Head of Supply Chain Excellence
Luxottica
Total years of experience :30 years, 3 Months
Strength company’s business by defining, structuring and implementing the S&OP Process and improving Logistics result by finalizing with a 3PL company a SLA which lead to a cost saving of over 500k$.
• Successfully transfer Supply Chain process from China to Cambodia, including hiring and training new staff.
• Develop and roll out new procedures and processes and elaborate short and long term strategies to address the evolving nature of the marketplace.
• Improve the Service to Customer by fostering Master Planning Process activity in the Demand/Supply loop and introducing and deploy Risk Supply Chain method to enhance and stabilize the global value chain.
• Exceed company objectives in improve Inventory turns (from 3.2 to 4.5 in 7 months) and service level over 90% by re-defining the Safety Stock scheme (introduce the dynamic calculation) and improve data structure exchange with customers under VMI contract.
• Renegotiate contracts with 3PL and forwarders for best route and transshipment to lower duty & fee.
• Foster Sourcing Strategy, e-procurement & e-auction techniques and tool, organic supplier performance database, achieving more than 25% cost reduction on specific material.
• Develop risk assessment and scenario analysis and formulate contingency/mitigation strategies and tactics to create a resilient supply chain organization.
• Lead and mentor a multi-site reporting staff ( 5 direct reports and 21 total employers in the Dept.).
Dates 1 Aug 11 →
Occupation or position held Head of Supply Chain
Main activities and responsibilities
o Re-organization of the Supply Chain Group with focus on the Value perceived by the customer for a company of the Kudelski Group in Lausanne ( Switzerland), making interface module for audio/video broadcasting consumer apparatus;
o Third Party Manufacturing Management, Supplier negotiation and sourcing strategy ownership;
o Multi-location team management;
o Planning and Scheduling coordination, implementation of Master Plans to suppliers and definition of contracts in order to support the Budget and Strategic Plan;
o Logistic management: Import/export and forwarders;
o Inventory and stock management for material, Semifinished and Finished goods;
o Cost ownership for the outsourced services and material to be competitive and aligned to the cost model defined;
o Coordination with Sales for the Budgeting and Forecasting process;
o Oracle ERP Business Suite process modelling and coordination with Oracle consultants;
o The group consisted of 8 people in Switzerland and France and Singapore directly reporting to me.
Dates 1 Jun 08 - 31 Jul 11
Occupation or position held Head of Supply Chain
Main activities and responsibilities
o Developing from scratch the Function of Supply Chain in the Swiss Branch by deep utilization of lean - six sigma concept ( starting from the Voice of Customer downstream) for a company acquired by Heidenhain GmbH, an old-style-established multisite manufacturing company of electrical motor for high-precision industry market ( Medical and Semiconductor), with direct report to the CEO;
o Develop and manage the Business Planning, Forecasting Process and Master Plan and Resource Planning multisites;
o Manage the on-time material delivery at the point-of-use in the worldwide Logistic process and develop 3PL contracts and partnership;
o Contract Manufacturing Management and developing of the Strategic Sourcing function with a new team in Shanghai Branch by creating a "Partnership Approach" with Suppliers and Vendors;
o Establish the Supply Chain Engineering function, as a integrated part in the Supply Chain Dept., in both site of Switzerland and China in order to effective manage the technical challenges;
o Monitor the P&L, control and implement corrective actions in order to have the operational procurement model aligned with the market;
o Manage the Asset and Capital Investment Spending at Supplier;
o Develop ad-hoc KPI s to constant monitor the service level of the Supply chain Dept.
o Responsible for the skill development and coaching of 32 people in Switzerland, Shanghai and Netherlands.
Dates 1 May 05 - 30 Apr 08
Occupation or position held Operation Director
Main activities and responsibilities
o Responsible for the Supply Chain and International Sourcing & Purchasing in a fab-less semiconductor start-up company based in Lugano, Switzerland, reporting directly to the CFO;
o Contract Manufacturing ( 100% of the production is outsourced) and Third Party Logistic Management, with main focus in Far East;
o Manage the Inventory Planning and the on-time material delivery at the different step of the outsourced production ( Silicon suppliers to subcontractor of Assembly Operation and Testing);
o Master Planning & Resource control, import-export procedure, cost budgeting, reporting and analysis across the total value chain of all the economic indicators of performance of the company to top management and Board Directors (stock and inventory bookkeeping, semi-finished variance, break-even prospect, margin analysis, Working Capital control);
o Network in the microelectronics market at VP and directors level in both suppliers and vendors environment ( TSMC, SMIC, Amkor, ASE, Chartered, Fujitsu, )
o Project Manager for the implementation of SAP in the company;
o The group consisted of 9 people directly reporting to me in Switzerland.
