WEI ZHENG

**** ***** *** *, ** Paul, MN *****

Cell: 651-***-****

Email: acdo7y@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position in Strategic Sourcing, Supply chain

management, Quality management, and Manufacturing

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager

July 2012 to Present

Select Comfort, Minneapolis, MN

- Responsible for specific major categories of spend for materials used in

manufacture of the Sleep Number bed, strategic planning and sourcing of

direct materials for achieving significant cost savings, continuity of

supply and risk mitigation through effective sourcing practices,

negotiation and contract execution.

- Manage spend portfolio involving multiple commodities (electronic and

mechanical components, injection molding plastics, box assemblies, etc) and

annual spend of $100 million.

- Establish and manage relationships with key suppliers for commodities in

assigned portfolio. Implement Vendor Managed Inventory.

- Identify suppliers, solicits and reviews quotes, analyzes prices.

- Lead negotiations with suppliers to ensure the best quality, service and

cost to achieve business objectives.

- Partner with Product Development, R&D, Engineering, Materials Management,

and Manufacturing to provide sourcing leadership in development and launch

of new products to meet introduction timelines, cost and quality goals, and

service level to customers.

- Conduct score card and business reviews with suppliers and Manages

supplier performance by partnering with Supplier Quality.

- Leverage existing technologies to support the sourcing process and

identify additional technology needs to augment specific categories where

applicable.

Supplier Development Engineer/Project Manager

October 2006 to July 2012

Global Direct Materials Management, Boston Scientific Corp., St Paul, MN

- Led efforts to plan and conduct component selection, sourcing, and

qualification testing for Integrated Circuits, Electronic Components, and

PCB.

- Transferred product from concept stage through to production for

implantable class III medical devices.

- Collaborated with internal cross-functional teams and suppliers to manage

new component development to meet new product design requirements and

critical schedules.

- Drove commodity team long-term strategies to improve supply chain

efficiencies and reduce component cost.

- Led efforts for low cost sourcing with Asian suppliers.

- Managed supplier quality performance by periodically reviewing/analyzing

performance data/metrics (process Cpk, yield, PCN, etc.).

- Conducted annual supplier assessment and review and implement corrective

actions relating to supplier product non conformance.

- Worked with design and manufacturing to develop production acceptance

criteria, test methods, and process validation protocols. Provided support

for design verification and validation activities.

Technical Intern May 2006

to September 2006

Design Center Six Sigma, Seagate Technology, Shakopee, MN

Conducted training on DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) and Design for

Reliability. Defined FMEA action handling project metrics and finished

system KT analysis. Assisted Principal Master Black Belt with requirements

management. Interact with functional teams to define metrics for KPIVs

tolerancing requirements and manage tradeoff between cost and requirements.

Upgraded Seagate internal design optimization tool.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota, Twin

Cities 2006

M.S. in Industrial Engineering Iowa State University, Ames, IA

2001

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering University of Science and

Technology Beijing, China 1996

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