Lars Nilsson Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Global Commodity Manager CommIC, ASIC, Processors

Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Operations Lead for development and production of new optical sub-assemblies.
• Scheduled production and experimental builds, while managing the BOM cost and charges for external engineering services.
• Tracking inventory, material drive, component lead times, value exposure and ensuring supply continuity.
• Reporting production yields and pursuing quality issues together with Engineering, Quality and component vendors.
• Providing senior management with weekly critical supply chain status updates for all Cepheid Instrument production.
• Worked with Engineering teams to establish supply chain deliverables and timeline for development and launch activities for SW upgrades.

San Francisco Bay Area

• On site support at Facebook (Building 8 and AR/VR) in Menlo Park.
• Commodity Manager with main responsibility for Audio Rendering and Power Supply.
• Sourcing responsible for exploring and assessing different human presence detection solutions and selecting optimal sensor components.
• Worked closely with Engineering and Project Leads to investigate different technical solutions and supplier capabilities to develop new concepts.
• Established preferred supplier lists and evaluated vendors based on sourcing and other functional criteria.
• Executed RFP’s, RFQ’s, and negotiated agreements (SOW’s, MSA's etc).

Atlanta, GA And San Mateo, CA

• Managed the Sony Mobile supply chain for North and South America, with overall responsibility for Sony contracts and operations at 4 distribution centers throughout the US and Canada.
• Established planning and fulfillment processes when starting up local production in Argentina.
• Managed planning, fulfillment and local contract manufacturing collaboration in Brazil.
• Ensured adherence to customer inbound quality and delivery requirements, with on-site visits at factories, customers, freight forwarders and 3rd party vendors.
• Established the regional mid range plan for supply chain, while setting priorities and driving continuous improvements.
• Supervised teams of high skilled professionals, with focus on supply chain quality engineering, customer fulfillment, planning, forecasting and logistics. Note: Sony acquired all shares of the joint venture with Sony.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Head of Sourcing Americas 2008 - 2010Manager Material Supply DUA and Mobile Computing 2004 - 2008Material Supply Project Manager 2002 - 2004
• In charge of sourcing from concept phase to end-of-life for mobile phones, mobile computing and automotive integrated circuits.
• Headed up teams of material supply project managers, supplier quality engineers, and buyers, covering development and high volume production, and indirect materials and services.
• Managed capacity planning, material exposure, identifying risks and opportunities and continuously provided the business with supply status and expedited potential shortages and quality issues.
• Negotiated material excess with suppliers and contract manufacturers in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Provided sales with historical data and justifications for customer reconciliations.
• Successfully pursued and achieved cost down for products developed in the US while working together with project and engineering teams.

• Director Material Supply Americas, Youngsville, North Carolina 2001-2002Manager Operations, Linkoping, Sweden 2001
• Responsible for tactical and operational planning, device and spare parts procurement, supplier quality engineering, material supply project management, logistics development and material handling.
• Relocated to the US with responsibility for Material Supply Americas, hired and organized a new team of buyers, project supplier quality managers.
• Supply ownership for mobile products developed in the US, securing material capacity and quality for global production, and implementing new supply chain processes.
• Specific material supply responsibility for the distribution center in Nashville and prototype manufacturing in Youngsville.