Direct an organization of 24 managers and employees in all facets of planning, procurement, receiving, and warehousing. Efficiently procured and managed supply chain for ASME Section XIII pressure vessels and plate heat exchangers, selling primarily to refiners, petrochemical, industrial gases, skid package suppliers and compressor suppliers.• Use Management Operating System based on the Toyota Manufacturing System to reengineer API’s business.• Recruit and develop the best talent to fundamentally change the business model. Invest in our talent with 70% of the Planning and Procurement functions attending classes to obtain APICS CPIM certification. • Conduct 12 Kaizens per year with at least 4 Supply Chain related. • Increase sales by 26% - 50% YOY. Focus on supplier on-time delivery of 95%+ (currently 98%). Develop critical suppliers. Complete implementation of MRP. Develop RFQs in MRP. Timely complete MRP, PRP, and SRP.• Increase Gross Margin from 20% to 40% by focusing on competitive bidding, supplier development, on-time delivery and aftermarket. • Reduced aftermarket gasket deliveries from 3 weeks to same day shipment by machine installation, stocking, optimizing the process and reducing waiting and transit time.• Improve quality to over 5 sigma or less than 170 DPPM.• Increased on-time delivery to above 98% and obtained most of the best in class by production line. • Established and adjusted VMI programs. Established Kanban programs. Adjusted Min and Max stocking levels to maximize the support for improved OTIF. • Create and run monthly SIOP program.• Increase cycle count accuracy from 60% to 99% with implementation of vinyl scannable inventory tags, granular locations, and implementation of handheld device cycle counting. Cycle count accuracy was so high that we eliminated the physical inventory and saved $400k in costs and added margin.• Reduced obsolete inventory from $600k annually to $60k in 2023.

Responsible for all aspects of Supply Chain.Confirm Master Production Schedule: work with estimating to establish lead times, provide master production control to the factory, communicate delivery schedule with the customers, ensure on-time delivery.Direct Manager of Procurement. Ensure all products are delivered in specification, on-time, from approved vendor list, and with proper material test reports.Direct Warehouse Manager. Receive all products and ensure meet stated specification. Execute all move tickets, manage inventory levels and coordinate all yard moves.Direct Manager of Logistics. Ensure all outbound shipments are tagged and match customer purchase order. All outbound paperwork is created and moves including over sized moves and permitting is accomplished. Shipments from UPS and LTL to rail car and 19 axle, both domestic and international.

Directly manage a procurement team of 3 sourcing managers ensuring reliable supply, on time delivery, quality conforming goods and services. Indirectly manage 12 plant buyers.Deliver year on year hard cost reductions of $4 – $6.5MM on $150MM in spend, 3-4% of spend, minimizing total cost of ownership.In 2014, bought all engineering service, equipment, contractors to rebuild ADFORS premier plant with specifications, contracts, performance guarantees, liquidated damages and supplier management. The project was on time, completed within one year from approval to production and on budget at $19MM.Drafted procurement policy and provide training and oversight on compliance to the policy, ensuring competitive bidding and lowest total cost of ownership.Competitively bid all spend over $5k, develop commodity strategies and manage sourcing managers.Establish supply substitution opportunities and implement or negotiate multisource supply to limit risk and ensure lowest total cost and highest value. Low Cost Country source both raw materials and capital.Implemented retail packaging change on purchased products and produced product packaging. Implemented the integration of the second largest screen manufacture in the US with plant relocation to Mexico and secured all raw materials and spare parts.Lead team of Strategic Sourcing Managers combined with dotted line reports at 5 plants throughout North America.Partner with Research and Development to bring new products to market and implement competitive alternative raw materials to reduce product cost.Partner with suppliers to remove cost from the cost stack and pass the cost reductions to the company in the form of lower acquisition prices. Partnered with suppliers to improve the product we brought to market at no net price change and increased our sales on the product by 20%.Establish agreements and manage suppliers with over 80% of spend. Ensure on-time and in-full over 99%.

Procure and manage commodities with spend in excess of $200 million annually including; spend analysis, issuing requests for proposals, negotiations, total cost of ownership analysis, relationship management and purchase order creation.Responsible for commodities of: materials, resale commodities, internal use commodities, software, temporary services, consultants, fleet vehicles, credit card, airlines, hotels, rental cars, and travel agencies with a goal of $1.5 to $5.0 million in operating profit impact.Reduce cost of commodities and work with suppliers to improve quality and service.Deliver at least 10% of the year on year cost reduction using Six Sigma and Lean tools.Manage a team of procurement and travel professionals.