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Supply Chain Specialist Ii

Location:
Austin, TX, 78701
Salary:
85000
Posted:
June 17, 2025

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Osie E. Martin, Jr.

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EDUCATION

B.A., Business Administration, Minor Marketing, Huston-Tillotson College 1989-1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ultra Clean Technology 3/2022- Present

Quoting/Pricing Specialist II

Enforce the supply chain quoting requirement list with Account Operations and Sales

References and implements the Supply Chain Management preferred vendor list

When provided with Bills of Materials, drawings, specifications, and other customer documentation: collect competitive supplier costs supporting the customer assemblies. Supports sales and customer facing teams with the goal of winning new business for the company

Basic understanding of multilevel customer BOMs; identify drawing types and understands different fabrication techniques

Load the price and lead time into SAP

Obtain competitive component costs from supply base for the purpose of providing quotes and proposals to our customers

Organize Bills of Material, conduct searches in databases and analyze requirements

Initiate and maintain good working relationships with suppliers

Conduct the Kick-Off Call to review the quote data package and understand the scope of the project

Able to review and structure Make/Buy decision on complex multilevel customer BOMs

Work with engineers to update customer BOMs as designs change

Data analysis as required to support department metrics

Assists with Accounts management and coordinate deliverables

Assist Level IV Quote Specialists and Quote Manager with new product introduction (NPI) projects as needed

Escalates and resolves manufacturability issues with new products in accordance with NPI project schedules.

Drives investigation of product, component, and material issues or supply constraints and assists in troubleshooting.

Perform back-up duties for Quoting Manager when Manager is out of the office.

Works in compliance with established procedures and/or protocols. Identifies and resolves readily identifiable, clearly defined problems. Demonstrates skill in data analysis, techniques by resolving missing/incomplete information, inconsistencies/anomalies in routine research/data.

Provide job training for lower-level Quote Specialist positions.

Nature of work requires general supervision, exercises judgment. Will be paired with a mentor. Work typically involves regular process checks or review of output by a coworker and/or supervisor.

Initiate cost-reduction activities to improve company profitability.

World Wide Technology

Materials Planner II 5/2021-3/2022

Promotes the World Wide Technology Core Values and Corporate Goals

Supply Chain and Inventory management

Evaluate inventory domestically to ensure continuity of supply using customer forecast, historical usage and backlog.

Generates and prepares purchase orders to suppliers based on material requirements, availability, and pricing.

Manages inventory introduction and phase outs, minimizing cost of materials transition.

Identify and take mitigation actions for disposition of excess and obsolete materials

Delivers Operational Excellence through

Execution to KPI's designated for program and customer measurements

Initiates and develops continuous improvement initiatives in current and future business opportunities.

Executes to Weekly/ Monthly plan for inbound and outbound shipments to ensure customer expectations and timelines are met

Provides internal and external collaboration

Maintains ongoing collaborative relationship with the customer, program management, logistics and quality on local and global scale

Generates and communicates business metrics on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis to the management Team

Provides evaluation feedback on vendor performance in the areas of continuity of supply and service

Responsibilities of this job consist of managing resources, governance on inventory levels and customer escalations for the planning organization, including:

Individual Contributor - Analytics

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Senior Demand Planner 9/2010-10/2020

Lead Monthly consensus meetings for areas of responsibility.

Advise Sales, marketing and Business Units of problems and significant variances between existing forecast and actual usage.

Pass consensus forecast to Supply Planning through APO/DP.

Conduct continuous analysis of actual usage and develop sales trends as compared to forecast. Develop and fine tune statistical forecast models in APO/DP

Identify historical outliers using basic statistical methods.

Identify major forecasting issues for discussion and resolution with Supply Chain and Divisional management.

Participate in the monthly SOP’s meetings by presenting the forecast analytics for given area of responsibility.

Work with inventory Analyst on obsolescence reviews and act as point of contact for problem resolutions.

Maintain constant and proactive communication with Supply Planning counterparts which includes consistent notification of consensus meeting outputs and alerts of material forecast changes in a timely manner in order to minimize business risks.

Dell Austin, Texas

Project Manager Sr. Analyst 11/2007-2/2010

Facilitated and lead project extended global team meetings.

Ensured solid communication of project status and identified risk to Engineering Management.

Coordinated dependencies with WW development teams and created contingency schedules as required.

Interlocked and drove implementation of projects across Global Development Teams.

Reviewed program documents to ensure scope, schedule, and costs commitments are reasonable

and achievable. Participated in PrP reviews to ensure projects are on track.

Created and participated in the creation of a build plan that includes allocations, extended team deliverables, factory builds, and other materials requirements as applicable to assigned projects.

Ensured all ECRs and ECOs are submitted to support pilot and production schedules, conduct necessary ECO reviews, and track all ECOs to ensure cut-in per schedule.

Created and maintained BOMs, including required MODs, Kits, etc. Conducted and participated in BOM audits to ensure accuracy and structure effectiveness for all regions.

Dresser Wayne-Austin, Texas

Project Planner 12/2006-10/2007

Represented Purchasing and Planning in Engineering Project meetings.

Escalated any issues affecting the overall project timeline, and communicated these issues to Procurement if material planning is affected.

Identified and tracked the items being released and/or changed for each new project.

Reported project status for open projects to Director of Operations and Materials Manager in

weekly meeting.

Facilitated communication and coordination between Engineering, Marketing, Procurement, manufacturing and other departments as needed to help ensure successful new product introductions.

Facilitated the quote request for Engineering.

Facilitated in establishing and documenting a New Product Readiness Process.

Facilitated with ECO Process Improvements.

Evaluated and processed material transfers form various requesters.

Provided back-up workload coverage to Master Schedulers for dispensers Control POS systems.

Applied Materials Inc. Austin, Texas (Contractor) 3/2002-12/2006

Buyer/Planner

Maintained Oracle work order release schedule that provides material on time to manufacturing

and engineering. Rescheduled and /or completed no-charge, all discrete jobs.

Reviewed weekly MRP (Materials Resource Planning) execution and ensured accuracy of information, validated master scheduling requirements.

Worked with engineers to manage materials for special engineering projects.

Analyzed usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels.

Maintained inventory levels per plan and expedite shortages.

Participated in identifying root cause and corrective action from PCI reporting and metrics, or

in cycle counting. Performed Oracle transactions.

SPECIAL COMPUTER SKILLS

SAP, Oracle, Agile, I- Drive, Brio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word,,OS/2, Microsoft Power point, Sales Force

AFFILIATES/MEMBERSHIPS

Chapter President, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., 1992-1994

MCI Consumer Markets Sales Award



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