• Provide strategic insight by identifying and implementing processes that improve lead-times, costs, and services by continuously monitoring and analyzing the flow of goods through a complex system of inventories and production programs.• Oversight in the coordination of track undercarriage, engines, cooling package, joint pins, and hydraulic commodities totaling approximately $150M in annual spend.• Analyze raw materials and finished goods inventories to determine how to improve production efficiency and increase inventory turns, resulting in a $1M cost saving throughout the supply chain.• Develop and monitor forecasts to identify changes and to determine the effect on inbound materials and outbound finished goods while building a supplier dashboard to track real time performance measures.• Collaborate with other corporate and plant-based departments to ensure efficient distribution and flow of materials to satisfy customer demand.• Negotiate tariffs for new supplier development, leading to a $200K cost avoidance annually. • Maintain capital spending budget consistent with the goals and expectations of the business and develop new production suppliers for critical commodities.• Manage the material planning inventory control for storage, shipping, and receiving functions.• Present monthly and quarterly supplier sales/operations planning and capacity assessments while assisting in annual performance reviews for all contracted suppliers.• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strategic leadership for the internal Product Development Team for new model introductions.• Mentor and train new Supply Management Buyers to ensure best practices are in place.

• Collaborated and built relationships with customers, carriers, and agent representatives regarding air, ocean, import, and export products to strengthen service competitiveness.• Oversaw the development of domestic and international freight lanes totaling $50M in spend.• Prepared all necessary shipping documentation related to international and domestic bookings and processed all import/export documentation to clearing agents.• Reviewed work processes, recommended measures to improve shipping methods, equipment performance, and quality of product or service, and suggested changes in working conditions to increase efficiency.• Tracked and traced shipments, researching and resolving any issues regarding billing or shipping discrepancies, and communicated timely correspondence back to both customers and vendors.• Negotiated contracts from international freight lane resulting in $1.2M in cost savings.• Instrumental in establishing primary, secondary, and tertiary carriers, drastically reducing the reliance of dedicated carriers, leading to a $400K cost reduction.• Developed, designed, and implemented best practice work methods and operational procedures for activities, such as verification of incoming and outgoing customer orders with Customer Service and Production and coordinating with Accounting to audit monthly freight invoices.• Participated in regular production management meetings and drove corresponding activity throughout the shipping and receiving departments.• Assisted in the design, implementation, maintenance, identification, and disposal plan of custom returnable racks with cross functional team and oversaw annual rack budget of $100K.• Supported company waste minimization goals by eliminating 200t of wood and 8t of corrugated materials.

• Set schedules based on the forecasted production plan, while managing raw materials, fabrication, and assembly parts within SAP to meet manufacturing demands.• Identified and developed suppliers for emerging technology and current/future business needs and supported early sourcing.• Assisted with building and maintaining supplier relationships for major cross structure suppliers, leading negotiations as required.• Reacted to changes in order calendar by expediting or pushing out orders as needed with suppliers and administered recovery plan for suppliers with critical past due orders.• Tracked raw material commodity indexing and provided management forecasts and history of market trends.• Implemented continuous improvement projects with past due reporting, material ordering efficiency, packaging for production parts, automated steel ordering, ECO implementation, and kaizen activities.• Promoted cost management activities to ensure maintenance and use of cost standards and appropriate treatment of supplier-specific cost models.• Maintained detailed supplier performance data for delivery to drive continuous improvements in quality and resolved shipping/receiving problems to ensure prompt and accurate payments to suppliers.• Acquired and applied intimate knowledge of economic, business, technology, and competitive trends.• Monitored daily freight operations to ensure timely deliveries for production while providing forecasting models to suppliers in SAP.