Tracy Xu

Provide leadership and support in assigned sourcing teams and/or projects. Define and implement sourcing tactics, oversee day-to-day sourcing activities and develop regional competencies of suppliers and supporting staff. Drive overall profitable growth of GGS with all Grainger business unites. Manage on-going customer relationships and resolve any service issues to ensure customer satisfaction. Support specified sourcing initiatives of all assigned product categories by determining scopes, supplier selection and preparing financial to GUS or other business partners to drive best sourcing results. Develop and execute Global Sourcing strategies for assigned the categories on supplier base optimization, regional suppliers diversification along with driving Category Strategy for Profitability, Growth & Quality.Develop methodologies, policies and processes for supplier performance, cost & contract management, supplier database development and lead time reduction.Manage broad and deep Supplier Relationships directly & Indirectly for a large pool of diverse regional and Global suppliers to optimize financial and operational performance.Directly manage select Key/Strategic supplier relationships of assigned categories and manage the rest through Sourcing Leads & Sourcing Specialists. Optimize the product assortment with the accurate merchandising information, right quality, best lowest cost and supplier performance meeting executive brand strategy. Identify and execute opportunities for procurement cost reduction and supplier performance improvement. Support implementation of service metrics by driving supplier performance measured by on-time delivery, quality, compliance etc. Implement and maintain supplier/market intelligence database for assigned suppliers and region. Continue to drive process improvement to enhance overall efficiency.

Lead the assessment and analysis of all business intelligence affecting Global Sourcing including key performance, operational and emerging business metrics and trends. Develop and continuously improve process & system that facilitate performance tracking and analysis to support and improve strategic decision-making. Refined the framework for operational effectiveness, enablement, and scalability across the division. Supervised a staff group globally of Operation Specialists, Sourcing staffs & Inventory specialist to support Global daily operation in cross-functional team. 1) Setup Operations function in Asia to support global business requirement and extend operations team’s responsibility from basic operation work to Vendor/SKU managemetn & to be cross function Contact window. 2) Leading 1-2 Sourcing staffs to support Company Global MRO sourcing business cross UK, Europe, US, MX. Running the sourcing business with lowest expanse and annual 20% increasing in the past 4 years. To synergy as much as business to existing supplier to increase whole company buying power and to develop high potential supplier under different category to leverage company supply chain risk. 3) Leading Process & System continuously improvement to make sure Company can run its business with more effective & efficient way.

Being an experienced, rich knowledge global supplier chain management on assign category of Cleaning, Public & Facility Safety, Security, Pump, Hand Tools & Power Tools Focused on both potential and exist running supplier management on assign category. Negotiated best total cost and terms. Coordinated with cross function team for new program implementation. Accepted additional responsibilities in supplier vetting project in Year 2014 and organizing new hire procurement training in Jan 2012. Volunteered to take on new responsibilities of cross function workshop from July 2011 and process CI project from Oct 2012.

Supervised a staff of 2 merchandising professionals and 1 quality supervisor in Shanghai. Created and lead cross-divisional global teams to design and execute strategies for total company sourcing of home textile category with annual purchases of over $40 million. Set-up regional purchasing strategy, considering the targets of the international product management, product line purchasing and supplier development management Coordinated all aspects of a promotion including: concept development, vendor relationships, team communications, contract negotiations and final analysis. Managed Asia & European Joint-Buy Business for Home textile in Tesco

Supervised a direct staff of 5 buying professionals both in Shanghai & other region of China, Utilized leadership and other professional skills to successfully category strategies for China market and promotional commodities with annual sales revenue of over RMB200 million and GP 21.5% Built assortment & developed own brand strategy according to Metro’s philosophy, managed the performance of a defined product category Implemented guidelines related to space allocation and packaging to ensure profit. Pursued long and short term partnership relationships with supplier and developed volume generating promotions that effectively impacted the business Developed and acted as project team leader for a HoReCa customer catalogue sale project, driving 20% increasing of annual sales revenue. Participated in 8 China new stores opening preparation.