Yi (James) Shen

Experience

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  Hi-Tech Packaging Ltd

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  Global sourcing

  •Quotes and sourcing from Local and Overseas Suppliers•Negotiate best pricing from suppliers and complete all quotes and proposals for Sales Personnel in a timely manner•Maintain Overseas Freight Rates Matrix and Liaise with Freight Forwarder in Price Fluctuations•Review emails from overseas sourcing agents and filter•Source new product samples as per directors instructions•Compile and present new product lists to monthly meeting

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  Croxley

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Strategic Sourcing

  •Proven skills in negotiating Indirect requirements (MRO, Contracting for Services, Capital Equipment, Packaging, Utilities), and Direct requirements (Raw Materials) in corporate, plant, and R&D environments•Implementation of contracts for un-contracted relationships and running RFI and RFP exercises for the company.•Full responsibility for RFI's, RFP's and the tendering process•Looking at cost control for specific areas of the business, generating strategic information for making key management decisions•Making recommendations and decisions on future business processes•A proven track record of experience and achievement in issuing US$2,000,000 plus contracts•Oversee request for quotes and new vendor requests.•Manage and Maintain all the contracts and ensuring delivery procedure is carried out perfectly.Project experience:•2011.10----2012.12: Participate in Private Label project of the parent company, and its overall purchase value was as high as $ 20 million. The project has a total of more than 3,000 different product integrations and communication and cooperation with more than 20 suppliers. Responsible for communication and cooperation with 10 product managers from Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, I’m responsible for cooperating with logistics, compliance and quality departments to ensure the smooth implementation of this private brand trademark replacement project. Through this project, assisted the company in product integration, new product development, supplier adjustment, etc., and ultimately achieved savings of more than 3 million dollars.•2013.01----2013.09: Independently developed and completed new product development for facial tissue product and children's furniture market. Through understanding and analysis of the market, keenly identified business opportunities and submitted feasibility reports to management. It independently developed a complete overseas supplier system and won over 3 million NZD market order. Show less

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  ACCO Brands

  Jul 2014 - Jan 2017

  Sourcing Manager

  •Primary interface with suppliers for relationship management, establish business framework, performance review, business development and supplier business award program.•Develop and execute on an annual category cost savings target together with counterpart ACCO’s COE team in US (Center of Excellence).•Implement costed BOMs as a methodology for managing product cost and second tier materials.•Formulate and implement long term sourcing strategy for ACCO designed products.•Implement project plans, monitor the progress of projects and execute sourcing projects.•Collaborate with COE team to coordinate sourcing strategies and ensure smooth and timely manufacturing ramp on new introduction programs in Mechanical Durable Goods category.Project experience:•2015.09---2015.11：Successfully complete costing saving target proposed by the company, with the appreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in the cost of material and labor, we repeatedly communicated with more than 5 major suppliers, the entire negotiation process took up to one and a half months and was extremely difficult than we thought, but finally completed the cost saving proposal, and continued to provide the company for 2 years Saved about $ 1 million in costs, making it a leader praise.•2015.09----2016.04: Successfully develop electric products with the R & D department and marketing department, mainly responsible for communication between suppliers and internal stakeholders, including domestic R & D teams, quality departments, compliance departments, etc., Preside over and hold regular weekly meetings to jointly establish product timetables, quality systems, etc. From trial mode to final mass production, we insist on stationing in the factory, urging the factory to complete all requirements, and solve problems in time, and finally successfully develop new products and obtain product patents, and win more than 2 million US dollars in market orders for the company. Show less

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  Fonssino

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2020

  Business Consultant

  •To works with a variety of high profile clients across all the major industry sectors. Typical projects might include procurement transformation, sourcing diagnostics, strategic sourcing under various procurement rules, and supplier relationship management initiatives.•Search for, identify, develop and maintain the supplier base according to sourcing strategies•Provide market intelligence by analyzing and evaluating markets and supplier trends within the categories. •Ensure category strategy implementation through contract negotiations and supplier development.•Manage assigned partners, productivity and cost development actions.Project experience:•2018.10----2019.06: Work with well-known Australian meat processing enterprises, successfully helping them solve the problem of importing expensive cable ties. Due to its particularity, the cable ties has been monopolized by European and American countries for a long time. After various aspects of communication and coordination with this meat processing company and the supplier, it finally succeeded, helping the company to completely get rid of the historical problem of using expensive cable tie and helping them save more than 80% of product expenses.•2018.6----Till Now：Work with Australia leading FMCG company to implement hygiene products outsourcing such as tissue, cafeteria products etc. To keep running these projects which helped to achieve 2M USD saving over target. Meanwhile, working with marketing department, and completed a series of product promotion activities, and won praise from the market.•2017.01----2018.04：Work for a global leading glass manufacturer on US$20 million factory rebuild project in China. Main tasks include design service bidding process, equipment sourcing activities such as Lehr, Forehearth Gas Skids, Vacuum Pump, Fan and related construction services. Show less

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  Vanderlande

  Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

  Project Leader for Supply Chain Development

  Job duties and responsibilities:1.Setting up the Supply Chain in accordance with our tollgate deliverables and QLTC guidelines2. Setting-up and managing planning and status updates in- and outside the QLTC team3. Lead smooth transitions of NPI, Improvements and Relocations into production and quality team4. Stakeholder management towards different levels and disciplines (R & D, Suppliers, Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing Engineering, Cost Engineering)5. Pro-actively manage risks on QLTC with respective team members; signals discrepancies and comes to a solution or makes escalation in accordance with Supply Chain guidelines6. Verification of product / system requirements / specifications from QLTC perspective7. Identify the opportunity to improve product quality, product cost, mitigate risk, improve supply base; ensure choice of best production technology and components8. Steer on cost targets with support of Cost Engineering9. Report progress and represent SC-AP in SCD meetings Show less