
- Proposed and led roughly 200 soldiers during deployment to Iraq through a successful logistical operations in retrograding of excess equipment from multiple locations in support of Operation Clean Sweep 1 & 2
10+ years of experience
Maintained department’s Microsoft Outlook calendar of all mandatory training, committee meetings, travel schedules, planned vacations, and rotation of stand-by (weekend & holidays) duties for the team; as well as, job rotation of specific tasks.
- Collected, analyzed and reported metrics performance data and maintained west coast Hub’s program review.
- Analyzed, defined, and revised support systems, processes and procedures.
- Worked at organizational/team level to support on-going product support between Boeing and the Air Force.
- Conducted travel arrangements and submitted travel expense reports.
- Generated Purchase Orders and Request for Quote Orders for warehouse operations (packaging material, company vehicles, forklifts, etc).
- Worked to established Boeing policies and procedures and military guidelines.
0-5 years of experience
Managed 1 employee in the shipping and receiving department.
- Directed the receiving, picking, packing, and shipping of more than 30 daily customer material requirements.
- Served as the facility Safety and HAZ/MAT shipping representative, ensuring compliance with IATA and DOT standards protocol.
- Directed the receipt of all aircraft parts and support equipment from vendor.
- Coordinated and led process improvement initiatives focused on the identification of cost, safety, and efficiency opportunities.
- Performed administrative and applied commercial best practice concepts to minimize inventory, and optimize the customer’s and [company name]’s Aircraft Support Plan.
0-5 years of experience
- Procured $30M annually of residential and commercial door hardware from 50 vendors for 4
- Analyzed and managed 650K SKUs and 2.6M item records, which include monthly forecasts, price verification, new and special items, dead stock, surplus, rebalances, and warehouse transfers.
- Facilitated the Sales, eCommerce, and Marketing departments by gathering product images, category information, item additions, and pricing from several vendors, including Amazon Vendor Central.
- Successfully developed, collaborated, managed, and presented the monthly Executive S&OP report to the President, VP, CFO, and Departmental Directors.
- Integral asset to multiple company departments by using a wide array of product knowledge and computer processing to derive meaning to make accurate decisions.
- Maintained education for professional development.
6-10 years of experience
Create and maintain a manufacturing Master Schedule, creating production plans based on demand, capacity level, inventory requirements, safety stock requirements, raw material availability, and factory schedules. Manage inventory activities in SAP, and work closely with Finance to ensure accurate MRP processes. Project planning forecasts from global inventory needs, managing multiple SKUs in SAP APO.
- Manage Drug Product Planning (approximately $700-800 million in sales annually).
- Saved approximately $500K in costs in internal and third party process improvements and significantly improved lead times.
- Manage product export shipments, achieving a 99% global shipment accuracy rate.
- Manage inventory for external customer/partner (similar to Vendor Managed Inventory), including internal SKUs and third party SKUs. Manage incoming quality, expiration dates of inventory, and scrap.
- Responsible for allocating all finished good products to affiliates/customers, working collaboratively to set appropriate inventory levels and carefully manage product expiration dates.
- Coordinate logistics (export and transportation) functions for third party manufacturing.
- Helped implement the ERP system, determine BOM, and worked with purchasing and schedule manufacturing.
6-10 years of experience
- Negotiated and managed high dollar subcontracts in the fuzing and pyrotechnics commodity team
- Reviewed and modified Statement of Work documents
- Provided subcontract advise to program managers and acted as a direct interface to the supplier
- Lead all activities for investigation into a major failure analysis involving up to 40 people including government employees and multiple suppliers within meetings and conference calls
- Received multiple awards for outstanding job performance, team achievement, and exceeding fiscal objectives
6-10 years of experience
Performed a wide variety of supply chain planning and customer relationship management responsibilities to support top tier semiconductor customers
- Oversaw order management through product delivery
- Managed and ensured performance of customer service programs
- Partnered and engaged with customers and sales to achieve service and financial goals
- Proactively managed and communicated customer supply issues and resolutions
- Trained and mentored order management customer service representatives
- Participate in inter-company project definition, development, testing, communication and training
- Led workshops focusing on improving and streamlining business procedures.
