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Tainan City, Taiwan

• Distinguished the discrepancy between the master plan and front-end demand for placing purchase requests.• Achieved supply fulfill rate, negotiated factory resources, and worked with suppliers to tackle the shortage issues.• Reviewed move rate of suppliers and provided forecast to plan the capacity and material preparation.• Controlled inventory level, based on demand patterns and supplier relations to adjust safety stocks.• Classified suppliers for prioritizing job tasks, and maintained sustainable relations with strategic suppliers through weekly or monthly meetings.

London, England, United Kingdom

• A company-based project with BT UK: AI-based recommendations were provided in the realm of supply chain risk management through semi-structured interviews and literature reviews from academia and market intelligence. Conducted weekly review and update with BT coordinator.

Huizhou, Guangdong, China

• Formulated sample schedule planning, production and logistics arrangements.• Managed line balance optimisation from non-value-added stations with the Amazon lean and engineering team.• Managed material control with Clear to build (CTB) report, and prioritised risk ranking with three colour marks to demonstrate the level of attention.• Built copy production lines in 2 weeks which optimised yield rate and double output to fulfil urgent demand increase since volume doubled at the beginning of mass production.• Lead the team to discuss product specification, mould design and production process, to increase the production efficiency and cost reduction through preliminary product design.• Planned copy line and made output plan and production daily review (1st month of mass production).

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Conducted planning of trials and mass production of an ODM (original design manufacturing) project. Including software, hardware and mechanical development.• Introduced several 2nd source components to validate during engineering builds to mitigate risks and benefit cost reduction.• Designed a ramp-up plan and shipping plan at the beginning of mass production.

Shanghai City, China

• Conducted projects with Japanese team on wireless component-level products in two years, held meetings and negotiated engineering issues efficiently in Japanese. • Handled system-level products in two years, co-worked with US team who owned the most part of design, and co-designed and discussed with UK, Australia team to fulfil the needs from each team. • Formulated and made shipping and production plans of new products.• Dealt with the most urgent project for China market, from design to launch in 4 months. Prioritised validating key components with several DOE (design of experiments) scenarios in the same time to eliminate the risk of delay and find out design failure in the early stage.

Master'S Degree, Logistics And Supply Chain Management

Japanese And Business Administration, Emba

JLPT N1 certified, influence in Japanese and English

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology