NKEM UCHENDU
Tamarac, 33321, FL.| Email:-| C: -
About 5 years of supply chain and logistics experience, specializing in managing strategic procurement, MRP, demand planning and
overall supply chain performance improvements. I help create efficiency in supply chain business success.
Professional Experience
Sr. Contract Manufacturing Buyer.
Nutranext- A Clorox Company.
March 2018 to Date.
• Develop and execute strategies that enable a reliable, cost effective and flexible contract manufacturing materials
network to deliver on the company’s product supply business initiatives.
• Establish, qualify and effectively maintain the necessary external contract manufacturing organization
relationships necessary to meet the company’s internal performance and quality standards.
• Acts as the subject matter expert to top management on technical capability, cost and capacity of manufacturing
contract organizations to both select the appropriate organizations to do business with and to make buying
decisions.
• Participate on project teams to support new product launches and other supply driven projects.
• Serve as direct project manager for key strategic initiatives to ensure completion on-time and on-budget.
• Manage the business perspective in contract negotiations with selected external manufacturing partners.
• Interface regularly with marketing, product development, engineering, materials management, finance, quality,
legal and other related business units as a liaison between third party external contract manufacturing
organizations.
• Facilitating terms review and execution of new and renewal of various agreements such as private label
agreements, manufacturing agreements, QA agreements, pricing/ supply agreements with CMOs.
Planner (Medical Devices Manufacturing)
Interplex Inc. Tamarac, Florida.
Feb. 2017 to March 2018.
• Proactively plan, review and monitor raw material requirements by utilizing sales orders and customer
forecast in MRP and monitor stock levels to ensure targeted stock objectives are maintained based on
demand and worked with purchasing team to address material supply gaps.
• Evaluated planned purchase orders for sub-assemblies, MRO, drive MRP requirements, review and
recommended execution of blanket or discreet purchase order releases to suppliers based on requirements.
• Tracked material availability by interacting with purchasing/suppliers to support manufacturing start date
and expediting materials using shortage reports and open order reports.
• Evaluated MRP planned orders scheduled for multiple stages of manufacturing and firmed requisitions
to drive buying decisions and escalate constraints in order to close supply chain gaps.
• Lead weekly departmental materials requirements review between planning and purchasing which
resolved all supply issues as identified during ad hoc SOP meetings.
• Participated in engineering/quality meetings to review open SCAR, SCN, and NCR to ensure all open
quality complaints/issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Worked closely with engineering QA/QC teams to manage change orders, MRB, RMA, end of life and
developed necessary documentation for ISO and FDA audits.
• Identified distribution service improvements strategies to drive On OTIF metrics and created weekly
reports on deliveries to measure performance.
• Supported new product development (NPD) in BOM creation, print reviews, prototype runs and managed
production releases.
Logistics/Operations Support
British Council Brussels, Belgium
March.2014 to Dec.2015.
• Coordinated supply and logistics distribution of materials and ensured quality compliance while minimizing
lead-times and supply gaps.
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Prepared Request for Proposal (RFP) for procurement needed for SBU, and liaised with central procurement
team to manage and ensure on time delivery.
Managed activities with third party service providers and defined performance metrics as well as tracking
vendor performance against established KPIs.
Applying BC data security standards, I managed documentation and data relating to IELTS and Cambridge
exams administration.
Maintained master data of approved suppliers including price/supply histories, lead-times MOQ and supplier
capacity and used data to ensured continuous flow of materials from various suppliers to support production.
Managed the logistics and inventory of confidential test materials applying BC standards of operations.
Logistics/Procurement Analyst
Dangote Group Industries - Lagos, Nigeria.
Nov. 2009 to Sept. 2011
• Identified areas for process improvements across the P2P function, performed root cause analysis, developed and
implemented process improvement activities.
• Sourced and procured raw materials and actively lead and participated in procurement initiatives that identified
and qualified alternate suppliers where appropriate.
• Prepared purchase orders, blanket/contract agreements, contract extensions, change orders, revisions and
modifications, and other similar documents.
• Sourced third party haulers to support in-house distribution system, negotiated pricing, managed contract
agreements and worked with vendors to develop KPI’s necessary to drive overall supply chain performance
improvements.
• Managed supplier performance scorecards and participated in scheduled vendor meetings to improve company
supply chain overall supplier performance.
• Performed market forecasts alongside sales and marketing for existing and new market entries which helped
management decision making on overall business posit
Skills and competences
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Demonstrative competency in supply chain/ distribution logistics business process system analysis and service
improvement strategies.
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Excellent knowledge in materials/production planning, strategic procurement, and supplier contracts management
and JIT/ Lean Manufacturing.
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Hands SAP modules in MM, SD and QM and general MRP and manufacturing execution systems.
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Demonstrated vendor management, supplier audits and management of quality control standards and procedures.
Proven competency in managing multiple complex projects and building cross-functional collaboration.
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Ability to understand technical drawings, prints and specifications as well as manufacturing quality protocols and
procedures in regulated industries.
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Excellent understanding of Good manufacturing practices, especially medical/automotive devices.
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Self-driven, team player with ability to work in a fast paced environment driven by changes in customer priorities.
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Strong understanding of GMP and GDP required for FDA/ ISO audits.
Education
Master of Science in Management,
Solvay Business School – Free University of Brussels, (VUB), Belgium
Bachelor of Science in Public Administration,
Abia State University - Abia State, Nigeria
Professional certificate in supply Chain Management,
Chartered Institute of supply Chain Management - Lagos, Nigeria