6-10 years of experience
- Implemented supply chain procurement programs with over 100 domestic and international factories and suppliers representing well over $200 million in yearly receipts.
- Transitioned from traditional MRP based ordering to consumption based pull methodology, reducing inventory and increasing service level to customers.
- Improved return on invested capital.
- Negotiated supplier contracts to provide improved turns on raw material.
- Designed appropriate Kanban systems for both raw material and finished goods, using sophisticated optimization systems, theory and processes.
0-5 years of experience
- Established database for contracts, process procedures, non-conformance activities and returns, improving ISO and API audit processes by 80%
- Served as the liaison for strategic customers and vendors for quotes, questions, pricing, negotiations, technical problems, contracts, product inquiries, client site visits, shipping and placing orders
- Verified pricing and assisted logistics with exporting orders for release
- Coordinated and maintained shift schedules
- Certified that daily plant activities, products and business processes and procedures were in compliance with [company name]’s policies
- Updated all training materials and vendor databases to ensure all business processes were in compliance with API and ISO standards
- Developed program for unit specific training for continuous improvement and supported all coordination of all site and corporate training initiatives
0-5 years of experience
Contributed to the establishment of a supply/warehouse operation supporting the US Navy P- 8A Poseidon bed-down
- Received/Verified/Stored 12,000 line items, 140,000 units, valued in excess of $12 M
- Interfaced with Navy customer to validate part requirements
- Served as back-up QA Inspector certified outgoing material
- Developed processes that were integral to the implementation of WOW/COPPR/TAV (GOLD)
- Inducted and monitored the repair of repairable items for entire program
0-5 years of experience
- Developed a weekly MPS for both in house and third party manufacturing sites.
- Led the move of in house production to contract manufacturing sites without affecting service levels.
- Managed, coordinated new product launches and restages to support mass retailers demand.
- Took the Skin Care Business group from 73% to over 90% schedule accomplishment.
- Achieved 99% customer service levels from the mass retailers while working with less FG.
- Changed the scheduling strategy to small and frequent run qty’s.
- Used SAP R/3 and JDA Manugistics as the primary supply chain planning tools.
0-5 years of experience
- Created and kept track with purchase orders with ERP system.
- Set up and monitored inventory level based on historical sales data.
- Collaborated with Taiwan headquarter and returned 80% of dead inventory.
- Drove down purchase cost by 10%.
- Acted as a liaison between Taiwan production team and U.S. sales.
- Generated goods receipts and issued invoices for all blind shipments.
- New employee training.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for the material health of 11 company critical programs from cradle to grave
- All 11 programs managed performed under material budgets and within lead times
- Taught Raytheon Enterprise level classes on IPDS gate review process
- Developed sourcing recommendations, material pricing and budgets, and replenishment strategies for all programs
- Received multiple Individual Achievement Awards for Proposal Excellence
- Developed and maintained relationships with suppliers to ensure optimal supplier performance and pricing
- Worked through design changes and other supplier issues to ensure successful production runs
- Ensured program compliance with all customer contract flow-downs
0-5 years of experience
- Developed and executed several cost reduction initiatives across the supply chain
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support new product launches
- Led ERP and EDI system integration implementations, including testing support and issue resolution
- Streamlined internal processes relating to customer orders, freight logistics and sales reporting
- Created reporting dashboard to increase communication and transparency across functional teams
- Built productive and trusting relationships with network of over 60 vendors, customers and partners
- Responsible for all customer order fulfillment, warehouse management and freight
0-5 years of experience
Reported directly to the Supply Chain Manager for this medical device company. Responsible for the procurement and planning of all raw materials for the Functional Bracing product lines.
- Managed all raw material requirements for “End of Life” of 2 product lines due to product lines being sold off.
- Supply Chain Lead for Functional Bracing NPI
- Managed, maintained, and improved supplier relations with key suppliers
- Supply Chain Lead/Super User for data integrity of all raw materials and MRP in Oracle
- Team member for Demand Replenishment/Kanban set up of raw materials.
0-5 years of experience
Develop best practice methods for client interaction with OneOxy Oracle supplier database.
- Create process improvement scripts for the OneOxy Oracle database – Sourcing Process for Buyers.
- Analyze purchase contracts to determine compliance prior to merging.
