Tammy Blankenship

• Lead sourcing strategies through engineering drawings, specifications, SOWs, and historical purchase data.
• Prepare RFQs, analyze supplier quotations, and ensure regulatory compliance (FAR 15.4).
• Develop and execute supplier negotiation strategies; achieved cost savings and lead-time improvements while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
• Execute POs in SAP and manage post-award supplier activities, including performance monitoring and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with IPTs, engineering, quality, operations, and finance to align supplier deliverables with program objectives.
• Resolve PO, LTA, goods receipt, and invoice discrepancies to ensure financial integrity.
• Strategic procurement professional with 5+ years of direct sourcing and negotiation experience and over a decade of contract/program support within aerospace manufacturing. Advanced SAP user with expertise in RFQ development, SOW review, supplier negotiations, PO/LTA management, and post-award administration. Experienced in government programs requiring FAR/DFARS compliance. Recognized for driving cost savings, mitigating risk, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.

• Responsible for all aspects of the relationship with a specific supplier within a commodity. Directs and managed all schedules, and purchase orders for the suppliers or the product family. Ensured product was delivered on time, met quality standards, and at the right cost. Performed delivery assurance responsibilities.
• Carried out Procurement processes, standards, and operational plans.
• Responded to value stream inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Carried out activities associated with purchasing goods, materials, supplies, and services to ensure terms are in the organization’s best interest.
• Prepared purchase orders to ensure the procurement process went smoothly, under general guidance.
• Compiled price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to provide input on reasonable prices and monitors contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
• Contacted suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries to ensure resolution of problems such as shortages and missed or late deliveries and develops and maintains good vendor relationships.
• Ensured product is delivered on time, met quality standards, and at the right cost and perform delivery assurance responsibilities.

Participated in group meetings, teleconferences and/or training required and actively participated in initiatives for continuous improvement using ACE tools and support AS9100 efforts. Obtained ACE Associate certification.

· Coordinate and process customer returned material using SAP, JDE/One World.

· Run various reports using Business Objects.

· Designed and maintain Access databases for various status/tracking purposes.

· Created and maintained spreadsheets.

· Organize and file purchase order files.

· Created various Power Point presentations.

· Assisted contract administrators in repair pricing.

Support Engineering/Quality team in retrieval of shop history of customer return material