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Responsible for Supply Chain Planning of $2.6 billion Blade servers’ annual revenue stream.• Analyzed operations and developed new strategies that proactively reduced Blades financial excess and obsolescence by $9.8 million, a 72% reduction.• Led and facilitated weekly executive reviews that updated senior management team on product status, forecast trends and quarterly revenue goals.• Communicated and negotiated with suppliers to optimized supply availability and maximize revenue, thus providing outstanding delivery performance to customers.• Drove inventory strategies that achieved balance between availability and inventory costs.• Aligned regional supply with expected demand to consistently achieve financial objectives.• Developed tactical plans that optimized efficiency of supply utilization with Project Management, Worldwide Regions, Procurement, Demand Planning, Marketing, Sales, Service, Traffic and other teams.• Allocating constrained material to manufacturing worldwide and successfully maximized quarterly revenue.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve customer satisfaction by ensuring product availability, accurately communicating commits, and monitoring goals.• Provided product availability status to regions to facilitate forecast guidance and demand steering.• Guided production plans and implemented strategies that enabled seamless product transitions.• Reviewed, researched and approved engineering change notifications (ECN’s) that improved product quality.

Managed procurement and sourcing strategies, suppliers, materials management and costs for high volume servers and options manufactured by turnkey manufacturers. • Negotiated with suppliers and OEMs and achieved $50 million cost reduction in materials (7% of spend).• Ensured timely delivery of quality, cost effective goods, products and services to support manufacturing and customer requirements while controlling inventory levels.• Worked with Engineering to research sourcing strategy, generate and evaluate request for quotes (RFQ’s) and vendor selection. • Developed and negotiated contracts terms and conditions (T&C’s) to ensure compliance with new and existing domestic and international suppliers.• Negotiated specifications, price, delivery and quality terms with suppliers achieving corporate goals.• Developed, maintained and evaluated supplier relationship, performance, quality and metrics. • Placed purchase orders ( P.O.’s) from approved supplier list and expedited materials to support requirements.• Executed procurement strategies and benchmarking while ensuring supplier quality and pricing.• Conducted projects and special analysis that influenced the organization’s tactical and strategic direction.• Communicated and executed tactical and strategic business plans from supply chain management to other departments worldwide.

Executed procurement, commodity management, planning and materials management tactical and strategic strategies for products with annual revenues in excess of $500 million.• Supported and facilitated the TOPS planning process (SAP) and worldwide MRS.• Procured cost effective material to specific signals (MRS, MRP, Build Plans and Design Schedules). • Evaluated and researched problems with MRP and purchased material problem resolution (defective materials, Accounting and Receiving problems)

Responsible for maintaining daily build schedules, completions, capacity planning and work force requirement planning. Managed material availability and production requirements to optimize manufacturing build commitments.• Developed transition plans from an existing product to a new product while minimizing financial exposure. • Chaired material management meetings that included root cause analysis for issues and implementation of corrective actions as needed.• Analyzed, interpreted and evaluated data to support Material Requirements Planning (MRP).

Planned, coordinated and expedited all production activities necessary to meet forecasted marketing needs. Responsible for managing materials and ensuring production goals were consistently met.• Collaborated with Engineering, Accounting, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Machine Shop and Warehouse from initial design through production.• Designed and executed Master Schedule in conjunction with upper management.• Developed and analyzed schedules using Material Requirements Planning System.• Performed physical inventories to research and reconcile with internal and external audit processes.