Amy Burkle
Lakeville
Summary
Extensive experience with a proven track record of successful planning, contracting, and purchasing that maximized revenue and minimized expense, and risk.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Production & EHS Coordinator
ITWEAE Despatch Industries
Lakeville
05.2024 - Current
- Advanced proactive safety culture across manufacturing shop floor and office areas as EHS Coordinator.
- Ensures compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations while partnering with leadership to implement safety initiatives, reduce workplace risks, and support operational excellence.
- Monitors and fully utilizes labor capacity while maintaining production schedules based on labor availability, material lead times, space, and documentation requirements.
- Identified future demand constraints that misaligned with shop floor labor capacity and supported Operations Supervisors in balancing labor demand across multiple groups.
- Achieved alignment of customer, project, and order schedules to meet requirements.
- Maintained accurate planning data in QAD, ensuring current scheduled dates and BOMs reflected latest ECO changes.
Planner/Scheduler III – Sub Assemblies & Service
Onto Innovation
Bloomington
10.2022 - 05.2024
- Coordinated material allocation and future planning with other planners while reviewing current plans.
- Managed Subassembly Production Schedule by implementing team decisions and overseeing the entire build process.
- Updated schedule in collaboration with other planners based on forecast changes, tool configurations, inventory, and labor availability.
- Initiated solutions to scheduling and manufacturing challenges proactively.
- Communicated production plan changes to relevant team members to ensure alignment.
- Notified purchasing staff to expedite material shortages.
- Provide input to the Master Scheduler on item master settings such as Lead-time, Period of supply, Safety stock.
- Generated and communicated key performance data on schedule commit dates and material status to managers.
Buyer – Cable Assemblies
Onto Innovation
Bloomington
10.2021 - 10.2022
- Executed the processing of the quality backlog of $150k worth of parts that contained quality nonconformances with routing them back to the suppliers to receive either a credit, repair, and/or warranty replacement.
- Evaluate the demand of supply with the vendors ability to supply on time deliveries, quality, and cost of goods.
- Purchased parts strategically to ensure timely availability and cost-effectiveness.
- Route RFQs to qualified suppliers with focusing on quality, lead time, current market demand and pricing of raw materials.
- Collaborated with vendors to identify ordering gaps and inefficiencies, contributing to reduction of overhead costs in production.
- Initiated priority task lists and daily meetings with suppliers to address supply chain shortages of raw materials.
- Developed step-by-step SAP training documents for the modules of SAP Procure to Pay.
- Established an FAI program to qualify new suppliers, and existing suppliers with new product assemblies.
- Partner with sales, marketing, and the product designers/engineers to help guide the development and execution of new product lines.
- Identify the current component shortages with the validation of the bill of materials, and alert the project engineer with recovery dates.
- Provide alternates that have current global supply that meets the requirements of fit, form, and function.
Buyer – Hydro/Mechanical
MTS Systems Corporation
Eden Prairie
04.2019 - 10.2021
- Effectively worked on improving supplier relationships with developing strategies to improve the on-time deliverables from 91% to an average of 95.4% within one year.
- Execution of purchasing the average parts of 1700 units per month with achieving cost savings, overcoming supply chain shortages, maintain low working capital.
- Maintained supplier scorecards to track on-time delivery, quality notifications, deviations, and cost savings initiatives.
- Ensured compliance with ITAR regulations by monitoring and reviewing supplier practices.
- Managed the purchasing of all fasteners, sensors, load cells, high-level furnaces, and chillers.
- Achieved savings of $211,315 for fiscal year 2020 through strategic purchasing decisions.
- Gained efficiencies with the reduction and costs of issuing purchase orders by an average of 46%.
- Merged two full-time buyer roles into one, streamlining operations and reducing labor costs.
- Achieved efficiencies in the Accounts Payable area by implementing Concur's three-way match for purchase orders.
Supervisor
UPS
Eagan
08.2018 - 04.2019
- Supervised employees to maintain safety standards and ensure efficient parcel processing in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicated productivity goals, assigned work duties, and safety objectives to employees to align team efforts.
- Trained and certified employees in UPS safe work methods annually, enhancing workplace safety.
- Coordinated with dispatch team to manage oversized and overloaded parcel vehicles.
Inventory Control Manager & Cashier Supervisor
Bed Bath & Beyond
Apple Valley
11.2009 - 08.2018
- Executed sales floor duties, including stock replenishment, freight processing, and inventory control, ensuring optimal product availability.
- Frequently exceeds daily, weekly, and monthly retail sales goals.
- Merchandised store and fixtures for featured sales products and high-demand consumer goods, highlighting core products with high profit margins.
- Supported management with front end store operations by training new employees.
- Recognized for exceptional delivery of customer service.
Materials Planner & Buyer
ConAgra Foods
Lakeville
04.1996 - 06.2017
- Managed the end-to-end materials planning process from demand forecasting to product shipment for two private branded food manufacturing plants and a co-packer.
- Managed $2.8 mm worth of inventory on a monthly basis.
- Achieved the most cost-effective use of materials and reduced lost costs by maintaining optimal inventory levels and removing excess, aging, and expiring materials.
- Continuously monitored inventory to ensure forecasts, reformulations and customer exits were accounted for in production schedules and capacity plans.
- Worked closely with Logistics Load Planners to ensure scheduling and prompt delivery of materials, resolve supply issues, optimize truck utilization, and address other issues including urgency, intermodal transfers, and less than truckload (LTL) scenarios.
- Proactively communicated, collaborated, and kept all impacted parties including EP, Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, Quality Assurance, and Research Quality and Innovation (RQI) apprised on inventory levels, supply issues, supplier priorities, production and service delivery needs, business plan adjustments, inventory level commodity shortfalls and contract balances.
- Cultivated key supplier relationships and conducted visits to align on cost reduction objectives, enhancing collaboration and shared goals.
- Contributed to the successful launch and execution of new private branded products and manufacturing lines.
- Provided expertise in new product commercialization, location assessments, inventory shortage resolutions, supply planning enhancements, and SAP system setup and updates.
Education
BA - Business Administration, Management-Leadership
Concordia University
St. PaulSome College (No Degree) - Computer Science
Normandale Community College
Bloomington, MNSkills
- Materials Planning
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Inventory Management
- Operations
- SAP Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- QAD
- AS400/BPCS
- Master scheduling
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Collaboration
Certifications Memberships
- APICS member, 2083402
- Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CSCP), In progress
Timeline
Production & EHS Coordinator
ITWEAE Despatch Industries
05.2024 - Current
Planner/Scheduler III – Sub Assemblies & Service
Onto Innovation
10.2022 - 05.2024
Buyer – Cable Assemblies
Onto Innovation
10.2021 - 10.2022
Buyer – Hydro/Mechanical
MTS Systems Corporation
04.2019 - 10.2021
Supervisor
UPS
08.2018 - 04.2019
Inventory Control Manager & Cashier Supervisor
Bed Bath & Beyond
11.2009 - 08.2018
Materials Planner & Buyer
ConAgra Foods
04.1996 - 06.2017
BA - Business Administration, Management-Leadership
Concordia University
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
Normandale Community College