Sherman Freelin
Supply Chain/Purchasing/Material Control Manager...
- Role
- Supply Chain Manager at Solutions Manufacturing, Inc
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sherman Freelin
Strategic Procurement/Material Control professional with twenty plus years of current…
Experience
Supply Chain Manager
Oct 2017 — Present · Rockledge, FL, US
Oversee a team of buyers, expediters and quotation personnel for two fast-paced (U.S. based) contract manufacturing facilities. Established daily priorities, supervised critical projects, purchasing metrics, raw material quotations and high dollar purchase order transactions. Administered supply chain activities, maintained approved vendor listing, resolved high visibility discrepant material difficulties and prevented or minimized critical production line shortages. • Spearheaded process improvements for production floor fulfillment percentages. Started in the low 70’s - moved to high 90’s. • Established new OEM, fabrication & distribution suppliers to support aerospace, defense and medical quality requirements.• Implemented cost reduction activities, within the top-tier Supply Base, to achieve company profitability goals. • Created Application Programmable Interfaces (API’s) with key franchise (electronic component) distribution partners. Machine to machine communications - is completely re-inventing, raw material quotation (processing) results. • Instrumental in all AS9102, ISO 13485, FDA certification activities, internal inspections and key customer “on-site” reviews.• Demonstrated talent building by successfully leading high-performance purchasing, quotation and material control teams.
Skills
- Contract Negotiation
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Purchasing
- Process Improvement
- Six Sigma
- Negotiation
- Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing
- Business Development
- Management
- Material Requirements Planning (Mrp)
- Product Development
- Forecasting
- Continuous Improvement
- Global Sourcing
- Key Account Management
- Electronics
- Business Process Improvement
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Supply Chain
- Procurement
- Mrp
- New Business Development
- Sales Management
- Account Management
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