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Sourcing, Purchasing, Procurement

Sourcing, Purchasing, Procurement

Work Experience

15 years experience in all aspects of sourcing and purchasing in multinational industrial companies. Successful in building efficient and motivated teams. Focused on material cost reduction projects with savings in the range of 5% to 10%. I have been recognized as successful negotiator in which I use my creativity and analytic skills. I have gained in depth experience in sourcing in East-Europe, China, India and Latin America. I have initiated and leaded several major logistic projects which improved working capital. I highly value open communications, optimisme and integrity.

2011-2013 Purchasing Manager
ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV (Hansen Transmission)
Leading supplier of Gearboxes for wind turbines.

Main Responsibilities
• Define commodity strategies for all direct material (steel, bearings, auxiliaries, iron castings)
• Secure timely delivery of material for serial production
• Define souring of components for new product introductions
• Support new product introduction with timely delivery of all components for prototypes and 0-series production.
• Assure the quality of delivered material
• Define sourcing strategy for indirect material for the plant in Lommel (Service, MRO, Capex, Subcontractors)
• Leading a team of Strategic Purchasers, Advanced Purchasers, Supplier Quality Engineers and Material Planners
Achievements
• Introduced schedule agreements with major suppliers (Lean principle)
• Implemented an integrator for indirect material
• Decrease Maverick buy of indirect material and services
• Implemented a major supplier transfer for fasteners


2008-2011 Business Unit Purchasing Leader, Driveline Controls
WABCO Europe BVBA
Leading supplier of safety and control systems for commercial vehicles.

Main Responsibilities
• Develop a sourcing strategy for the Business Unit (100MEuro)
• Ensure alignment of the purchasing decisions with global- and BU- sourcing strategies.
• Improve supplier quality and supplier delivery performance
• Achieve direct material cost savings in line with the budget
• Monitor performance of productivity improvement programs
• Monitor New Parts Introduction projects and contribute from the Sourcing & Purchasing perspective for timely realization, achievement of target costs and delivering productivity initiatives
• Leading a team of 2 Project Buyers, 1 Supplier Quality Engineer and 9 Value Stream Buyers
Achievements
• Managed a process change project for the automation of Requests for Quotation (e-RfQ) to successful implementation
• Exceeded material cost saving targets of 5%
• Built an effective team of buyers and inspired them to become motivated and high performing

2004-2007 International Purchasing Manager
PCS-Innotec International NV
Marketing and trading company for chemical products used in the Automotive Aftermarket.

Main Responsibilities
• Purchase the trading products, which includes selecting the manufacturing partners, establishing exclusivity contracts, controlling the costs and managing new product introduction projects.
• Manage all operational and logistic activities of the central warehouse which include the order-intake, the replenishment of the stock, reworking products to country-specifications, order picking and order preparing, transport to and from the central warehouse.
Achievements
• Implemented an improved process for controlling stock-levels, supported by in-house developed software tool.
• Introduced several innovative new products which significant contributed to an increased turnover.


2002-2004 European Purchase Manager
JLG Manufacturing Europe
World’s leading producer of mobile aerial work platforms

Main Responsibilities
• Develop a European supply base, which support the activities at the Belgium plant, and contribute to cost competitive finished products (36MEuro)
• Establish sources for new product integrations, in a timely and cost effective matter
• Realize cost savings opportunities for the US operations, by sourcing in Europe and East-Europe
• Control and reduce inventory levels of raw material and components at the Belgium plant.
• Coach the team of 5 Strategic Buyers and 1 Supplier Quality Engineer.
Achievements
• Supported start-up of green field plant in Belgium
• Implemented of Mapics (MRP system) in a new environment.
• Set-up 85 new suppliers within 18 months
• Realised a 5% overall lower material cost as compared to the target material cost.
• Introduced systems to increase inventory turns and JIT deliveries (consignment stock, 3th party logistics, Milk-runs, …)



1996-2002 Global Supply Manager
Thermo King Europe (Ingersoll Rand)
Manufactures transport temperature control systems for commercial vehicles

Main Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a sourcing strategy for the electrics and electronics commodity (84M$)
• Achieve each year a 7%+ cost saving on electric and electronic components
• Contribute to a reduction of working capital and improvement of cash flow
• Evaluate Make versus Buy opportunities and coordinate implementation of such decisions.
• Develop market intelligence for electric and electronic components
• Identify technology opportunities, which can result in competitive advantage.
Achievements
• Exceeded year over year the cost saving objectives.
• Leaded a major outsource project in Czech Republic with a 1M Euro saving result
• Set-up a system of 3th party warehouse in Ireland with significant impact on inventory levels.


1995-1996 Business Unit Manager
Verlipack Mol
Manufacturer of hollow glass products

Main Responsibilities
• Control the productivity and output of the business unit
• Control the budget of the business unit
• Lead a group of 20 people including 1 process engineer, 3 technicians and 16 workers.
• Set-up maintenance plan for the installation, to assure minimum wear
Achievements
• Improved the quality and the productivity by introducing minor modifications (low cost) to the process
• Introduced a quality measurement system to continue evaluate the performance of workers and process.

Education

Industrial Engineer Electro Mechanics
Executive MBA
Six Sigma green belt
Lean Production Systems

Skills

Strategic Sourcing, Supplier development, Logistics, Global Sourcing, Kaizen, MRP, Six Sigma, Change management, Lean manufactering, Low cost country sourcing

Languages

Dutch: mothertongue
English : excellent
French : goed


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