JJ Salazar

• Directed team of experienced buyers through a conversion from old PO system to a new setup with fewer process, greater flexibility and delegated less critical material management to key suppliers • Initiated weekly constraint reports with key suppliers • Soft cost benefits: reduced time, effort, and touches for purchasing, planning, and finance • Accomplished 5.2% material cost reductions through commodity quote packages and spot buys • Organized weekly departmental task review for greater accountability tracking to report progress and actions to director level management • Developed supplier on time delivery metric, pinpointing areas for improvement and discussion with key suppliers • Generated buyer performance metrics to quantify late-placed and past due material POs • Scrubbed, sent out, analyzed, and awarded material quotes for over 60 new or replacement business and cost reviews • Worked with suppliers to find alternatives for long lead time or allocated parts to present to customers for their approval and maintain production schedule dates • Implemented weekly report to identify materials that needed standard cost, buy price, and lead time updates • Initiated Quarterly Business Reviews with key suppliers

• On the ground support in site start up operations, including floor set up, initial inventory buys, and first successful production orders • Reviewed revenue commitments to corporate weekly in order to provide guidance for site performance • Responsible for supply demand analysis covering customer forecast validity/viability, appropriate safety stock levels, and excess & obsolete claims • Reduced safety stock level from previous site high of $1.3 million by 50% • Led reform of material review process, slashing 70% of failed on hand materials • Sliced excess inventory that resulted in over $200 thousand in hard savings to P&L • Evaluated material shortages weekly, relaying information to customer and internal production teams leading to routinely achieving >90% on time delivery • Balanced expedite and freight requests against customer demands for joint lowest cost • Facilitate weekly order commitment meetings with customer, deflecting tensions, and ensuring customer answers (not necessarily customer satisfaction with said answers) • Trained/mentored coworkers in ERP system and Excel techniques

• Coordinated best inventory in company history with just .2% shrinkage • Performed analysis on material pick speed, ensuring product to stores at a faster speed, saving time and labor hours • Researched DC capacity in order to advocate process changes and expansion • Assembled weekly/period end reports for DC management and senior leadership for reporting and decision making • Developed associate time tracking to monitor DC throughput, find bottlenecks and find areas for process improvement • Documented Analyst Group meetings for senior leadership reporting • Advised DC strategy for short and long term needs in order to meet company goals • Led BusinessObjects implementation clean up, improving user interface, coordinating canned reports and tracking changes requested by business group to IT/Data SME side

• Coordinated communication, schedules and customer feedback between internal Development, Sales, Support and IT teams and prospective customers for product demonstrations, implementations and account management meetings • Answered customer support questions in a timely manner, providing trouble shooting information and resolving their file import issues • Recorded bugs and customer requested improvements in JIRA, including customer comments and assisting in prioritizing requested features for future software version • Provided face to face customer support, software updates and relationship building meetings with customers in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China • Performed testing on the new release of the PolyDyne's ORACLE-based software from beginning to end, leading the Labor module testing • Lead new product project from development to production and training, bringing 7 interested customers to PolyDyne, including revenue projections for first 18 months • Proactively tracked project progress with managers and other departments in order to ensure action items were followed through • Spearheaded sales process change to more effectively communicate product information and better control the sales process • Lead negotiations strategies with prospective customers • Assembled monthly update sales presentations for companywide updates, underscoring monthly activities, results and future plans • Highlighted PolyDyne’s role in cutting a customer cycle times and material costs in company case study • Developed multiple ad campaigns targeting a key market competitor and organized the communication between target companies and PolyDyne

Supply Chain Specialization and Advanced Chinese Relevant Coursework: Supplier Management, Global Sourcing, Logistics and Negotiation China-Oregon Tourism, Investment, and Teaching Conference Edited translations for Deputy Supervisor