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Vice President Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, Logistics

Oshkosh Corporation is an automotive company which designs, manufactures, and markets specialty trucks, military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus and access equipment.

Supply Chain Executive with 18+ years of progressive experience in Global Supply Chain Management roles. Career experiences have included; Global Strategy Development, full global responsibility for inbound and outbound logistics system design and management, annual budget management in excess of $700M, Materials Management of automotive plant, Warehouse and Distribution Center startup and management, Kitting and Sequencing, Purchasing of Global Logistics Technologies and Transportation services and Packaging solutions. I possess successful experience in supply chain implementation in The Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and Russia. Outside of Logistics, I am also responsible for two Purchasing functions. Global Cost Management: Our Cost management team is responsible for developing should cost analysis on productive and proto-type material, 5 bucket of money, and fact based negotiation training materials. The team also works closely with engineering on VA/VE and manufacturing process review. Purchasing: Acting as the lead executive for the Purchasing function of the Jerr-Dan Business Unit. In this function, we are working to reduce the purchased material cost of our vehicle components. Commodities include: fabrications, hydraulics, electrical and fasteners. In addition to Logistics and Purchasing roles, I have successfully led a joint team of Purchasing and IT professionals in the development and deployment of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for Oshkosh Corporation. The multiyear global program has bridged several ERP systems and across multiple business units.SpecialtiesStrategy development and deployment, fact based negotiation, facilitating continuous improvement initiatives, value stream mapping, complex or large program implementation, lean logistics and material systems, team and employee development