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National Vendor Manager

A versatile and action oriented Supply Chain professional  with proven experience in team leadership, problem solving, and continuous improvement in healthcare industry in a production setting. Delivers executive leadership that is accountable, focused on achieving measurable financial results, and sustained improvements.

••	Championed inventory reduction projects reducing inventory holds by 80%
•	Responsible for national vendor contracts and purchasing functions across 6 facilities nationwide
•	Management of design for client requisition forms and final report documents
•	Led the projects group to achieve predictable, repeatable, and profitable results
•	Reduction in overall cost by minimum $600,000 each year since hire
•	Strong negotiator – have led long term agreements on scale of $10M+, resulting in EBITA savings of over 5% per year
•	Successful negotiation of:
•	Logistics contracts with UPS and FedEx - reducing freight cost by 40%
•	Equipment service contracts - reducing cost by 12%
•	Capital purchases – addition of 22.3% savings on equipment purchases
•	Commodities contracts – reducing contract rates and net spend by 10% on average
•	Service labor contracts – temp hire agencies, janitorial, courier, waste management etc. 
•	Sales of used equipment
•	Completed successful transition from UPS to FedEx service in 3 months. Managed contract negotiations, cost and savings analysis, project planning, management, implementation, and full execution.
•	Successful development and execution of 3rd party solution to outsource functions that are not core company competency including but not limited to same day courier services and supply fulfillment.
•	Development of formal RFP process
•	Current projects
•	Development of standardized inventory management processes by applying best practices
•	Centralization and creation of formal purchasing department

•	Created tracking practices for inventory turns, order amounts and lead times 
•	Created systems for purchase orders and reporting of spend by department
•	Improve turn around on purchasing fulfillment to same day
•	Managed day to day purchasing and warehouse operations
•	Improved spending accountability for all production departments

Purchasing Specialist

•	Designed and built national distribution and returns network from the ground floor
•	Improve tracking of daily orders to be able to report key KPIs
•	Constructed reports for client attrition rates and client compliance with inventory returns
•	Facilities management, repair and vendor interactions
•	Company growth from $6M annual revenue to $20M annual revenue

Logistics Manager

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Kyle Franzen: National Vendor Manager in Aurora, CO

Kyle Franzen

Cordant Health Solutions

Forensic Laboratories

Forensic Laboratories

Metro State University