Jimmy Lim
Global Procurement, CapEx EPC @ Firmus Technologies
About
Mastery driving Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, Procurement, ESG; Strategic Worldwide Air, Ocean, Parcel Ops and Logistics Procurement; balances tradeoffs between total cost ownership (TCO), supplier relations, trade compliance, risk, and sustainability. Pursuing efficiencies & effectiveness - doing more with the same resources or doing the same with less resources; Optimizing supply chain & supply-demand planning leading to shorter transit time and reduction logistics cost. Tenets are Customer centricity, Can-do, Tenacious, Hungry & Humble, Influence/persuade across decision-makers & suppliers. Aspire the team to be customer first, forge team synergy, create shareholders, stakeholders & customer value adds • Plans, Sets, & Executes Supply Chain Logistics Freight performances metrics KPI, OTIFs. • Plans and implements Integrated Supply Chain Strategies improves net revenue, reduces inventory carrying cost • Catalyst to transforms infrastructure, network and organization yields total cost savings, lead-time reduction • Develop best practices to drive standardization, consistency and value to the business. Implement/improve and manage appropriate standardized operational and business metrics to meet or exceed performance requirements on a Global/Regional basis Deal directly with Third Party Providers in both operational and contract negotiation/management, performance review and improvement plans to drive efficiencies Coaches, collaborates, creates succession planning individual/teams. Establish relationships with Service Directors in each country to align goals, processes, and performance to enhance Customer Satisfaction. Provide key leadership role in driving business results on a global scale, applying deep knowledge of regional relevance, regulatory compliance and staff development Possess an in-depth understanding of domestic and international logistics networks for high-value goods including service distribution strategies. Utilize technical, project management, and people management experience to actively lead global and regional teams and projects, inclusive of RFP’s and Supplier implementation.
Singapore
Singapore
Computer Software
Data Center Design, Construction, Sales, Consultative Selling, Strategic Thinking, Client Services, Client Requirements, Business, Language Skills, Cost Management, Contact Centers, Strategic Partnerships, Stakeholder Management, Customer Satisfaction, Team Management, Lean Processes, Indirect Purchasing, Workload Prioritization, capital equipment procurement, Strategic Initiatives
Experience

Global Procurement, CapEx EPC
Asia
• Established a comprehensive commercial management framework for D&C projects, enhancing cost planning and risk management. • Led commercial input during feasibility and RIBA stage development, ensuring alignment with business objectives. • Developed standard commercial playbooks, ensuring consistency across regions and effective capital deployment strategies. Served as the Mission Critical Equipment Procurement Lead for ASEAN, UK, India, Australia, and Singapore, leading technical, commercial, and performance management across Design, Engineering, and Commissioning. Project managed internal leaders and partners including finance, risk, business development, and engineering to deliver best-in-class hyperscale colocation partnerships. Managed the commercial program activity to remove identified single points of failure in engineering designs and implemented global standards for vendor performance management. ensuring timely and compliant project execution. Cloud Operations Oversight: Collaborate with the cloud operations team to monitor post-launch IDC performance, ensuring optimal Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), capacity utilisation, uptime, and long-term sustainability.

Manager, Global Sourcing Procurement
Singapore
• End-2end procurement lifecycle • Lead CAPEX power, cooling, M/V L/V, pumps, HVAC, UPS, batteries, strategic procurement , suppliers’ relations for contract logistics, distribution centers, international freight, optimizing productivity, TCO, cost per unit analysis. • Drives tactical strategic negotiations cost savings IT Storage Network Infrastructure NAM, SSD, Network, Switch Gears, PDU, Nvidia H100 B100 • Liquid immersion built, Modular, Prefabricated, GC, Construct design • Apttus,Anaplan,Aptus,Oracle,SAP integrate demand supply planning, enhances operational efficiency and collaboration • Stakeholder Engagements • Influence: High ability to build relationships and influence high-level stakeholders is critical. Compliance-driven sourcing,buy vs make vs lease decisions, influencing immediate, mid-, long-term sourcing strategies. Guard actively stakeholders through the sourcing process, advocating supply chain, risk vs rewards training guiding stakeholders • Commercial Acumen & Complex Negotiations: • Commercial Negotiation & Contracting: With expertise in negotiating high-value contracts, I am expected to lead complex deal negotiations, including those involving medium to high risk. • Value Optimization: I will proactively identify cost-saving opportunities and create value, focusing on achieving specific savings targets. • Project Management: • End-to-End Responsibility: I will ensure projects are completed within timelines and without risk to project success. This includes leading and executing sourcing initiatives and supporting various business functions. • Risk & Compliance: • Risk Management: I will actively participate in risk and governance, especially regarding third-party risk management and supplier risk control. • Ethics and Conduct: Adherence to SCB’s values and compliance mandates will be central to my role, reinforcing a culture of high standards and ethical behavior.

