MICHELLE FOX
Goodspring
Summary
Material planning and procurement professional with strong analytical skills and proficient at supply chain management. Proven track record in optimizing inventory levels and negotiating with suppliers to drive cost efficiency. Highly reliable team player, flexible with dynamic needs, and focused on achieving results through collaboration and strategic planning. Skilled in demand forecasting, vendor management, and ERP systems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Material Planning and Procurement Specialist
Plasman Tennessee
10.2024 - Current
- Maintain relationships with suppliers to negotiate contracts, reduce costs and improve product quality, including creating PRs and POs
- Glass, adhesive, metal commodities
- Generated weekly and monthly procurement reports detailing spend analytics information
- Manage outside processing with multiple suppliers
- Material Manager successor
Material Planning and Procurement Specialist
SaarGummi Tennessee
10.2022 - 10.2024
- Maintained relationships with suppliers to negotiate contracts, reduce costs and improve product quality, including creating PRs and POs
- Localization of material, VAVE savings
- Collaborated with internal operations managers, finance teams and logistics personnel to develop strategies that optimize supply chain operations efficiency
- Resolved invoice discrepancies between purchase orders and vendor invoices in a timely manner
- Generated weekly and monthly procurement reports detailing spend analytics information
Senior Purchasing Buyer - All Raw Materials
Minth Group
03.2022 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: Minth Group - TN International & Minth Chroming ALNA
- Managed Rubber, Chemical, Metal suppliers for Minth Lewisburg
- Organize and prioritize special projects
- Sourced new vendors to reduce costs and meet customer needs
- Manage vendor quotations and optimize buyer power
- Work with the engineering team, in order to improve drawing details, resulting in RFQ lead times to shorten
- Locate hard to find chemicals in the market, improved the lead time
- Minth Group - TN International & Minth Chroming ALNA
NAFTA Purchasing Buyer - Rubber, Chemical Injection Commodity
Magneti Marelli
06.2021 - 03.2022
- Company Overview: Magneti Marelli - ALNA
- Managing U.S
- Rubber, Chemical Injection Molded suppliers for NAFTA (6 plants)
- Negotiation skills to meet targets for each Commodity
- Profound knowledge of MRP systems, Lean Manufacturing principles and methodologies
- Wide knowledge of sources of supply, markets, pricing, and commodity trends
- Receive and analyze engineering drawings, and solicit quotations from qualified suppliers
- Collect, analyze, and evaluate data from supplier quotations and establish contracts
- Magneti Marelli - ALNA
Purchasing Buyer - Direct Materials
Magneti Marelli
03.2019 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Magneti Marelli - ALNA
- Excellent experience in monitoring new product launches in automotive industry
- KPI reporting
- Sound knowledge of lean manufacturing principles
- Profound knowledge of MRP systems, Lean Manufacturing principles and methodologies
- Wide knowledge of sources of supply, markets, pricing, and commodity trends
- Ability to achieve various automotive objectives
- Ability to maintain knowledge of contract procedures
- Proficient in estimating cost of procedures
- Manage PPAP process with closely with Supplier Quality & Procurement
- Lighting Talents Co-Pilot Program
- Purchasing Participant for VAVE
- Magneti Marelli - ALNA
Customer Service Coordinator
Magneti Marelli
10.2013 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: Magneti Marelli - ALNA
- Direct communication with the customers
- FCA (Stellantis), Honda, GM, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen
- Manage order entry workload so that orders were entered the day received
- Address incoming customer inquiries and offered productive solutions that increased customer satisfaction
- Receive and correctly process both written and verbal instructions, prints, and work orders
- Create purchase requisitions and receipt invoices
- Quality complaint review
- Knowledge to interpret Standard Work Instructions (SWI), Bill of Material (BOM), and assembly drawings
- Update Daily KPI's, weekly, and monthly reports
- 8D experience, within Logistics and Quality
- Magneti Marelli - ALNA
Education
Animal Science - Business
Columbia State Community College
01.2019
Animal Science -
University of Tennessee at Martin
01.2012
Skills
- Supplier relationship management
- Supply chain optimization
- Supply chain risk management
- Proficient Time Management
- Monthly Reconciliation
- Account management
- Supplier evaluation
- Materials management
- Data-Driven Demand Analysis
- Operations management
- SAP / PLEX / QAD
Certification
- Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2008, 2016
- Positive Management Leadership (PML), 2017
- Lighting Talents Program, 2017-2019
- FCA Supplier Training Certs, 10/2018
- Dale Carnegie Certificate of Achievement, 2019
- Lighting Talents Co-Pilot Program, 2019-2020
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Material Planning and Procurement Specialist
Plasman Tennessee
10.2024 - Current
Material Planning and Procurement Specialist
SaarGummi Tennessee
10.2022 - 10.2024
Senior Purchasing Buyer - All Raw Materials
Minth Group
03.2022 - 10.2022
NAFTA Purchasing Buyer - Rubber, Chemical Injection Commodity
Magneti Marelli
06.2021 - 03.2022
Purchasing Buyer - Direct Materials
Magneti Marelli
03.2019 - 06.2021
Customer Service Coordinator
Magneti Marelli
10.2013 - 03.2019
Animal Science -
University of Tennessee at Martin
Animal Science - Business
Columbia State Community College
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