Marketing Supply Chain
Resume:
Rajeshri Shah
Pleasanton CA ****
Mobile 408-***-****
**********@*****.***
Career Objective Seeking a senior level operations/commodity position where I can utilize my extensive skills & experience in planning, supplier development, strategic outsourcing, component procurement, and project management.
Education San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Courses included: financial management, accounting, marketing analysis and strategy, economics.
Qualifications
Apics Certified - 2015, CPIM Certified 2018
Project management experience achieved schedule conformance, milestones, cost targets, and manufacturing (both in house and contract manufacturing partner) readiness.
Strong background with strategic sourcing, helps provide recommendations to commodity teams.
Lead all supplier sourcing/selection activities and successfully managing the supplier partnership at a senior level.
Implemented procurement and inventory strategies, policies, procedures, and systems.
Responsible for cost negotiations and final resolution of contracts
Successfully interacted with cross-functional Engineering partners to ensure that supply base partners meet technical requirements and specifications.
Responsible for ensuring the suppliers executed and deliverd from new product introduction to high volume manufacturing and drove end of life management to eliminate excess and obsolescence.
Excellent presentation skills (held monthly cost reviews for upper management and directors)
Proficient with Smartsheet, Agile, Super-user Excel, Powerpoint
Cisco Systems
Senior Supply Chain Program Manager
8/2006 to present
Collaborate with the NPI hardware suppliers/CM to provide the necessary documentation for each build level. Collaborated with CM about critical ECN changes associated with the build schedule to minimize risk of potential obsolete items during development phase.
Identified lead-times of components & confirmed long lead-time items are correctly pipelined at the CM. Collaborated with the NPI team on material availability to align with CM build schedules and customer requirements. Work with CM/Internal partners for recommendations in setting up ROP and Safety Stock at CM to support customer requirements.
Managed supplier’s performance through review of Quarterly and Monthly review against key metrics, to ensure 100% compliance to Cisco’s SLA. Brought up ODM suppliers to best support the NPI builds stages aligned with engineering designes.
Responsible for the prototype Contract Manufacturer to communicate product change schedules and build level expectations. Maintains detailed delivery schedules for all early program phases. (ProtoPlanner)
Evaluate the vendor reliability and help develop new supply sources as needed to meet business unit requirements.
Manage in-bound supply chain relationships and operational execution of supplier deliverables, concentration with production manufacturing partners & sustaining product.
Provide high level leadership in development process to achieve cost and effective strong supply chain
Manage NPI projects including forecast, control project budget, plan project schedule and program tracking to reach the required targets and dates. Supervise production to ensure prototypes are on time and yield is on target.
Initiative and positive personality
Analyze product sales daily reports, Identify opportunities and drive partner groups to appropriate action.
Coordinate closely with internal product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements. Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.
Asyst Technologies
NPI Senior Commodity
Specialist
10/03 to 8/06
Supported the development and implementation of the Supplier Performance Management program.
Assisted in the creating, reporting and analysis of various data for a subset of assigned suppliers along with playing a key role in completing more complex, monitored the progress of multiple project efforts, intervening when appropriate to ensure success.
Assess issues and assisted in developing strategy to meet goals and objectives while demonstrating Supply Chain core values.
Developed and maintained knowledge of assigned supplier relationships.
Worked closely with other team members to prepare analysis and evaluate findings.
Responsible as a liaison within business units.
Actively participated in development of the supply chain strategies and the supplier performance management
Senior Buyer/Planner Procket Networks, Milpitas
08/01-4/02
NPI Business Planner Cisco Systemss, Milpitas
02/00 to 6/2001
Major Account Planner
04/98 to 2/2000 Infineon Technologies, San Jose-Datcom/Microcontrollers
Business Planner Siemens Microelectronics, San Jose – Microcontrollers/Networking
1/97 to 4/98
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Financial Marketing
Procurement Specialist
Buyer/Planner
06/90 to 12/96 Applied Materials, Santa Clara-PVD Division.
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