Nancy M.

Sr Buyer for Electronics Manufacturing team.

Accountable for proactively managing the supply base within the Telecom/Technology and Financial commodity; working in close collaboration with Purchasing, Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing and other internal parties to proactively drive supplier selection, assessment, negotiations, contract performance, supply base consolidations, quality improvements, cost reductions, and other critical performance metrics.

Manage all business aspects of the customer relationship to ensure that customer and company requirements are met, including: Supply Chain, Internal material planning, Engineering, and Production including cost, quality and schedules along with full compliance of customer documentation: Manufacturing Agreements, NDA’s, Purchase Orders, and Contracts. Responsible for asset management, liability and exposure issues on a real time basis, Excess and Obsolescence, AR and material liabilities. Chair Monthly customer business reviews with senior management with focus on Growth, Cash and Profit (GCP). Manage Engineering Change notices process (including any financial impact of such change). Support Quotations Group with all quotations and /or proposals for assigned customers. Lead the NPI process along with kick-off for all new products. Manage the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) process along with any subsequent corrective action/QARs. Visit customer on a regular basis (target is at least quarterly) along with holding a quarterly business review (QBR) for each customer.

Responsibilities included optimization of plant strategic sourcing activities with supply base to include cost, quality and delivery metrics through interaction with NA Sourcing Director, Center of Excellence Leaders, Global Commodity Mangers and plant manufacturing team. Provide an optimum level of support to the core manufacturing businesses by overseeing or supporting key metrics to include direct material cost reduction, supplier performance management, Kanban inventory replenishment, Supplier Owned & Managed Inventory (SOMI), supplier integration, inbound and outbound logistics and indirect materials management. Manage strategic business relationship & activities with the supply base for all plant commodities. Develop and implement plans that result in continuous improvement to supplier performance, cost reduction, and asset management. Responsible for reporting YOY spend and analysis of Productivity savings/loss and PPV. Facilitate interaction with Strategic Sourcing, Engineering, Accounting, Marketing/After Market and Quality Assurance in support of the Business's strategic goals including: Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership through lean and value stream improvement initiatives. Reduction of purchased costs + freight + quality + lead-time and velocity. Manage site’s supply base contracts, renewals and price increase/decrease process to ensure interests of plant goals. Development of strong supplier relationships. Make vs. Buy Analysis/Decision Support. Rationalization of supply base. Development of sources of supply, raw materials and components by soliciting, receiving and analyzing quotations and proposed bids. Negotiation of purchasing contracts (YOY GP and Market Alignment) with Global Commodity Manager Train, motivate and evaluate performance of direct reports. Prepare and control expense budget.

Responsible for sourcing and procurement of all metals, literature and labels for the Lincolnton site. Managed outsourcing to Low Cost Region and setting up consignment to 3PL to ensure continuous flow of material. Responsibilities included quoting new products and revision changes based on Engineering Change Activity. Interacting with Engineering to understand the change and to time the implementation. Monitor inventory and monitor ERP as facility is moving to BTO (Build To Order). Worked with suppliers for all prototype and first article builds. Total Metals Spend is $3.5M. 2009 Deflation totals $130K – Sum of PO receipt value $2.1M.

Lead the Customer Focus Team (CFT) for 2 Programs. CFT included materials, operations, and engineering. Liaison between customer and Flextronics Account Management and Site Management. Responsible for receiving customer demand and purchase orders and for commits back to the customer. Direct CFT regarding P&L, revenue commits and customer needs. Responsible to report revenue weekly to Sr. Staff and accountable for tracking revenue weekly, monthly and quarterly.

Managed all aspects of purchasing, for a Tier I Automotive start up facility. Interacted with Korean parent to establish North American Supply Base and establish North American contracts. Responsible for all purchasing activity: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Manufacturing Validation Build, Saleable and Non Saleable; Manufacturing Confirmation Build, Run at Rate and Production. Development of purchasing processes and procedures and implementing these throughout the site. Worked with Supplier Quality Engineers to assist during supplier PPAP ate trials.Managed 35 employees including site procurement team, warehouse and line feed personnel and production procurement team which handled North America, Europe and Asia. Production material buys ~$80M annual spend for start up facility. Indirect procurement team averages $100K per month. Managed cost reduction activity for the site as this responsibility is transferred once the product goes into production. Worked to implement oracle within procurement and EDI with supply chain. Responsible for Worldwide Logistics and Freight costs,