Joe Pletzer

• Job Duties  Manage planning and purchasing activities (forecasting, production plans, purchasing, expediting and supplier relationships) for the Humidifier, Zone Control and Thermostat product lines • Accomplishments  Responsible for the coordination and development of production schedules. Coordinate this schedule with the manufacturing team to optimize customer satisfaction, and meet desired inventory levels  Maintained and update the MRP schedules and release work orders based on material and capacity availability with feedback from manufacturing  Approve all Engineering Change Notices, determined impact to the production schedule, and communicate the impact to the product team  New Product Implementation from engineering to production

• Job Duties  Managed all purchasing activities (purchasing, expediting, cost reduction, and Supplier relationships) for a Focus Factory with $20 million of yearly material spend • Accomplishments  Ensure the availability of materials to enable production meet internal sales/profitability goals and Customer due dates  Proactively supplied our Customers with cost reduction opportunities  Lead the purchasing activities (setting up new suppliers, transitioning POs, resolution of AP issues, and expediting) associated with new product introduction for our Customers.  Worked with Employees to develop career development plans that provided them opportunities to get promoted

• Job Duties  Purchased materials in accordance with the guidelines set forth by Plexus and the Customer’s contract • Accomplishments  Through the use of MRP and Kanban pull systems, annually purchased $150 million in annual spend  Worked with Suppliers to secure and maintain material delivery dates that aligned with Customer requirements  Negotiated with Suppliers to drive positive material variances or minimize proposed Supplier increases  Worked with our Customers to secure alternate sources of materials to ensure price competitiveness and material availability  Managed and resolved AP issues with Vendors

• Job Duties  Managed and directed all materials activities relating to the operation (receiving product, issuance of material to production, cycle counts and shipping product to our Customers) for 3 warehouses • Accomplishments  Improved same day receipts by 22%  Managed 40,000 SKU’s  Implemented Visual Data Management  Improved material deployment decreased production downtime by 22%  Worked to implement point-of-use deployment with-in our WMS (Warehouse Management System)

• Job Duties  Managed all purchasing activities (purchasing, expediting, cost reduction, and Supplier relationships) for a Focus Factory with $30 million of yearly material spend • Accomplishments  Ensured the availability of materials to enable production meet internal sales/profitability goals and Customer due dates  Proactively supplied our Customers with cost reduction opportunities  Lead the purchasing activities (setting up new suppliers, transitioning POs, resolution of AP issues, and expediting) associated with new product introduction for our Customers.  Worked with Employees to develop career development plans that provided them opportunities to get promoted

• Job Duties  Responsible for the coordination and development of a production schedule. Coordinated this schedule with the customer focused team to optimize customer satisfaction, meet desired inventory levels and support the site revenue plan • Accomplishments  Reviewed and approved all customer demand, based on contractual planning parameters, prior to entry into ERP system  Maintained and updated the MRP schedule and released work orders based on material and capacity availability with feedback from purchasing and manufacturing  Approved all Engineering Change Notices, determined impact to the production schedule, and communicated the impact to the customer team  Generated key information for the financial forecasting process and be able to rationalize as compared to the loaded sales orders and forecast.

•Responsible for entering the customer demand, running MRP and confirming the information in the system is correct before releasing the MRP to the buying team •Led weekly MO Detail meetings for each customer to determine if a work order can be created to meet the committed delivery to the customer •Reviewed engineering change orders, analyzed the impact on open and planned work orders and informed the appropriate people of critical changes •Advised the financial analysts of risks during monthly customer forecast review •Worked closely with transition teams

•Responsible for getting parts delivered on time and tracking information •Expedited parts as needed to meet customer demand •Informed buyers of potential shortages and problems such as pricing issues, de-commits and poor responses from suppliers for delivery of product •Assisted with 'what if' scenarios to see if suppliers can meet a customers drop in quantity of product to their forecast •Regularly updated the Shortage Report. Prepared for meetings with comments and new dock dates if necessary. •Other duties included updating the floor shortage report, sending out the open order report to suppliers, and putting in good delivery and commit dates into the system

•Directly managed two NCM Coordinators •Reduced total NCM balance by 43% ($700,000 to $400,000) and >90 days by 36% ($236,000 to $150,000) •Resolved material issues with the quality team to get resolved across all site MPFs •Improved RMA (Return Material Authorization) requests turnaround to the suppliers; limiting Plexus warranty losses