Frank Lobrace Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Accountable to define, document and execute all procurement processes with emphasize on supplier management, cost savings, plant support and overall procurement excellence.

Adjunct professor in Management Science Business dept.Teach various business courses within supply chain program focus such as TQM, Operations Management, and Business Statistics

Fairfield, New Jersey

Lead day-to-day activities and define strategic objectives including global sourcing and lean initiatives.

Oversee all procurement activities supporting on-site manufacturing; main emphasis in developing comprehensive procurement organization including integrating best practices with Taiwan facility, standardizing processes, enhancing information systems, implementing supplier management programs, cost reductions, developing contract manufacturers in ASIA, and defining key dashboard metrics and improvement programs. Challenged with balancing cost of inventory to meet channel requirements, with ongoing product advances due to technology changes.

Held various leadership positions as business needs changed from high growth, acquisition, and business decline. Director Supply Chain/IT Liaison – After the acquisition of Emcore Turbodisc by Veeco, based upon experiences and background, was asked to help lead the SAP implementation for the newly acquired business and assumed this challenge. Project manager for site, then as business analysis, responsible for the continuation of SAP project, IT support and services, and lead continuous improvement by deploying Kaizen teams within business to improve production operations. Implemented strategic supply chain processes including policies and procedures, member of corporate materials council for defining and implementing best supply chain practices within the corporation with emphasis in forecasting, inventory management, cost reductions, production plans, and outsourcing. Communicate IT initiatives and requirements while overseeing contracted support during Emcore acquisition period. Director Materials Management and Corporate Supply (Emcore) – Hired during high growth period twelve months before going public. Responsible to create materials management organization including the functions of centralized purchasing, incoming inspection, stockrooms, spare parts, logistics, and production/inventory control. Also was responsible to integrate and develop strategic materials management organization at all sites, protecting IP, leveraging suppliers, resources and processes, outsourcing (domestic and international), and eliminating redundancies for production materials, services and MRO items. Also led continual improvement programs focusing on costs, quality and lead-time reductions, to improve production efficiencies. JDEdwards ERP division project manager.

Was responsible for various functional areas with materials management including planning, inventory control, logistics, purchasing, and integrating different business units. Was part of the acquisition when Emcore TurboDisc was acquired by Veeco.

Materials Manager– Responsibilities included purchasing, production/inventory control, and logistics, shipping/receiving, planning and assembly, and stock/mailrooms. Developed processes and procedures compliant to ISO9000 in GMP, FDA environment. Streamlined PO process through workflow improvement and elimination of duplicitous systems. Integrated newly acquired company into organization for broad functions while optimizing assembly operation. For new product releases, responsible for supplier selection, qualification, qualification plans, and set-up assembly process and routings for new assembly operations meeting Regulatory Affairs and FDA 510K requirements. Was also responsible for BPCS ERP implementation for the materials management and purchasing function including testing, data migration, documentation, and roll out to Puerto Rico manufacturing facility.

Mba, Management Information Systems

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Science