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GORKEM KOSEOGLU

Franklin,TN

Summary

Senior-level professional with 20 years of progressive accomplishments with extensive experience in creating strategies and leading execution of all global supply chain activities for start-up companies and diversified international operations.

Manages and leads cross-functional teams to drive product supply and productivity improvements. Leads risk mitigation, while driving supply chain strategies for end-to-end pipeline management and supply planning.

Data focused, analytics driven approach. Cross-functional team building, communication and interpersonal skills.

Capability to manage ambiguity and influence others. Result focused and effective leader with proven ability to proactively turn the Supply Chain into a seamless, smooth flowing and robust pipeline by pulling together the People, Processes & Technology.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Global Inventory & Logistics Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
Nashville, TN
06.2019 - Current
  • Lead COVID-19 Supply risk mitigation for Filtration Business Unit (1.5B$ Sales, 250M$ Inventory)
  • Implemented expedite freight approval process and acted as the escalation point of contact.
  • Improved Logistics Cost by 3M$
  • Improved customer experience by reducing delivery lead times (Europe: From 4 days to 2 days)
  • Created inventory strategy along with implementation of analytical tools and dashboards to control inventory improvement progress.
  • Implemented Global Customer Back Order dashboard and used the tool as common source of data to synchronize demand and supply constraints to maximize customer satisfaction.

Regional Inventory Leader

Cummins Inc. (Global Cummins)
Nashville, TN
01.2012 - Current
  • Established inventory governance process (550M$) in region from scratch through improving planning processes.
  • Implemented advanced analytics tools for inventory optimization
  • Hired and developed specialists to support analytics and and inventory optimization projects.
  • Lead team of Materials Leaders in region by taking business requirements and complex problem statements, and clearly defining data statistical projects.
  • Defined Inventory Entitlement for region, taking into consideration region complexity such as lead time (transit and manufacturing), supplier delivery, demand variation, strategic stock requirements, suppliers in risk mitigation.

EU, Mid. East, Africa, Asia Pac. Materials Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
Izmir, Turkey
06.2017 - 06.2019
  • Guiding EMEA/APAC plants and distribution centers to increase availability, and improve delivery.
  • Acted as the liaison between Filtration sites by creating integrated, robust, cross functional communication structure to address supply failures
  • Implemented Demand and Supply Alignment forums for EMEA / APAC region
  • Availability at Europe Distribution center improved from 88% to 94% in 2018

Global Inventory Manager

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
Izmir, Turkey
09.2014 - 06.2017
  • Accountable for the inventory function globally which covers 10 plants and 11 distribution centers
  • Established foundational inventory management process: “Safety Stock Management” and “Excess & Obsolete Management”.
  • Performed global Inventory reduction from $180M to $153M while increased inventory turns from 4.3 to 5.2
  • Performed Excess and Obsolete inventory reduction by 23% from 9.2M to $7.1M
  • Implemented IQR software (Inventory Quality Ratio) for all filtration sites and provided on site trainings
  • Implemented “Inventory Entitlement Model” for Cummins Filtration China as 6 Sigma project which resulted in 28% inventory reduction from $11.9M to $8.5M.

Plant Supply Chain Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
Izmir, Turkey
06.2011 - 09.2014
  • Member of Plant Leadership team, company representative holding signatory rights
  • Leading a team of 17 from Strategy to Execution for whole Supply Chain which covers Master Production Scheduling, detailed production planning, raw material inventory planning and supplier management, inbound logistics, customs processes, warehouse management, internal material flows within the plant, outbound logistics, indirect purchasing
  • Created Supply Chain organization from design to execution from scratch.
  • Implemented global Cummins systems “Oracle” , “Maximo”, “Ariba”
  • Improved Production scheduling process which resulted in 10% capacity increase as a result of a 6 Sigma project
  • Achieved top class performance: On time delivery 95%, Inventory turns >10

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Henkel Adhesives
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2009 - 06.2011
  • Member of Executive Community, leading team of 115 people (87 of them in LLP payroll) from Strategy to Execution for whole Supply Chain for Adhesive Division: Sales €150 M, Inventory €18.5 M, 5300 SKUs, 3 Production Plants
  • Implementation of new Supply Chain set up by merging two separate business unit supply chain organizations. Trained and helped to create team work environment. Resulted in 20% saving from over head cost.
  • Redesigned and implemented new DC (22,000 pallet capacity/14,000 sqm) and consolidated logistics flows by merging 8 different warehouses into one master DC that is outsourced to 3PL.
  • Improved supply chain technology(Information system) that supports multiple levels of decision making: SOPI and SOPII and WMS implementations completed in SAP
  • Locally configures SAP platform is transferred to Global platform in line with Global ERP project
  • Leader of all logistic buying activities as well as other services as a result of which 2 new tenders for transportation resulted in 15% cost decrease

Education

Bachelor of Arts - International Relations

Bogazici University
Istanbul Turkey
06.2000

Skills

  • Customs Compliance Regulations
  • Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Six Sigma - Lean
  • Warehousing - WMS implementation
  • Outsourcing - 3PL Management
  • Transportation
  • Analytics and Master Data Management
  • Demand Planning and Forecasting
  • Production Planning - Line scheduling
  • Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
  • Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)
  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
  • Materials Management
  • Internal material flows
  • Plan for Every Part (PFEP)
  • Plant start-up, Organization restructuring
  • Oracle - SAP - PowerBI - Tableau

Certification

  • Six Sigma Sponsor Certification
  • Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSP)
  • Henkel Academy; Leadership I “Leading your people”
  • Henkel Academy; Leadership II “Leading your team”
  • Production Management Institute; APICS “Basics of Supply Chain Management”
  • IEDC - Bled School of Management; Strategic Management Tools I “Change Management, Strategic marketing, Compliance”
  • IEDC - Bled School of Management; Strategic Management Tools II “Business Planning and reporting”
  • IEDC - Bled School of Management; Strategic Management Tools III “Customer Relationship Management, Leadership and Motivation ”
  • IEDC - Bled School of Management; Strategic Management Tools IV “Strategic Management”

Timeline

Global Inventory & Logistics Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
06.2019 - Current

EU, Mid. East, Africa, Asia Pac. Materials Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
06.2017 - 06.2019

Global Inventory Manager

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
09.2014 - 06.2017

Regional Inventory Leader

Cummins Inc. (Global Cummins)
01.2012 - Current

Plant Supply Chain Leader

Cummins Inc. (Filtration Business)
06.2011 - 09.2014

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Henkel Adhesives
04.2009 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Arts - International Relations

Bogazici University

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