David Chudzinski Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Valley City, Ohio

Supply Chain / Purchasing LeaderMaterial-flow expert with over ten years of manufacturing-oriented materials management roles, metrics-driven and relationship-oriented, whose cost-saving focus saved over $1M annually three consecutive years. Superior results in minimizing stock outages. Utilized SAP to reduce inventory over-statement of $1.8M. Identified and eliminated $1M of excess demand in the F15 Fighter Jet schedule. Managed site inventory involving more than $100M total spend.Professional Experience Director of Purchasing Oct 2013-Nov 2017Three D Metals Valley City, OHFamily-owned global slitter of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys with operations in US and Canada.Responsibilities: Manage and mentor a team of diverse purchasing professionals. Establish and maintain measurable performance metrics for all levels of procurement activities to include but not limited to supplier performance, quality, internal order placement performance, buyer activity levels, and material shortage elimination. Ensure performance improvement and recovery plans are developed.Accomplishments• Total cost savings creating over $1M of value for the company year over year• Stock outages of less than 1 per day over 500 item masters• Created a global value stream environment. • Managed global enterprise organization within the scope of the strategic sourcing process to drive cost out of the supply chain by managing the following: Commodity and negotiation strategies including Terms and Conditions, Supplier selection/de-selection, evaluation and rationalization of Supply chain solutions, including supplier consignment, stocking programs, safety stock levels, etc. • Developed overall vendor base which created and sustained competitive advantage, utilizing global market exploitation while leveraging total spend.• Managed and achieved annual material savings initiatives in line with profit plan and overall business objectives.

Manage the program and production planning team to facilitate program specific planning and scheduling policy for use across all program teams by acting as communication liaison for information regarding execution to MPS inclusive of status, changes, recovery plans, on-time delivery, and performance. Monitor and maintain the accuracy and integrity of MPS input information to support sales orders and forecast requirements. Recognize customer requirements and create an environment in which the use of effective scheduling logic and opportunity analysis simultaneously produces realistic master schedules and increases customer satisfaction. Responsible for maintaining all Health Metrics, Executive Inventory, Excess/Obsolete and Policy Deployment charts and graphs for the operations team at the Marble facility.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business Management, 3.96

Activities and Societies: Dayton C. Miller Honor SocietyGraduated in the top 2% of my class

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services