Manager Category Procurement Logistics Freight Distribution
Singapore
• Led global airfreight, parcel, and warehousing savings 9%$142 m annual spend • Developed supply chain strategies based on TCO costs, transit time, and demand supply trends, resulting in $10.2 million cost avoidance and $5.6 million savings over pandemic. • Manages construction design, client project team leaders throughout RIBA Stages, Datacenter strategies roadmap advisory, cost initiatives, prefabrication factories and logistics. • Data Centre feasibility and MEP massing works and preparation of bid resource plan and costs for RIBA Stages; interface with IBM BPO, A&E, construct design, sites’ multidiscipline teams. • Leads multi-million dollars procurement initiatives, contracts incoterms novate for $8.5 million cost savings, 25 days reduction delivery lead time. • CIPS diploma in Procurement and Supply (UK), ASRAE, IEE Wiring Regulations, and 2360 Electrical Installation and Associated Electronics, Complex Critical Switchgear, Utility power design, maintenance and installation cost 15% reduced. • Develop Pre- Post- Pandemic Direct & indirect (supply chain logistics) task force EU, APAC, delivered 8.5% Capital equipment cost savings, reduced 30% stock, and 95% on-time in full. • Develop Category and Pre buy manual to align Salesforce, Oracle Finance, Demand planning with supplier materials stock, improve inventory balancing, mitigate delays, late delivery and impact $5m

Global Ocean, Air, Courier, Procurement, ISCaP, Spare Parts
Singapore
APAC AWS (Amazon Web Services) Supply Chain Logistics Procurement Manager Responsible for freight, logistics and warehousing operations and services for Amazon (AWS) data centers at ASEAN, India, Japan, Korea, China & Australia New Zealand. $220 million/year. Pay to Procure (P2P), Source to Contract (S2C) for network, enterprise, power supply shipping inbound flow, fulfillment, returns replenishment for spares, inbound customs compliance and lithium battery hazmat handling. Managed end-to-end sourcing, and operations logistics activities, includes inbound freight, key focus on security compliance and inventory in three regional major distribution centers, JP, CN & Asean. ➢ Ensured all data centers customers run at optimal cloud capacity level balance with right service level for delivery and inventory performance. ➢ Effective logistics, freight, supply and demand planning, collaborated with customers and Lead Logistics Provider (LLP or 4PL) control tower team is at Bangalore India and Manila Philippines. 3 solid line reports and remotely led 8 logistics and procurement analysts to prioritize racks and spares delivery. ➢ Managed USD220million/year financial budgeting, performance reporting and capital spending process. ➢ Standardized & formulated SOP, technical knowledge from parts building to finished product lead time analysis tool. ➢ Lean Manufacturing and Material Flow concept Development Kaizen and Six-Sigma (Green) implemented ASEAN. ➢ Met and exceeded 98% On Time delivery and reduced data center latency downtime by 15% ➢ 12% or USD5million savings/year for freight savings by converting Parcel & Express Airfreight to Cross Border Inland trucking and Multimodal Air & Rail from Europe to and from Asia Regional Hubs.

Senior Procurement Manager. Global Warehouse, Spares, Ocean, Air, Road Freight & Logistics
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Develop categories for dairy, pharmaceutical, and food beverages: Direct Services Ocean freight, Bunker (Oil), Air, Packaging, and Logistics. Improve to meet 98% On-time-in-full delivery for High Street Stores. Total cost ownership (TCO), S&OP, Inventory management for PZ Haier, Thermacool, PZ Beauty (Sanctuary Spa), Wilmer Food (Nutricima), and Fonterra. Food & Beverage, Wholesaler, Distributor, leading brands Europe, UK and Middle East Gulf Countries. ➢ Ocean Container, Bulk Freight, ISO tankers, Trade Customs (spent $39Million), distributions ($27Million) West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana), Poland, Dubai, MENA, Indonesia, Thailand, ANZ, ➢ Freight, Customs (annual spend ~$83M), channels and distribution ($37M) across business and West-East Africa, UK, Germany, Poland, MENA, and APAC, ➢ One Truth for Shipping Visibility 3PL and 4PL Control Tower ➢ Value-stream mapping, inventory carrying cost, hub-spoke, RDC NDC, Cross docks vs Inventory Stock-in, reduced damages, demurrage, inventory carrying, improved On-time-In-Full (4.9%), ➢ Developed Mode-shifts and service-level options to deliver Right Inventory level at Right Lead time 43% cost reduced, Direct-Market and Buy vs Make Initiatives, One trucking, Smart dockings, online E-commerce, ➢ Collaborated with APJ business leads for cost down, strategic road map, breakthrough initiatives, GT Nexus, Oracle X.PC OTM integration, ➢ Developed freight operations, account for operations and continuous improvements for Indonesia, ANZ, ASEAN & UK network optimized, reverse returns operations, ➢ Contributed Cost savings of $2.3million YOY savings (4.2% AOP vs Commit savings), ➢ Achieved a successful 35% cost reduction by air to-ocean freight (reefer) programs, ➢ Direct-Market & Smart Docks Initiatives – North Asia (China, Japan) and EMEA inbound to Australia by the re-design network, process, and lead time and achieved $1.7 million in savings.

