Katie Kile

Experience

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  Entrust

  Jun 2013 - now

  Acted as the Purchasing SME for GAINS Systems – assisted with issue identification, resolution, and testing; contributed to GAINS weekly conference calls; led training sessions on new functions for colleagues.Participated on the GAINS Improvement Committee to generate a list of future improvements and identify training gaps among colleagues.Managed annual spend of $17 million, ensuring stock availability to customers and productionSupported engineering new product launches through service readiness gateIdentified improvement opportunities & implemented solutions for default lead time and currency conversion errors on purchase ordersPlanned over 6,000 parts: responsible for forecast review, expediting, and managing customer orders.Assisted with root causing monthly activities to identify causes for misses in on-time, fill rate, and promise date metrics. Show less Delivered cost savings of $450k over 3 years through supplier negotiation, resourcing, supporting China and Machine Shop transfersSupported engineering redesign efforts by ensuring consistent supply of parts to support production during transition periods while minimizing scrap costsRepresented the mechanical commodity at weekly expedite meetings with production to ensure critical parts were expedited to support manufacturingReduced inventory by over $1.1 million over 3 years by scrapping obsolete/excess parts and scrutinizing buy messagesCo-led a project to better manage 3rd party software agreements with our vendors thorough annual contract review of terms, minimizing financial risk to EDC Show less Assisted with freight invoice auditing to ensure correct billing.Conducted product distribution analysis to assist network growth.Created visual representations of current hub network and future growth opportunities.Examined trends in freight recovery efforts to identify cost saving opportunities.Quoted various international freight shipments.Researched international expansion opportunities.Studied transit times and costs to create landed cost estimates using information gathered from carriers. Show less

  • Sr Manager, Sales & Operations Planning

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Operations Planning Manager

    Dec 2021 - Aug 2023

  • Sr Supply Chain Process Analyst

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Supply Chain Process Analyst

    Feb 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Buyer/Planner, OEM & Service

    Nov 2016 - Feb 2018

  • Buyer, Mechanical

    Apr 2014 - Nov 2016

  • Logistics Intern

    Jun 2013 - Apr 2014