Supply Chain Manager
Resume:
WILLIAM W. BYRNES
Binghamton, New York
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MBA with over twenty-five years of experience. Have worked in diverse, global industries and across functional areas. Critical thinker with a proven track record of developing strategic and innovative solutions to optimize sales productivity and profitability. Management style that invests in human capital and inspires an organizational culture of collaboration and success. Expertise includes:
Retail Management
Financial Modeling
Procurement
Customer Sales
Human Resource Efficiency
Business Process Value Analysis
SIGNIFICANT CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
-Developed and executed outsourcing strategy for $250million business division across three continents.
Achieved cost reduction of over 10% and sustained 8% on going savings over three years.
-Implemented supply chain strategy over seven manufacturing facilities in an acquisition achieving a 25%
reduction in material assets in the first year while meeting all customer product commitments.
-Created and implemented pricing process for organization that became the corporate standard for
all accounts.
-Restructured and rebuilt Wine and Spirit business with $2 million in sales
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PARKWAY WINE & SPIRITS Vestal, New York Oct 2013 - Present
General Manager:
Responsible for all operations including Finance, Operations, Procurement and Sales. Took over a failing business with large debts. Implemented strategic business plan, financial controls and business processes.
Major accomplishments.
o.Financial reforms that stopped C.O.D. and secured financial footing
o.Restructured debt and elements of fixed expense
o.Reduced inventory by over $350k or 50%.
o. Returned business to profitability with sustainable margins.
EPIC Technologies Englewood, CO. July 2009– Oct 2013
Commodity Manager, Supply Chain:
Corporate Supply Chain in support of revenue of $300million. Responsible for the development and execution of make to print supply chain strategy in support of all Customers.
Major responsibilities:
p.Source selection and price commitment for components to be used in our three manufacturing locations.
p.Operational management of contracts, supplier performance, inventory, and quality.
p.Closed over $1.5 million in financial material margin in 2010 & 2011.
o. Customer support of Value analysis and Value engineering projects.
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FLEXTRONICS CORPORATION Broomfield, CO. Oct 2000 – Mar 2009
Senior Material Manager, Supply Chain:
Corporate Customer Account position in support of revenue of over $1 billion. Responsible for the development and execution of supply chain strategies in support of two large telecommunications customers.
Major responsibilities:
o.Operational management of contract terms and conditions. Collaborate with manufacturing to understand and implement requirements. Create pricing process with customer as well as negotiate sales price each quarter.
o.Set Inventory targets for all sites worldwide to meet the asset turns required in the price model as well as create the procurement practices and policies to achieve targets.
o.Analyze results monthly, review with Vice President. Implement corrective actions where necessary. Negotiated with Customer all financial claims, protests and disputes. Obtain agreement and closure on each.
Major accomplishments:
q.Improved Profit margin by 2% points focused on input cost and negotiated pricing over the past two years.
q.Improved inventory turns from 4 to 8 over the same period with strategies such as supply localization, lead time reduction and excess asset sales.
o.Closed over $4 million in financial claims avoiding serious impact to account and company while being named best in class supplier in Customer scorecard.
IBM CORPORATION Charlotte, NC May 1982–Oct 2000
Business Unit Manager
Business Unit position with $525 million in revenue and operations in the US, Spain and Taiwan. Manage staff of 14 in the daily oversight of outsourced production for a product portfolio.
Major accomplishments:
o.Operational leadership in planning and directing the work of subcontracted manufacturing. Contract negotiation, contract management, set pricing and administered award including final delivery and payment.
o.Successfully passed business process corporate audits of processes for delivery, cost and asset control.
o.Mentored, developed and promoted employees to roles of greater responsibility outside organization.
Corporate Sourcing Manager
Corporate position that reported to the Global Procurement Executive. Global Procurement utilized a centralized organizational structure set up by commodity. Responsible for developing and implementation of global strategy used by Procurement at all IBM manufacturing sites worldwide. Managed staff of 5 engineers and analysts.
Major accomplishments:
o.Developed procurement plan and most effective methods of acquisition including on going cost reduction.
o.Authored strategy white paper, created measurement methods and obtained Corporate and site acceptance.
o.Negotiated all contracts with core supply base focusing on terms and conditions of supply chain.
o.Rated in top three commodity performance for a period of three years, receiving CPO award recognition.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo
Attended: United States Naval Academy for two years
AUTHORSHIP:
Strategy paper for Flextronics outlining asset sales
White paper for IBM on Point of Sale outsourcing strategy
White paper for IBM on Commodity Strategy
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
Project Management
Lean Manufacturing
Six Sigma quality
On-going Management development courses
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