Below are the 5 Buyers & 2 Procurement Specialists with various systems & industry experience. The Thor Group® provides buyers & procurement specialists on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What contributions could a buyer who worked in retail and manufacturing industries bring to your organization? Educational background is composed of Business and Music. Technological know-how involves JDA Manugistics, Impromptu, SAP system and Power Play. This specialist has 25+ years of materials organization experience in a manufacturing, logistics, planning and purchasing setting. Also, has increased vendor attainment and customer fill rates by managing suppliers, tracking shipments and maintaining high standards of excellence and quality.

Challenges like sourcing, planning and purchasing assigned product items to ensure supply meets the MRP domestic and global requirements for a $15M product category were welcomed and successfully completed. Acting as a buyer, achieved customer service goals of over 98% and vendor attainment of over 95%. Also, knowledgeable with the following systems: SAP, Business Warehouse (sonic reports), Manugistics, Power Play, Impromptu and Windows applications. Moreover, prepared and issued purchase orders, expedited/de-expedited deliveries as necessary, as well as identified and resolved any potential delays or issues.

Shared expertise by doing monthly vendor performance reports and managing vendor relationship, as well as preparing a 12-month rolling forecast projection for suppliers. Part of the job as a buyer was to investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies and delivery/receiving issues as well as maintain inventory control. In addition, demonstrated excellence in managing Global suppliers from USA, China, Japan, Korea, and Germany.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a sr. buyer who worked in a general hospital, a healthcare system and a medical center? Professional certifications include Purchasing Management Certification. Software experience involves Lawson SCM, GHX and Scrubs (Catscan) HPG GPO. This specialist has 26+ years of professional healthcare purchasing experience for multi-hospital systems.

Serving in a general hospital as a sr. buyer, responsibilities included reviewing Lawson system and paper requisitions for errors, expediting orders via phone, fax or GHX transmission, as well as processing vendor charge sheets for bill only purchase orders. Part of the job was to review purchase orders/invoices where vendor discrepancies are identified by Accounts Payable and address buyers, as well as review weekly CPA spreadsheet report for variances showed by Distributor in addition to approving and disapproving entries. Also, achieved Purchasing Department initiatives, saving $35,000 in fiscal year due to cost reduction in product/services and invoice overcharging.

As a buyer, responsibilities included monitoring of products ordered, meeting standardization demands, negotiating prices to meet cost effective budgets, reviewing system and paper requisitions, including TPR cards. Furthermore, other jobs involved prioritizing and placing daily orders via EDI transmissions, fax and telephone.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this senior buyer with experience working in oil/gas, construction and engineering industries? Software skills include SAP SCM, Backbone SRM, Ariba and Oracle software. This specialist effectively executed the day-to-day operations of procurement and supply chain activities.

Contributed to the organization’s success by launching Go Live SAP Backbone Buyer in regions and assisted with workflow resolutions. Serving in an oil/gas company as a senior PSCM buyer/SAP Backbone, assisted with SAP Backbone utilization of GRs & IRs in workflow in various site locations, as well as purchased material, equipment and other commodities and services exceeding $7.7M for projects. Some of the tasks were executing and creating purchase orders in SAP, as well as ensuring IRs and GRs were entered in SAP for payment. Moreover, built supplier relationships in order to achieve superior supplier performance, as well as negotiated commercial terms to deliver best value solutions and the measurement/reporting of the value delivered.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by performing purchasing functions including preparation and placement of purchase orders, spot orders, blanket orders, change orders, supply agreement drafts and documents with prompt delivery in ERP system. While working in a construction company as a buyer, reviewed and processed change orders, reviewed existing rental proposals, and long term &short-term agreements in compliance to terms and conditions, policies and procedures. Furthermore, purchased and rented offshore oil & gas rotary drilling equipment, 55 gallon oil drums, gaskets, fittings & flanges, tires, seals, compressors, valves, and many other commodities/ services in response to requisitions, reducing downtime at plants by 37%.

How can your organization gain an advantage with the help of a buyer who is skilled in PeopleSoft, Oracle and Lawson with work background in a children’s hospital and university hospitals? Technical skills cover PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, FrontPage and Photoshop. Educational attainment includes BS General Studies as well as AS Business Sciences and Fine Arts. Trainings cover PeopleSoft and Oracle. This specialist obtained a GHX User Certification.

