Management Manager

Arun Sud C.P.M.

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Supply Chain professional with wide range of experience in procurement and

business. Strengths include diverse cultural awareness, extensive

international experience and flexibility. Uniquely qualified to lead a

dynamic procurement organization that seeks to deliver value to

stakeholders by leveraging its enterprise responsibility to reduce cost and

increase efficiency. Experienced both in a commercial and DOD regulated

environment

Accomplishments

. Contracts, MSA, SLA and SOW, negotiations, and final execution with

legal and stakeholders for website hosting, HR benefits, warehouse

services.

. Product development support in sourcing, contract negotiations,

quality systems for new product development.

. Establish and manage commodity strategies, supplier relationship

management, contract negotiations, supplier performance measurement,

. OEM Sourcing and relationship management with suppliers from the LCC

like Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, India as well as

precision manufacturing from domestic USA and European countries

Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.

. Exceeded or met year over year savings, performance improvement, TCO.

. Established OEM section for active products for the supply line

management and supplier management. Included finished products, metal,

electromechanical, electronics, contract manufacturing, plastics, and

other materials in machines.

. Established the sourcing plans and supplier quality assurance

procedures during initial development phase of the major development

programs.

. Synchronized procurement efforts of various decentralized business

units with external suppliers to leverage the corporate wide

purchases. Coordination of quality plans with the business units.

. Integrated Product Supply initiative- returned goods refurbishing,

reclamation and disposal.

. Managed end of life product support that enabled $20M in revenue.

. Transition from PC based procurement system to Oracle and then to SAP.

. Team member of the Engineering Documentation Quality Improvement and

Design for Environmental Quality standard setting teams.

. Lead the Printer Technology Commodity team to maintain PB lead in the

industry in acquiring current technology and establishing partnerships

for future. Technology seminar presented for app. 200 PB employee

audiences.

. Established Logistics Procurement department for North America

Procurement.

. Management of the equipment and services procurement for warehouse

setup.

. Negotiated new original and lease renewals for the warehouses

. Lead the strategic sourcing project team for 3PL logistics outsourcing

of warehousing and fulfillment operations with functional teams from

transportation and warehousing.

. Strategic Sourcing project to manage RFQ and negotiations of Air

shipments

Approx. $20MM with savings of $1.7MM and service level

improvement.

. Managed Strategic Sourcing project of the Global small package RFQ

process with team members from all regions of the world.

. Negotiated Global small package contract valued app. $12M with

projected savings of $1.5 M

. Management of the supplier base for Homeland Security C-TPAT (Customs

Trade Partners Against Terrorism) for expedited customs clearance of

imports resulting in reduced lead-times.

. Management of NAFTA, Harmonized Schedule, Customs entries with

transportation and customers.

Employment History

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

February 2014 - current (contract)

Strategic Procurement

Strategic Procurement, Design for Manufacturing, (DfMA)

. New Product development procurement,

. Prototype and pre production procurement to budget and schedule.

DRS Consolidated Controls

A Finmeccanica Company

February 2013 -November 2013

Manager, Supply Chain

Defense and Nuclear industry controls, Electronic and electromechanical

assemblies

Responsible for all spend app. US$ 40MM

. Managed Purchasing Department to the ITAR & EAR documentation and

requirements.

. Preparation and completion of purchasing audit Compliance to

DCAA/CPSR

. Sub-contractor supplier management to ITAR & FAR compliance.

. Bids & Proposals submission to DOD primary contractors.

. Supplier management to flow down requirements of DOD subcontract

requirements and NAVSEA procedures and quality.

. FAR, ITAR, product development, Supplier management

ITT Exelis-Power Solutions Supply Chain Management

December 2011 - December 2012

Sourcing and product development Procurement Management

$5B division of ITT, Defense contractors and manufacturers of Defense and

commercial machinery and equipment.

Area of primary activity - commercialization of products and new product

development and Sourcing. Vendor sourcing and relationship development and

management. New Product Development; ITAR and FAR related quoting.

Electronic and Electromechanical design and assemblies. Analytical

instrumentation.

LG Electronics-- Logistics Manager North American Procurement,

May 2010- Sept 2011

$12 Billion Consumer Electronics Manufacturer and distributor

Identify strategic cost innovation opportunities and lead cross-functional

business function teams to achieve optimal total cost of ownership for

approx. $800M general procurement spend across North America. Develop and

implement the use of a standard sourcing process and documentation. Assist

business function teams with supplier performance management. Develop and

manage strategic sourcing policies and procedures. Area of primary

emphasis $127M US logistics spend, along with additional category emphasis

on the total $250M annual logistics spend for North America.

Retained Global Advising 2008 -2010 - retained to provide advice and

counsel in the areas of supply chain and international business

development.

FujiFilm Medical Systems (contract) --- June 2008- Oct. 2008

Project work involving the procurement of digital storage and processing

systems and SAP transition. FDA regulated environment.

Pitney Bowes, Inc, Stamford, CT Global Commodity Manager, OEM and

Logistics

1986-2008

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) is a $5.7 billion global provider of

integrated mail and document management solutions. The company serves over

2 million businesses of all sizes in more than 130 countries through

dealers and direct operations.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION:

o Masters in International Management (MIM)

International Trade & Finance

American Graduate School of International Management,

"Thunderbird"

Glendale, Arizona

o M.B.A. Marketing and Management

University of Cincinnati, Ohio

o B.COM. (HONS) Accounting

University of Delhi, India

o Post Graduate Business Courses

University of Munich, Germany

o Post-graduate studies in the Ph.D. Program

Marketing and Distribution management

University of Cincinnati, Ohio (Academic Scholarship)

( Certified Purchasing Manager C.P.M. Since 1989

National Association of Purchasing Management/Institute of Supply

Management

Maintained certification through continuing education and training

( Yellow Belt- Lean Manufacturing

Awards:

PB One Standard Excellence Divisional Award 1991 and 1994

PBI Corporate, One Standard Excellence Award 1996 and 1999

Systems: have worked with SAP, AS400, Oracle-Man-Man, Microsoft Office

suite;.QAD

Regulatory environment worked: DOD, ITAR, EAR, Import/Export, FDA

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