Sakolpat Tangwongthawornkit

Strategic Procurement Leader with a focus on defining and executing end-to-end procurement strategies that align with corporate and data center business objectives. Proven expertise in leading large-scale source-to-pay operations, fostering high-performance teams, and driving digital transformation to enhance operational efficiency. Core Strategic Competencies: - Strategic Leadership: Leading procurement functions and representing the department at executive and board-level discussions to provide actionable insights and recommendations. - Infrastructure & Category Management: Deep expertise in managing procurement for LLE packages (Chillers, HVAC, Generators, UPS) and construction projects. - Operational Excellence: Driving process improvements and digital transformation initiatives to foster transparency, efficiency, and continuous improvement across all business units. - Cost & Risk Optimization: Delivering substantial cost reductions through advanced negotiation, supplier consolidation, and rigorous spend analysis, ensuring all procurement decisions are cost-justified. - Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Partnering with executive management, engineering, finance, and legal to build strategic supplier relationships that prioritize reliability, innovation, and risk mitigation. Dedicated to cultivating a culture of integrity and performance while scaling procurement capabilities to support rapid business growth and data center expansion.

- Manage operational procurement tasks, including pre-startup/pre-sales support, customer customization, and A&A procurement for SEA data center projects, as well as maintenance team resources, equipment, consumables, and materials. - Draft and standardize procurement contracts, ensuring compliance with approval processes, and report procurement outcomes to management. - Organize and conduct non-construction procurement tenders and related activities. - Establish payment plans, manage contract statistics, and handle project cost accounting, ensuring proper contract payments and accurate statistical reporting to management. - Monitor contract execution and delivery schedules, coordinating with relevant departments to ensure timely fulfilment. - Maintain supplier/vendor databases and manage relationships, collaborating with internal departments to ensure seamless project delivery and resolve procurement-related issues. - Adapt to evolving procurement needs and perform other tasks as assigned.

- Strategic Sourcing/Supply Base Development utilizing 7 Steps process – Supplier identification, evaluation, selection, performance management, supply base right-sizing, executive supplier interface management of sole source relationships. - Contractual Development and Negotiation – Proven ability to execute the entire negotiation process for programs with high COGS. Set high standards and expectations. Effectively leverages all resources (time, information, buyer/seller position, communication/ memorandum drafting skill) to achieve outstanding results. Ability to maintain strong relationships and exert influence when needed. - Program Management – Project leader for key cost reduction programs. Programs could include source changes, VAVE initiatives; Supplier relocations/process changes, etc. - Support New Product Development phase/gate activities via communicating and documenting sourcing requirements including supplier selection, supply chain resiliency plans, cost considerations, supply agreements, tooling expenditures and lead-time, etc. - Ensure the deployment of Preferred Supply Strategy by implementing the Early Sourcing Working Plan through the NPD project Gate processing; aligns to the global & regional category strategy. - Coordinate and align with category management teams, materials, operations, engineering, finance, quality, and aftermarket to complete project goals and expected tasks/deliverables within the project timeline. - Direct Material Reporting – Proficient utilize Global procurement tools, eg. Myspend, My productivity; My suppliers; Risk assessment; PSL; SRM; CLM’s etc

- Source and develop competitive Mechanical & Electronics parts, Raw material and Packaging for Home appliance, Mobile phone products for Southeast Asia plant. - Drive the cost reduction to keep high efficiency product with competitive price. - Organize Sourcing seminars, conduct supplier meeting and create supplier database - Source and introduce new technology, ESG trend for new product development - Conduct supplier plant audit and assess supplier capabilities - Investigate and summarize Marketing Intelligence (Ex. Competitor news & status, Supply Chain Management) - Ensure that recommendations and research insights impact to business planning and decision making

• Add responsibility to manage action plan weekly and supervise 4 members. • Educated and trained group members to achieve standardized competencies. • Reviewed purchasing agreement with legal team and negotiated terms & conditions with new suppliers.

• Expertise in Engine, Chassis and Fastener parts. • Summarized and analyzed cost movement in New model development as a Project leader of CR-V and HR-V model. • Managed development of the 1𝑠𝑡 time Hybrid Engine Localization. • Collaborated with Purchasing HQ and Asia Oceania country for planning global strategic parts. • Coordinated with Designers to clarify the relationship between reasonable costs and design changes. • Selected the best suppliers base on QCDMS management to keep competitive level. • Broke down cost details in quotations to cut the overpayment. • Negotiated and Found VA idea for cost reduction 3%+ from purchase amount of each year. • Sourced & Developed new supplier to prevent the risk from monopoly supplier. • Coordinated with supplier quality/delivery team to evaluate new local suppliers and oversea suppliers such as Korea, India and Indonesia. • Monitored exchange rate and raw material price fluctuation by adjust suitable price.

• Evaluated and Improved 10 suppliers to reach supplier’s quality standard. • Ensured that supplier maintain the required quality parts and meet the delivery date. • Analyzed cause of quality problem in development phase to prevent problem in Mass Production. • Discussed the problems encountered with Japanese designer team to enhance the part quality. • Controlled tooling compensation, in case of changing design and stop production.

Completed 3 courses; Strategic Sourcing & Procurement, International Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Completed 6 Lectures, 1 group presentation, Including Managing Firm To Be More Innovative, Innovation Strategy: Crafting the Future and Pioneering Change, Sustainability of Family Firms, Innovation Metrics & Performance Evaluations, Using AI To Augment Innovation, Energizing Innovation through Design Thinking and A Simulation Game: Introducing and Marketing New Products

Completed, MBA Young Executive Program