Ahmet Tansu Musaoğlu

• Led a 7-member team managing $200M+ portfolio across Display, Semiconductor, Connectivity Modules, Electro-Mechanics, Customized Parts, and Mold. • Delivered $33M savings through supplier consolidation, alternative sourcing, and strategic negotiations. • Created cost synergies between Category and Project Purchasing, aligning cost targets with customer-focused BOM for competitiveness. • Managed project-based purchasing from RFI/RFQ to cost-down initiatives in serial production, improving supply chain performance. PROJECTS; • Automotive Purchasing Systemization: Developed advanced cost and demand tracking systems; streamlined LON realization monitoring processes, enhancing financial visibility and improving reporting accuracy by 20%. • Mobility Purchasing Process Standardization: Designed RFQs for customized categories, developed supplier scorecards, established long-term supplier selection criteria and implemented new KPI, certification, and insurance tracking systems to optimize supplier performance and compliance.

• Defined and launched a new Licensing purchasing category, streamlining $50M in expenses into a three-way check system. • Achieved $7M in annual savings through full process control and strategic supplier negotiations. PROJECTS • E-Indirect Automation: Led transition of manual processes (demand planning, RFQ releases, offer & tender management) to EBA-based portal, achieving 30%+ operational efficiency improvement and $1M+/year cost savings.

• Led a multinational 3-member team, managing a $1.1B purchasing portfolio, the largest category at Vestel. • Developed and implemented buying plans based on market dynamics, sales forecasts, and pricing strategies, ensuring budget alignment. • Coordinated cross-functional teams (R&D, Procurement, Quality, Planning, Sales) to streamline processes and drive company-wide benefits. PROJECTS • Rebate Agreement Tracking System: Implemented commercial agreement conditions in SAP to track rebate, MDF, tooling and credit note agreements, recovering $200K USD in lost earnings annually. • Forecast and Order Fulfillment System: Improved SoP meeting efficiency by defining shared targets across Sales, Procurement, Planning, and Purchasing teams, leading to a 25% reduction in meeting time and a 33% improvement in order fulfillment accuracy in the first year. • EUR Libor Business Strategy: Transferred $300M USD purchasing scope to EUR, leveraging 2% Libor advantage to achieve $6M USD in savings.

• Led memory and mobile SoC categories with a $120M annual purchasing turnover. • Developed a Supplier Referencing Matrix, consolidating 80% of the buying plan from two main sources, achieving 5% cost savings ($6M) for mid- and long-term strategy. PROJECTS; • Rebate Agreement Tracking System: Implemented commercial agreement conditions in SAP to track rebate, MDF, tooling and credit note agreements, recovering $200K USD in lost earnings annually. • ICRON System Implementation for Memory Category: Integrated forecast planning into ICRON, aligning supplier capacity with market demand to optimize negotiations, resulting in a 2% additional discount through competition based on Total Available Market (TAM) volume.

Starting my VESTEL carrier by playing a critical role in setting up new Supply Chain by leading the sourcing activity in Smartphone&Tablet Businesses ($50M/Yearly Purchasing Turnover by ~250 suppliers).

As a Product Responsible in Sport Store Chain, I had great chance to cooperate with giant brands such as UEFA Stores, Nike, Trendyol, Zorlu, Hakan, May, etc. I also had a key role in creating ERP system to control the purchasing process and to improve sales (%260 increase in NIKE licensed product range in 2011-2012).

To exemplify my dissertation subject ‘’To Increase Supply Chain Efficiency in Food Retailers & Wholesalers to Create Cost Saving’’ of my Master Degree in Supply Chain Management I was accepted by JJ Food Service as a part time Operational Assistant in first 4 months and promoted to Supply Chain Specialist. It was a great chance to apply my theoretical knowledge to the practical working place in abroad country, UK.