Mario Jr Tan

• Raise the required monthly PO’s as advised by the MRP system, including any other PO requirements as they arise throughout the month. • Provide regular monthly purchase forecasts to ‘key’ suppliers. • Review monthly PO ‘delays’ or ‘expedites’ as defined. • Review daily the ‘shortage’ report and act on any requirements with the suppliers. • Maintain PO’s in Line 500 to requirements only, i.e PO and RW PO regular system cleanups. • Ensure open PO’s reflect current status i.e maintenance of delivery dates as agreed between Ellex and supplier. • Regular communication and feedback to your internal customers on PO and parts status as required. • Work with the Engineers on their part requirements, including new parts, prototype parts, samples or changes to current parts and liaise with suppliers on their behalf. • Work with the Quality Management System on purchasing policy and process requirements, i.e monthly supplier management data (delivery and quality performance) communication to suppliers, part/product reject activities, new supplier setups, etc. • Work with the Finance dept on any part MPV discrepancies and overcome. • Challenge part inventory policy setups, i.e renegotiate lower EOQ’s, safety stock requirements at supplier, etc. • Renegotiate supplier pricing so as to be more favourable to Ellex. • Negotiate and deliver sustainable supplier arrangements with a focus on cost down savings, inventory optimization and on-time delivery and good quality supply.

Procurement business analyst for Asia Pacific. Managed commodities/categories for: Development & Engineering Services, I.T. & Telecom, Tooling, Equipment and Supplies, Warehousing & Logistics, Facility and Site offshore services, such as structural & electro-mechanical construction, building and grounds maintenance, operations preventive maintenance and/or shutdown activities. • Administer Asia Pacific suppliers contracts for customer service, service parts and repairs provider for MPS and non-MPS Lexmark customer • Drives strategic purchasing for a specific commodity or item, and ensures implementation of a world class supplier base • Develop and administer a program for supplier sourcing, qualification, selection and relations • Carry out supplier performance evaluation and communicate to suppliers areas of improvement • Early involvement in projects or major spends by providing inputs on strategic sourcing approach for best value on money, quality and time • Negotiate terms of purchase with suppliers for best value • Analyse spend and recommend strategies of assigned commodity to minimise product cost & improve purchasing effectiveness • Conduct risk assessment • Author the creation or renewal of contracts and route for approval • Negotiate the terms and conditions of a contract and ensure compliance • Document changes or amendments and ensure stakeholders are informed • Establish (VMI) Vendor Manage Inventory for partnership suppliers • Maintain catalogue database • Generate and submit timely Purchasing reports to effectively measure the department’s effectiveness to meet objectives • Facilitate returns and replacement of reject goods or wrong deliveries

Provides for timely and cost-effective procurement or subcontract administration of Manufacturing and Logistics services, Warehousing, IT and Telecom services, MRO’s, Facility and Site services construction which includes Security services, building and grounds maintenance and equipment preventive maintenance according to technical, quality or quantity specifications. Includes analysis of purchasing needs, including analysis of costs and performance. • Early involvement in projects or major spends by providing inputs on strategic sourcing approach for best value on money, quality and time • Initiate request for quotation (RFQ), request for proposal (RFP), request for information (RFI) and competitive sealed biddings • Source, qualify, analyse and select suppliers through strategic purchasing to obtain best value on the purchase and meet business objectives • Negotiate terms of purchase with suppliers for best value • Create and administer contracts and catalogues • Carry out supplier performance evaluation and communicate to suppliers areas of improvement • Administer supplier sourcing, qualifications, selection and relations • Analyse spend and recommend strategies of assigned commodity to minimise product cost & improve purchasing effectiveness. • Negotiate longer payment terms to improve company’s cash flow • Conduct risk assessment • Generate and submit timely Purchasing reports to effectively measure the department’s effectiveness to meet objectives • Receive and process purchase requests from internal customers • Raise and follow up delivery of purchase orders and or blanket orders • Ensure there are available and enough stocks at VMI warehouse or 3PL providers • Facilitate returns and replacement of reject goods or wrong deliveries • Investigate and resolve invoice and purchase order discrepancies working with Accounts Payable team

