Chuan Lu, Cpim Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Achievements: • Anticipated the correct demand trend and secured buffer stock that covered 23% short-term forecast increase• Pushed and facilitated the cooperation between sourcing and engineering to pull in new component vendor qualification by a month.• Improved the vendor fulfillment rate to 95% for 3rd Party accessories by introducing new process.• Supply Demand Balancing - Develop rolling 52-week production plans for FG worth of $260K million, and logistics requests to best match forecasts, revenue target, capacity, material availability and inventory strategies.- Create allocation strategies through scenario simulation, and provide direction to supply planning, material planning, sourcing and regional team when materials are constrained.• NPI & EOP Planning- Functional leader in the core team to make decision of production capacity target, deliver high level sales forecast, ramp and production plan, communicate risks, and influence decisions on vendor selection, launch timing target and etc. - Work with cross functional partners to enable and execute action items to achieve the NPI schedule.- Make decision of last time buy plans for end of life products, that minimize E&O inventory and meet phase out plans. • Supply Chain & Vendor Management- Design inventory strategies for different category of products based on vendor reliability, seasonality, sales activities, and total costs consideration. - Propose production capacity expansion plans based on scenarios simulations, and present to management for approval.- Lead conversations among supply planning, material planning, supply managers to work on material constraints and risk mitigation plans, and communicate updates to key stakeholders.- Manage suppliers/ contract manufacturers to achieve on-time and accurate order fulfillment, by implementing new process/improvement initiatives.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

St Louis, Mo, Us

• Component supply & Inventory management: Reduced on-hand stock value by $ 1.2 million with improved inventory strategy for 1,000+ SKUs of components through data analysis; Maintain and continuously improve a health supply plan by leading cross-functional collaboration; engaged a vendor to improve the annual on-time delivery performance by 14%; Foresee possible shortages and work with internal and external stakeholders to establish plans to mitigate or eliminate risks; Present bi-weekly reports to VPs on critical projects status, new initiatives, E&O stock study, and contingency plans.• Contract manufacturer management: Helped a co-manufacturer improve fill rate by 4% in two months with capacity planning; Initiated and executed a new process of material supply that saves 20% of time and manpower; lead buyers to ensure the right materials supply flow; review forecast regularly with demand planning to make sure data is up to date; involve stakeholders to resolve issues and provide root cause report on FG shortages.• Cross-functional projects: being the knowledge center for lead time, costs, forecast and inventory level, and partner with cross-functional teams to achieve feasible NPI launch date, EOL planning that minimizes transition costs and disruption.

• Performed project-based scenario analysis of supply chain costs and identify the optimal one, and perform other analysis such as SWOT and cost-benefit, and present findings to senior level and peers to drive key business decisions.• Established and owned the Excel data base from scratch, gather and update 8,000 pieces data of supplier, clients and competitors.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Performed current state analysis utilizing tools such as Voice of Customer to identify problems of the sourcing dashboard, and discrepancies between metrics and strategic goals • Designed new downstream functional KPIs/metrics that cover key sourcing activities and align with S&OP objectives. • Delivered an improved sourcing dashboard that is more actionable, user-oriented and root-cause-focused.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Aggregated 2-year historical sales data of 250 SKUs into 3 families and analyzed data to identify trend and seasonality.• Built and tested six forecast models in Excel, and identify the most accurate one improved accuracy from 89% to 91%.• Provided insights of macro-economic and industry index that affect the demand pattern.

Qingdao, Shandong, Cn

Example projects: Airbus H135 Helicopter Assembly Line, Siemens Innovation Center of Intelligent Manufacturing• Switched among projects to provide consulting service to foreign companies on their investment plans in China: supply chain costs, supplier network, market research, regulations, governmental support and other ad hoc analysis required.• Facilitated FDI project implementation: organized meetings and negotiations for stakeholders, coordinated with potential partners and government departments to ensure that each milestone is met, prepared required documents and contracts.• Co-led a cross-functional team of five to launch a new business that generated revenue of $15,000 in six months.

• Created purchase orders and monitored vendors’ compliance to ensure quality goods and on-time delivery.• Reviewed inventory of finished goods and supplies daily to identify problems or opportunities of process improvement; developed and implemented an Excel inventory review tool for 600 SKUs that eliminated the supplies shortage problem.• Participated in meetings with vendors about negotiation, design and etc, and maintained strong relationships with 30 vendors.• Managed 14 people in quality checking and packaging, and worked with 3PL to ship 300,000+ pcs monthly to headquarters.

Master Of Science, Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Business Administration