Charles Carman

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Profile

Industrial supply chain management expert with focus in transportation, energy, and heavy manufacturing. Specialization in industrial construction projects and information technology. Proven record of cost reduction and minimizing contractual risk through shared expectations. Tennessee contractor’s license.

Expertise

Supply Chain Unlocks the value of supply chain relationships with clarity and purpose.

Negotiation Creates enduring agreements by fusing mutual interests.

Sourcing Utility and infrastructure procurement to meet NERC, Federal, State requirements.

Planning Perspective to key issues, prepared to adapt and respond to change.

Career Highlights

Denso Automotive - Athens, TN - October 2014 - Present

Team Leader - Production Purchasing

Worked in a team to transition a localized purchasing function to an enterprise supply chain strategy. Improved material cost for existing products to create initial profitability.

●Aligned purchasing talent to bring team into competitive standing and improve morale.

●Created a data warehouse to identify savings opportunities, predict supply challenges, and identify errors, leading to an additional 0.4% savings in total spend.

●Redesigned the divisional supplier scoring system to increase coverage from 62% to 100% of suppliers. creating better internal transparency of supplier performance while reducing effort in creating reports.

●Created cost table to compare unit cost detail of 291 part numbers, comprising 31% of total spending and used this information to open negotiation and achieve cost reductions.

●Trained buyers to use NPV methods to consider foreign exchange, cost of capital, investment, and material cost when evaluating bids.

ATN Hoezel - Chattanooga, TN - July 2014 - October 2014

General Manager

Hired to improve financial performance, stabilize operations, provide daily operational oversight and develop growth strategy for distressed U.S. subsidiary of East German adhesive robotics integrator.

●Apologized to all existing customers for failure to complete projects.

●Required safety glasses to be worn by technicians to avoid additional workman compensation claims.

●Introduced Kaizen to improve accountability in safety, hygiene, and field service readiness.

●Studied for and passed the business and law exam for Tennessee licensed contractors

●Begged the State of Tennessee to accept less than fully audited financial records to gain a contractor’s license needed to legally bid on projects within the state.

●Developed new business opportunities via previously untried methods known as advertising and cold calling. Acquired three quotable opportunities in the first 7 weeks of employment.

●Conducted all business with headquarters in the German language to manage financial issues, sales strategy, customer concerns, and employee matters.

Volkswagen Group of America - Chattanooga, TN - August 2008 -March 2013

Sr. Buyer - Electrical Utility, Construction, and Assembly Systems

Negotiated electrical utilities and substations, over a square mile of buildings, civil work, landscaping, flexible assembly lines, and automation. Double digit percentage savings achieved while maintaining an aggressive schedule and budget.

●Created first terms and conditions for construction where none had previously existed.

●Negotiated single largest non-production contract issued by VW Chattanooga Operations to date.

●Negotiated $330 million in contracts to complete the world's first LEED platinum certified automobile plant, with a total spend of one billion US dollars. Renegotiated electrical energy contract for a 2nd time to generate an additional $9.2 million in savings in the first three years of plant operation. Negotiated a waiver of utility deposits resulting in the preservation of $1.8 million in working capital.

Smart Tool LLC - Lake Orion, MI - June 2000-August 2008

Founder and Principal

Founded industrial tool distributorship serving large companies in automotive, construction, medical equipment, and defense industries. Total operational responsibility.

●Integrated suppliers of industrial hardware and software products to create unique assembly solutions for industrial manufacturers.

●Applied consultative sales techniques to generate value for customers, improve quality, and increase worker productivity.

●Managed Sales, Purchasing, Payroll, while generating a profit withing the first 12 months of operation.

General Motors / Delphi Automotive – Metro Detroit - June 1995-June 2000

Purchasing Manager

●Responsible for $400 Million in electronics purchased by 8 buyers at 3 locations.

●Achieved 3% annual reductions in material cost overall, and an additional reduction of $13 million on a 4 year contract.

●Used international business skills to broaden supply chain into low cost countries and improve commitment to minority suppliers.

Senior Buyer

●Negotiated and managed $1 billion in annual global contracts for all North American passenger, commercial and military light trucks exhaust systems. met quality and cost reduction targets.

●Identified trends in supplier activity to protect GM competitiveness.

●Developed database system to track and identify engineers, suppliers and platforms that needed support to offset material cost increases.

●Managed troubled suppliers at the direction of the executive director of Delphi Global Purchasing.

Production Supervisor

●Executive development position to supervise 32 UAW employees in a fast pace production environment.

●Resolved conflicts with and between personnel. Insured steady flow of parts to production areas.

●Resolved schedule and transportation issues before they impacted the production schedule.

General Motors Europe - Russelsheim, Germany

Paid Graduate Internship - Marketing

●Assisted the development of European brand strategy for North American products.

●Developed Corvette Brand analysis for 20 European Countries.

Tool House, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI

Sales Engineer

●Recommended systems and provided training to reduce variation in bolted joints in the areas of design, testing and installation.

●Applied Six Sigma methods based on the work Shewhart, Deming, Juran, Crosby, Ishikawa, Taguchi at both manufacturing and management levels.

Education

Masters in International Business Studies (MIBS) University of South Carolina

Focus on international business, German language and politics, Elective work in the areas of Marketing, Quality Management, Statistics, Finance, Information Technology. Achieved foreign language fluency through the successful completion of a 6 month international assignment.

Bachelor in Business Administration University of Iowa

Earned B.B.A. Marketing while working 20hrs per week in University of Iowa Computing Center and conducting marketing research studies on the behalf of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Emphasis in Marketing, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, and Humanities.

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