Senior Manager
Current• Managing the entire supply chain process, including procurement, bill-of-materials, warehouse, receiving and shipping departments, including logistics and entire supply chain process from suppliers to consumers • Selecting qualified suppliers and manufacturers, and developing new sources of supply as necessary • Facilitating materials scheduling, planning, purchasing, inventory control and logistics for north & south suppliers • Establishing a qualified supplier base, maximizing the supplier's abilities and providing cost-competitive, quality parts & services in a timely manner • Enhancing delivery performance and enabling long lead times for materials and components by introducing special inventory strategies to allow earlier procurement • Improving performance levels by spearheading increased use of MRP and Material Master Data in SAP • Resolving issues pertaining to make-buy decisions, procurement options and other decisions that impact or influence profit, schedule, technical performance and customer relationships • Evaluating proposals and quotations from suppliers, and negotiates prices, terms and conditions • Identifying the bottleneck suppliers/high risk suppliers & alternate development to mitigate supply chain risk• Monitoring Zero Based Costing, Order forecasting, Price negotiation and Supplier turnover control