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• Joe Carson has been recognized as top practitioner and thought leader when it comes to transforming Operations and Supply Chain organizations for today's challenges. As a transformational leader, Joe knows how to apply.
• Business Development for ExperienceFlow, an advanced decision intelligence platform company
• Expertise and experience in establishing a world class Supply Chain Risk and Operational Compliance programs
• Procurement Transformation framework, process and experience.
• Speaking engagements on the future of Digital Supply Chain tools and impacts
• Translating software tools into actual program governance that drives business results

San Francisco, CA, US

ExperienceFlow's AI-based technology, Digital Nervous System(DNS), offers enterprises an entirely new way of driving intelligent decisions and actions in real-time across their organization. This system consists of a trio of situation-aware bots, which mimic human cognition to assist each role at the management and operations level for planning, reviewing.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Installed a world class procurement structure. Directly led development of category sourcing strategies and global deployment throughout company. Established global supplier relationship management framework for R&D.
• ~$12+B in spend covering all areas of Capital, Indirect and Direct Materials.
• Led complete restructuring and alignment of global procurement resources for optimizing efficiency and effectiveness. Resulting org delivering >1,200% Procurement ROI at <.4% expense to spend.
• Exceeded savings goals in each period. 7-10% savings. Managed $1.5B of cash deferral payments.
• Directed the Risk and Operational Compliance program. Risk program recently won the Industry Leader of the Year award for the Semiconductor Industry from the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council.
• Ex-pat in Singapore with a global team of 400+ based in Boise, Singapore, as well as site procurement support at all Micron locations, fabs and back-end factories in Japan, Taiwan and China.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Operational Excellence – Accountable to lead supply chain strategy and drive operational excellence within the World-wide Operations team, as well as support operating margin improvements in alignment with company-wide.
• Operational Risk Management Program & leadership - Program Start-up to include supply chain mapping, event management, proactive risk mitigations and business continuity planning.
• Operational Compliance Program & leadership - Program Start-up to include Compliance Dashboard and Corporate Governance
• Establishment of Value Engineering & Collaborative Margin Planning functions - Program Start-up to Year-over-year contribution to the bottom line.
• Integrated Supply Chain Simplification - Cross-company leadership for programs targeting Sale & Operations Planning efficiencies, SKU reduction, part-number reduction, hardware design rules.
• Change Management - Utilizing Change Management practices to drive performance and impact.

Morrisville, North Carolina, US

• Sales & Operations Planning – Established new demand planning process between sales forecast and demand plan resulting in improved customer on-time customer deliveries. Implementing Available-to-Promise (ATP), and.
• Production - Consolidated contract manufacturing to two top-tier companies. Delivered record revenue during first fiscal year in addition to establishing KPI’s, QBR’s and other better management routines.
• Supplier & Component Management - Staffed and directed supplier and component management teams which delivered a 50% COGS improvement in addition to creating first sourcing strategies and disciplines for both direct.
• Integrated Business Strategic Planning - Leveraged consulting and data analysis skills to assist leadership team members with a variety of business issues in marketing, business planning, and organizational development.

New York, NY, US

• AlixPartners is an elite global performance improvement, corporate turnaround and financial advisory services firm.Experiences include:
• Launched key supplier development activities at a $39B European aerospace company.
• Outsourced a NE-based manufacturing operation to an outside contract manufacturing service provider. Identified EBITDA savings of 25% of total costs and generated significant free cash.
• Implemented cost improvement strategies at $3.8B book retailer. Optimized merchandising programs, franchise agreements and supplier contracts generating three times target savings.
• Lead of High Tech practice team including business development and sales funnel management.
• Independent work with an alternative energy fuel cell company with operations in the U.S. and Israel needing vendor management support in advance of company closure.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Managed an award-winning transformation of a decentralized, tactical purchasing function to a centralized, strategic, highly-leveraged procurement organization with 350 global reports extracting value on up to $10B in.
• Developed, implemented and managed a complete overhaul of sourcing strategies, organizational competency, and supporting processes for entire procurement spend.
• Delivered $250M+ in cost reductions each year through various eProcurement and cost reduction programs. Extended savings potential by working with suppliers and each business unit team on specific price reduction.
• Achieved 72% reduction of discretionary overhead expenses in two years. Expanded company-wide impact of indirect strategic sourcing team to manage spend $’s (~$2B) versus price only.

Durham, NC, US

• Managed all marketing programs for $400M business through company-wide marketing efforts to include Market Research, Marketing Communications as well as Branding Strategies.
• Turned around previous marketing efforts by initiating Market Research function that delivered first-ever data on customer demographics, Customer Satisfaction, and Competitive Benchmark, as well as by revamping trade.

* Managed marketing programs, pricing and sales tools for Exide's $75M global service business. Overall services revenue grew ~50%;* Established and staffed Exide's first direct Service Sales organization as well as Channel programs for Agents. In its first three years, this newly-created organization doubled (100% growth) its service contract sales to.

Mba, Marketing

Bachelors Of Science, Electrical Engineering