Bio - Robi Bendorf, C.P.M.

Robi Bendorf has over 30 years of purchasing and sales experience, involving both domestic and international activities, for a broad range of manufacturing and service businesses. He has extensive experience in consulting & training in purchasing, reengineering the supply management process, the management of procurement functions, global sourcing of materials and components, reducing cost of purchased materials and services, export development, and negotiation of complex transactions and contracts, both foreign and domestic. He has held purchasing management positions in high volume manufacturing, subcontract, job shop, and service operations, involving power generation, nuclear, electrical distribution and control, air conditioning equipment and global sourcing services.

Prior to becoming a full-time consultant in 1994, he served as Manager of Customer and Supplier Development for the Westinghouse Trading Company where he worked with purchasing and sales operations to reduce their costs and improve their operations. He has given presentations on numerous purchasing topics to the National Association of Purchasing Management (Now ISM), major universities, and numerous in-house seminars for industrial & service clients both domestically and internationally. He was selected to present seminars at the last 7 Institute of Supply Management International Conventions and is the contributor of numerous articles published in Purchasing Today and Inside Supply Management. Robi was selected as ISM’s National Person of the Year in both Global Resources and in Education/Learning.

Clients include Ethicon Endo Surgery (Division of J&J), Knoll Furniture, Florida State University, Duquesne University, American Air Filter, Tippins Steel, Dormont Manufacturing, Medrad Medical, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Elliot Company, IDEX, the University of Pittsburgh, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, SAE International, Bettis Atomic Power, Industrial Scientific, C-COR Electronics, Allegheny Teledyne, Duquesne Power & Light, Ferno-Washington, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Human-I-Tees, Sony, American Video Glass, Stanley Furniture, Mannesmann Rexroth, Atlantic Packaging Company, First Energy Corp., Corning, The Walt Disney Company, Total Safety Inc, Calgon Carbon, Argo-Tech, EuroMatech, Piper Aircraft, Vistakon (Div of J&J), NCS Pearson, Ohio Wholesale Company, Qatar Gas, Schering-Plough, Curtiss-Wright Electro Mechanical Corp., DePuy Orthopaedics , Alcon Labs, Graco, Cordis (Div of J&J), Chevron Texaco, the Institute of Supply Management, U.S. Fuel Division of Westinghouse Electric Company, and the Russell Corporation.

Robi is a lifetime C.P.M., has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, and a Masters Degree from Penn State University.

His energetic and enthusiastic style, combined with extensive functional experience, makes him an excellent consultant, trainer, and facilitator of change.

Robi Bendorf, C.P.M.,

Bendorf & Associates

105 Regal Court

Monroeville, Pa 15146-4735

Voice: 412-856-4453

Fax: 412-856-1226

Email: robi@bendorf.com

Internet http://www.bendorf.com

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