julie harris

About

Results driven business professional with extensive commodity management experience. An established leader in motivating, energizing and maintaining high-performance cross-functional work-team environments. Comprehensive experience in cost effective purchasing strategy including lean, low cost spend and price variance, extensive material sourcing, price negotiations and distribution management as well as 3rd party Asian supplier relationship management (I’m fluent in Mandarin Chinese).

Country

united states

City

denver

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

sap erp, commodity pricing, mrp, bom management, strategic sourcing, global sourcing, supply chain management, people development, procurement contracts, it procurement, procurement, purchasing, sourcing, lean manufacturing

Experience

operations and supply chain consultant

kvp electric & skyview engineering

2012-1 - 2013-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Consulted to small businesses to help them achieve improved revenue generation and cost savings.

owner and head of operations

akiyama

2005-1 - 2011-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Built and managed this start-up company with a million dollars budget. Developed and managed the products, marketing, customer services for the new company, including advertising, merchandising, collateral, community relations, market research, direct marketing, e-commerce and analytics.

senior buyer and planner and commodity manager

maxtor

1998-1 - 2005-1 · 7 yrs 1 mo

Responsible for procurement and planning of direct disk drive and enterprise/server material (electronic chips, PCBA's, flexible circuit board assembles)