Senior Manager Supply Chain Excellence
Yanfeng · Louisville, KY · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes internal job summary, essential functions (which are responsibilities), required education, required experience, technical knowledge, preferred qualifications. No explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not include those sections.
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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes internal job summary, essential functions (which are responsibilities), required education, required experience, technical knowledge, preferred qualifications. No explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not include those sections.
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for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some fluff at start about Yanfeng; that's substantive? It's company description. Should we include? It's part of job posting but not a section heading. We can include as a paragraph under maybe "About the role" or just as intro. The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have a heading like "About the role" maybe. The internal job summary is basically description. Could be under "About the role". We'll create
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Then after essential functions we have sections: Required Education, Required Experience, Technical Knowledge, Preferred Qualifications. Those could be under Requirements and Qualifications sections. The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should have Requirements
containing Required Education and Required Experience maybe as subheadings or lists. And Qualifications
containing Technical Knowledge and Preferred Qualifications.
We need to decide structure: Could have Requirements
then Education
etc. Or we could just put paragraphs under Requirements. But to preserve detail, we can list each requirement as list items.
Similarly Qualifications.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections because not present.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract content.
Company description: "Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier, focusing on interior, exterior, seating, cockpit electronics, and passive safety, and is exploring new business actively. Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 57,000 employees worldwide. The technical team of 4,200 experts is in 10 R&D centers and other regional offices, with complete capabilities including engineering and software development, styling, and test validation. Focusing on smart cabin and lightweight technology, Yanfeng supports automakers to explore future mobility and provide leading cabin solutions. For more information, please visit www.yanfeng.com."
Internal Job Summary: "The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Excellence is responsible for driving end-to-end supply chain performance across multiple manufacturing facilities by developing standardized processes, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and implementing strategic solutions that improve delivery, inventory, cost, quality, and operational efficiency. This role provides leadership and guidance to plant Materials and Logistics teams while establishing best practices across planning, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, supplier performance, customer fulfillment, systems, digitalization, and automation. The Senior Manager serves as a key business partner to Operations, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment of supply chain strategy with business objectives and customer expectations."
Now essential functions sections:
Supply Chain Strategy & Leadership:
- Lead and support multi-plant Supply Chain and Materials teams to achieve operational, financial, and customer service objectives.
- Develop and deploy enterprise-wide supply chain standards, systems, procedures, and best business practices (BBPs).
- Establish long-term supply chain strategies aligned with annual operating plans and five-year business plans.
- Drive organizational capability development through coaching, training, and mentoring of Materials and Logistics personnel.
- Lead logistics process analysis and establish operating standards, methods, tools, and governance routines across the manufacturing network.
- Coordinate logistics resources across plants and functions to strengthen site performance, standardization, and business support capability.
- Drive regional and cross-site logistics solutions, ensuring scalable standards, resource sharing, and consistent execution.
- Promote Lean logistics principles and structured improvement methods across the organization.
- Define logistics targets, transportation strategies, operating standards, and expense-control requirements that support plant and regional objectives.
- Coordinate internal and external logistics planning, implementation, packaging design, and related operating activities.
- Support standardized material-flow planning and cross-functional launch or improvement projects from concept through implementation.
- Establish and deploy packaging standards and packaging blueprints that improve material protection, handling efficiency, space utilization, and operating consistency.
- Benchmark warehouse and material-flow practices across sites and convert proven methods into reusable standards and training content.
Materials Management & Planning:
- Oversee production planning, scheduling, inventory control, warehousing, receiving, shipping, and material flow activities across multiple facilities.
- Ensure adequate material availability to support production while optimizing inventory investment and working capital.
- Monitor production schedules and material requirements to mitigate supply risks and production disruptions.
- Lead forecast reviews, budget planning, manpower planning, and capacity assessments.
Inventory & Warehouse Excellence:
- Develop inventory management strategies that improve inventory accuracy, days-on-hand (DOH), and inventory productivity.
- Lead physical inventory programs, cycle counting processes, and variance analysis.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions related to inventory discrepancies.
- Standardize warehouse operations and material handling processes throughout the organization.
- Lead logistics quotations, cost reviews, solution optimization, and packaging-plan evaluation to improve competitiveness and cost transparency.
- Build and maintain logistics cost-improvement plans, including regional cost-reduction initiatives and expense-control actions.
- Track implementation progress, validate results, and sustain improvements through standardized reviews and accountability.
Supplier Performance Management:
- Support supplier sourcing, risk assessment, and supplier development initiatives.
- Establish supplier scorecards and performance dashboards.
