Dan Hudson Email & Phone Number

Hanover, New Hampshire, Us

Responsible for leadership, development, implementation and execution of global sourcing strategies and processes that encompass over $250M annual spend. Instituted a comprehensive approach to mitigate supply chain disruption and address the company’s number one corporate risk. • Responded to the 2011 Japan disaster by implementing risk mitigation processes that avoided production shutdowns while supporting record shipment growth.• Developed and implemented a standard supplier qualification process.• Developed and implemented a standard supplier performance review process.• Instituted a category strategy process to proactively define a supply base that meets current and future business needs.• Established processes and structure to enable sourcing in low-cost regions.• Consistently exceeded cost saving goals returning approximately 2-5% of spend to the company’s bottom line yearly.• Provide leadership for Hypertherm’s Procure-to-Pay Lean initiative. • Defined environmental and social sustainability as a foundational element of supplier relations at Hypertherm.

Hanover, New Hampshire, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Developed and managed the global Lean Transformation Program that drives continuous process improvement efforts across the enterprise. Regional deployment yielding tangible business results is the over-riding objective of a program based on hands-on training and practical application of Lean Thinking. Deployment has occurred in Manufacturing, Distribution, Planning, Procurement, Marketing, Order-Processing, Sales, Service & Support, IT and R&D.• Launched Lean deployment efforts in over 14 countries covering 35 organizations• Reduced Cycle time 25-70%• Improved Productivity by 10-35%• Improved Customer Satisfaction scores by 9.5%

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Corporate Direct Materials Procurement:Ensured direct materials compliance to legal and regulatory directives. Developed and monitoredcommon enterprise-wide procurement processes.Technical Consulting and Decision Support:Provided statistical and financial analysis as well as strategic leadership and alignment across thecompany around Supply Chain Design, Supply Chain Management and Design-For-Supply Chain.;Developed and supported the data-acquisition architecture designed to bring flexible and efficient adhoc supply chain analysis capability to the Oracle ERP environment.

Managed the outsourcing of $15M of printed circuit assemblies and associated components to contractmanufacturers and suppliers in Asia. Divisional SAP Program Manager chartered to exploit existingfunctionality while targeting new capabilities for subsequent releases. Group-wide program manager forthe SAP Planning & Procurement Team. Divisional lead for the Emerging Markets Program designedto drive growth through funded deals in targeted emerging markets. Managed all quantitative analysisefforts relative to supply chain decisions, including manufacturing and distribution siting, productportfolio management, emerging market strategies, supplier and distributor agreements, and strategicpartnership opportunities.

Bs, Industrial/Packaging Engineering

Mba