Senior Buyer
North Shore Components
Total years of experience :10 years, 1 Months
Work done: Implemented cost-saving strategies like bulk procurement for discounts.
Outlined material requirement plans based on ERP-generated customer demand. Reduced turnaround time from 5 to 3 days.
Cultivated business relationships across internal and external stakeholders. Coordinated with the quality department for vendor quality issues.
Educated and guided junior team members. Achievements:
Saved organizational costs by adding 5-10 new vendors since 2022. Handled an annual procurement budget of $10 million.
Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
• Developed strategies for maintaining key supplier relationships.
• Generating and releasing new PO to suppliers, managing the P2P process
• Continuous follow up with supplier for all cancellation and push out request to reduce inventory cost.
• Follow up on pull in and expedite request with supplier
• Resolve payment dues to the suppliers by following up with Finance department.
• Working close with accounts payable team to resolve Invoice discrepancies.
• Handle receiving discrepancies with the warehouse.
• Maintaining the optimum stock levels across the whole supply chain system
• Planning supply chain schedules in advance for the busy seasonal periods
• Sustaining regular contacts with the suppliers and developing cordial relationships with them
• Develop and sustain healthy business relations with suppliers to resolve pricing discrepancies with marketing team/ suppliers.
• Pipeline three months sales POs for good moving parts
• Reviewing the daily purchase backorder list to follow up on past dues.
• Identifying and escalating the service level issues to the correct stakeholders
• Implementing best practices to achieve the organization’s objectives
• Provided process training to New Buyers.
• Supporting for customers like Flex, Kimball, Fitbit, Google Etc.