I started the DC planner and be on the Road of Supply Chain along
Joining as a DC planner after the graduation, I started to enter the supply chain industry from green hand; as the DC planner, the allocations, transportations and warehouses operations are much closer to the customers and end users.
Following this, I became one of the members of KSO Shanghai office, where we broaden the views from the upstream to downstream of the end-to-end supply chain .
Senior Supply Chain Analysist in charge of Deco & Equipment team
Manages vendors’ performance against service level targets and identifies opportunities to improve both cost and performance.
Reviews all supply chain proposals to ensure they are suitable for the vendors and that this will deliver a high level of customer service at an optimal cost.
Supports the Supply Chain agenda at vendors, within sourcing offices, logistics, Banners and O&S category teams to ensure the introduction and ongoing management of Unified ranges are planned appropriately to deliver the required level of availability, sales and profit.
Ensure vendors deliver appropriate vendor service levels and customer availability and manage the daily operation of ordering, production, shipment with vendors & Banners to ensure on time
delivery.
The bridge connects the two ends of supply chain
As the bridge to link with the upstream and downstream of supply chain, I feel proud of the importance.
I can get the demands and requirements from the clients, and this could help me understand the market needs and customer needs and meanwhile, it will drive the production and lead the preference of manufactures.
I can work with suppliers to provide the best offer for customers with good quality and proper prices and try to reduce the whole end to end costs to save the working capital and reduce the costs as possible as I can
To be open-minded and passionate
To be passionate and keen to learn anything new for a new joiner may not be difficult, however, it's not easy to keep it in the mind in each area and industries.
To be open minded so that you can learn from everywhere and anyone, they could be your clients, your suppliers, customers and the colleagues in multiple groups and functions as the supply chain industry is the end to end from upstream to down streams with the many interactive spots and links.
I ran a project which helped reduce the lead time to 20 days
As Far East vendors have much long end to end lead time, including ordering materials, production arrangement, shipping on sea freight and operations in UK ports (sometimes strikes and the congestions will worsen the efficiency), SH office implemented a pilot with 2 vendors, with the system tools management ,finance support, all the functions and departments were oriented by the SC team to make it happen that the production L/T was successfully reduced from 60-70 days to 20 days , which save the large amount of working capitals for the clients in UK and France .
