Directed overall supply chain operations, including purchasing, selection of vendors, customer service and order management, and logistics. Developed strategic plans to improve overall supply chain efficiency, flexibility, and cost reduction. Involved in vendor and customer User Interface development and quality testing for Omnae, a newly developing sourcing platform/ERP. Managed a team of Quality & Sales Engineer and Marketing & Business Development specialist.

Executed daily purchasing activities to meet demand for customer orders, including collaborating with Engineering and Sales teams to understand product requirements to source and qualify new overseas vendors/suppliers, issuing purchase orders with up to date, accurate, and complete information, and following up on delivery schedules and quantities for purchase orders.Established and maintained relationships with overseas suppliers through flexible work hours and day-to-day communications, as well as travelling to visit overseas suppliers. Analyzed logistic cost by reviewing freight rates with shipping companies and freight forwarders to determine the most economical and efficient shipping routes and methods.Negotiated with vendors/suppliers for price, lead time, minimum order quantity, payment term, and incoterm, followed by calculating landed costs and making total cost analysis to prepare sale quotes for customers.Managed 8 major overseas vendors/suppliers of electronic components, lighting, plastic, and metal products (mainly in China and Taiwan), such as evaluating vendor overall performances and solving quality and delivery related issues, and developed cooperative and supportive long-term relationships with them.Planned short and long term sourcing strategies to continuously achieve cost reductions while maintaining improving quality/service, such as proactively found and qualified new vendors/suppliers for each product category. AccomplishmentsAssisted in getting UL certificates for lighting products by identifying two qualified manufacturers.Saved average 20% on shipping costs for overall international air shipments and 30% for heavy weight air shipments by switching to a new courier.Worked with Quality and Engineering departments to come up with a vendor preliminary questionnaire and sourcing procedures to vet and qualify new vendors.

Communicated with customers of DRAM/Flash manufacturers about photomask production due dates and commit dates, customers’ wafer production lead time, and delivery schedules on a daily basis.Informed customers and other Photronics production sites of WIP movement reports and day-to-day order status, tools down time, and manufacturing capacity and loading.Worked closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams to solve problems, such as customer complaints, late deliveries, and non-conformance issues.Accomplishment:Collected production and order data over a year to analyze key performances (such as yields, tool run-time, on-time delivery and total manufacturing cycle times), as reference to management team to improvement customer service.

Planned daily photomask writing start schedules, based on order due dates, demand changes, capacity constraints, customer priorities, and tool capabilities and oversaw Work-in-Progress of average 500 orders a day.Monitored hour-to-hour production progress, by using a highly custom ERP system called MaskTrac®, for short cycle time orders to identify any potential production bottlenecks at the machine level, to adjusted routings accordingly, and to track status of overall WIP to provide customers with estimated and planned order completion schedules.Collaborated with 7 Photronics global sites on a daily basis to come up with global site to site order transfer strategies as part of overall production planning and to handle related issues, such as order forecasts/demands and pricing, production loading and capacity, order and tool status update, planned delivery schedules, and overseas shipment tracking.Implemented daily global site to site order transfers from more than 15 accounts worldwide to strategically maximize production utilization and sales revenue at each manufacturing site.Pulled resources from related teams as a joint effort to solve daily problems like conflicts between customer requirements and internal manufacturing plans, backlogs and delays caused by tools down, planned maintenance, and overloading, low production yield, shortage of raw materials, and order transfer issues with other global manufacturing sites.Accomplishments:Analysed each writer tool run-time by different product specifications to identify specific products that each writer runs more efficiently and daily reassigned products to each writer tool accordingly, which increased overall writer throughput by 15% for the first year. Awarded by Photronics, Taiwan, for cutting down on annual overseas shipping costs in 2010 by 41.2% compared to the previous year, which is a 3.7% value of the gross revenue in the year.