Bruce Hartman

Provide company-wide consultative support as relates to contracts, procurement, negotiations, and vendor management. Project-leader for development of contract approval system built on ServiceNow and DocuSign. Administer and oversee contract approval workflow. Reduced approval cycle times by 40 percent. Maintain corporate contract library. Lead supplier and fixed asset data conversion projects for migration from MS Solomon to Workday Financials. Lead Workday Invoice Processing roll-out project. Member of multiple leadership committees. Mentor Advisory Program Protégé and Mentor in successive years.

Managed personnel and materials in a GMP-compliant manner to source, purchase, and deliver component and finished assemblies to production and customers. Focused heavily on improving operational efficiency between departments, streamlining material flow, reducing operational overhead, and increasing company profit through cost and inventory reduction initiatives. Responsible for vendor management, product sourcing, price negotiations, employee coaching, establishing and writing departmental policy and procedures, hiring/firing, RFP/RFQ, blanket orders, material planning & forecasting. Coordinated bills of material with engineering department. Managed four distinct operational areas including, Shipping & Receiving, Purchasing, Picking/Materials Cage, and Label Production. Oversaw $4 million yearly spend. Established a separate beginning-to-end fulfillment operation to serve our largest customer that included a custom database for tracking material movement and reporting to stakeholders.

Responsible for purchasing all direct and indirect materials for precast concrete manufacturing & construction (raw materials, custom assemblies, capital equipment and improvement projects). Managed toolroom operations and coordinated with steel production department to ensure required materials were in place for production when needed. Sourced new products. Read CAD drawings for creating or verifying bills of material. Negotiated price and delivery with vendors. Expedited materials. Supervised and coordinated monthly inventory. Member of Residual Risk Reduction Team and Plant Steering Committee. Oversaw $20 million yearly spend.

Performed day-to-day front and back end operations management. Coordinated journal entries with company accountant. Oversaw AP and AR, including check issuance, customer invoicing & collections, cash receipts, and bank account reconciliation. Responsible for all purchasing, and warehouse operations (picking, and shipping & receiving). Lead the project that replaced our ERP system, from due-diligence, to data conversion, to training and implementation (from FACTS to CommerceCenter by Prophet21 now Epicor). Created all data reporting from SQL server based system using a combination of Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel. Developed Microsoft Access database applications to streamline internal processes (credit card processing, commission calculation and tracking, purchase order confirmation tracker). Oversaw $1.5 million yearly spend.