Keith Kramer Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Mn, Us

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Responsible for commodity management of heads, media, substrates and suspensions for all Seagate HDD products.• Directly involved in all aspects of supply chain, including but not limited to budgets, headcount, mergers & acquisitions, strategic sourcing decisions, sustainability, supplier diversity, cyber security, logistics, contract negotiations, and indirect procurement.• Managing cost reductions across all commodities in order to achieve quarter on quarter price reductions, targeted at 1.5%.• Guiding the commodity teams to drive cost reduction through deeper understanding of cost and cost drivers. Focusing on the cost of quality, design for manufacturing and design for cost, with a target of $40M in savings for 2016.• Recognized by other organizations as the “go to” person to represent & speak for the Sr Vice President in meetings and key decisions. • Provide Sr Vice President with data analysis and presentation materials for meetings, conferences, board presentations, etc.• Lead a team that developed and implemented a risk management analysis tool to measure threats in our supply base using factors including financial, geographic, political and physical risk factors. • Achieved recognition by Gartner as number 16, of the top 25 supply chains, and ranked in the top 5 of SCM Worlds “Power of the Profession” award. • Mentoring procurement staff that we have identified as high potential and future leaders.

Waverly, Ia, Us

• Responsible for the strategic and tactical development and implementation of Supply Chain initiatives across all Doerfer Locations. (4 in the US and 1 in Singapore)• Developed an enhanced make / buy decision process based on establishment of targets and negotiated pricing structures with external suppliers.• Consolidated the supplier base between 4 US locations to reduce the number of suppliers by 27%, enabling lower pricing based on aggregate spend.• Benchmarked US and Asia supplier pricing to develop a sourcing strategy, by commodity, to assure lowest total cost of acquisition and pricing parity across the geographies. • Developed and implement metrics for cost management by project, which has achieved an average savings in excess of 7.5% across all projects. • Implemented 6 sigma and 5s practices and measurements.

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

• Responsible for the supply chain management functions supporting Mayo labs and medical facilities.• Worked with team to implement performance metrics which have increased on time deliveries from 70% to 98%, order accuracy from 85 to 96% and picking lines per hour from 25 to 70.• Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for all warehouse functions and personnel.• Managed layout and fit up for a 30K Sq/Ft warehouse expansion to meet growing customer needs.• Developed processes & procedures with surgery and critical customers to improve delivery accuracy and on time performance and to develop a process for rush orders to provide needed materials in 30 minutes or less, from a remote warehouse.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Supply chain management of heads, suspension, substrates, media, electrical, and mechanical commodities supporting all Seagate product lines. Annual expenditure in excess of $800 million dollars. Reporting to Senior Vice-President of Supply Chain.• Developed and implemented a corporate head and media strategic plan to ensure long-term supply, access to technology and cost-competitiveness for Seagate, while maintaining internal capacities needed to manage factory absorption.• Successfully negotiated with the supply base to ensure industry competitiveness to achieve 2% quarter on quarter reductions.• Negotiated extensive supply and development agreements to assure best in world pricing, access to new technologies and supply continuity.• Bench marked to assure continual competitiveness and anticipation of future events that could impact supply and cost.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Responsible for cost, budgets, financial analysis, negotiations, supplier selection, staffing and scheduling to support global operations, for new start up division, consisting of Far East manufacturing and domestic development operations.• Focused on timely supplier selection and integration of heads, media and spindle motors.• Staffed Rochester team from 1 to 15 over a 12 month period. • Installed Oracle MRP system in collaboration with Singapore manufacturing facility. • Reduced overall product cost by 15% on a basis of $500 million.• Successfully transferred products from development in the US to manufacturing in Singapore. • Developed and implemented a corporate supply chain strategy to safeguard long-term supply, assure access to technology and ongoing cost-competitiveness.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Global Commodity Manager, AS400 Division• Responsible for global procurement of plastic raw material and plastic components for worldwide locations.• Negotiated IBM’s first global materials agreement covering plastic resins which resulted in savings of $12M annually.• Lead the procurement team in the successful implementation of ISO policies and certification.Senior Procurement Administrator, Storage Products Division• Responsible for new product development sourcing of magnetic heads and media support hard drive manufacturing. • Technical manager for a department of 15 procurement professionals. • Lead the procurement team in the successful bid for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Associate Buyer / Senior Buyer, Storage Products Division •Responsible for procurement of capital equipment, printed circuit board assemblies and all associates components, (ASICS, microprocessors, memory, passive, discretes, connectors and raw boards).