Stephan Koch, MBA

Experience

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  Chiquita

  Sept 2006 - Apr 2008

  Logistics
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  Hubert Company

  Aug 2008 - Mar 2019

  Job Responsibility:Oversee Purchasing activities for Hubert, which encompasses 8 direct reportees, $70+ million direct spend across 850+ suppliers, 40k+ products, and multiple distribution facilities.Achievements:• Vendor realignment - Balanced the department workload, reducing the average variance across multiple categories (# of Vendors, Purchase $, # SKU, Stock items, etc.) by 70%. Deviation fell from 22.4% to 7%.• EDI implementation through SPS Commerce - Organized implementation of EDI PO transmissions for 328 suppliers, improving visibility on shipments and accuracy on order promise dates. Required buyer & vendor training, system changes, and data validation.• Strategic Purchasing - Lowered costs on $2m worth of purchases by 23% by identifying strategic import opportunities, liquidation purchases, and vendor promotions. Show less Job Responsibility:Lead a team of three employees that manage all Import activities for the company ($10+ million annually) - Responsible for inventory planning, PO placement, and tracking of all direct and some indirect imports.Achievements:• Supported growth of all imports (Sales $ +47%, SKU count +10%), improved inventory turns(+8.5%),decreased service level outages (-21%), along with expenses (-12% inventory $).• Containerization tool - Designed a program to build container orders. It considers a supplier's production and transit time, sell rate, trends, current and future inventory, MOQ, case pack and CBM's to build container orders. Reduced the error rate and time required (-80%) to place a PO, leading to savings in staffing (-25% FTE). Show less Job Responsibility:Manage 14,000+ SKU's. Increased Fill rate by 1.3% and inventory turns by 1.Achievements:• Western DC analysis - Involved in set-up of 2nd company DC in Reno. Created stocking guidelines and warehouse space requirements. Implemented fulfillment policy that saved $100,000 in annual freight costs.• Online Liquidations - Tasked with creating an online liquidation channel to reduce our overstock and discontinued liabilities. Liquidation volume increased while write-off value decreased by 25%. Resulted in creation of a self-funded FTE for long-term operations of online liquidations. Show less Part of an executive training program. It allowed the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time in each department to better understand their inter-connectivity. Projects:•Import Consolidation - Reviewed all purchasing activities across the globe to determine whether import consolidation opportunities existed and make general recommendations for improvement.•Item pricing tool - created a pricing tool to help predict price changes based on the movement of key commodities in the market.•Oversea assignment in Pfungstadt, Germany - Overseas stint of the executive training program, focusing on supply chain implementation and improvement. Worked on the reverse logistics for our new French sales office, as well as the transfer pricing agreements between the service and sales companies. Show less

  • Purchasing Manager

    Dec 2017 - Mar 2019

  • Import Purchasing Manager

    Dec 2015 - Dec 2017

  • Buyer

    Aug 2010 - Nov 2015

  • Special Project Coordinator

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2010
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  Gentherm Medical

  Mar 2019 - now

  Purchasing Manager