Supply Chain Management

Roger P. Liu, Ph.D.

Vice President / GM

Plano, Texas 75025

972-***-**** ******.***@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerpliu

Professional Profile

Vice President GM with Fortune 500 Company and "BIG 4" Management

Consulting experience, expertise in business operations management strategy

and process improvement. Consistently achieving challenges from product and

project concept to completion to improve company's bottom line results.

Key Accomplishments

. Negotiated with a major Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) supplier and

achieved the reduction of supplier new product development fee in half

(from $450K to $225K) in December 2006.

. Increased Procurement Outsourcing category Cash-to-Cash (Account Payable)

cycle from 46 to 53 days in 2007/2008 by continued negotiation with key

suppliers over a one-year period.

. Improved the Procurement Outsourcing category data compliance from 70% to

91% in 2008 and improved the Mechanical category data compliance from 85%

to 97% between 2009 and 2010 by close collaboration among all category

teams and adopting a well-defined process flow for misclassified part

numbers.

. Led the efforts of supplier base reduction with internal team and

external suppliers to strategically optimize the number of key suppliers

in active supply base from 100+ down to 46 between 2009 and 2010.

. Led the efforts of supplier logistics lead-time reduction with internal

team and external strategic EMS and component suppliers to decrease the

average lead-time from 12 to 16 weeks down to 6 weeks in 2010.

Professional Experience

Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, IL (Telecomm, Mobile Computer, Networks,

and Hardware) 2006 to 2011

Director of Procurement and Sourcing Operations and Strategy, Motorola,

Schaumburg, IL 2007 to 2011

Managed business process and system compliance, supply chain planning and

logistics, monthly financial operations results reporting, category

strategy development and implementation, supplier balanced score card,

supplier annual cost reduction, contract negotiation, and excess inventory

material disposition.

. Orchestrated supply chain Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) improvement

by saving procurement and sourcing process and system cost over 20% in a

3-year period (from US $100M down to US $80M).

. Kept procurement and sourcing operations compliance with international

and domestic requirements (e.g., supplier scorecard, supply base

reduction, corporate social responsibility, ROHS, sustainability,

diversity and minority requirements, green initiatives) while

consistently exceeding the yearly cost reduction goals.

Director of Procurement and Sourcing ODM Operations, Symbol Technologies,

Holtsville, NY 2006 to 2007

Planned and Led the ODM teams to plan, define, quantify, develop the new

product requirements, optimize the supply chain logistics and strategy with

the engineering team and match/explore with the competent suppliers

worldwide to build the product from start to final ship in procurement and

sourcing department.

. Aligned company's internal product roadmap with supplier capabilities by

assessing suppliers development competency, technical capabilities,

company's infrastructure, and proven business processes. New products

were consistently released to the market on time, on budget, and on

target over an 18-month period.

. Developed and maintained great relationships with both internal teams

(Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Quality, Logistics, and Materials) and

suppliers to achieve supplier cost reduction goals year-over-year.

Accenture, Dallas, Texas (Hi-tech, Consumer Electronics & Packaged goods,

and Retails) 2004 to 2005

Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations Management Strategy

Subject Matter Expert in Supply Chain Planning, Fulfillment, Logistics,

Inventory, Material and Network Design

. Led and assisted Request for Quote, Proposal, and Information (RFQ, RFP,

RFI) preparation, resource staffing and allocation, and program

management that resulted in over US $25M new contracts signing.

. Managed and planned an orchestrated team effort in large scale clients'

implementation by leading more than 23 consultants, cross-functional team

to complete the project on schedule and on budget.

Unitopia Corp., Taipei, Taiwan (Hi-tech, Consumer Electronics &

Manufacturing, ODM & EMS) 2002 to 2004

Vice President and Practice Leader

A privately owned supply chain management consulting firm in Greater China

region

. Managed Profit and Loss (P/L) responsibilities from strategic planning,

technology alliance, vendor solutions, and day-to-days operations for Hi-

tech, Semi-conductor, ODM, and EMS.

. Built and lead a successful supply chain management consulting practice

by growing the number of consultants from 19 to 29 and grew the revenue

from US $0.7M to $1.6M in 18 months.

IBM Corps, Dallas, Texas (Hi-tech, Telecomm, Consumer Electronics, ODM &

EMS) 1999 to 2001

Executive Consultant, Supply Chain Operations Management Strategy in Global

Services

Managed multiple supply chain solution offerings and supported business

development efforts

. Led and directed over 60 consultants in 6 supply chain competencies

(supply chain planning, demand planning, demand fulfillment, factory

planning, logistics, and IT) in strategy development, resource

allocation, project staffing, and day-to-day operations.

. Strategically helped out the business development activities and resulted

in more than US $45M signing within 2 years period from 1999 to 2001

(e.g., Lucent Technologies, Best Buy, and IBM Storage Division).

i2 Technologies, Dallas, Texas (Hi-tech, Consumer Electronics, Telecomm,

& Manufacturing) 1997 to 1999

Solutions Architect, Hi-Tech Solutions Management Group

Supply Chain subject matter expert in support pre-sales, cross-selling,

initial project establishment, and drafting the overall supply chain

solution, strategy roadmap and/or network design

. Led a cross-functional team (i2, client, a major BIG Four consulting

firm) in a North America implementation and resulted in training clients'

planners and users to achieve supply chain planning cycle time by 50%

(from a monthly to bi-monthly cycle), and cut existing warehouse

inventory and materials cost by 25%.

. Contributed the hi-tech solutions template in product management, which

resulted in cutting the general implementation time by 50% (from 16

months to 8 months) and reduced the number of staff by 1/3 (from

typically 9 to 6 headcounts per project), and cut the cost for average

client by half million dollars per project.

Prior experiences include 6 years in Academia/State Department of

Transportation sponsorship as a researcher in Indiana and Illinois and 2

years in Army Supply Station as an Army Procurement Officer (second

Lieutenant).

Education

BS - National Taiwan University (Civil Engineering)

MS - Northwestern University (Logistics and Transportation Management)

Ph.D. - Purdue University (Logistics and Transportation Management)

Professional Development

Supply Chain management certification by i2 and SAP

PMP certification, Project Management Institute/IBM (PMO)

Yellow badge certification by Motorola (6 Sigma/Process Improvement)

Award

Motorola Procurement and Sourcing "Bravo Award" for achieving the

performance excellence by exceeding the overall procurement and sourcing

expectations across all direct material teams - August 2008

Languages

US citizen with bilingual in Chinese (both Mandarin and Taiwanese)

Professional Affiliation

INFORMS (Institute of Operations Research and Management Science)

Specialties

Supply Chain, Operations Management, Strategy, Manufacturing, Production,

Outsourcing, Business Strategy, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Planning,

Fulfillment, Allocation, Procurement & Sourcing Operations, Supply Chain

Network Design & Optimization, 3 PL's, Logistics, Transportation, P&L,

Business Process Improvement & Transformation, Program and Project

Implementation, New Product Introduction & Development

Roger P. Liu

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