Supply Chain Management

Paramjit “Singh” Grewal

Cellular: 408-***-****

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OVERVIEW

• Highly Versatile Executive with experience managing both Materials and Operations.

• Well –rounded, hands-on, data-driven leader with ability to manage and develop staff.

• Strong Supplier relationship and contract negotiation skills both local and offshore

• Successfully lead global outsourcing projects to achieve low Cost with improved Quality.

• Successfully conducted business offshore (Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan & Europe) facilities/Suppliers. To assure short-term and long-term needs are met to achieve company yearly goals &objectives.

• Responsible for ushering in strategic initiatives including direct cost reduction, continuous improvement programs – including lean Six Sigma, Staff development and succession planning.

• Highly effective at fostering collaboration and cooperation cross-functionally to achieve enterprise-wide strategic and financial objectives. (Engineering, Sales. Marketing and Manufacturing).

• Excellent track record of on time delivery to the Customer base.

• Proven track record of meeting company revenue targets.

• Consistently exceeded aggressive inventory control targets, which directly increased profitability.

• Track record of managing new product introductions to volume production.

Experience / Accomplishment

Abbott Labs (Medical industry $44B in Revenue) 2009 to Present

Director Materials Management

Responsible for Material Management: including Planning, Production control, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, Commodity Management, Supplier quality engineering group and Warehousing

Responsible for outsourcing projects in following countries: Malaysia, China and Singapore

• Negotiated contracts to Reduce direct Material Cost by 10% per year for three years including freight cost and Duty

• Reorganized the Purchasing/Planning group to increase productivity.

• Shrunk Supply Chain from 22 suppliers to 2 tier one suppliers on the Cataract product line, pushed 70% of the BOM cost upward to the supply chain.

• Set-up Vendor managed inventory to reduce lead time and inventory to support the DFT line.

• Implemented performance metrics for the materials group.

• Reduced Gross inventory by 20M in 12 months.

• Implemented a MRB process to reduce waste from 5M to 200k within the first 12 months

Aviza Technology, Scotts valley, Ca 2004 to 2008

V.P Global Materials Management

Responsible for worldwide Material Management: including Planning, Production control, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, Commodity Management, Supplier quality engineering group, inventory control, Warehousing, Shipping and Receiving for both UK and US sites. Responsible for all global sourcing and outsourcing projects in following countries: Malaysia, China, UK and US.

• Reduced direct Material Cost by 20% per year.

• Reorganized the Purchasing/Planning group to increase productivity.

• Shrink Supply Chain to improve Cost, Quality and OTD.

• Implemented performance metrics for the materials group.

• Managed activities of 80 personnel in Material Department.

• Lead the out sourcing team to build sub assemblies in Malaysia to reduce overall product cost. This improved the product margins from negative 5% to positive 30%.

• Improved on Time Delivery from 60% to 95% in first 3 months at Aviza.

Alvesta Corp (Start-up in Fiber Optics), Sunnyvale, Ca 2001 to 2003

Director of Materials

Responsible for worldwide Material Management: including Planning, Production control, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, inventory control, Warehousing, Shipping and Receiving.

• Reduced direct Material BOM Cost from $150 down to 95 dollars in 6 Months.

• Implemented process and procedures for the materials dept to be ISO 9000 ready.

• Helped implement the MRP system (Expandable).

• Interfaced with Manufacturing Operations, Marketing/Sales, and Quality Assurance.

• Qualified Asian Suppliers for high Volume manufacturing with partnership environment.

• Negotiated High / Low Volume contracts.

• Set-up high level reporting systems.

Novellus Systems, San Jose, Ca 1999 to 2001

Director of Materials

Responsible for worldwide Material Management, including Planning, Production control, Master Scheduling, Purchasing, inventory control, Warehousing, Shipping and Receiving, Production control and Customer Service operations.

• Reduced direct Material Cost on average of 15% per year.

• Managed activities of 50 personnel in Material Department.

• Interfaced with Manufacturing Operations, Marketing/Sales, and Quality Assurance.

• Qualified vendors updated contracts and built partnership environment.

• Improved On Time Delivery for the spares department from 50% to 95% within 6 months

Iomega Corporation, Milpitas, California 1997 to 1999

New Product Materials Manager

Responsible for directing the planning and transfer of new products, including new product builds and process experiments for new technologies. The span of control was from initial design phase to volume production.

• Negotiated a $1M reduction in tooling cost for a new product introduction.

• Managed staff of eight in Materials department (Purchasing, Warehouse, Production Control and MPS).

• Interfaced with Design Engineering/Suppliers and offshore Material Management.

• Created and implemented reporting systems to improve companywide material flow.

• Successfully transferred products to volume manufacturing sites in Malaysia.

Solectron Corporation, Fremont, California 1995 to 1997

Senior Procurement Manager

Managed $500M in annual Procurement for both Turnkey/Consigned Materials in a fast growth contract manufacturing industries.

• Major interface with customer/suppliers on quality/delivery and financial issues.

• Managed activities of 170 personnel in materials department (Purchasing, Warehouse, Document Control, and Master scheduling), including hiring, training and developing employees.

• Created and implemented purchasing/planning procedures.

• Managed inventory turns to meet or exceed company targets.

• Set up measurements to evaluate both department/employee performances.

Read-Rite Corporation, California (Purchasing Manager) 1985 to 1995

EDUCATION

College: Bachelor in Pre-med,

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