SUMMARY:

• Bottom - line focused Global Supply Chain leader, with broad demonstrable experience in major oil & gas and chemical companies, with several years of working with people at different levels in the organization. A consistent top performer that combines apt level of End to End Global Supply Chain Management, Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, Business Transformation & Growth, sound business understanding, and excellent interpersonal skills to achieve optimal business results with multi-faceted teams across multiple regions.
• End to End SCM | Global Logistics | SRM & CRM | Strategic Sourcing & Procurement | Category Mgmt. | Continuous Improvement | Global Project Mgmt. | Cost Reduction | Change Mgmt. | Personnel Mgmt. | Inventory Mgmt. | Supplier Qualification | Contract Mgmt. | Supply Strategy Devt | Customer improvement & Engagement | International S.C. Consulting | ERP Systems integration | Global Cost Structure Project Execution | Business Process Devt. & roll out | Contract/Toll Manufacturing | Supply Chain Digitization | VMI Optimization | KPI revamp.
• Products worked with: Specialty chemicals, Oil and gas chemicals (for upstream, midstream and downstream applications), Commodity chemicals.
• SAP Experience: Casual user for inventory and equipment management ( )| Time card/payroll management, Procure to Pay process, ( )| Super Key User, Inventory Mgmt., Material Master, Costing, UAT & debugging, SAP Project implementation, Vendor list mgmt. ( )| Order to Cash process, Material Master, Big Data ( ).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

• Optimized our Vendor Managed Inventory program for MDI commodity, which currently services 3 of our biggest customers, over $50MM in revenues, annually for the Americas.
• Leading the implementation of an Order to Cash process for supply of a new product that involves manufacturing at a newly acquired and not fully integrated subsidiary.
• Led a cross-functional team to improve the new products introduction process (NPI) and reduced the time by 50% from 2 weeks to one week, and implemented operating procedures for each approver group.
• Worked with an external consultant on Digitization studies to identify ways to improve our responsiveness and agility to target Customer segments.
• Cross-regional knowledge transfer, identifying best practices to leverage across EAME, NA & APAC regions.
• Revamped our Customer issues system to allow further study of those issues that have recurring major impact on our customers.
• Optimized our business level KPIs, working with cross functional and supply chain teams. Incorporated leading indicators to our KPI dashboard and cross functional facing KPIs.
• Worked with Account Managers for our large volume customers on value identification and quantification to help in contract negotiations.

Confidential, Houston TX

Global Supply Chain & Continuous Improvement Consultant (Independent Intl & Local consulting)

Responsibilities:

• New Supply consulting, evaluating clients capabilities versus customer need to determine best approach
• Logistics path evaluation - identifying least cost option for an identified customer need, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) evaluations.
• Supply Chain costs assessment - utilize Lean Six Sigma tools to identify low hanging fruits for cost savings across the entire supply chain of a client. Led to savings of over $5M.
• Management of goods clearance and associated fees, identifying what needs to be in place to ensure minimal fees to receive and clear goods, including selection of international Freight Forwarders. Process Mapping.
• Saved clients over $3M by utilizing Lean Manufacturing tools to make Supply Strategy improvements in various areas like Delivery, Productivity, Cost, after assessment of organization’s Supply Chain maturity level.
• Developed measurement systems to guide Supply Chain decisions, like demurrage incurred and duty fee paid as means for selecting and keeping Freight Forwarders.
• Developed KPIs and Supply Chain dashboard for various business segments and goals
• Worked with Small Oil and Gas and Chemical manufacturing firms on overall Supply Chain optimization, helping align Supply strategy with Business strategy based on company’s Supply Chain evolution stage.

