AREAS OF EXPERTISE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SET THE STRATEGY, DESIGN THE MODEL, EXECUTE THE PLAN AND DRIVE RESULTS would take out complexity, improve supply chain planning, speed final product delivery to the customer base, while reducing operating expenses by 3-5%. 5. Looked and developed ways to increase the visibility and provided enhanced enablers for the management teams and their staff for better decision-making using the company's SAP package, looking at other supply chain suite software packages. 6. Provide analysis on manufacturing, product flow into the lines and the master scheduling processes. * Defined and highlighted all the blind spots in the value chain in regards to lead time using SAP (MM, TM, SD, PM) - Project Management: Coordinated and facilitated meetings in regards to two projects dealing with capacity planning and redefining the supplier's firm period with the Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations, Tactical Sourcing teams and the supplier base. - Influenced management to consider reducing the suppliers cost by changing the strategic sourcing and distribution network model (projected savings would be 3-5% off the spend within the first 12 months.) My discoveries found several gaps in the value chain while working on establishing new firm supplier response times with the supplier base. MAJOR GAPS IN CATERPILLAR'S VALUE CHAIN: 1. Complete an assessment, provide value stream the ideal process vs actual. Note all gaps & cost factors, provide solution 2. Demand vs Actual. No management on the risk and/or the potential opportunities 3. Work on project using Ariba for handling supplier projects, approval through several departments and invoicing 4. Short-planning horizon causing a lot of expedited freight unplanned cost & excessive inventories 5. Inventory issues (Due to ERP system setup, inventory accuracy, receiving process) 6. Supplier Development - Multiple Planners placing orders on the same product causing confusion and cost 7. Line Shortages going unnoticed by planners 8. Product hierarchy not aligned in the SAP hindering BOM explosions, setup solution to fix the problem. No true capacity planning process DELIVERY OUTPUT FROM CATERPILLAR ANALYSIS: Shared a new business model and presented it to middle management team on how to eliminate and fix gaps in the company's value chain. The model laid out a plan showing a timetable of execution covering 30-60-90-180-360 days. In addition, the plan included 52 KPI's which needed to be monitored and had showed a projected ROI after gaps were closed. A $1 to $2 billion in savings was achieved. OFF-SITE VIRTUAL)

Highlights:

• Inventory
• Inventory management
• Management
• Project Management
• Purchasing
• Business Operations
• Scheduling
• Supply Chain
• Consulting
• Inventory Control