Jose Quinones

Responsible of $550M USD portfolio divided in 3 commodity teams (e-mec, electrical and mechanical) in 4 countries (Canada, USA, Mexico & China). More than 20K different manufacturer part numbers across 10+ manufacturing sites.

Responsible to define and implement the commodity management strategy for all semiconductors and passives components for Medical, Industrial and Aerospace applications. Manage a commodity team oriented to supply chain optimization, cost competitiveness and procurement processes efficiency. Support business operations about supply chain constrain mainly oriented to the semiconductors market. Provide market intelligence to our customer regarding technology trends and economic environment effecting our industry.

Commodity manager for connectors, cables and cable assemblies used in medical, industrial and aerospace applications. Pricing and contracts negotiations, including cost optimization programs. Supplier development especially oriented to develop business relationships with main interconnect manufacturers. Escalation point for operations about supply chain constrains and pricing issues.

Responsible to coordinate the quarterly commodity management negotiation process in flex. Generate the input information needed by the global commodity management team to perform face to face negotiation with suppliers. Organize and distribute around 2.3 million prices for electrical y mechanical components every year in more than 50 different manufacturing sites.

This department under my responsibility supports 33 design centers globally in flex. I was responsible to organize the Design projects information on going in the multiple design centers, review the amount of business covered by flex preferred suppliers, and coordinate sourcing activities between the design center and global commodity management. During this time, I hired the team, crated the process and designed the web tools that allowed this process to increase its margin almost 4 times in 4 years.

During this time I managed a spend of $1B USD in connectors, cables and cable assemblies used in the telecommunication, server & storage and networking applications. This particular segment was called infrastructure, it represent 30% of flex revenue at that time, it had customers like CISCO, ERICCSON, CIENNA, F5 NETWORKS, ORACLE, HEWLETT PACKARD, etc. I was responsible to negotiate prices for flex globally, also contracts with global suppliers like inventory management programs, global business agreements, cost reduction agreements and others.

I was hired in flex as Local Sourcing Manager, due to some manufacturing operations were transferred from Canada to Mexico. I was in charge of develop suppliers in Mexico capable to support the telecommunication business. At that time Nortel was the main customer, I was able to develop and implement suppliers for Fab Metal components, like custom die casting parts, machined parts, heatsinks, cable assemblies, connectors, packaging, hardware and labels.

My responsibility at KEMET was to manage the automotive accounts in Mexico. I was responsible to promote KEMET products across that segment in Mexico, support existing business and manage on time delivery and quality assurance programs between our customers and KEMENT’s factories.

I was in charged on the new product introduction and PPAP process for automotive customers such BOSCH, DELPHI, FORD and Continental. I was responsible for all quality controls, manufacturing capabilities and supply chain capabilities were develop and ready to support mass production volumes.

I designed transformers for power supply, lightening applications and Inductors for EMI filtering. Later I was more involved on product engineering and quotation engineering, due to the main design activities were done in Japan and China. My job was to make sure the new designs from Asia, meets our manufacturing capabilities and the manufacturing cost was according to the original sales proposal.

Post graduated oriented to optimize the business decision making process using advance classification and prediction statistical models.