purchaser resume example with 13+ years of experience
- Excellent interpersonal and coaching skills
- Recruiting and selection techniques
- Proficient communicator
- Motivated
- Interviewing
- Background checks
- Hiring recommendations
- Conscientious
- Inventory tracking
- Budget management
- Ground and air transportation
- Vendor management
- Shipment consolidations planning
- Inventory control
- Decisive
- Reverse logistics
- LTL knowledge
- Warehouse and fulfillment
- Results-oriented
- Imports and exports
- Detail-oriented
- Strategic planner
- Cost reduction
- Types 100 WPH
- Works well independently
- Flexible
- Customer service-oriented
- Global logistics
- Certified Forklift Operator
- Business development experience
- Strategic thinker
- Initiative to work independently
- Shipping and receiving
- Safety-oriented
- Production scheduling
- Defect tracking
- Results-oriented
- Multi-tasker
- Manufacturing background
- Determined
- Basic math skills
- Packing and scanning orders
Business Management GPA: 3.7 Principals of Management, Retail Management, Small Business Management,
Business Law, Accounting, Business Math, Marketing, MicroEconomics, Spreadsheets,
MicroComputer Applications, Human Relations and Supervision, Speech, Spanish Psychology, Microsoft Access, College Algebra, Microsoft Office 2007
Earned a perfect attendance record for 5 years in a row.
Prepared pallets by following prescribed stacking arrangement and properly tagging pallets.Packed containers and re-pack damaged containers.Recorded numbers of units handled and moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.
Reduced shipping operating expenses by 30%, while maintaining shipping volume and accuracy.
Reduced freight costs by 10% by optimizing backhaul schedules and negotiating carrier rates.
Reduced customer costs by 10% by consolidating 2 shipments into 1 loads.
, , 03/2010 - 03/2012
- Coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services.
- Reviews requisitions.
- Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information.
- Determines method of procurement for direct purchase or bid.
- Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
- Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
- Maintains manual or computerized procurement records.
- Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
- Prepares reports, charts, and graphs of findings.
- Evaluates findings and makes recommendations to management personnel.
- May recommend use of alternative parts, materials, or manufacturing methods to reduce costs.
, , 12/2009 - 01/2010
- Performs any combination of following calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain financial data for use in maintaining accounting records: Compiles and sorts documents, such as invoices and checks, substantiating business transactions.
- Verifies and posts details of business transactions, such as funds received and disbursed, and totals accounts, using calculator or computer.
- Computes and records charges, refunds, and cost of lost or damaged goods, freight charges, rentals, and similar items.
- May type vouchers, invoices, checks, account statements, reports, and other records, using typewriter or computer.
- May reconcile bank statements.
, , 02/1998 - 12/2009
- Coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services, such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and advertising, for establishment: Reviews requisitions.
- Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
- Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items.
- Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
- Determines method of procurement, such as direct purchase or bid.
- Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
- Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
- Maintains manual or computerized procurement records, such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
- Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
- May approve invoices for payment.
- May expedite delivery of goods to users.
Computer, Multi-phone lines, Microsoft office 365, printer, fax, skype, zoom, JDEdwards, SAP, ERP, Oracle, MRP, Microsoft online, forklift, pallet jack,
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School Attended
- University of Texas
- Texarkana Community College
- Cossatot Community College
- Battiest High School
Job Titles Held:
- Purchaser
- Purchasing Manager/Account Manager
- Buyer/Planner
Degrees
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate of Applied Science
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