Don Drabik

Product change management and control • Owned product change management and control, overseeing updates and approvals for product designs, resulting in a 20% reduction in product release errors. • Implement Part Change Notification (PCN) with Global Product Support, diminishing customer issues related to changes by 100%. • Managed product portfolio, participating in Customer Engineering Specials and Non Standard Request reviews, increasing customer satisfaction scores to 94%. • Facilitated Continuous Improvement Programs eliminating technical reliability issues to 0, while maintaining commonality, and option management across all business units. • Drove module integration and component roadmap initiatives, accelerating integration by 17% and reducing costs by 12% annually. • Led strategic alignment meetings, increasing market share by 7% and lowering time-to-market for new releases by 15%. • Coordinated cross-functional efforts to meet divisional cost targets, improving operational metrics and lowering variance by 11%. • Managed post-release product changes, achieving a 95% on-time change implementation rate.

Materials Project Management • Directed projects for Factory Interface, FL Robotics, Loadports, and legacy platforms, delivering on average 5% under budget. • Negotiated supplier contracts, reducing material costs by 3% and mitigating supply chain disruptions by 13%. • Streamlined onboarding processes, improving team productivity and reducing onboarding time by 30%. • Developed forecasts and resource plans, ensuring 95% on-time project completion through ERP and MRP. • Implemented outsourcing strategies, capacity planning, and materials management, reducing project costs by 9% and excess inventory by 22%. • Strengthened relationships with suppliers and contract manufacturers, improving supplier scorecards by 15%. • Achieved 100% compliance with business conduct standards and upheld core values across all departments.

Plant Production Planning & Outsourced Manufacturing Management • Improved coordination efficiency of outsourced manufacturers, plant capacity planning, and distribution centers enhancing distribution flow by 51%. • Managed cross-functional North American teams, overseeing three managers and three contributors. • Implemented Supplier Owned and Managed Inventory (SOMI), reducing raw material capital expenditures by $350K (17%). • Developed outbound freight replenishment systems, eliminating 94% of finished goods inventory and saving $500K. • Reduced finished goods inventory by 37% within six months, yielding $2.96M in savings. • Achieved 99% On-Time and In-Full rates for new product launches. • Created Toll Management System, enhancing tracking and planning efficiency for 33% of finished goods. • Improved raw material inventory turnover ratio to 91%, operating on four days of material. • Maintained inventory-to-sales ratios below 5% for Finished Goods, and below 2% for Raw Materials, optimizing supply chain performance.