Dates 1 Jan 03 - 30 Apr 05
Occupation or position held Supply Chain & Control Manager
Main activities and responsibilities
o Planning & Forecasting, Logistic and Operation responsibility worldwide for a start-up Division (the S-ram Memories Division) of ST-Microelectronics;
o Implementation of a Third Party Supplier strategy able to support the needs of the division ( to be noticed that for strategic internal decision at ST it was decided that the newborn division has to externalized all the manufacturing and not using internal resources) and Resources & Capacity definition responsible for all the division worldwide;
o Supplier negotiation and sourcing strategy ownership;
o Responsible for the cost enhancement program for the semi-finished parts in the pipe for the division ( 4-7% annual decrease overall);
o Counselling of the General Manager in the valuation of the new product resource strategy;
o Corporate task force member for the implementation and improvement of the I2 Rhythm ERP;
o The group consisted of 6 people (Globally in Milan and in Catania) directly reporting to me.
Dates 1 Nov 98 - 30 Dec 02
Occupation or position held Supply Chain & Operation Manager
Main activities and responsibilities
o Drive the Operation, Logistic and Planning responsibility for a Division (the Flash Memories Division) of ST-Microelectronics relatively to the Far East region with base in Singapore, with Division advocate role for Business Planning & Supply Chain decision;
o Identify and drive the Capex in the production facility in Asia ( in 2003 overall expenditure in Asia in Capex were worth of 65M$) and manage resources in order to achieve the target of supply coverage, just in time production and stock turns maximization;
o Identify and implement all the possible action to improve productivity, minimize WIP cost and stabilize the service level to customer and re-design the manufacturing process according to the rule of the JIT system implemented,
o Manage and lead the relationship with Suppliers and Asian OEM Customers and Distributors;
o Drive Logistic projects in order to effectively implement a valuable service to the customer;
o Definition of the Customer Supply Chain for EDI program of delivery and support enhancement;
o Member of a corporate task force for the definition of the Supply Chain strategy in the Asia Market;
o Corporate task force member for the implementation and improvement of the I2 Rhythm ERP;
o The group consisted of 15 people in Singapore directly reporting to me.
1 Jan 98 - 31 Oct 98
Central Planning Operation Manager
o Worldwide Planning and Supply Chain responsibility for a Division (the Flash Memories Division) of ST-Microelectronics, with focus on the wireless, wire line and PC-bios segment in order to optimize the process flow and the logistic along the pipe and configure the manufacturing process of the Back-end production flow according to the JIT rules focus given by the Corporate;
o Resources planning and investment definition in order to guarantee the accomplishment of the strategy of the division;
o Implement the Supply Chain concept of organization of the manufacturing in order to manage the continuous increasing volume, which pass from an average of 70k unit per day (in the main plant of Singapore) at beginning of 1998 to 180k units at the end of 1998 (to 370k at the end 1999 till 600k at the end of year 2000) without impacting proportionally the Wip and the overall inventory of finished and semi-finished parts;
o Corporate task force member for the implementation and improvement of the I2 Rhythm;
o The group consisted of 5 people in Italy (Milan)
Name and address of employer ST-Microelectronics Aix-en-Provence (France)
Type of business or sector Semiconductor Market
Dates 1 Apr 95 - 30 Apr 96
Occupation or position held Junior Planning Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities
o Analysis, test and implementation for a P&L family of a new concept of manufacturing driven by a pull demand system;
o Analysis of the production flow and definition of the buffers and checkpoint in order to minimize the Cycle Time and lower the Wip. This activity was done for the longer production phase in the semiconductor manufacturing which is the Diffusion process;
o Join the Corporate task force which was appointed to re-design the planning tool and configuring it according the various logistic and manufacturing reality of the company;
o Based in Italy (Milan) in the Central Memory Planning Group.
Name and address of employer ST-Microelectronics Milan (Italy)
Type of business or sector Semiconductor Market
Dates 13 Sep 89 - 4 Apr 94 Title of qualification awarded Industrial Engineer Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Industrial engineering (5 years study course) with majors in: Mathematics, industrial Mgmt and Control, physics, Labour Organization, Process control, Economics, Finance, Project Management. Name and type of organisation providing education and training Politecnico of Milan Milan (Italy) Level in national or international classification Bachelor