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• Communicate with, evaluate, and approve vendors to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals, and objectives.• Identify supplier performance risks in order to develop and implement mitigation strategies.• Work closely with Mechanical Design Engineering to Provide support and input throughout the design process.• Develop and execute RFQ process / make-buy analysis / supplier selection criteria.• Negotiate prices, payment terms, discounts, and delivery arrangements with suppliers.• Lead continuous improvement event.• Develop and Communicate sourcing strategies.• Process purchasing documentation (Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Cancellation Forms, Non-Conformance Reports) • Expedite problems with suppliers regarding costs, quality, quantity, and delivery of goods purchased.• Keep informed of new sources of supply materials and services.• Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment, and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings.• Resolve invoicing discrepancies and approve for payment.• Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing.

• Process purchasing documentation (Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Cancellation Forms, Non-Conformance Reports) • Communicate with, evaluate and approve vendors to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals and objectives.• Negotiate prices, credit terms, discounts and delivery arrangements with suppliers.• Expedite problems with suppliers regarding costs, quality, quantity and delivery of goods purchased.• Keep informed of new sources of supply materials and services.• Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings.• Resolve invoicing discrepancies and approve for payment.• Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing.

• Interpret drawings and sketches to engineering specifications and blueprints. Able to work around substitute part for urgent line downs affect shift attainment. • Ability to analysis sales configuration change, and build rate change to accommodate market need.• Real time analysis on “Where we are at” production schedule with model mix. Providing support to production scheduling on all material flow issues to meet production schedules and customer requirements.• Daily vendor management, releases, fill out supplier score card, generate non- compliant record• Production floor shortage control, radio support, line down ticket support• Expedite and sequence vendor shipments based on “where we are at” priority to support JIT materials flow.• Support new model launch including but not limited to product development planning, PPAP, ECO change• Provide lean suggestion based on daily waste observe• Assist with materials flow internally within Paint, Weld, Assembly line to achieve shift attainment • Review sales orders, build rate, configuration change, analysis impact to production line build sequence change

• Manage large variety product categories for Asia inter company• Make suggestion on container expedite plan, airfreight plan including charter airfreight plan • Dispute expedite charge based on 8 weeks roll up liability • Internal communication regarding production priorities to scheduling team. • Follow up with engineering change, materials balance out. • Built strong supplier relationship on a win-win bases

• Responsible for long term customer(Ford, GM) release forecasting for a 24/7 operation with a daily sales of 1 Million per day. Provided logistical and administrative support for finished product shipping to major customers, providing JIT deliveries. • Communicated with cross functional team including and engineering departments, accounting department and sales department to meet new part development requirements and resolving price, PO issue. • Followed up with prototype spot buy orders with special orders from oversea subcontractors. • Managed production line phase in phase out supplier transition with PPAP and PTR approval update. • Maintained strong vendor relationships; working with oversea (UK, Brazil, China, India, Taiwan, NA, Korea, Germany) vendors to communicate quality and delivery issues. • Developed and maintained weekly and daily shipping schedules for all customers and vendors. • Generation of Customer and Vendor Delivery performance metrics, Dispute any infractions to our Customer ratings.

• Provide one-on-one tutoring to students on 8 main courses (Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Purchasing, Business Computing Applications I, Business Computing Applications II, Accounting, Master planning, Microeconomics)• Implement study techniques to promote independent learning for peers• Motivate peers to utilize their full potential to achieve academic goals