Confidential, Sugar Land, TX

Global Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Cross-Customer segment optimization initiatives
• Improved Customer Satisfaction by executing a Customer Service order fulfillment project across 8 manufacturing plants in C&IS - designed a robust Customer Order management process, with input from Customers across regions (utilizing VOC). Developed KPIs & Order Health Status Database for managing & improving performance on customer orders.
• Improved plant asset utilization and master scheduling by completing a project to optimize scheduling activities at 12 manufacturing plants and improve robustness of scheduling with SAP. Worked with the application and software developers to create the user interface and user testing scenarios (UI & UAT).
• Reduced working capital and cost for Plant services, equipment (CapEx) and major material purchases across eight chemical manufacturing plants in NA by implementing a Centralized Procurement strategy, working with the Global Engineering Director & site teams.
• Global Inventory management
• Reduced SLOB by 10% ($4MM) by continuously managing surplus inventory (working with Operations Managers, Sales Managers, Plant Managers & Inventory leads) at 13 manufacturing plants and 100 plus field locations globally, utilizing SAP and MRP to access inventory needs & relocation points.
• Saved over $12MM in SLOB and disposal costs by leading the Global SLOB Sales Bonus program, worked with the Product Line VPs, Marketing group and other business segments to create the guidelines for the program, track sales, educate and train over 100 inventory locations.
• Saved over $6MM by leading a multi-departmental group (Operations, Logistics, and Sales) in the Middle East & UK to relocate SLOB from KSA to Iraq.
• Business Process Transformation
• Saved over $1.5MM (Business Process waste & Implementation cost) by executing a Global Cost Structure project (changed from Worldwide standard costing to Activity-based costing), across 12 Plant sites in C&IS Business worldwide. Additional benefits of product mix and identifying actual profit margins. Completed location specific direct/indirect cost centers mapping and extensive documentation (TD & KDD).
• Saved over $1MM annually in Demurrage charges by implementing logistics management initiatives (YMS & TMS) for our largest manufacturing facility and rolled out the program to 12 other plants
• Executed Sourcing strategies and implemented supplier risk assessment processes for major suppliers, based on established criteria, as part of Customer Service project to meet our customers’ demands and KPIs.
• Participated in the S&OP process and provided demand and supply data needed in the meetings. Assisted in calculation of forecast accuracy and utilization of demand planning tools.
• Developed procurement strategies for Supply of Raw materials, Sale of stranded inventory and Plant services for over 8 plants for C&IS Business. This project involved contract negotiations for vendors and suppliers.
• Reduced demurrage charges and stock out issues through monthly coordination of Supply and Demand across finished products and intermediates supplied by contract manufacturers (Tollers).
• Analyzed and presented weekly Supply data across all manufacturing plants for the weekly and monthly Plant Director’s meeting with C&IS Vice President.
• Assisted the Procurement, Customer Service group, Manufacturing plants and other segments of C&IS in addressing issues to help meet customer orders, including looking for alternate raw material supplier.
• Reduced working capital, increased responsiveness across supply chain & minimized business risk by assigning safety stock for multiple locations for various product lines.

Confidential, Beaumont plant, TX

Production Superintendent

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 45 employees, including 5 supervisors to exceed production records across 4 of the 6 units
• Covered for the operations manager and performed his daily duties, including daily update to the business team and inventory/raw material management.
• Revamped the TAR process to eliminate scope creep and stay within TAR budget.
• Implemented and managed category management strategies for TAR, Plant services and Maintenance as part of a corporate initiative to streamline supply of these items and reduce cost.
• Worked with the HES group to create a work permitting process flow map (and swim lane) & trained operations & maintenance personnel on it to prevent incidents around work permit process.
• Within 1st month of being hired into the company & 3 other shutdowns during the year, served as a shutdown coordinator, led production and maintenance teams to plan & execute the TAR (Pre & Post TAR)

Confidential, La Porte Plant, TX

Leveraged Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Saved $3.2MM by executing process related Six Sigma projects in VA and TX.
• Saved over $650K by completing a Lean project that reduced changeover time on a sold out business.
• Completed a 5-day Warehouse 5S Kaizen project & trained site leaders to lead Kaizens (Hayward, CA).
• Created a program for Hayward site that combined Lean & DPS TRACC for 5S
• Saved over $120K via a 6 Sigma Project that optimized rail car management system & reduced variable costs (switching, demurrage, other surcharges), in Starke, FL.

Confidential, Edge Moor Plant, DE

Six Sigma Black Belt (Certified) &Finishing Production Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Achieved Six Sigma Black Belt by saving over $1MM through completion of 3 SSBB projects.
• Led the launch of a new product to utilize the 30% of available capacity at the site. Achieved production of a product that could not yet be transitioned to engineers/operators due to process design issues. Coordinated the production of over 6000 tons of new grade leading to $10M revenue.
• Led Customer and Supply Chain related incident investigations based on Customer complaints, identified root causes and implemented sustainable solutions to prevent recurrence.

Confidential, Deepwater, NJ

Product Team Manager/Process lead, Secure Environmental Treatment

Responsibilities:

• Completed the Stripper effluent line clean out project which increased throughput by 20%
• Led Supply planning for the Stripper unit and inventory management to reduce working capital.