Head of Procurement and Supply Chain
Halliburton Manufacturing & Technology
Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months
A multinational corporation and currently one of the world's largest oilfield services companies with operations in more than 80 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs over 100, 000 people. Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical products and services for petroleum and natural gas exploration and production.
Head of Procurement & Supply Chain
Manage a team of 18 procurement professionals and accountable for supply chain and procurement plans to support manufacturing’s, field operation’s and project management’s strategic plans.
• Accountable for sourcing and negotiating plans to support manufacturing and operations strategic plans; established cost evaluation program and synchronized raw material sourcing process.
• To strategize vendor allocation and capacity for supporting Malaysia plant business growth in 2014 (25% growth rate).
• Implementing Vendor Supply Management onto farm-out vendors in order to shorten supply chain lead time and to reduce production cost.
• To conduct quarterly department training and audit to maintain procurement team’s competency and process compliance.
The world's number one vacuum cleaner manufacturer in the UK, US, Tokyo, Western Europe and Australasia. A company known for an outstanding commitment to developing revolutionary solutions to every-day problems & their revolutionary bagless vacuum cleaner has, over the last fourteen years, taken the worldwide market by storm and allowed them to become the most successful manufacturer in the field. Dyson’s products are the result of years of innovation and perseverance in design & achieved MYR 2 billion sales in year 2010.
Head of Strategic Supply Chain and Procurement Group
Responsible for whole procurement group in Far East. Successfully setup up a strategic procurement team with 12 people, and achieved excellent group cost down GBP 4.8 millions in year 2010, GBP 8 millions in 2013.
• Established cost improvement teams and conducted cross-functional meetings across departments; evaluated cost of materials, standardized product designs and consolidated vendors’ manufacturing processes.
• Drove group towards achieving stretched target savings. (Highest cost down amount among the regions)
• Reviewed and re-organized supply chain structure, succession and rotational planning.
• Localized 85% of material vendors to South East Asia
A Multi National Company that provides the broadest worldwide EMS capabilities, from design resources to end-to-end vertically integrated global supply chain services. Flextronics designs, builds and ships complete packaged products for its OEM customers and provides after-market and field services to support customer end-to-end supply chain requirements. Operating in 30 countries, Flextronics’ pro forma fiscal year revenue exceeds US$33.6 billion across seven well-diversified customer market segments and six major business units.
Regional Commodity Manager, Global Procurement (Regional Coverage : South East Asia)
Responsible for managing the procurement of materials, equipments and services for all the plants in South East Asia.
Successfully setup China & India’s procurement departments in the plants in Dongguan, China in 2006 and Bangalore, India in 2007 and monitored progress of newly setup departments. The two new departments were under my close supervisions during the pilot and moved into steady state operation in 6 months and handed over to regional heads.
• Developed sourcing strategies across plants in the region
• Audited procurement process in plants across the region - Thailand, China & India
• Provided early assessment of procurement capability for new product introduction
• Initiated and successfully implemented reversed engineering study and bidding process
• Identified sourcing opportunities outside of just contract expirations to realize cost reductions
A Multi National Company with Paid-In Capital of US$1, 758, 200 thousand
Senior Purchasing Specialist, Team Leader
Responsible for material purchasing for all production lines covering vast of electronic products.
• Achieved quarterly cost down target for 3 years consecutively
• Successfully transferred CRT monitor product line from Malaysia to China, with ZERO excess inventory and provided materials support to China production line over Malaysia
• Awarded Storage Business by Eminent Raw Material Cost Reduction award
• Promoted to Senior Specialist Team Leader to lead a team of 3 specialists