Ken Siakkhasone
Summary
Resourceful Buyer known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Excel in negotiation, inventory management, and supplier relationship building. Skilled at problem-solving, communication, and analytical thinking to exceed job expectations. Committed to leveraging these skills to drive success and achieve organizational goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Buyer II
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Contract thru Maxonic
Fremont, CA
08.2024 - 02.2025
- Responsible for spare and indirect purchasing and production scheduling.
- Stepped in to take on the scheduling responsibility for chemical filling and packaging, and I helped avoid any disruption to production and revenue shipments.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align plans based on shortages, resources, and capacities and published bi-weekly production schedules.
- Support sales and demand planning by pulling work orders, expediting, monitoring status, and adjusting the schedule.
- Responsible for ensuring that spare parts at the third-party warehouse meet safety stock requirements and that purchase orders are placed as needed to support service requirements.
Supplier Programs Analyst
Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Contract thru Maxonic
Sunnyvale, CA
12.2023 - 07.2024
- Responsible for planning and engaging suppliers on the Coupa Supplier Portal (CSP) campaign to onboard suppliers for invoicing automation, aiming to reduce the workload of the accounts payable (AP) team
- Within 3 months, successfully registered over 100 suppliers to link to Coupa, effectively reducing manual processing for over 1,000 invoices and speeding up invoice processing
- Used Pivot Tables and V-Lookups to identify the top 100 supplies spent and invoices
- Took charge of initiating supplier engagement and sending invitations for suppliers to connect and link to CSP with Intuitive
- Acted as the main point of contact and subject matter expert for the suppliers, clearly understanding CSP onboarding and account creation processes and ensuring an optimal end-user experience by assessing stakeholder needs and recommending solutions and changes
- Created and updated user guide workflows and built and maintained campaign dashboards, metrics, and KPIs to keep track of daily progress
Buyer II
Cepheid
Sunnyvale, CA
10.2019 - 04.2023
- Managed the placement, confirmation, and expediting of POs for both direct and indirect materials, ensuring on-time deliveries, and aligning with production requirements.
- Set the standards for procuring instruments for testing for COVID and other viruses, as their installations at customers’ sites increased from 30K to 40K, and supported the supply chain from the purchasing side.
- Improved supplier performance by establishing OTIF metrics, resulting in a 20% increase in on-time delivery. Negotiated with suppliers to resolve delivery issues, and improved on-time deliveries by collaborating with the planning team and contract manufacturer to streamline the module production and PO change order processes.
- Successfully implemented automation in procurement processes using SAP Ariba, reducing the manual workload and reduced procurement cycle times by 15%.
- Led several special projects aimed at increasing operational efficiency. Trained new employees on the P2P process, from initiating PRs to reconciling open issues, resulting in decreased AP processing time for past-due invoices from over three weeks. Created work instructions for best practices on returning rework instruments to the supplier and reduced receiving and invoice issues by 50%.
- Served as the primary contact for engineering with new qualification projects, creating purchase requests and purchasing order processes from beginning to end, as well as approvals, new vendor onboarding, PO receipts, and invoice resolutions.
- Collaborated with suppliers and quality engineering teams in the supplier review board to identify and resolve product quality issues, facilitating corrective actions to improve supplier performance and product quality. Utilized detailed KPI performance reports and supplier scorecards (OTIF).
Service Buyer
Cepheid
Sunnyvale, CA
10.2018 - 09.2019
- Enabled field service teams and worldwide service centers to meet demand by purchasing supplies and materials, including sheet metal, spare parts, peripherals, chemicals, and sub-assemblies.
- Increased purchasing power, reduced costs, and streamlined procurement by consolidating spending through the contract manufacturer, leading to supplier qualification and onboarding.
- Managed and maintained purchasing and planning data in ERP systems (SAP), saving spending by $750K by helping to identify signaling errors in the MRP system after it appeared to drive more demand for three assembly PNs.
- Performed data analysis to identify end-of-life components and expired materials, resulting in over $100K inventory reduction.
Computer Buyer
Cepheid
Sunnyvale, CA
10.2015 - 10.2018
- Led more than 20 new qualifications on 10 different computer configurations.
- Involved early in product selections and cost negotiation, I planned and tracked engineering qualifications and drove the release into inventory.
- Led cost-saving initiatives that reduced computer lifecycle costs by $3M, driving significant savings for the company.
- Led cross-functional teams to address supply chain disruptions, collaborating with production, planning, and engineering teams to ensure timely procurement, and avoid production delays.
Direct and Indirect Buyer
Cepheid
Sunnyvale, CA
10.2011 - 10.2015
- Enabled on-time in-house production by procuring and purchasing electronic and mechanical components, sheet metals, machined parts, wire and cable assemblies, lab supplies, and chemicals
- Utilized Pivot Tables to analyze procurement data and reduced sheet metal spend by 15%, identify cost-saving opportunities, and optimize supplier performance
- Decreased annual grease packaging costs by 20% by helping engineering to qualify in-house packaging, reducing mark-ups from 30% to <20% from outsourcing, and ensuring that grease quality was appropriately managed in-house
- Negotiated and saved 6%-10% on software license and labor costs, supporting project managers in multiple implementation projects from Marketing, Finance, and Engineering
Education
B.A. - Business Administration
San Jose State University
San Jose, CASkills
- Change Management
- Process Automation
- Supplier Relations
- SAP
- Ariba
- Microsoft Excel
- Data analysis
- Supplier negotiation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Supplier onboarding
- Vendor relations
- Negotiation
- Demand forecasting
- Procurement procedures
Accomplishments
Successfully led the cross-functional team with new computer products to support market releases and scheduled daily chemical filling and packaging to meet revenue shipments., Established a medical business’s standards for purchasing instruments, services, computers, and components. Lowered spending for computers by $3M over 2 years. Lowered packaging costs by 20%. Leveraged computer background to reduce costs throughout the computer lifecycle. Made procurement more data-driven., Improved on-time deliveries from 70% to >95%. Prevented 5 months of line downtime and 4 months of computer downtime. Recognized and rewarded for saving revenue shipments 3 times by obtaining critical components for production builds with tight deadlines. Helped open plants in India and Southeast Asia by ensuring quality and on-time logistics. Decreased person-hours for buyers by automating processes., Established more financial analysis for procurement and consistently ensured that items were correctly assigned to accounts. Reduced AP workload by onboarding suppliers to invoice through the portal., Regularly interfaced with manufacturers and suppliers; negotiated favorable prices and terms. Established company-wide standards for documentation for purchasing.
Timeline
Buyer II
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Contract thru Maxonic
08.2024 - 02.2025
Supplier Programs Analyst
Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Contract thru Maxonic
12.2023 - 07.2024
Buyer II
Cepheid
10.2019 - 04.2023
Service Buyer
Cepheid
10.2018 - 09.2019
Computer Buyer
Cepheid
10.2015 - 10.2018
Direct and Indirect Buyer
Cepheid
10.2011 - 10.2015
B.A. - Business Administration
San Jose State University
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