Devise and execute supplier management strategies to turn around multiple underperforming suppliers. Plan raw materials demand by analyzing sales backlog, historical data, and operational insights, utilizing an advanced Demand Forecast Tool with over 500,000 nested functions in Excel. Provide exceptional guidance and education to key suppliers in operations focusing on capacity planning.

• Supplier Management: Devised and executed strategies to turn around underperforming suppliers, providing exceptional guidance and education focused on capacity planning. This resulted in a 60% increase in supply capacity and a 50% reduction in standard lead time with key suppliers, along with the successful transition to a vendor-managed safety stock inventory, growing from zero to a two-month supply.
• Demand Planning: Planned raw materials demand by analyzing sales backlog, historical data, and operational insights using an advanced Demand Forecast Tool with over 500,000 nested functions in Excel.
• Budget Control: Managed a $56M department budget by modernizing procurement procedures.
• Outsourcing Initiatives: Identified opportunities for strategic outsourcing, resulting in over $2.5M in cost savings by sourcing new suppliers and negotiating favorable terms with existing vendors.
• Customs Savings: Achieved cost savings in US Customs Duty payments by analyzing the US-Korea Trade Agreement and directing customs broker to file post-entry claims, recovering over $650K with anticipated ongoing annual savings of over $1M.
• Supply Chain Management: Built and managed multiple supply chain pipelines, implementing safety stock initiatives to ensure a constant flow of raw materials, contributing to historical revenue results in my first quarter and record performance by the end of my first year.
• Warehouse Optimization: Redesigned the warehouse racking system, increasing pallet capacity by 46%.
• TMS Implementation: Designed and implemented a TMS system that automated customer and shipment data entry, increasing shipment accuracy by 30%, reducing costs by over $100K in the first six months, and projecting annual savings of $250K to $350K.
• Automated Shipment Notification: Launched an automated shipment notification system to enhance communication with customers, with the impact on satisfaction pending results from quarterly surveys.
• Department Streamlining: Streamlined the Supply Chain department, providing cross-functional leadership to eliminate information silos and improve communication and efficiency.
• Inventory Management: Balanced inventory by developing a forward-thinking MRP workbook in Excel, using advanced functions and built-in macros for automation. Launched initiatives to strengthen communications and material flows, achieving a reduced and balanced inventory in line with newly implemented safety stock goals.
• Supplier Audits: Conducted on-site supplier audits in collaboration with QA, onboarding new qualified suppliers and leveraging competition to resolve long-standing quality issues with tier-one suppliers.
• Performance Tracking: Designed and implemented a Supplier Performance system in collaboration with IT and QA to track on-time deliveries, NCMR quality concerns, and pricing KPIs, fostering a competitive environment.
• KPI System: Developed a KPI tracking and reporting system to align departmental goals with company policy and long-term vision.
• Cost Savings Achievement: Exceeded the company’s cost savings goal by 400% two years in a row, in 2023 and 2024, through regional and global supplier sourcing and negotiation strategies.
• Career Advancement: Promoted from Procurement Manager to Supply Chain Manager within six months, driving the overhaul of company practices and providing ongoing coaching to long-term staff.