Parker Beasore

About Parker Beasore

I am a high-performing employee who possesses strong interpersonal, analytical, and change management skills.I am currently working at Armstrong World Industries as a Supply Chain Manager in one of the manufacturing facilities of the metal network. In this position I oversee the overall transactional business processes of the plant including Procurement, Order Management, Scheduling, Shipping, and Inventory.

Experience

1. Value Stream Specialist

   Armstrong World Industries

   Jul 2025 — Present · Johnstown, OH, US

   Proactively engages Construction Services and is forward thinking to organize Plant Operations Team on upcoming custom jobs and to provide required technical information - Executes daily and weekly materials planning, releasing purchase orders and managing inventory to support production plans and inventory targets - Owns the plant purchasing function, ensuring all processes are managed in accordance with company policy - Processes requests and manages records for vendor set-up and maintenance - Partners with Corporate Procurement to align vendors and best practice procedures - Partners with production and project manager in project reviews - Creates, updates, and maintains standard work process documentation - Processes invoices and exceptions in invoice processing - Resolves invoice discrepancies, blocked invoices, open order reports and other purchasing issues - Owns the inventory process including physical inventory, cycle counting, audits, and reconciliation - Develops and maintains supplier relationships while analyzing supplier quality, capability, capacity, service, and costs - Supports best practices to improve productivity, quality, service, security, and efficiency of the supply chain function - Tracks cycle count discrepancies and adjustments. Identifies areas for improvement - Leads improvement activities to reduce usage and or/waste identified by raw material and/or goods in process cycle counts - Conducts monthly/annual inventory counts - Provides weekly list of open purchase orders - Serves as back-up to Supply Chain Manager (Epicor Entries, Coordinating Shipments, Job Routers)- Contributes to Production Planning by assigning workload assets and analyzing capacity - Creates and reviews the Min/Max - Raw Material Locations - Tracks the weekly spend, stratifying data into buckets (sundries, office supplies, maintenance materials, etc- Owns Gemba and wrap up and facilitates the team daily meeting

Education

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  Operations Management

  2015 — 2019