Betty Thompson

Company Name

Donaldson Filter Components Ltd

Position Held

Buyer

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

June 1998 - June 2013 Donaldson Filter Components Ltd Hull HU7-OYN Redundancy due to restructuring the purchasing Dept. Position Held : Operational Buyer Purchasing Duties 1. Decide and maintain Purchasing planning parameters at item level from our main system JDE, and coordinating with the planning department to ensure all items were available for planned production orders. 2. Manage inventory through conducting checks to determine the status of the inventory and placing orders based on the MRP system, production forecast and approved suppliers. 3. Process order confirmation, track and urge delivery dates. 4. Developed relationships with suppliers by vendors visits. 5. Clarify invoice deviations in coordination with strategic purchasing as per policy limits. 6. Process quality complaints at suppliers also working with suppliers to reduce non-conformances to specification and eliminating quality issues. 7. Working at all times with vendors and warehouse to make sure phase in phase outs were controlled correctly. 8. Reduced Lead times with my vendors by enabling them to hold stock, by negotiating and using an accurate forecasting MRP system. 9. Negotiated with vendors to reduce minimum order quantities MOQ enabling us to hold less stock and be more cost effective. Technical engineering clerk in 1995 Responsible for entering all new products into our main system JDE, reading and interpreting engineering drawings and Controlling all engineering changes, Controlling Phase in Phase out, entering the bill of materials, routings and standard hours, working closely with Engineering, sales, purchasing, production, customer service, planning and the warehouse. School Qualifications Greatfield High School. Hull 0levels in English, maths and science CSEs in Music and geography In house training, Microsoft word/excel, data management systems, Kaizens and many more. External courses. Improving purchasing performance and material planning.

Position Held

Assistant

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Revolution Karting London Electronic Assistant Feb 2010 -2011 Responsible for carrying out tasks as directed by Engineering Manager. Strict attention to time-management, writing reports for each task conducted. Assisting manager in company meetings and discussions with directors.