A bit about me


Male | | from: China
I am currently in shenzhen, shanghai
Simon Zhou Resume

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An enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic, creative, reliable and self-confident.

Abundant experience in business/forecast planning, sourcing and purchasing, inventory control of supply chain operation and management functions, as well as rich experience in product marketing, strategy, pricing and promotion, etc.

Looking forward to a highly professional and challenging career. Computer literate and accustomed to using own initiative and co-operating with others.

Personal Information:

Name: Simon Zhou Gender: Male
Date of Birth: Aug 28 1979 Marital Status: Married
Nationality: China Current Location: Shenzhen

Contact information:
Mobile: +86 13609620310 +86 13715303417

Email: msn_simon@hotmail.com


WORING EXPERIENCE:

Aug 2010 ~ Now
Company: Harman
Position: Senior EMS /PCBA Sourcing Manager
Department: Global Procurement
Report to: Procurement Director

R&R:

Manage and make critical decisions on all aspects of supplier relationship including contracts negotiation, commercial cooperation, pricing strategy, supply assurance and conflict resolution.

Develop and execute category strategies through alignment with Harman International global category lead, business units, engineering, quality, manufacturing activities. Have the knowledge of Harman business unit technology and product roadmaps and specific expertise in procurement and manufacturing cost structure.

Manage the bid and quote process and responsible for RFQ and supplier selection, establish consistent commercial terms/conditions and present a single unified Harman International interface to the supply base

Execute effective supplier negotiations and event driven cost reductions to meet annual cost reduction goals

Work with supply base to establish robust quality operating systems to support "zero defect" culture

Hold QBR, discuss issues and improvement plans, establish goals and business reviews, set up daily, weekly and monthly reporting related to areas of responsibility for the purpose of resolving issues timely and efficiently

Apr 2008 ~ Aug 2010
Company: Lenovo Computer
Position: Global Business Planning& Purchasing Manager
Department: Global Planning & Procurement
Report to:Senior Manager
Subordinator :11 team members

R&R:

Responsible for ODM supplier assessment, selection and performance review & Improvement. Regularly visit supplier and participate in assessing capability, productivity, cost, quality. Work out, negotiate and execute contract terms. Analyse and assess ODM breakeven. Map out and execute purchasing & supply strategy.

Lead and coordinate desktop team for key issue, drive for improvement and issue solution& close. Act as core bridge coordinator between Geo APM, BU and COE and backend of supply chain to ensure demand supply in good balanced shape

Focal point of S/D for demand conditioning, allocation decision making and being focal contact with Product Group for product phase in/phase out management;
End to end supply demand management for WW DT, liability control & supply continuity monitoring

Interface with geography sales operations team and Global Supply Management team for weekly product demand planning, performs a variety of data analysis tasks, leads and directs the work of others

Work out demand plan and manage inventory level. Maintain and manage sufficient inventory stock to satisfy manufactory production need. Closely work with Geos and supplier to optimize the inventory level and aging days and minimize excess and obsolete liability due to product phrase out.

Participate in optimize supply chain and simplify process to improve the efficiency of supply chain operation and more cost saving.

Mar 2007 ~ Apr 2008
Company: DELL Computer
Position: Purchasing Manager
Department: Global Procurement
Report to:Senior Manager

R&R:

Responsible for supplier development of NPI product, assess and select supplier. Lead assessment and improvement of supplier performance. Work with supplier to cost down and service enhancement. Purchasing strategy work out and process optimization.

Be Responsible for Purchasing computer parts for three factories (Dell China, Dell Xiamen and Dell Malaysia) and two merge centres (in Australia and Japan) for Dell Asia Pacific and Japan (Dell APJ) area.

Ensure continuity of supply of production; shorten material turn around time by managing suppliers. Reduce expedite cost, raw material inventory level at the end of quarter and exposure & obsolescence for end of life products by own initiatives and efforts.

Manage supplier to improve their service level to meet company’s requirements. Adjust customers requirement according to market supply constrain.

Work with other relative parties to improve the business process to reduce cost and support company’s fast growth in Asia Pacific area.


Sep 2003 ~ Mar 2007
Company: DELL Computer
Position: Server senior planner
Department: Asia Pacific business planning
Report to:Server business planning manager

R&R:

Responsible for Asia-pacific demand & supply chain Management between Sales & Factory Operation to fulfill business requirements and improve Customer Experience. Based on the marketing & sales plan to analyze & execute material purchasing plan for Factory build-up to satisfy the balance and consistency of demand & supply chain management between Chinese, Malaysia and other factories. To guide purchasing Dept, Supplier, PRD to manage factory stock to achieve the aim of “Zero Stock” in CCC.

Update latest material supply information and production transition plan to the sales team in China, Japan, Malaysia and other countries daily, which enable marketing and sales team can timely delivery the new technology to the customers and ensure Dell’s product technology always be first to market.

To review with Marketing, Sales, CE, Engineering, QA Departments on the production transition roadmap and finalize transition schedule. Based the marketing demand and product transition roadmap, to lock last time buy and release new product & peripheral MPP to supplier to ensure transition smoothly done. To minimize the cost lose from product & peripheral excess or obsolescence due to product end of life.

Attend the international conference call (USA, Europe, Brazils, Malaysia and other countries) on the global material demand & supply balance, in which to have communication and solutions with WWP, Purchasing team to allocate and balance the demand & supply chain between regions and factories.



Education:

Sep 2000 to Jul 2004 Huqiao University Bachelor of Art English


Accomplishment and Awards:


 FY 2005 Q1--- Server extended team individual award.
 FY 2005 Q3----Business planning department spot award.
 FY 2006 Q1----Business planning department spot award.
 FY 2006 Q2----Business planning department spot award
 FY 2006 Q4----Customer satisfaction award
 FY 2007 Q4----Dell winning team award
 FY2009 Q4----Lenovo global supply chain's top award
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