Riccardo Bernasconi

My role consists in coordinating a team of 6 people in order to manage the end-to-end supply chain for the desktop product line for both Chinese and European third party productions. The European production management starts from the purchase of components based on forecasted consumption plan until the finished good delivery to customers, ensuring the related P&L supervision. Chinese production management is done through strong collaboration between ACER EMEA and ACER Taiwan’s (HQ) teams with the aim of planning material, capacity, up to the delivery schedule. The forecast plan is done together with Business Sales teams and Product Management Department and includes the understanding of the business objectives and growth plans matched with the capacity arrangement agreed with factories as well as the material availability within lead times. I am the primary contact for suppliers, factories, Acer Taiwan HQ and Logistics Service Suppliers, making sure Company’s business expectations and goals are fully met. The monthly production expected output is reported weekly to Acer EMEA and HQ Top Management for Business Financial Simulation. Further, I am also involved in other projects such as: - ERP Continuous improvement projects across product lines (liaising with internal IT dept.) - Forecast KPI report at EMEA and Company’s national subsidiaries. - Re-engineering together with Business Operation team the current Forecast Financial Simulation Program and Logic. - Benchmark European Vs Chinese production from cost, revenue and effectiveness perspective

My role as Operations Specialist consisted into coordinating on daily basis with Acer third party factories (Chinese and European) and Production Planning Dept. to find and apply the best capacity arrangement to fit Company and Customer requirement included in the provided forecast. Key Achievements: - Launch of the “E2E Forecast Tool”, web and enhanced excel platform to consolidate Countries’ forecast and run material requirement plan. - Inventory reconciliation internal tool to ensure fiscal and physic inventory matching. - Support in the Forecast and Operations activities involved in the Packard Bell merge process

The role consisted into understanding customers’ needs of supply chain improvements and support requirements in the operations, identify the right solution to be implemented and monitor the results achieved. All activities were successfully executed thanks to daily presence at customer’s sites in order to find the most adaptable business plan and profitable agreement. Main fields of activity were forecast and planning enhancement, production cost saving, personnel re-organization (BPR) of direct and back office manpower, re-design of logistics flows, shipments optimization, supply chain integration and inventory management. Customers were mainly manufacturing and assembly industries, process factory, large retailers and multi-utilities companies.