- Improve supplier delivery performance and accountability through KPI management and corrective action processes.
- Partner with Corporate Purchasing to strengthen supplier relationships and mitigate supply chain risk.
Transportation & Logistics Optimization:
- Develop transportation strategies focused on freight optimization, cost reduction, and service improvements.
- Establish standardized freight management, freight audit, and accrual processes.
- Lead packaging optimization and RFID-enabled packaging initiatives.
- Implement transportation management tools and processes that improve planning and execution performance.
- Establish logistics digitalization, direct-procurement, and system-integration platforms that improve execution visibility and operating capability.
- Develop and maintain logistics systems, standardized documents, work instructions, and user training materials.
- Evaluate emerging logistics technologies and coordinate pilot, rollout, user adoption, and benefit realization.
- Implement regional logistics solutions and improved operating models, then standardize successful practices for reuse across manufacturing locations.
- Perform regular business-model and process reviews to identify gaps, prioritize countermeasures, and improve logistics capability.
- Support agile problem solving and structured cross-functional improvement projects involving Operations, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and Commercial.
Customer Fulfillment & Service Excellence:
- Ensure customer delivery requirements are consistently achieved.
- Standardize customer shipping processes, scorecards, and service performance metrics.
- Lead customer portal management, delivery performance reviews, and customer claim resolution processes.
- Drive implementation of best practices for JIT, sequenced, batch, and modular delivery operations.
- Establish and govern logistics KPIs, targets, review mechanisms, and corrective-action routines at plant and regional levels.
- Use KPI trends, operational assessments, and cost reviews to prioritize improvement resources and verify sustained results.
- Develop and manage supply chain expense controls, logistics cost targets, and cost-reduction roadmaps.
- Review logistics quotations, budgets, business cases, and investment proposals for process, technology, packaging, and automation initiatives.
Customs, Trade & Compliance:
- Develop customs and trade compliance strategies including FTZ, tariff management, and global trade program governance.
- Implement standardized customs and brokerage processes.
- Ensure adherence to all regulatory, trade compliance, and customer requirements.
Digitalization & Automation:
- Lead digital transformation initiatives across supply chain operations.
- Evaluate and implement AI-based supply chain solutions and operational use cases.
- Lead Warehouse Management System (WMS), MES, RFID, AGV/VGV, and automation deployments.
- Drive process automation opportunities across receiving, warehousing, production support, shipping, customs, and brokerage functions.
Systems & Process Improvement:
- Lead development and enhancement of MRP, ERP, QAD, and supply chain planning systems.
- Support ERP implementations, upgrades, and contingency planning.
- Develop reporting tools, dashboards, and analytics to improve operational visibility and decision-making.
- Lead continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and Kaizen initiatives focused on waste reduction and process optimization.
KPI & Performance Management:
- Own and drive improvement for Production Schedule Attainment, Customer Delivery Performance, Customer Past Due, Supplier On-Time Delivery, and End-of-Production performance.
- Govern Inventory DOH, inventory value, inventory accuracy, warehouse performance, premium freight, and freight as a percentage of sales.
- Create transparent KPI reporting, assessment methods, and accountability routines that enable sustained performance improvement.
Financial Management:
- Develop annual budgets and forecasts for supply chain and materials operations.
- Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities.
- Support annual profit plans and five-year business planning activities.
- Monitor labor, transportation, inventory, and operational costs to achieve financial objectives.
People, Capability & Stakeholder Management:
- Build logistics capability through coaching, mentoring, training, knowledge sharing, and development of professional logistics talent.
- Provide guidance and escalation support to plant and regional logistics teams while encouraging ownership, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
- Maintain strong interpersonal, coordination, communication, and teamwork practices across internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure assigned work is completed on time and in accordance with company values, Leadership Competency Model expectations, information-security and confidentiality requirements, professional ethics, and legal compliance.
Now Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Equivalent work experience may be considered for certain positions.
Required Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, materials management, supply chain, logistics, or production planning.
