Ana dos Santos

Scope: Brought on board to assign raw materials, components, and/or parts in a cost effective and timely manner in accordance with quality requirements. Work proactively to control inventory levels, and perform other related duties as assigned. Highlights: •Analyze, maintain and review open buy requirements, issue purchase orders, and expedite delivery of material or service as appropriate. And suggest potential material alternatives as needed. • Collaborate with other departments to help to resolve issues of PO price, quantity, product quality, logistics, and freight. •Develop business relationships with existing and new vendors to optimize on pricing, terms and delivery.

Scope: Brought on board to handle global, end-to-end procurement life cycle from analysis of sales trends and assuring inventory levels through cross-functional internal collaboration and external vendor management. Accomplishments: •Reduced Inventory levels over 30% and also avoid being out of stock (back ordered) •Improved communication across the departments inside and outside (vendors) the company, helping order issues as such quantity, quality, and freight, optimizing on pricing, terms, and delivery, to ensure most cost-effective purchase.

Scope: Handled client contact, part registration, analysis, ordering, and negotiation with international suppliers, shipment monitoring, design changes, supplier monitoring, and reporting. Accomplishments: •Integral to SAP (ERP system) MM Key user module implementation. (Master Data, Purchasing and Inventory).

Scope: Brought on board as Supply Chain Analyst to help design new processes and procedures to get BVQI certification and also to control the issuance and shipments of the orders according to production plan. Promoted to Supply Chain Coordinator within one year. Analyze imported material needed x production plan per customer, purchase orders management, shipment mode tracking, material follow up during transit, customs process... Accomplishments: •Tasked to implement BVQI (Bureau Veritas) Certification. Planned the implementation of the procedures for the purchasing department; conducted training for my colleagues. Successfully passed audit and received certification in the first attempt for ISO 9001 & ISO 14001. Project led to 15% increased efficiency and expanded customer reach. •Designed new processes and procedures to support the BVQI certification and implementation of ISO 9000 & ISO 14000 at Pioneer Yorkey. (BVQI (Bureau Veritas Certification).

Scope: Negotiated imports materials and parts with international suppliers. Assured timeliness and accuracy of shipments, documented and prepared operational and managerial reports. Accomplishments: Within only two months, reconciled large delays in production by implementing new process to solve backlog and align production schedules, thus ensuring smooth product delivery and empowered sales team.

Scope: Brought on board to handle procurement negotiation with international suppliers. Took control of end-to-end modification and follow up of purchase orders including analysis of parts and import materials plus design changes. Assured accuracy with regard to pricing lists and fast, efficient shipping. Accomplishments: •Partnered with Technical Information Specialist, improved manual-input Bill of materials (BOM) system into new ERP system (BRAVO). Increased efficiency and timing of production and avoided costs in obsolete parts and excess inventory. •Avoided increases of ~25% in obsolete stock by reconciling inventory and purchase orders, then educated purchasing department to optimize stock utilization.

Scope: Provided multifaceted support to the commercial, logistics, purchasing, and engineering departments with regard to full product lifecycle. Covered raw material price fluctuations, sales price calculations, supplier certification, new product development, and assured accurate supplier and customer communication. Accomplishments: •Achieved 25% in savings during the quotation process to support NPI’s projects. •Leveraged English language mastery across company; negotiated competitive deals with suppliers, which yielded more attractive pricing to customers.