Stephen Schuster (Mba) Email & Phone Number

United States

Livermore, California, United States

•Received and reviewed department supply requisitions and placed appropriate ordersbased on need and available funds.•Developed and reviewed RFI, RFQ and RFPs consistent with Lab best practices and policies•Negotiated contract terms, payment structures, and reimbursement with suppliers.•Ensured that contract terms comply with legal requirements and policies.•Provided strategic advice on proposal evaluation, source selection, negotiation, file documentation, subcontract administration, and subcontract closeout.•Established and maintained collaborative relationships with cross-functional organizations to support and meet mutual Laboratory goals.•Authorized awards of subcontracts based on delegated signature requirements.

Richmond, California, United States

•Provided direct and indirect material sourcing support for the production of the HIQ OR Integration System.•Responsible for maintaining supply and inventory levels for PCBA's, monitors, cable assemblies, fabricated sheet metal products, electronic components and assemblies, wiring, power supplies, printed materials, and packaging.•Managed quality, delivery, pricing and cost issues with both direct materials suppliers and contract manufacturers.•Participated as team member for ongoing lean continuous improvement projects.•Supply chain team member of Kaizen event that successfully validated cost effectiveness of converting from in house component management to full turnkey contract outsourcing for new product launch.•Supply chain team member of Kaizen event that analyzed and more efficientlyrestructured the process driving production scheduling and work order creation from customer demand.

•Managed the company's direct/indirect materials, service, printing, software and capital contracts from negotiation/implementation to renewal management.•Led the effort to develop and report the organization’s supplier KPIs to aid in supplier selection and tracking of quality, delivery and cost of incumbent suppliers.•Sourced and qualified a new domestic supplier for key sole source optics component resulting in $300k annual savings.•Led Advanced Engineering in negotiating a development and supply contract for board assembly resulting in $262k savings over 3 years.•Implemented a point of use program for supplier parts deliveries direct to the manufacturing line resulting in a $100k reduction in inventory and an annual reduction in material handling labor of 390 hours.•Supported Facilities Department with negotiation, total cost analysis of multiple bids, system evaluation and providing of commercial insight including ROI and NPV analysis. Projects included a new overhead solar based lighting system for building, fire and burglary commercial monitoring and inspection agreements, networked printing solutions, phone switching project, exterior paint and carpet installations, external solar panel retrofit.•Developed competitive market cost tools (such as a Macroeconomics dashboard) to provide timely, accurate, and concise summaries to be presented and utilized during supplier negotiations.•Created with the Supplier Quality Department a total cost of ownership (TCO) model to assist in supplier selection and identification of opportunities to remove waste. •Reduced average on hand inventory on one targeted part from $277K to $64K based on lean techniques and value stream mapping analysis. •Wrote all new Purchasing SOPs during process consolidation with Corporate Procurement in Germany.

•Responsible for inventory tracking/management and development of annual $1 billion plus forecast for all fab materials.•Developed and implemented statistics based Excel life cycle model to reduce silicon inventory levels by over 50% and received Intel Materials Finance Divisional Recognition Award.•Created should cost models for silicon and other fabrication materials to assist in pricing negotiations to yield over $50 million in annual savings. •Created ROI analysis that drove the correct decisions in supplier buyout scenarios and in-sourced manufacturing of supplier materials.•Analyzed financial data to identify financial trends, patterns and strategy and compiled information into quarterly reports for CFO review.

Santa Clara, California, United States

First three years spent as a Junior Buyer responsible for general purchase requisition placement, furniture buying, corporate moves, copy machine contracts, and cafeteria/office supplies. Promoted to Buyer and responsible for chemicals, gases, office machines, and MRO stores items. Supported finance to resolve invoice issues for on time payment to suppliers. Promoted to a Senior Buyer in 1996 and managed the procurement and specifications of direct assembly materials under a MRP system, including ceramic packages, leadframes, mold compounds, silicon, and shipping supplies. Purchasing team member in project that developed and reported the organization’s supplier KPIs to aid in supplier selection and tracking of quality, delivery and cost of incumbent suppliers. Had a key role in quality assurance and supplier rankings as a member of the IDT SCIP (Supplier Continuous Improvement) Team. As a Purchasing Manager had three direct reports who were responsible for commodities including MRO items, services, spare parts, and indirect/direct assembly materials. Achievements•Negotiated significant cost reductions on direct assembly materials. Savings of $5 million per year on one key part.•Drove process improvements to eliminate sourcing bottlenecks and enable intranet based employee purchasing systems for commodities such as office supplies and copy paper. Resulted in over $200k in annual savings.•Defined and created many of the purchasing processes into handbooks for ISO compliance. Acted as department liaison for ISO audits.•Main driver in reducing in house raw material inventories by negotiating and developing supplier managed inventory programs. Reduced company fiscal scrap exposure up to 50% on key items while at the same time maintaining secure supply lines with upside potentials as needed.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration (Management)