Strategic Sourcing Manager

THOMAS M. KUTZER Retired

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Plains, Pa. 18705

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SUMMARY

A leader with significant contributions in Strategic Sourcing and Supply Management, using Global experience in areas such as: (Europe, Mexico, Asia & South America) looking at potential new sources of supply for current and new components along with items under development. Dealing with thousands of SKU’s in my career.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Drager Medical, Inc. Telford, Pa. 18969 RETIRED March 2019 to January 2024

Senior Purchasing- Sourcing Manager

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Searched and developed new source of supply for the OEM products produced in the Telford, Pa. location, which are High Performance Incubators, Jaundice Screening machines and Patient Monitoring Systems

Worked with current supply base to drive cost down and speed new product development to the market place.

Strong Asian sourcing experience in injection molding, electrical assemblies, electro-mechanical assemblies and mechanical assemblies.

Responsible for international purchasing team, training, developing and directing the daily efforts to meet the corporate business objectives.

Negotiated raw material and transportation contracts where they realized 10 to 15% savings annually

Responsible for all Request For Quotation (RFQ) on new purchases for raw materials, services and inventory

items for the manufacturing process.

Accomplishments:

Reduced cost of injection molded plastics in Incubators by 4% for the 2016 year..

Developed stronger partnerships with our existing Asian suppliers through better communications and incentive programs for on-time delivery and quality performance

Worked with sub contractors in setting up off site manufacturing operation to help with the work load.

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 May 2012 to Msrch 2019 Senior Purchasing & Planning

Responsibilities include planning the purchasing of certain commodity requirements for the LNG & FLNG

Exchangers being manufactured at the Wilkes Bare, Pa. facility.

Planning the purchasing and scheduled deliveries for the thin wall alum tubing that is wound on the bundles inside the exchangers. Some of these exchangers require over 7,000 miles of this tubing. Planning is critical due to space availability and other constraints.

Reviewing and preparing the purchase requirements for the welded aluminum & stainless steel pipe, this requires determining the thickness, (.50 inch up to 3.0 inch) length of various pipes, amount required and the delivery requirements.

Purchase the necessary aluminum & stainless steel elbow & fitting that are required by exchanger per the MRP and the BOM.

Process all external orders & sub contract orders that require machining, beveling & welding, along with other processes. These types of orders require many steps to fulfill the needs. Examples: determining if the plate stock is available in house or does it have to be purchased from the preferred/approved supplier. In both cases

arrangements to ship the plate to the supplier is needed and the purchase order is placed and followed up based on

the delivery dates needed.

Managed demand and planned the purchase of all specialty hardware and the fasteners for the various gas exchangers.

Weekly schedules were updated for the addition and completed of work orders.

Handled all contracts for the commodities that I sourced and developed.

Responsible for all Request For Quotation (RFQ) on new purchases for raw materials, services and inventory

items for the manufacturing process

Met-Pro Corporation, Telford, Pa. February 2011 to April 2012

Purchasing Manager

Responsible for purchasing operations for a global pump manufacturing company which included Fybroc/Sethco, (Fiberglass Pumps) & Dean Pump (Ductile Iron, Steel, Aluminum & Brass Casting Pumps) in Indianapolis, IN.

Conducted daily production meetings with assembly supervision to set production schedules based on requested delivery dates from customer orders (open order report) and available components.

Purchasing responsibilities included sourcing new suppliers for castings, seals, machined shafts, motors, and fabrications.

Cost reduction programs included sourcing in China for motors, casting, machined shafts and fabrications for the pump assemblies.

Cost savings averaged between 25% and 30% of current cost.

Responsible for all Request For Quotation (RFQ) on new purchases for raw materials, services and inventory items for the manufacturing process

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager – Construction February 2010 to December 2010

Gamesa Wind

Langhorne, Pa. 19030

My responsibilities for the construction team were management for the construction sites from the beginning of construction thru commissioning.

Site set up for new Wind Farm construction, working with various agencies to obtain permits, licenses and other approvals to begin construction.

Preparing agreements and contracts for trailers to be used for temporary offices, office furniture, equipment to support construction either minor or major items.

Setting up the electrical requirements, telephone services for communication and internet service.

Sourcing temporary regional services from Porta Potty requirements to extra labor requirements such as electricians, laborers and professional personnel.

Also worked with suppliers for added equipment during and after installation, i.e. elevators for the towers, heavy duty hoists for service requirements and ladders.

Special projects included managing the fleet vehicle program that consisted of both management and wind farm vehicles.

Set up a national program for flame retardant clothing for all employees working in the nacelles that would be working with high voltage. This was a major cost saving from the company purchasing these flame retardant clothing to have a lease program that delivered clean uniforms bi-weekly and picked up the soiled uniforms for cleaning.

Worked closely with logistics to set up transportation needs to and from vendors and wind farm sites.

Sourcing all cranes required for construction in the US for the Wind Farm construction.

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager February 2004 to January 2010

Gamesa Wind

Fairless Hills, Pa. 19030

As a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager at Gamesa my responsibilities encompass the following areas:

Gear box management and controls, developed and initiated cost reduction measures and implemented these suggestions to achieve quarterly cost reductions.

Hydraulics for Nacelles & Hub Assemblies.

Mechanical Commodity including Castings, Forgings, Machining and Metal Fabrications for Nacelles & Hub Assembly.

Worked very closely with the Global Management team in Spain to source more products in Asia, Brazil and Mexico and North America.

Key member of the regional CSM Team working with Engineering and SQE, to identify additional items to nationalize and homologate locally.

. Formalized all contracts that fell under my responsibility ie: Forgings, Machinings, and Metal fabrications.

Gamesa Accomplishments:

Developed new source of supply for Machined Forging and Ductile Castings in Asia and Brazil from source identification to homologation completion.

Implemented consignment of major commodities, i.e. Machined Castings from Asia, Machined Main Shafts, and Gear boxes from Europe.

Within the last 2 years managed to localize 20% annually and reduce cost an average of 8 -10% on major commodities.

Developed a new US supplier of crane hoist for the Nacelles that were UL approved instead of importing this item from Europe that was not UL approved.

Negotiated transportation contracts where necessary that realized 10 to 15% savings annually

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc., Willow Grove, PA September 1996 to October 2003

Key Supplier Manager

Responsible for managing, controlling, organizing and monitoring all activities pertaining to the identification, solicitation, award and administration of cutting edge suppliers for new generation of machinery for the world's largest wire and ball bonding machinery manufacturer.

Specific functions included integrating and interfacing with business systems such as engineering, Material planning and continuous improvement initiatives.

Additional responsibilities included developing competitive sources of supply, interpreting supplier responses and negotiating contracts, changes and deviations. Controlling inventories through Kanban and Just - in - Time deliveries, executive presentations of supplier's performance and general development and administration of OEM contracts.

Accomplishments:

Developed and nurtured partnerships with suppliers in Singapore for key sub assemblies prior to moving the complete integration of machines from Willow Grove to Singapore.

Negotiated yearly contracts for pure beryllium worldwide for consumption in the investment casting of linear motion table components, also negotiated cost for investment casting these highly engineered parts.

Additional commodities that were negotiated were injection molded components along with respective resins that were formulated specifically for these applications, sheet metal, metal assemblies, cable assemblies and circuit board assemblies.

Became very knowledge of the legal aspects of contracts and terms and conditions.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Minor Marketing

King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Memberships:

American Production and Inventory Control Society of America

American Management Association

Knowledgeable & experienced in the following ERP Systems:

Baan

SAP

Oracle

Ariba

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