Jacob Wall

Experience

1. Manager - Supply Chain Risk Management

   Polaris Inc.

   Jul 2022 — Present

   Work cross-functionally to collaborate and communicate daily with the Supply Chain Execution team and the Core Functions (Central Planning, Strategic Sourcing, and Engineering). Lead proactive supply chain risk identification and mitigation to improve supply continuity, while delivering strong performance to Build and Ship SIOP, Financial Forecasts and Cost, Quality and Delivery metrics. Responsible for developing strategy and implementing standard work to identify and resolve issues that are negatively impacting Polaris’ supply chain. Work closely with the Supply Chain Execution team and other internal functions to understand true root causes of issues, develop and implement countermeasures, and track and report progress to our Global Operations teams and Business Units. Work with suppliers to establish recovery plans to support on-going production, clear backorders and rework and identify and mitigate forward-looking capacity constraints. Proactively review capacity management and supply chain constraint mitigation. · Utilize lean methodologies to identify and countermeasure root causes of supply chain interruptions · Directly and indirectly lead team of cross-functional resources to improve supply chain performance · Drive standard meeting cadence and action register reviews with suppliers who are escalated to Supply Chain Risk Management teams · Evaluate supplier forward looking capacity vs Polaris demand, identify issues and develop and implement countermeasures · Regularly report progress to Supply Chain Recovery Steering Team, Global Operations and BU leadership · Manage emerging issues with suppliers and communicate countermeasures and recovery timelines to key stakeholders throughout the organization · Act as an escalated presence with suppliers, striking appropriate tone to drive urgency while also maintaining and growing strong partnerships

Skills

• Ansys
• Consumer Product Testing
• Product Development
• Mechanical Product Design
• Design for Assembly
• Testing
• Materials
• Tolerance Analysis
• Manufacturing
• Ni Labview
• Materials Testing
• Product Safety
• Process Improvement
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Leadership
• Quality Control
• Motorsports
• Finite Element Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Engineering
• Product Design
• Solidworks
• Management
• Winter Sports
• Root Cause Analysis
• Continuous Improvement
• Dfma
• Cpsia
• Mechanism Design
• Lean Manufacturing