Bhawna Dewan

• Led sourcing project for global air freight. Moved $1M in shipments to FedEx to cut costs and improve supplier relationships.
• Ran RFPs with freight forwarders like ECHO global, Flexport and C.H. Robinson. Delivered $250K in savings through vendor selection.
• Managed freight optimization to find best outbound routes. Achieved $300K in annual savings.
• Handled LTL shipments with Echo Global. Evaluated providers including OEC Global, FMS, DB Schenker, and FedEx. Realized $400K in cost savings.
• Led process optimization to cut $260K by identifying gaps, reducing use of priority overnight, and maintaining service levels with standard overnight.

• Supported the Director, Supply Chain Manager in all facets of sourcing and procurement strategies

• Developed global organizational supply chain management strategies

• Led cost-reduction localization strategies, including vendor due diligence, RFx, negotiations and award recommendations, which resulted in $0.7M in annual savings

• Created RFX, reviewed, analyzed, and negotiated supplier quotes for 700 in production components (electrical & mechanical), 22 suppliers, which resulted in $4.0M annual savings

• Maintained relationships with manufacturers & distributors to mitigate

supply risks, & enhanced the development of a flexible supply base

• Conducted deep and thorough review of BOM pricing and sourcing-risk

summary

• Saved $9.0M annual cost on the fleet card program that designates

$1.5B fuel pass through spend

• The contract scope includes 100K+ fleet volume across FDX US, Canada, and Latin America

• Implemented a new fleet card program for FedEx Express (30K+ fleet volume US & LAC) that resulted in $9.0M cost savings for five years

• Led supplier engagement programs including conducting vendor due diligence, RFX, negotiations and vendor management across a vehicle fuel category

• Evaluated category/spend information (total cost of ownership - TCO models), benchmarked, and made recommendations for sourcing

strategy and supplier scorecard criteria

• Led multiple sourcing events to procure raw materials for Wright Medical Biologics division with total annual spend of $11 Million that resulted in average savings of 18%

• Generated savings of $1M in non-price improvement initiative by purchasing raw materials directly from the manufacturer and removing the middleman. This project was a part of several supply chain optimization initiatives that I led

• Negotiated selected contracts, developed effective relationships with 25+ suppliers favorable for company business

• Mitigated 6.7% increase in raw material costs by leveraging benchmarking, baseline, potential synergies, competition, historical increases and volume

• Utilized analytical reasoning and critical thinking to ensure any donor related concerns are contained, explored, recovered, and sustained on-time, meeting ALSAC's enterprise-wide fundraising efforts and goals

• Led multiple cross functional projects through Agile & SCRUM methodologies by utilizing tools like Kanban board, JIRA & Confluence

• Analyzed donor issue resolution times from multiple sources like Tableau & JIRA dashboards, Salesforce, SharePoint & Business Objects to identify gaps in the processes

• Improved SLAs by 37% by creating multiple SOPs within the Issue Resolution Process to reduce ambiguity

• Created Intranet Page to generate visibility and awareness of donor experience team within the organization

• Automated and streamlined issue intake process, saving 1,200 hours annually

• Worked with IT Services, Insights and Strategy, Legal & several other teams within the organization to gather their inputs

• Provided quality and timely service to internal and external supply chain partners, including Outsourcers, RDCs, DCs, carriers, freight forwarders, and buyers. Led Continuous Improvement efforts relating to Order Management, Deliver, P&S, Manufacturing, Export within North American Supply Chain Operating Model (NA SCOM)

• SAP Tenemal Table Optimization and Incident Communication Process Improvement Saved 7 workforce hours monthly by successfully leading the project. Acted as a liaison between the Business and IT stakeholders to identify redundancies in the table. Data Analysis to identify opportunity areas from the Tenemal table in SAP. Created process map, SIPOC and other PDCA six-sigma tools to achieve desired results

• Riverdale Secondary Markets Best Mode optimization Led secondary markets mode optimization project to utilize lower cost mode for product delivery to secondary market saving $270K for International Paper. Utilized six-sigma tools such as A3, process map, fishbone, DMAIC, SIPOC, Five Whys to identify waste & gaps in the current process. Performed data analysis and representation. Sustaining the results by publishing weekly reports, & SOPs