- Automotive industry supply chain experience
- Multi-plant manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
- Leadership experience managing supply chain and
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some fluff at start about Yanfeng; that's substantive? It's company description. Should we include? It's part of job posting but not a section heading. We can include as a paragraph under maybe "About the role" or just as intro. The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have a heading like "About the role" maybe. The internal job summary is basically description. Could be under "About the role". We'll create
About the role
then awith that summary. Then responsibilities: essential functions list many bullet-like paragraphs. We need to turn them into
- . The essential functions are grouped under headings like "Supply Chain Strategy & Leadership", "Materials Management & Planning", etc. Those could be subheadings but we only allowed
for section headings; we could still use
for sub-sections? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but to be safe we could keep those as
or just treat them as part of list items? Better to keep them as
maybe but not required. However we must output only HTML fragment; using other tags is okay as long as we follow rules. The rule only specifies usage for those specific headings; doesn't forbid other tags. We'll keep subheadings as
maybe. But we need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include each bullet point as list items. We have many paragraphs under each essential function heading. We'll convert each sentence or clause into list items? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The essential functions are duties; we can make each bullet as
- . The original text uses paragraphs; we can split by sentences or by clear bullet-like statements. To preserve all info, we could keep each paragraph as a
- (so each paragraph becomes a list item). That preserves content.
Thus for each essential function heading we could have a
heading then a
- with
- for each paragraph.
Similarly for Materials Management & Planning etc.
Then after essential functions we have sections: Required Education, Required Experience, Technical Knowledge, Preferred Qualifications. Those could be under Requirements and Qualifications sections. The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should have
Requirements
containing Required Education and Required Experience maybe as subheadings or lists. AndQualifications
containing Technical Knowledge and Preferred Qualifications. We need to decide structure: Could haveRequirements
thenEducation
- etc. Or we could just put paragraphs under Requirements. But to preserve detail, we can list each requirement as list items.
Similarly Qualifications.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections because not present.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract content.
Company description: "Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier, focusing on interior, exterior, seating, cockpit electronics, and passive safety, and is exploring new business actively. Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 57,000 employees worldwide. The technical team of 4,200 experts is in 10 R&D centers and other regional offices, with complete capabilities including engineering and software development, styling, and test validation. Focusing on smart cabin and lightweight technology, Yanfeng supports automakers to explore future mobility and provide leading cabin solutions. For more information, please visit www.yanfeng.com."
Internal Job Summary: "The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Excellence is responsible for driving end-to-end supply chain performance across multiple manufacturing facilities by developing standardized processes, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and implementing strategic solutions that improve delivery, inventory, cost, quality, and operational efficiency. This role provides leadership and guidance to plant Materials and Logistics teams while establishing best practices across planning, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, supplier performance, customer fulfillment, systems, digitalization, and automation. The Senior Manager serves as a key business partner to Operations, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment of supply chain strategy with business objectives and customer expectations."
Now essential functions sections:
Supply Chain Strategy & Leadership:
- Lead and support multi-plant Supply Chain and Materials teams to achieve operational, financial, and customer service objectives.
- Develop and deploy enterprise-wide supply chain standards, systems, procedures, and best business practices (BBPs).
- Establish long-term supply chain strategies aligned with annual operating plans and five-year business plans.
- Drive organizational capability development through coaching, training, and mentoring of Materials and Logistics personnel.
- Lead logistics process analysis and establish operating standards, methods, tools, and governance routines across the manufacturing network.
- Coordinate logistics resources across plants and functions to strengthen site performance, standardization, and business support capability.
- Drive regional and cross-site logistics solutions, ensuring scalable standards, resource sharing, and consistent execution.
- Promote Lean logistics principles and structured improvement methods across the organization.
- Define logistics targets, transportation strategies, operating standards, and expense-control requirements that support plant and regional objectives.
- Coordinate internal and external logistics planning, implementation, packaging design, and related operating activities.
- Support standardized material-flow planning and cross-functional launch or improvement projects from concept through implementation.
- Establish and deploy packaging standards and packaging blueprints that improve material protection, handling efficiency, space utilization, and operating consistency.
- Benchmark warehouse and material-flow practices across sites and convert proven methods into reusable standards and training content.
Materials Management & Planning:
- Oversee production planning, scheduling, inventory control, warehousing, receiving, shipping, and material flow activities across multiple facilities.
- Ensure adequate material availability to support production while optimizing inventory investment and working capital.
- Monitor production schedules and material requirements to mitigate supply risks and production disruptions.
- Lead forecast reviews, budget planning, manpower planning, and capacity assessments.
Inventory & Warehouse Excellence:
- Develop inventory management strategies that improve inventory accuracy, days-on-hand (DOH), and inventory productivity.
- Lead physical inventory programs, cycle counting processes, and variance analysis.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions related to inventory discrepancies.
- Standardize warehouse operations and material handling processes throughout the organization.
- Lead logistics quotations, cost reviews, solution optimization, and packaging-plan evaluation to improve competitiveness and cost transparency.
- Build and maintain logistics cost-improvement plans, including regional cost-reduction initiatives and expense-control actions.
- Track implementation progress, validate results, and sustain improvements through standardized reviews and accountability.
Supplier Performance Management:
- Support supplier sourcing, risk assessment, and supplier development initiatives.
- Establish supplier scorecards and performance dashboards.
- Improve supplier delivery performance and accountability through KPI management and corrective action processes.
- Partner with Corporate Purchasing to strengthen supplier relationships and mitigate supply chain risk.
Transportation & Logistics Optimization:
- Develop transportation strategies focused on freight optimization, cost reduction, and service improvements.
- Establish standardized freight management, freight audit, and accrual processes.
- Lead packaging optimization and RFID-enabled packaging initiatives.
- Implement transportation management tools and processes that improve planning and execution performance.
- Establish logistics digitalization, direct-procurement, and system-integration platforms that improve execution visibility and operating capability.
- Develop and maintain logistics systems, standardized documents, work instructions, and user training materials.
- Evaluate emerging logistics technologies and coordinate pilot, rollout, user adoption, and benefit realization.
- Implement regional logistics solutions and improved operating models, then standardize successful practices for reuse across manufacturing locations.
- Perform regular business-model and process reviews to identify gaps, prioritize countermeasures, and improve logistics capability.
- Support agile problem solving and structured cross-functional improvement projects involving Operations, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and Commercial.
Customer Fulfillment & Service Excellence:
- Ensure customer delivery requirements are consistently achieved.
- Standardize customer shipping processes, scorecards, and service performance metrics.
- Lead customer portal management, delivery performance reviews, and customer claim resolution processes.
- Drive implementation of best practices for JIT, sequenced, batch, and modular delivery operations.
- Establish and govern logistics KPIs, targets, review mechanisms, and corrective-action routines at plant and regional levels.
- Use KPI trends, operational assessments, and cost reviews to prioritize improvement resources and verify sustained results.
- Develop and manage supply chain expense controls, logistics cost targets, and cost-reduction roadmaps.
- Review logistics quotations, budgets, business cases, and investment proposals for process, technology, packaging, and automation initiatives.
Customs, Trade & Compliance:
- Develop customs and trade compliance strategies including FTZ, tariff management, and global trade program governance.
- Implement standardized customs and brokerage processes.
- Ensure adherence to all regulatory, trade compliance, and customer requirements.
Digitalization & Automation:
- Lead digital transformation initiatives across supply chain operations.
- Evaluate and implement AI-based supply chain solutions and operational use cases.
- Lead Warehouse Management System (WMS), MES, RFID, AGV/VGV, and automation deployments.
- Drive process automation opportunities across receiving, warehousing, production support, shipping, customs, and brokerage functions.
Systems & Process Improvement:
- Lead development and enhancement of MRP, ERP, QAD, and supply chain planning systems.
- Support ERP implementations, upgrades, and contingency planning.
- Develop reporting tools, dashboards, and analytics to improve operational visibility and decision-making.
- Lead continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and Kaizen initiatives focused on waste reduction and process optimization.
KPI & Performance Management:
- Own and drive improvement for Production Schedule Attainment, Customer Delivery Performance, Customer Past Due, Supplier On-Time Delivery, and End-of-Production performance.
- Govern Inventory DOH, inventory value, inventory accuracy, warehouse performance, premium freight, and freight as a percentage of sales.
- Create transparent KPI reporting, assessment methods, and accountability routines that enable sustained performance improvement.
Financial Management:
- Develop annual budgets and forecasts for supply chain and materials operations.
- Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities.
- Support annual profit plans and five-year business planning activities.
- Monitor labor, transportation, inventory, and operational costs to achieve financial objectives.
People, Capability & Stakeholder Management:
- Build logistics capability through coaching, mentoring, training, knowledge sharing, and development of professional logistics talent.
- Provide guidance and escalation support to plant and regional logistics teams while encouraging ownership, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
- Maintain strong interpersonal, coordination, communication, and teamwork practices across internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure assigned work is completed on time and in accordance with company values, Leadership Competency Model expectations, information-security and confidentiality requirements, professional ethics, and legal compliance.
Now Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Equivalent work experience may be considered for certain positions.
Required Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, materials management, supply chain, logistics, or production planning.
- Automotive industry supply chain experience
- Multi-plant manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
- Leadership experience managing supply chain and
- for each paragraph.
Similarly for Materials Management & Planning etc.
Then after essential functions we have sections: Required Education, Required Experience, Technical Knowledge, Preferred Qualifications. Those could be under Requirements and Qualifications sections. The instruction: Use
- . The essential functions are grouped under headings like "Supply Chain Strategy & Leadership", "Materials Management & Planning", etc. Those could be subheadings but we only allowed