Strategic Procurement Manager (III), Supply chain Ops, WW Logistics
Singapore
• Managed $615 Mil procurement spent, supporting $8B revenue for HP APJ, including printers, PCs, servers, and services. • Led global and APAC Airfreight RFQ, Parcel Small Pack RFQ, and Last Mile White glove logistics strategies. • Achieved a 3.8% reduction in Pan-HP TE, negotiated tripartite agreements for Silk-Road regulations, and improved cross-border trade collaborations.

Senior Manager, Global Accounts Lead (High Tech, Consumer Retail)
Singapore
➢ Responsible for freight management, contract logistics design, execution and implementation for Tech, Consumer Retail customers based on clear understanding of customers business. Global Account Manager, Asia Pacific, promoted to Senior Manager, Global Accounts 2008). www.cevalogistics.com. ➢ Supplier Relations, Trade Lane management, Capacity planning to mitigate Peak season surcharges ➢ Awarded Lenovo NEC ASEAN Japan logistics deal for spare parts logistics delivery, ➢ Accountable for Revenue and EBITA growth for Technology, consumer retail and healthcare ➢ Responsible for Pre RFQ, RFQ and implementation for IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Baxter and GE freight and logistics, ➢ Continuous service and operations improvement led to cost savings, cycle time and lead time, balance scorecard and performance dashboards across key business markets, ➢ Developed standards, measurements, business model from commercial, operations flow, NDC versus RDC requirements, deployments with business units and customers at early kick-off stage, ➢ Buy versus Make cost analysis, Cycle time analysis, Business process mapping, value stream mapping VSM and improve inbound logistics and outbound fulfilment to distributors workflow.

Online Education and Technology, Digitalization- Carlson College of Economics UWW
Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
➢ Collaborated with Dean, Faculty to plan, design, implement, and supervise an Online MBA and Online BBA Support Center ➢ Supported and assisted faculty and students, supervise On-Line MBA Center Support Staff ➢ Worked with campus departments to help create a virtual campus and better support online learning ➢ Oversaw the planning , development, and of 8-10 online courses per semester ➢ Developed and supervised Online MBA Help Desk, and marketing efforts for the Online MBA program ➢ Gathered student surveys and interviews, solicit feedback and data about Online content and identify how to improve Online MBA courses.

Regional Corporate Account Manager, APAC
Singapore
➢DHL (Danzas AEI / DHL Danzas Air Ocean Singapore) Promoted to : Corporate Account Manager, Singapore, Quality Management internal auditor, SE Asia. ➢DHL (Danzas AEI / DHL Danzas Air Ocean Singapore) Sales and Marketing Executive, Tender and Pricing. ➢ Led Business and Operations processes for IBM, Motorola, General Motors, Delphi, Baxter Healthcare logistics, distribution and final mile postponement and fulfilment activities, ➢ Developed Sales & Customer service initiatives and projects to meet and exceed sales budgets, ➢ Implemented and managed Hewlett Packard Equipment Manufacturing, Nokia, Motorola, Apple, and Intel microelectronics chip packaging (turnkey and fulfillment centers) - $5.5million ➢ Drove supply chain optimization; leverage on Best Practices (LEAN, Kaizen & Six-sigma) to deliver cost savings for Abbott Labs USD5.2million/year for AP and EMEA regions, ➢ Developed knowledge-tool and web-center, logistics service levels agreements (SLA), and outsourcing guidelines to ensure operations excellence for South China (Shenzhen, Guangzhou), India (Bangalore) and Vietnam operations, ➢Reason for leaving - purse a graduate academic scholarship in University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.

Sales & Business Development. Trade Lane and Reefer Cold Chain Expert. Marketing Intelligence
Singapore
Sales Marketing, Procuring, Developing category strategies for our clients. Above and beyond strategic sourcing activities, the Category Manager understands external variables, learns the internal clients landscape (requirements, organizational structure, priorities) develops relationships to successfully develop category strategies that utilize various value levers to deliver improved cost, reduced risk, increase efficiencies Essential Duties and Responsibilities -Develops category strategies for the assigned areas of responsibility -Build relationships with client stakeholders demonstrate value in continued engagement challenge stakeholders when fruitful, and can bring additional subject matter expertise. -Identifies cost savings opportunities across the client’s Freight / Logistics Services spend. -Acts as a trusted advisor and SME in the areas of sourcing and negotiating contracts for a wide range of Freight / Logistics Services. -Achieve cost savings, risk mitigation, and process efficiencies through various value levers. -Lead supplier selection process across multiple subsets of the category, with various scope and client stakeholder groups. -Lead negotiations with current and potential suppliers as part of the contract renewal or vendor selection process. -Collect and analyze internal/external category data, metrics, and reports to track performance against targets. -Ability to analyze multiple data sets to identify opportunities and category insights. -Participate in category councils and business reviews to support collaboration, knowledge sharing, opportunity identification, and overall relationship development. -Innovate within the procurement space; look at new ways to structure programs or categories, benefit from changes in supply market, or modify tools/processes to add value. -Provide support throughout the sourcing and contracting process when necessary, ensuring seamless handoff to our clients
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