Choong Yean Yean

Drove continuous improvement in procurement operation and improved material shortages.

Managed Indirect MRO Category. Defined and led category strategy. 1. Scope: Indirect/ MRO; Region: APAC & Global 2. Category strategy development - Developed strategy by business units, regions – towards strategic partnerships that add value for company to gain competitive advantage - Performed market analysis and supplier SWOT analysis – leveraged global/ strategic suppliers, diversified niche suppliers --- minimize the bargaining power of suppliers - Kept category strategy communicated through internal stakeholders 3. Supply base management - Defined supplier segmentation - Maintained supplier relationships – business review, market info sharing - Performed supply risk assessment - Improved supplier performance scorecard 4. Contract management - Awarded contract through bidding, TCO analysis, negotiation, aligning to company policy, and towards strategic partnership 5. Spend management - Reduced cost/ consumption - Improved working capital - Collaborated with suppliers, buyers, and internal stakeholders in exploring and managing productivity projects 6. Sourcing - For new requirements from internal customers - To keep competitiveness - To keep eyes open for market opportunities 7. Purchasing operation support - Solved the disputes with suppliers that escalated by buyers on issues in pricing, payment term, quality, delivery - Shared knowledge and led by examples in collaboration with buyers

1. Commodity expert - Glass, metal, plastic, packaging and process handling materials 2. Sourcing strategy development & execution - Purpose: R&D, cost down, and supply risk mitigation. - Leveraged supplier technology roadmap - Integrated R&D & marketing roadmap 3. Supplier assessment - In dimension of Cost, Quality, Availability, Technology, and Financial. - Prepared comprehensive report for supplier selection board review 4. Cost saving - Achieved >50% cost down through value chain streamlining, alternate material/ technology/supplier introduction, negotiation. *refer to Appendix for details. 5. Negotiation - Know-how: Haggling, ZOPA, anchoring, BATNA, strategies preparation, value creation, questioning techniques, influencing - Scope: Purchasing terms of pricing, MOQ, incoterm, payment term, lead time, capacity, consignment, warranty 6. Supplier cost assessment - Costing: Siemens PLM Software-Teamcenter Product Cost Management, Excel - Market research 7. Purchasing operation support - Purchase order and SAP data management - Supply risk management 8. Supplier relationship management - Facilitated conflicts with suppliers arisen from departments like Supplier Quality, Planning, Product Development, and R&D. 9. Project management - Led the qualification & phase in activities across stakeholders from quality, operation, engineering, R&D, and planning.

1. Commodity expert - Metal, plastic, packaging materials 2. Supplier assessment - Cost: RFQ, price benchmarking, should cost analysis, incoterm, payment term, MOQ - Quality: quality standard, QMS, GR&R, EICC/ ESG - Availability: manufacturing capacity, lead time, geo efficiency, BCP (Business Continuity Plan) - Technology: specialized capability, design capability, fabrication accuracy, standards (eg. Jedec, EIA, GD&T) compliance - Finance: financial health 3. Cost saving: - Be part of the technical team in alternate sourcing project achieved ~30% cost reduction on assembly/test tooling expense. 4. Led a team of >40 stakeholders to qualify a new transport media (thermoform tray), hence reduced the manufacturing yield loss (~0.02%), improved product quality (KPP Cpk>1.33) and man power saving ~192hrs/month on tool/issue assist. 5. Achieved supplier quality issue YOY 50% reduction in 3 consecutive years and quality incident free from two core suppliers in year 2015. Examples of approach: - drawing review- comply to Jedec/ EIA standard - design improvement - 8D/ FMEA/ SOP/ PM/ Quality Plan review - SPC/ PCS implementation - Quality System audit aligning to ISO9001 standard - Quality Control Specification development - metrology qualification through GR&R assessment - supplier training class - supplier score card/ AIP (Annual Improvement Plan) - supplier relationship management 6. Supply risk mitigation - Qualified alternate tier 1 & tier 2 suppliers for plastic transport media (plastic reel and thermoform tray) 7. Led several task forces – on process media-machine interaction issue and brought the production yield back to/below baseline.

Manage customer’s demand and supply. Solve the customer supply issues like logistic, pricing, backlog and etc. Perform market update and revenue management. • As the newbie in Sales & Marketing and in different geo, took up the ownership in a week yet meeting the business requirement; which was measured through customer/ stakeholders’ 3600 feedback and revenue management indicator. • Set-up a new customer account with extra miles put on to resolve the issues for the successful first product shipment.

Coordinate new product start-up and certification in factory. Set-up process flow and BOM in manufacturing operating system. Own engineering/ customer sample build plan. Plan, organize, risk assess, communicate, identify and track critical dependencies. • Led the first CPU product transfer through a team of >40 people across multiple functional departments at the lead time and process yield above target. • Led the direct start-up of a new chipset product in factory without technology development team engagement at the cost, lead time, yield, customer sample fulfillment exceeded the goal through Lean Manufacturing approach.

Responsible on process/product/ equipment health to support operation. Lead in new product/ equipment qualification. Develop standard operating procedure. Provide training to production. • Assigned as the cross-factories’ lead on yield/PCS (Process Control System) and achieved Best-In-Class on yield & PCS performance among 6 factories. • Achieved Die Misalignment yield loss reduction at ~1 percentage point/ ~90% improvement on one of the main CPU products.