Supply Chain Manager

Melissa Muenzberg

**** *** **** *****, ***** Richland Hills, TX 76182

E-mail: ****************@*****.***

Mobile Phone: 817-***-****

Summary

Fifteen years of supply chain experience including sourcing, planning, system configuration, product management/marketing support. Extensive experience in change management. Recently completed a training course in supply chain management. Have traveled internationally and worked with many cultures. Worked on military contracts and held a secret clearance. Have used SAP, MRP, PDM, Microsoft Office Suite and LotusNotes among other systems.

EXPERIENCE

Nokia Mobile Phones – 12 Years

Position: Product Variant Leader (PVL) – Nokia

Dec 2008 to Mar 2012

Responsibilities:Responsible for change management of packaging materials for assigned products. Was recently identified to be the lead PVL for the Americas region working with teams around the globe on a new PDM system concept, Configure To Order (CTO). The goal of this new way of working is to reduce the time of creating a new customer variant from 2 months to 2 weeks and also reduce the number of variants created and never sold.Played a role in the A-Pipes (key global initiative) project transferring production of identified products from our Reynosa Mexico factory to strategically identified factories in China and India – this activity included close coordination with all factories involved, ensuring customer requirement knowledge was transferred to accepting factories and also working with all levels of sourcing, packaging and marketing to transfer requirements.Work with assigned programs to ramp up new products in factories around the globe by creating, downloading to all planning systems, and maintaining Bill of Materials (BOM) and coordinating with multiple internal teams insuring correctness.

Position: Global Category Demand Supply Network Manager - Nokia

Dec 2007 to Dec 2008

Responsibilities:Part of a global launch planning team working on new product launches in factories around the world.Coordinating all activities around assuring a timely ramp-up of assigned products (systems driving correct demand, material availability, monthly transition planning meetings with product programs, weekly status reports to all stakeholders, etc.). Along with launches, our team was also working with all involved teams on the ramp-down of products. Assuring as little excess and obsolete material as possible while still meeting the customer needs and factory capability.

Position: Launch Manager - Nokia

Apr 2005 to Dec 2007

Responsibilities:Helped develop and implement checkpoint reviews used by the launch team.Set up and run Demand Supply Network (DSN) ramp-up and checkpoint reviews at the appropriate times.Worked on the pilot programs to develop a new factory launch manager role in the Reynosa, MX factory which later became a role in all factories globally.Had launches in 3 factories globally and also coordinated with Korea and China factories for cross time zone shipments.Started looking at new products in the mid-term planning cycle (6-12 months prior to launch) to ensure the program ramp up plans are aligned with global and factory plans. Once the product enters short term (5 months out), driving the desired plan to the factories through related planning systems.

Position: Logistics Variant Leader (LVL) - Nokia

Aug 2002 to Apr 2005

Responsibilities:Work with assigned programs to ramp up new products in multiple factories by creating and downloading Bill of Materials (BOMs) into all planning systems including SAP.A key role in the LVL position was to gather our customer’s requirements for labeling, packing, palletizing and shipping and create standard component placement documents and customer requirement documents that the factory used each time an order is filled.

Position: Procurement Project Leader (PPL) - Nokia

Mar 2000 to Aug 2002

Responsibilities:Act as a liaison between various product programs and the factories for material planning.Ensure that Bill of Materials (BOMs) are downloaded and requirements are showing in SAP. Run BOM comparisons between multiple systems to ensure correctness.Provide risk reports to programs before ramp-ups.Acquire risk orders from programs when necessary to support a line build or ramp-up.Work on ramp-down products assuring as little as possible Excess and Obsolete material.

Texas Instruments/Raytheon Systems Company – 11 Years

Position: Supply Chain Specialist

Dec 1988 to Dec 1999

Responsibilities:Place major procurements over $500K including writing the cost analysis for several parts on a specific program and then managing the material, from planning contract dates based on MRPS, to doing returns if necessary.Prepare request for quotation packages.Heavy interface with engineering, management, suppliers, the warehouse and the factory.Maintain files and work accounting issues.Prepare and update Non-Disclosure Agreements.

Education American Trades Institute, Hurst, TX

*Computerized Business Administration

Professional Development Supply Chain Management certificate from Global Knowledge

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