David Preston
Purchasing Manager at Burford Corp
- Role
- Purchasing Manager at Burford Corp
- Location
- Maysville, OK, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Preston
Aggressive and self-motivated business professional with extensive supply chain and…
Experience
Purchasing Manager
May 2014 — Present · Maysville, OK, US
Burford Corporation is a medium sized manufacturing facility producing a full-line of high quality custom bakery equipment. The Burford focus is on serving the unique needs of individual bakeries by creating effective and efficient machines that provide labor and material savings. The continued success of Burford is based on a philosophy of. Practical Solutions Through Innovative Technologies.• Use lean manufacturing and JIT strategy to assure continuous supply of components and maintain required material levels to support production requirements.• Negotiate contracts, stocking agreements and blanket purchase orders to minimize cost and improve lead times. • Issue purchase orders and maintain MRP module to assure correct costing, inventory, quarterly turns, safety stock, reorder quantities and lead times.• Manage fully assembled machines and fabricated parts with overseas suppliers to assure quality, correct min/max numbers and lean inventory.• Issue supplier scorecards to monitor quality, pricing, on-time delivery, value analysis and customer service performance to develop continuous improvement plans.• Project Manager for VMI and vending solution programs implemented on the shop floor.• Proficient with Made2Manage manufacturing ERP/MRP software.
Education
University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Arts, Multidisciplinary Studies
1986 — 2013
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Purchasing
- Photoshop
- Procurement
- Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Contract Negotiation
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Purchase Orders
- Management
- Team Building
- Analysis
- Operations Management
- Inventory Management
- Leadership
- Outlook
- Lean Manufacturing
- Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Management
- Public Speaking
- Html
- Customer Service
- Sap
- Training
- Logistics
- Customer Satisfaction
- Supervisory Skills
- Sales Management
- Windows
- Marketing
- Purchase Requisitions
- Budgets
- Supply Chain
- Vendor Management
- Research
- Vendor Relationships
- Microsoft Word
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