Main functions of this buyer were comprised of managing the system entry of all purchase orders for the research divisions and labs utilizing the hospital’s ERP system (PeopleSoft), as well as confirming the receipt of purchase orders with the vendor via GHX to ensure product availability, accuracy of pricing and delivery date. Reviewing the status of back orders; contacting vendors for shipping updates and communicating any delays in delivery with end users were some of the duties. Other roles covered acting as the liaison between the department staff and vendors for quote inquiries, product returns, recalls and license renewals, in addition to processing returns to vendor when needed. This individual ensured credits were received from vendor and processed by the accounts payable department. Invoices were reviewed, and exceptions were corrected, resolved and matched in conjunction with the accounts payable staff.

Notable tasks included entering orders into the ERP system (Oracle) and placing blanket purchase orders for linen, maintenance and oxygen providers for the group. Training was provided to the office staff (by creating manuals, doing a site visit or via Web seminars) to utilize Oracle/I-Procurement systems in the most time and cost efficient manner.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a buyer with broad background in the supply chain area? Some of the notable achievements involve working with suppliers to resolve any accounting errors on purchase orders as well as supporting other buyers with their past due reports by following up with the supplier. Technological expertise includes SAP Supply Chain, PCs and Apple Macintosh.

Part of the job in a university medical center was to follow up on orders that were past due or were not received by the supplier. Some of the duties performed were working with the supplier to resolve any accounting errors on purchase orders as well placing daily overnight and second day delivery orders for the OR and the ER. Moreover, this buyer maintained the SAP system to monitor supplies and purchase orders.

As a buyer, some of the main functions were planning and processing purchase orders per MRP for the production floor. The procurement of MRO material per requests was also carried out. Other duties involved contacting suppliers for returns as well as working with both accounting and suppliers to resolve any invoice issues.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this procurement specialist who worked in IT services, wholesale and media industries, and proficient in Deltek Costpoint and Microsoft Dynamics NAV? Technical skills involve Deltek Costpoint, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, SharePoint and Content Central. This specialist has years of experience in procurement, supply chain and inventory management across multiple government agencies while maintaining responsibility for corporate purchases, as well as negotiating favorable terms and creating more efficient supplier channels.

Important contributions of this procurement specialist included executing the full procurement lifecycle activities for both federal (direct) and corporate (indirect) procurements and holding public trust “building Access” Clearance for US department of energy locations. The job entailed regularly operating inside of the US Department of Energy’s ServiceNow DAYS ticketing/Order tracking system. Strategic procurement plans were created, including establishing milestones and coordinating with vendors to ensure full understanding of terms. Tasks covered assessing risk and creating plans of Action in Order to maintain fluidity during all phases of each procurement (CIPS  Five Rights). Managing and creating Purchase orders and fully documenting procurement files were done using both SharePoint and Deltek Costpoint.

This specialist performed planned negotiation strategies while coordinating with other technical experts involved. Skills brought to the table covered establishing, developing and leveraging network of suppliers, and industry practitioners, as well as ensuring vendor compliance to policies, terms and conditions to ensure best in class economics. Functions involved collaborating with suppliers and customer stakeholders to identify continuous Cost and Performance improvement strategies, in addition to reviewing vendor quotes, bid analysis and Cost proposals.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this procurement services liaison with vast experience working in outsourcing and consulting industries? This specialist is fully trained in Lawson application 8.1, Purchasing, Receiving, Inventory Control, Warehouse, Invoice processing and RSS 8.1.55 (9.0 Environment). Technical knowledge consists of Lawson SCM.

Contributed to the organization’s success by providing training and leadership to Procurement Liaisons and Buyers during company outsourcing transition for supply chain change management. Serving as a procurement services liaison in Materials Management and Supply Chain, acted as an implementation team member of newly created customer service interface between a Health System and company Procurement Center buyer team located in Dallas. Some of the tasks were implementing an electronic requisitioning process between the organization and offsite procurement center, as well as implementing and maintaining nine Lawson perpetual inventories as Lawson procurement system expert for two organizations. Part of the job was to design training materials for Lawson Procurement modules while providing ongoing assistance and direction to the use of Lawson Procurement System.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by researching and providing contracted and non-contracted product information per requested criteria. In addition, providing analysis and feedback to the System Application Development Team for ERP and SCM design processes, systems, reporting and metric measurements and tools.