Paul Welch Email & Phone Number

Union City, Ca

Newark, California

Single point of contact for customers, demand management, engineering change management, contract development and management, and driving costs reductions. Develop and present quotations per Customers’ requests. Collaborative coordination with Engineering, Finance, New Business Development, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, Logistics, Manufacturing and Program Management. Developed Statement of Work, Business Requirements, Manufacturing Requirements and Master Supply Agreements.

San Leandro, Ca

Successfully coached the team on total cost of ownership concepts saving thousands of dollars monthly on logistics and warehousing costs. Procured a large variety plastic resin pellets, resin colorants, motors, cables and packaging for finished goods. Implemented lean procurement practices with weekly, only as needed replenishment, instead of lot sizes that may take months to consume.

Fremont, Ca

Procurement of PCBAs, I.C. components, cables, chassis, power suppliers, sub-assemblies and packaging materials. Daily transactional discipline and cycle count program resulted in a physical inventory with 99.983% accuracy. Increased yearly inventory turns from 2.1 to 3.2, by implementing improved forecasting and tightening of material requirements planning factors, while maintaining high on time delivery performance to customers.

Manage Suppliers, Buyers, and Inventory, assure materials delivery for revenue attainment, manage MRO procurement, change management, discover and drive efficiencies improvements and cost reductions, ramp new products.

Santa Clara, Ca

* Managed a team of buyer-planners, Global Execution Manager for materials management for several product types including: servers, workstations, displays, internet switches and thin clients. * The Suppliers were located in China, Korea, Mexico and the US.* Responsibilities include: facilitate development of supplier partner relationships for success of long term contracts, simplify and improve the supply chain, improve on time delivery of product, inventory management, availability metrics, purchase order approval, risk buys, last time buys, end of life management, supplier claims, and supplier scorecards. * Responsible for implementing supply chain initiatives including: short predictable lead times, automated demand replenishment, advanced material planning, purchase order commitment via supplier portal, direct shipment to customers from supplier.* Supported several new products through their new product introduction phases. * Supported several products through end of life, excess and obsolete inventory management. * Supported bring up of new supplier facilities including training of employees for the materials execution aspects of running the business. * Drove material shortage resolution teams, and emergency product lead time recovery. * Significant leader to teams assigned to improving processes and reports for excess and obsolete inventory and supplier score cards

Newark, Ca

* Drove 3X capacity expansion for the manufacturing of workstations and midrange servers, required during a period rapid demand expansion.* Determined the requirements and drove implementation of industrial layouts such that they were capable to handle both sustaining and new products and at higher volumes. * Lead a team called Process Quality Advocates, empowering the line operators to respond to statistical process out of control issues, to drive out proper root cause, and preventative actions.* Implemented a comprehensive metric system for line through put, cycle time and quality levels. * Served as the back-up for the Plant Manager, department size: 150 persons.* Drove capacity and cycle time shortening team for Performance Improvement Plan at an External Manufacture for power work stations.* Implemented 3 IT Projects on time and with in budget: Manufacturing Information Technology Projects related to the Shop Floor Control System. Managed the project scope schedules, determined and obtained appropriate resources to complete the projects, working with the end customers and business analysts to define the project requirements and to deliver mutually agreed upon functionality.

Milpitas, Ca

* Developed and then supervised a $4M per quarter business opportunity with in budget and at 25% shorter than projected project time, it was a new manufacturing capability: configuration postponement and build per specific customer unique orders. * Coached the technicians and had perfect daily production throughput and with zero inventory issues.

Milpitas, Ca

*Responsible to maintain and improve short run and high volume SMT (Surface Mounted Technology) circuit board production including progressive hand loaded component installation, wave soldering, board clean process and final board assembly processes. Those boards used the most advanced components at the time including TAB and ball grid array.* Saved $250K rework cost per quarter by reducing wave solder defects from 50 DPM to 10 DPM, by using design of experiments methodology, with variation of 5 machine parameters.* Saved $200K in part damage per quarter by designing and implementing component feeders

Bs, Industrial Technology

Activities and Societies: Hiking, Sailing, Fishing, Audio

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Industrial Technology