Overall inventory controller and supply planner. Managed the operations of purchasing section for direct and indirect materials and ensuring availability of the materials to support the production • Manage and led a team of fifteen (15) • Create and manage individual development plan of staff to level up team competence on procure to pay process. • Ensure availability of raw materials, consumables and packaging materials to support the daily schedule of camera production line, camera packing line and sub-contractors • Ensure inventories are properly accounted, system vs. actual • Reconcile stock discrepancies, system vs. actual by tracing of transactions and correcting balances • Facilitate returns and replacement of reject goods or wrong deliveries • Spearhead the annual inventory audit by supervising and participating in the plant wide stock take and tagging • Run inventory reports for monitoring and supply planning activities • Facilitate and monitor all of engineering changes or new parts for qualification to mass production or implementation • Work with import/export team by providing decisions on logistics matters for urgent materials from overseas suppliers in terms of mode of shipment in consideration with cost and lead time • Ensure that all purchase orders are received, confirmed and delivered by suppliers on time. • Source out global and local direct material suppliers for camera production and packaging • Maintain enough pool of suppliers in the Microsoft Great Plains E-enterprise • Carry out supplier performance evaluation and communicate to suppliers areas of improvement • Conduct price review and discuss improvements with suppliers for possible cost reduction • Interact regularly to Japan HQ and International Purchasing Office in HK on purchasing strategies and developments. • Administer (VMI) Vendor Manage Inventory for partnership suppliers • Manage (MOQ) minimum order quantity and (SPQ) standard packing quantity in the Process Ledger

Responsible in ensuring continuous supply of raw materials, consumable and packaging materials for camera production of digital SLR and camera Lens-unit • Resolve invoice and system price discrepancies with accounts payable team • Trace system data discrepancies from the warehouse inventory to receiving transactions • Develop a system tool for monitoring suppliers and controlling deliveries • Create Purchase Order with the use of Microsoft Great Plains E-enterprise • Ensure purchase orders are received and confirmed with suppliers. • Ensure that parts used for production are purchased and delivered in accordance with the production schedule with the use of the Critical parts list based on the Process Ledger • Control the delivery of the parts from suppliers to maintain optimum inventory level • Monitor the stock level of localized parts such as; plastic injection mold, precision press stamp metal & springs, adhesives, tapes and lead wires • Implement KANBAN delivery system for localized parts • Communicate with local and overseas suppliers for issues concerning the delivery of materials verbally and thru email • Provide information to top management regarding issues between production/supplier that concerns any design changes, delivery issues which may affect production schedule • Coordinate with quality control and production controller for material availability due to material issues • Coordinate and facilitate returns and replacement with supplier for reject materials or wrong deliveries • Communicate to suppliers all engineering change or new parts qualification results

Managed operations of Warehouse and the Production Planning and Control section for Plastic Injection molding and Painting-Printing section • Manage and lead a team of eleven (11) • Manage individual development plan of staff to level up team competence and drives teamwork to meet department objectives. • Create the (BOM) bill-of-materials in the MRP system • Update, manage and maintain the process ledger lead time and its BOM usage in the MRP • Ensure materials availability for painting-printing and molding section to support the daily schedule by checking probable material shortage from plastic injection molding output and purchased material parts or consumables • Implement KANBAN ordering system • Check inventory at different cost centres such that system stocks is updated with the reconciliation of system stocks and actual on hand stocks. This is thru the tracing of transactions • Coordinate with quality control and purchasing for material availability due to quality issues • Facilitate and monitor all engineering changes or new parts qualification for painting, printing and plastic injection molding • Monitor painted and plastic injection parts output, actual vs. scheduled plan • Create and implement daily production schedule for both molding and painting-printing section • Schedule necessary overtime for both molding and painting-printing for any back orders • Ensure continuous supply of painted and blank camera parts to production mainline and sub-contractors • Create schedule plan for new plastic injection molding die run or new material parts for painting-printing, pre-qualification to mass production • Monitor process ledger progress and inventory stock profiles by reviewing root cause information and make changes where necessary, spot abnormalities and understand the impact of MRP settings. • Simulate paint, ink and resin for monthly demand and forecasting • Create and provide monthly demand order for the supply of resin, paint and ink to purchasing

Responsible for the overall production planning and control to an assigned camera model. • Create the (BOM) bill-of-materials in the Process Ledger • Update and maintains the process lead time and its BOM usage in the Process Ledger • Load camera production schedule and export schedule to the Process Ledger • Ensure material availability for production to support the daily schedule by checking probable material shortage from sub-contractors or purchased material parts • Check inventory at different cost centers such that system stocks is updated with the reconciliation of system stocks and actual on hand stocks. This is thru the tracing of transactions • Coordinate with quality control and purchasing for material availability due to quality issues • Facilitate and monitor engineering changes or new parts qualification and disseminate results to purchasing • Maintain the lead wire simulation for the items to be purchased monthly • Monitor camera daily production output, actual output vs. scheduled plan • Create and implement daily production schedule for both the production mainline and sub-contractors. • Schedule production for the production mainline and sub-contractors should they need to render overtime to catch up with an export schedule or should they be on forced leave due to material unavailability issues • Monitor process ledger progress and inventory stock profiles by reviewing root cause information and make changes where necessary, spot abnormalities and understand the impact of MRP settings. • Create master schedule plan, for pre-production of new camera models, pre-qualification to mass production. • Makes the Price Agreement for subassemblies for sub-contractors