Yu-Chieh Chen Email & Phone Number

Boise, Idaho, US

• Collaborate with engineering and business units to ensure raw materials and silicon supply are planned and available to meet customer requirements.
• Manage Samples Planning Review meeting to align with business partners on-demand collection, proper product definition, and project milestones.
• Monitor and validate Master Data for both products and bills of materials for completeness and accuracy.
• Validate information required to generate an accurate product supply response, including yields, cycle time, site loading, capacity boundary conditions, etc.
• Resolve supply gaps where possible by working with appropriate product owners through established processes.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

In my role I work closely with an entrepreneurial partner, understand their key challenges, and provide socially conscious business solutions by leveraging cross-functional, diverse team experience and through mentorship from Purdue University and the Bayer Foundation.

Unterpremstätten, Styria, AT

• Managed the end-to-end supply chain for sensor products applied to mobile and medical devices with revenue €20M+ in 2021 and €60M+ in 2022.
• Enhanced on-time customer deliveries from 95% to 98% by providing consistent visibility of supply allocation to manufacturing partners and closely monitoring production plan execution.
• Initiated feasible supply and demand scenarios for decision-making across the organization (Austria, USA, and Singapore) to reduce the supply gap.
• Drove optimization of automated planning in SAP APO to improve forecast accuracy from 50% to 95%.

Corning, New York, US

• Acted as a leading liaison for contract manufacturing in Taiwan, China, and Vietnam with total annual revenue of $24M+ to negotiate price, manage materials planning, inventory control, logistics readiness, cycle time.
• Implemented business model of materials and logistics flow for 3 startup subcontractors in Vietnam and China.
• Developed decision analysis of second source suppliers to expand capacity by 150% and mitigate order misses.
• Facilitated quarter business reviews to negotiate a 5% reduction in annual spending and also ensure supply continuity while maintaining quality.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Evaluated new production readiness to support internal roadmap and drove solutions for NPI supply requirements with monthly volumes 200+ on mobiles products.
• Increased engineering forecast accuracy to 95% to external subcontractors to shorten total cycle time.
• Deployed customized NPI software tool to internals and drove the continuous business improvement process.
• Training and aligning backend manufacturing sites to new commit processes and tool functionality.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Coordinated assigned assembly, test, and modules subcontractors (ASE, SPIL, PTI, and ChipMOS) operational performance for both NPI and HVM products to achieve weekly performance and cycle time goals.
• Communicated the impact of supply changes to internal teams and executed the changes quickly and precisely.
• Maintained a long-term supply plan, highlighting risks and opportunities based on materials availability.
• Completed B2B integration (E2open) for 4 external subcontractors in achieving cycle time reduction.

Shanghai, Shanghai, CN

• Released purchase orders, monitored subcontractors’ activities and managed import and local transfers for end-to-end supply chain products.
• Supervised production progress and drove production issues to be fixed to reach the target of on-time delivery.
• Supported product ramp-up projects with cross-functional teams.

• Liaised with customers to ensure production schedule meet forecast requirements and customers’ demands.
• Communicated with cross-functional team to drive production issues to be solved.
• Analyzed and utilized production rate to maximize output.

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Bs, Industrial Engineering