Eric Salyers Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead a small team developing, designing, and marketing table top board game accessories.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Bellevue, WA

• Critical customer facing SC focal to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Assist in account management and development of multi-Billion annual revenue account.
• Design and provide metrics and KPIs to support process improvement throughout the organization.
• Identify operational improvement opportunities that improve the core metrics of our business with a focus on improved customer satisfaction.
• Lead meetings up to 5x per week between remote international manufacturing teams, and AWS.
• Drive performance improvement through root-cause analysis within the quanta SC team.
• Key contributor to business review preparation working closely with Quanta senior leadership.

Seattle, WA

• Built scalable processes for custom furniture manufacturer in preparation of large contractual business opportunities.
• Implemented a suite of project management tools to improve operations and profitability. Empowered design team delivered an improvement of on time delivery by over 30%, and a reduction of material cost by over 10%.
• Acted as project lead for large recurring customer account with monthly deliverables. Company had not delivered on time in the prior 3 months. Delivered on time every month after assuming role. Resulted in $100k in new.
• Focus on process improvement evaluating equipment, process flow, and staff skill set.

Greater Seattle Area

• Prepared supply chain to rapidly scale the distribution of 250 products from 120 locations to over 600.
• Addressed multiple sourcing issues concerning retail packaged products, and began to define the project scope to accomplish several critical path goals.
• Implemented process improvements with tools to assist marketing and sales in forecasting and planning.
• Rapidly learned business, developed internal relationships and provided clear direction to manage suppliers in a dynamic environment.
• Routine use of SQL to access databases, experience using and configuring Tableau
• Actively participated in scrum project management as part of daily routine.

North America

• Created and managed the entire supply chain for manufacturing and fulfillment of heavy trucking aerodynamic accessories.
• Sourced, qualified, and managed suppliers. Negotiated contracts, established metrics for performance and quality. 15M annual spend.
• Leveraged suppliers to become the #1 or #2 customer position in 2 out of 3 of our critical suppliers.
• Reduced sourcing costs by 40%, nearly $1M annually, while building the operation to scale for growth from 100 to over 3,000 units monthly capacity on key products.
• Developed relationships with Engineering and suppliers to validate, improve and optimize products to achieve a better value proposition for the company.
• Owned sales relationship with top 10 customers to qualify requirements, and to deliver on customer expectations.

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed cross-functional project focused on the improvement of communication between flight training sales group, and aircraft manufacturing group.
• Designed, and implemented global sales and operational support tools used to identify resource capacity /utilization and financial performance.
• Delivered first major project within 30 days of initial employment. Project involved sourcing information cross-functionally on a global basis to allow Senior Leadership to have first look at resource capacity and.
• Created tools using Access and Excel to capture and report resource capacity, utilization, and financial forecasting for entire global training network.
• Identified significant gaps in financial reporting process. Embraced transitional role to be responsible for the creation, validation and report-out of Flight Training global revenue (approx. 150M business). This.

• Responsible for ongoing identification and implementation of cost saving initiatives to achieve supply chain financial objectives. Developed, monitored and reported on metrics for Transportation, Ports and Sales and.
• Identified the financial impact of impending CO2 emission regulation requirements on Chiquita and gained approval to begin work on developing a plan to avoid future compliance costs. Initiated a collaborative effort.
• Led a cross functional team, including business and governmental representatives, to reduce waste, initiate recycling and reduce energy consumption. Strategy projected to reduce operational costs by more than $9.
• Championed the development of dedicated transportation services in 5 North American port operations. Managed ongoing processes in order to reach savings and service targets. Participated in vendor selection process.
• Created, implemented and led a profit generating division designed to address inefficient processes which had resulted in Chiquita paying above market rates for transportation services. First full year of revenue.
• Key participant on initial integration team to identify savings between Chiquita and Fresh Express. Team identified, recommended and implemented network optimization strategies resulting in a savings of $2 M..

Bs Industrial Management, Operations Management And Supervision

Bs Industrial Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering