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Rita Rogalewski

Spicewood,TX

Summary

Strategically minded Global Supply Chain Manager with a strong background in semiconductor procurement, materials planning, logistics, inventory control, manufacturing, contract management, EMC compliance, and export control. Highly effective leader with cross-cultural, global employee management, customer service perspective, and proven success in building relationships, teams, and business processes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Global Supply Chain Manager

NXP Semiconductors
Austin, TX
05.2010 - Current
  • Manage the board's Global Supply Chain initiatives to enhance operational efficiency across five regions.
  • Manage a global inventory valued at $18 million.
  • Monitor open liabilities averaging $30 million to mitigate financial risks.
  • Developed a tariff avoidance program, generating $2 million in annual cost avoidance.
  • Oversee cross-functional teams for timely board manufacturing, EMC compliance, purchase requisition release, export certification, ARAS PLM assistance, and customer board warranty support.
  • Implemented process improvements across the Global Supply Chain in 2024 that effectively reduced lead times and generated a cost avoidance of $4.1M, and potential BL revenue of $2.4M in 2024, and cost avoidance of $1.3M, with potential revenue to the BLs of $984K YTD 2025.
  • Collaborate with Commodity Management to negotiate contracts, securing favorable purchasing terms.
  • Work side by side with project manufacturing engineers, when needed, to assess known risks, and provide a solution to avoid missed NPI launches.
  • Lead supplier strategic sourcing and selection for board packaging materials, and logistics suppliers.
  • Created and managed a Wi-Fi silicon card sample center in Austin, Texas, through my logistics team, which provides silicon samples to customers.
  • Establish and oversee new Wi-Fi module distribution to contract manufacturers and third-party vendors that handle manufacturing, assembly, packaging, and testing of boards.
  • Initiated a tariff impact report with internal IT team that auto generates tariff impact based on tariff tax based on PO line cost, country of origin and reciprocal tariff tax for the destination country.

Skills

  • Supply chain process development and implementation
  • Materials and service contract negotiations and management
  • Strategic purchasing, supplier management, and cost-reduction initiatives
  • EMC compliance (EU and UK)
  • FCC (US)
  • Export certification and compliance
  • Internal semiconductor board assembly and reworks
  • Outsourced board assembly and EMC test lab supplier management
  • Board end-to-end lifecycle management driven by silicon on boards in the US and Malaysia
  • Global cross-cultural staff management in five regions
  • SAP, Ariba, Coupa, MARC, and Blue Yonder global systems implementations
  • SAP, MARC, and Coupa procurement and logistics global system migrations
  • PMM and APICS-CPIM

Certification

  • PMM Certification, Project Management Institute, Austin, Texas
  • Smart Leadership, Problem Solving, and Decision Making, Kepner Tregoe, Austin Texas
  • APICS-CPIM, Austin, Texas

Timeline

Global Supply Chain Manager

NXP Semiconductors
05.2010 - Current

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