Operations and Supply Chain Resume

Desired Industry: Manufacturing	SpiderID: 4386
Desired Job Location: San Diego, California	Date Posted: 12/9/2005
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date:
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Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO)	Willing to Travel:
Highest Degree Attained:	Willing to Relocate:

Objective:
PROFILE:
Building lean, learning, innovative operation teams that create competitive advantage and quickly deliver results to the bottom line. A track record of delivering superior quality, service, and cost results by thinking strategically, continuously innovating, developing and deploying supply chain systems, and effectively leveraging capital resources. Excellent financial, negotiation, team, and project skills to drive effective sourcing, vendor management, manufacturing, quality, distribution, and service.

Experience:
VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS: MOMENTUM NUTRITION, LLC; San Diego, CA 2004-Present
Responsible for defining and leading the design of supply chain strategies and operational capabilities for this start-up brand management and nutraceuticals developer. Including the integration of physical, information, and financial flows in a supply chain network consisting of customers, channel partners, distributors, third-party logistics providers, and manufacturers.
� Refined the supply chain strategy, sourced partners, and negotiated contracts and service-level agreements for materials, contract manufacturing, and third-party logistics (3PL) achieving a 23% reduction in cost of goods.
� Develop annual operating and capital budgets, identify and implement long-term business plans and strategies, and support formulation and brand development or acquisitions and five-year growth plan.
� Manage outsourced services and contract manufacturing directing the operational execution of the business plan and ensuring the overall effectiveness of outside operations and the achievement of gross margins.

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS: NEXT PROTEINS, INC.; Carlsbad, CA 2001-2004
Managing and controlling a $55 million spend, directed all aspects of the domestic supply chain for this $100 million nutritional food, beverage, and protein supplement manufacturer. Responsible for contract and direct manufacturing, 3rd party logistics, direct fulfillment, capacity planning, inventory, materials sourcing, purchasing, continuous margin improvement, and superior customer service for food, drug, and mass retailers. Led and structured the management of the overall operation to achieve company goals for product launch timelines, quality, service, inventory investment, and continuous improvement of COGS.
� Working with Marketing, Sales, R&D, Quality, and Finance, launched ten new products qualifying six new contract manufacturing sites in 22 months. Reduced product materials cost by $4.2 million to drive sales growth of 250%.
� Vertically integrated manufacturing to effectively bring 80% of production in-house. Managed construction, staffing, and start-up of new off-site $3.3 million functional foods manufacturing facility resulting in an 11% reduction of standard costs.
� Proposed and led total redevelopment effort on underperforming sports drink working with Marketing, Quality, and R&D to analyze the value-stream from raw materials through formulation and packaging to reduce standard costs by over 20%.
� Implemented tracking of commodity/market pricing applying straddle procurement methodologies on key food ingredients to manage market volatility and mitigate price risk, successfully reducing costs 23% to 30% saving over $4.0 million.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: METABOLIFE, INTERNATIONAL; San Diego, CA 1998-2000
Managed $48 million supply chain spend that included planning, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and offshore contract manufacturers and suppliers for this $300 million nutraceuticals manufacturer. Responsible for driving supply chain business processes through strategic and operational analysis, standardizing master batch records and solid dosage manufacturing processes among all manufacturers, and implementing cGMP compliance and equipment/process validation practices.
� Identified and negotiated agreements with strategic manufacturing partners and successfully implemented an offshore manufacturing and supply strategy in China reducing COGS by 50% and manufacturing expense by over $12 million.
� Lead cross-functional efforts to identify acquisition targets and qualify CMO�s. Identified and evaluated pharmaceutical and nutraceutical CMO�s and conducted operational due diligence as part of total team effort which closed key acquisition.
� Developed and negotiated shipping strategies with multiple domestic carriers and USPS to reduce freight by $2.8 million and cut transit time by 20% on 60,000 packages per month.
� Renegotiated supply agreements totaling over $40 million and reducing inventory investment by 62.5%.

DIRECTOR - CLIENT ENGAGEMENT: BPR ASSOCIATES; San Diego, CA 1995-1998
Directed client engagements by developing and managing MS Project timelines, milestones, and critical success factors for this professional services firm exclusively focused on business process reengineering and supply-chain solutions. Coordinated internal and external resources to oversee the development and timely delivery of all client projects.
� Created operations strategy, systems, and 3PL supply chain solution for a functional foods start-up.
� Developed design specs and coordinated application development for inventory and lot control systems.
� Performed business process reengineering including systems analysis, process mapping, and documentation.

DIRECTOR/VP - OPERATIONS: ADVANCED MARKETING SERVICES; San Diego, CA 1989-1995
With a $15.4 million budget, twelve direct reports, and 300 associates in six states, managed entire supply chain for this $320 million consumer goods company serving membership warehouse clubs including Costco and Sam�s Club. Responsible for order entry, inventory management, distribution, and logistics. Developed consistent business practices, including processes to ensure cross-functional departments operate in an integrated manner. Accountable for designing and implementing best practices, WMS systems, facility and labor planning, facility leases, and capital improvements to ensure continuous cost and service-time improvement. Managed performance through key performance indicators in core accountability areas including fill-rates, delivery performance, quality, service, and cost.
� Designed and implemented strategic reorganization of all domestic distribution operations. Consolidated and restructured seven DC�s improving service, reducing operating expense by 11.7%, and reducing inventory investment by $8.0 million.
� Analyzed, designed, and deployed order processing and enterprise information systems to improve accuracy and reduce customer claimed shortages and inventory shrink to 0.07%.
� Created and executed national logistics strategy reducing freight by 13.2% and improving service to 99.1%.
� Justified new revenue streams and co-developed information systems for B2C third-party catalog fulfillment.

SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST: SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC; San Diego, CA 1986-1989
Team Leader managing the planning, organization, and tactical execution of business process reengineering projects including requirements definition and overall project design. Accountable for project deliverables and timelines, managing risk and project scope, and assuring internal client satisfaction and project implementation.

PLANNING/MATERIALS MANAGER: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO.; Sacramento, CA 1980-1986
Responsible for all manufacturing plant activities in materials planning and production planning for prominent consumer brands: Tide, Downy, and Comet. Proactively interfaced with sales, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution groups to meet all production schedules and shipping commitments. Spearheaded MRP and master scheduling projects to allow planning to be proactive and resolve material availability problems directly affecting production schedules. Identified and implemented process and system improvements to reduce lead times and increase efficiencies. Directly managed seven employees and outside contract services.

Education:
EDUCATION - SKILLS
B.S. University of California, Berkeley:
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Software/Systems:
Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, PowerPoint, HTML, FTP
MAS 90/500, ERP / MRP / WMS and CAPA System Implementation

Affiliations:
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
APICS, CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals), LEI (Lean Enterprise Institute)

Additional Information:
www.ronosborne.net

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Ron Osborne
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