Joshua Lu

Experience

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  Unishippers

  May 2015 - Dec 2015

  Logistics Intern

  • Negotiated with full truck load carriers to receive the cheapest possible price with the reliable carriers• Coordinated customers shipping by finding the most cost and time efficient mode of transport• Facilitate the shipping process by creating bills of lading and arranging shipments• Created reports for customers of their daily tracked shipments• Troubleshoot various customers’ concerns and needs about the shipping process• Assessed the needs of customers, determining whether their shipments are small parcel, LTL, FTL, or volume shipments Show less

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  Johnson & Johnson

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

  CPFR Target Team Co-op

  • Partnered with Johnson & Johnson logistics and sales teams to forecast and facilitate future shipments• Collaborated with Target Planning Analysts to maintain inventory on weekly orders of over $300,000• Published eight weekly Excel reports that both analysts and directors rely upon • Improved a report by reducing production time by 75%, and adding PivotTables an Charts, earning my J&J Lean Yellow Belt certification from this project, and also received an award for my efforts • Redesigned four of the eight reports to become more efficient, adding Macros, and reducing irrelevant data• Designed a new report that tracks promotions and compares its sales with forecast and baseline • Analyzed the stores with the most amount of sales in the past year, by doing a Pareto Analysis, and thus created a database so that the other CPFR analysts used to identify which stores to focus on• Arranged a deck for the first Final Presentation Best Practices with four Co-ops to assist with future Co-ops • Produced a CPFR best practices video that introduced the team, and received an award for my work• Organized a Credo event recruiting fifteen other employees to volunteer at a food packing warehouse Show less

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  Xylem Inc.

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2021

  • Led Kaizen Event that drastically reduced the layout size of the Red Jacket production line by 70% at while ncreasing output by 3 units per person per shift. This event earned recognition from the site General Manager and was chosen to be presented to the President and CEO of Xylem• Facilitated Training Process Optimization A3 Kaizen workshop of 7 employees to achieve 85% training process completion rate by end of 2019 .• Facilitated OTD A3 Kaizen Work shop to achieve 98% OTD for the eSV line by March 2020• Responsible for Team Guru monthly metrics reporting for the site level managers to discuss• Organized 2 training sessions for A3 and Value Stream Mapping that consisted of 28 employees total• Planned the Receiving/IQC Process VSM Workshop to reduce lead time in receiving by 75% Show less • Managed strategic casting supplier emergency eliminating $1 million worth of sales risk by successfully sourcing components to 3 other suppliers, and working with strategic supplier to hold accountable commitments made• Rescued transition from internal machining of castings to a sub-contract supplier reducing 30 components causing sales delinquency down to 5 parts• Created framework for quarterly business review for 30 strategic supplier cooperating for continuous improvement projects, key metric reviews, since the implementation of the review OTD performance increased on average 5% among the 30 suppliers• Organized and submitted documentation for insurance claim saving $150,000 Show less

  • Sourcing Project Specialist II

    Apr 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Continuous Improvement Specialist

    Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Supplier Development Specialist

    Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Logistics Analyst

    Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
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  ProcureAbility

  Jul 2021 - now

  Senior Analyst