- Developed and implemented global process governance for registering suppliers and updating supplier information.
- Team Lead for Oracle eInvoicing Conversion Project
6-10 years of experience
- Utilized innovative excel processes to provide managers with accurate operational reports.
- Developed and maintained production schedules for departments.
- Created and released production orders based on schedules.
- Monitored and ensured on-time customer deliveries.
- Built and maintained vendor relations, negotiated prices, and processed purchase orders.
- Assisted in administration of month-end physical inventory and entered accurate adjustments in SAP.
- Reviewed and ensured bill of materials, routings, and costs were accurate in SAP for finished products.
0-5 years of experience
- Applied knowledge of customer requirements, including international customer support, supplier capabilities, product configuration; manufacturing processes, documentation, and government regulations relating to spares management.
- Evaluated government spares requirements for MILSTRIP processing.
- Planned supply chain requirements based on customer inventory demands, supplier parts availability and material assets that are on hand or in transit.
- Analyzed and determined proper course of action to effectively manage multi-enterprise supply chain (e.g. inventory systems, simulation, and modeling forecasting data, and spares delivery scheduling systems, etc.)
- Complete knowledge of provisioning process methodology to support production and product development.
- Collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
Supply Chain Specialist Duties and Responsibilities
In order to successfully coordinate shipments, a Supply Chain Specialist performs many different tasks. We analyzed job listings for Supply Chain Specialists in order to identify these core duties and responsibilities.
Procure Materials The Supply Chain Specialist procures materials for manufacturing and shipment of the final product. This includes identifying and ordering the proper quantity, negotiating pricing and shipment terms and overseeing the timely delivery of materials needed to fulfill customer orders.
Maintain Inventory Supply Chain Specialists maintain adequate inventory, scheduling and receiving shipments of raw materials as well as scheduling manufacturing. They often physically receive and organize inventory shipments.
Respond to Demand The Supply Chain Specialist must assess current orders and forecast future demand in order to provide adequate supplies. When something significant changes in the supply chain and demand, the Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for responding to these changes in demand and solving any supply chain problems that arise. They communicate regularly with customers in order to avoid unforeseen changes or surprises in orders.
Process Orders In order to oversee the supply chain, Supply Chain Specialists must input and process all orders. Of particular importance is that they complete and submit all necessary documentation from both suppliers and customers. They also oversee the billing process and paperwork.
Supply Chain Specialist Skills
Supply Chain Specialists are highly organized and detail-oriented individuals who know how to manage overlapping projects, keep track of deadlines, and efficiently use their time. They are strong analytical thinkers with problem-solving skills and mathematical abilities, but they are also great communicators who are persuasive and good at negotiating. In order to achieve success, a Supply Chain Specialist must take initiative and be able to identify opportunities for improvement in ways that others cannot. Core skills: Based on job listings we looked at, employers want Supply Chain Specialists with these core skills. If you want to work as a Supply Chain Specialist, focus on the following.
- Showing proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Demonstrating experience reducing cost or improving efficiency in previous jobs
- Possessing experience in customer-facing position
- Having professional planning experience
- Showing some knowledge of ERP systems
Advanced skills: While most employers did not require the following skills, multiple job listings included them as preferred. Add these to your Supply Chain Specialist toolbox and broaden your career options.
- Experience using SAP
- Bachelor’s in Logistics, Business, Engineering or Supply Chain Management
- Supply chain and logistics experience
- Experience with importation and customs brokerage
Supply Chain Specialist Resources
We searched the Web to find the best industry resources to help you continue exploring a career as a Supply Chain Specialist. From thought leaders to industry groups, this list is packed with opportunities to learn, connect and engage. On the Web Supply Chain Nation – A large blog from a supply chain company
Supply Chain Management Review – A leading supply chain management blog
Cerasis – A blog on the sourcing and manufacturing process Industry Groups
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals – A leading professional organization for supply chain professionals
APICS – The biggest association for operations and supply chain professionals
Institute for Supply Management – An institute for supply management professionals Supply Chain Specialist Books
Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management – A book on streamlining sourcing and supply chains
Essentials of Supply Chain Management – A comprehensive supply chain management resource
Operations and Supply Chain Management – A high-rated textbook on operations and supply chain