Ryan Higgins:

Procurement Professional in Ottawa

Abstract: I’m an Ottawa-based professional working in construction purchasing/procurement. I started this website to post some of the procurement related resources I have developed and to meet other professionals in Ottawa working in similar spaces.

My links:

ryan@ryanthomashiggins.com

My LinkedIn page (team building and supply chain posts)

My Reddit account (you’ve probably seen me at r/Ottawa 😄)

My Twitter account (mostly artwork and 90s computer games)

Clubs I’m in: Ottawa Power BI Wednesdays; Procurement People (weekly Ottawa meet – message me for details)

My skills…

📊ERP familiarity: NetSuite (PO processing, inventory, purchase reporting); SAP Ariba (supplier sourcing); Microsoft Dynamics (scheduling, inventory); Zoho (inventory); Service Assistant 5 (vehicle routing; production reporting)

📦Procurement: supplier relationship building, RFX writing and negotiation, inventory, forecasting and ROP calculation, Incoterms and international shipping, versed in the entire procure-to-pay process, responsible for more than $1,000,000 in annual spend

👨‍💼Leadership: Management of government teams (experience managing up to 16 people), monitoring team KPIs and assessing performance, all on-boarding/off-boarding/coaching/correcting, awarded twice for strong performance in a government management role

🧮Data analytics: Excel experience (all the basics: pivot tables, V and X-Lookups, advanced conditional formatting); Power BI (dashboard development for project and materials management; please email me for demonstrations of my dashboard work)

🗓️Project management: SCRUM and Agile literate, GANTT chart writing, scheduling, post-mortem analysis, PDCA improvement cycles

👷‍♂️Working style: Enthusiastic and capable of hard work, friendly, understanding and adaptable

Some other stuff I’m working on…

How to keep purchase requests organized using a simple dashboard you can build in Microsoft Excel and Power BI:

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