Supply Chain Business Analyst

RONALD SOHN

Arlington Heights, Illinois ***** 847-***-**** ******.****@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldsohn

SUMMARY

A dedicated and highly skilled Business Analyst / Project Manager with demonstrated expertise in supply chain, global procurement and sourcing, quality assurance, risk management, project management, training, mentoring, testing, and strategic planning. Comprehensive experience in delivering solutions and improving the supply chain to optimize operations. Leverages excellent leadership skills to manage global testing teams / engineers in all phases of product development leading to the delivery of on-time, successful products to reduce costs. Utilizes vast background, knowledge, and professional skill set to contribute to significant increases in revenue and business growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite MS Project Visio MS PowerPoint Oracle (OBI, OAC, ERP, PLM Agile, PCM-Agile) JIRA SPRINTS Change Management Business Process UAT/SIT (Testing) NPI/NPD Resilinc Resiliency DMAIC Continuous Improvement Smartsheet SDLC Methodology AGILE & Waterfall Methodology Engineering Change Order (ECO) Manufacturing Change Order (MCO) Testing Use Cases

EXPERIENCE

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Senior Business Analyst, Global Procurement, 2019-2024

Onboarded third-party supply chain partner for resiliency, managing efforts with internal and external stakeholders. Collaborated to improve supplier dashboards, thereby enticing new customers to onboard supplier. Established weekly meetings and collaborated with vendor; reviewing requirements, challenges and positive outcomes.

Oversaw cross-organizational relationships between company and manufacturing partners, focused around incremental and quarterly pricing.

Led discussions to ensure understanding and alignment to project timelines, objectives and tasks.

Collaborated closely with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, informational needs and data sources.

Participated in Score-card reviews providing analysis of planned progress with supplier.

Translated and documented business requirements to technical requirements to achieve business objectives and work with support from ERP Analyst & Development team.

Trained team on usage and expectations, resulting in proactive responses to supply chain issues.

Developed, maintained, and adhered to change management process working closely with IT team and ERP stakeholders / cross-functional leads.

Maintained integrity of cost analytics reporting system to proactively analyze and ensure data was clean to improve spend / savings financial results to allow clear picture for management.

Managed and Accountable for proper functioning of the applications and system enhancements and carried out necessary upgrades (User Acceptance Test/System Integration Test)

Collaborated with subject matter experts and peers to develop data stewardship and governance best practices.

Worked with Suppliers and Internal Legal department, establishing 2- and 3-way NDAs

Customized detailed analytical reports in Excel to provide high-level summary to directors.

Measured KPIs for category managers to determine areas of improvement or process changes.

Co-led yellow belt, improving efficiency, reducing pricing issues found through gap analysis by 40%, saving $20K / year.

Extracted, analyzed and presented pricing trends from suppliers to recommend possible renegotiation of pricing or thoughts on transfer of commodity to new or another incumbent supplier.

Presented risks where single source of materials exists in arena of custom design vs “off-the-shelf” product

Drove cross-functional process improvements surrounding PLM workflows, requiring cross-organizational teams compliance teams and category owners to review/approve changes - reducing gaps in component implementation

Tracked Spend analytics of categories to denote up/down trend in spend. Provided guidance of planned demand to category owner allowing for better negotiation in future quarters

Worked with new product team, loading initial production pricing allowing outsourcers to plan future ordering.

Mentored and trained new hires, improving efficiency by ramping up skill sets needed.

Create and Process Engineering and Manufacturing Change Orders

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Business Analyst-Global Sourcing, 2008-2019

Led project, resulting in more than $1M in cost savings through supplier consolidation and offshoring production line.

Coordinated qualification and transfer of hardware being outsourced to Asia.

Supervised 10 commodity managers in coordinating with third-party manufacturers of printer parts and products.

Streamlined and standardized project tracking reports into centralized program enabling rapid analysis.

Created reports for presentations to executive staff.

Performed ERP sourcing administration.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

MOTOROLA INC., Arlington Heights, Illinois, Project Manager-Quality Assurance, 2003-2008. Saved $50K to build out test lab by locating existing hardware and modifying it to meet new needs. Steered all phases of new feature development from staffing / cost estimates and material procurement to delivery of end product. Guided engineering and test teams to ensure on-time project completion and product delivery. Directed 15 engineers globally to coordinate development process, including requirements lockdown, software development, and testing of final product. Prevented $40K in additional costs by proposing and executing new method for prioritizing project software fixes, which released engineers from retest process.

MOTOROLA INC., Arlington Heights, Illinois, Engineering Section Manager-Testing, 2002-2003. Coordinated risk management of new feature development process by reorganizing project development teams to ensure rapid resolution of timing setbacks. Managed goal setting and performance reviews for five direct reporting engineers. Led team of eight internationally located engineers in developing special product features mandated by local governments. Proposed alternatives for addressing problems to track progress of projects via specialized software tools.

MOTOROLA INC., Arlington Heights, Illinois, Engineering Section Manager-Advanced Technology, 2000-2002. Coordinated engineers and two global vendors in joint partnerships to ensure on-time completion of projects. Oversaw four in-house testing engineers. Directed engineering team in creation of two new labs for product trials, including IT, electrical needs, and integration of Motorola, SUN, and Cisco equipment.

EDUCATION

DeVry University, Chicago, Illinois

B.S., Electronic Engineering Technology

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certified, 2023

Microsoft Project I and II Certificate, 2008

Master’s Certificate in Project Management, 2007

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PMP Bootcamp, MicroTrain Technologies, 2008

ITIL Foundation Certification, MicroTrain Technologies, 2008

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