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Personal Information:
Name Jerry, Yang( Yang, hualong)
Sex Male
Degree Master
Major Machine Manufacturing and Automation
Working Years 14years
Birth date 1979.3
Highlights & Summary
Detailed Working Experience
Aug 2014 ~ Now, Caterpillar (China) Investment Co., LTD Global Purchasing-Supply
Excellence (Initiative Leader/Solution Owner-Supplier Warranty Management Initiative)
Key achievements:
1, Developed AP region ( China , Japan, India, Thailand and Indonesia ) Supplier Warranty
Recovery Process
2, Improved Agreement Recovery Rate from 16% to70%
3, Supplier Warranty Recovery Amount increased from $500K/Year to $3.0M/Year
Detailed experience:
Collaborated with senior stakeholders and business partners to collect VOB/VOC and drive
business team’s change management.
Identified critical business opportunity through big data analysis, provided business solution to
different internal BU or Category Team.
Designed, developed, deployed, and monitored internal BU or external supplier capabilities that
produce consistent business results, ensure successful deployment through solution creation,
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training and coaching users to drive adoption and continuous improvement.
Contributed to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices,
offerings, services and developed the associated tools & training.
Engaged all related “change targets” to involve the new initiative to achieve corporate level
business result.
Worked with cross function team/BU, like as different product group ,Regional Local Legal and
Local Accounting to develop initiative process etc.
Developed performance metrics that demonstrate business impact. Prepared monthly, quarterly,
year-end and as-needed performance metrics. Conducted Regular Review with Category team
and other functions, Drive the process improvement through performance metrics.
Reviewed and approved Master Purchasing Agreement(MPA) / Warranty Administration
Agreement (WAA) , Provided alternative commercial terms solutions and helped CAT team and
supplier get final consensus on the agreements.
Jul, 2010~Aug 2014, Caterpillar (China) Investment Co., LTD Global strategic purchasing
Buyer& SDE ( Direct material , Heat Transfer)
Key achievements:
1, Annual spending : 20MUSD@2010;39MUSD@2011;45M USD@2012;$48M@2013;$45M@2014
2, PPM:371PPM
3, Provided service for 26 receiving facilities.
4, Product is complex components: including of Fabrication, AL casting, PF parts, Assemblying process.
5, Work as the mentor of the young engineer since Oct 2011.
Detailed experience:
Responsible for searching and evaluating world-class Supplier for Caterpillar global
manufacturing facility (Caterpillar Xuzhou, Suzhou, Brazil, UK, USA &Japan,etc)
Managed and negotiated all kinds of commercial terms with suppliers, Like as Confidential
agreement, Warranty agreement, Purchasing Agreement, Released and managed project level
RFQ, TCO analysis, Nomination letter, Implementation planning etc.
Analyzed cost structure and cost model, Negotiate commercial terms (Price, Terms of Payment,
Delivery, etc.)
Established and maintained cross-functional linkage with CAT plants worldwide to assure
effective sharing of sourcing information (Supplier performance review, Project status).
Led project implementation from pilot stage into PPAP approval stage in quality tools, APQP,
PPAP, PFMEA, Etc, Monitored project timeline and managed PPAP meeting, follow up and
close all open issues.
For resource project, Worked together R&D team to instruct suppliers to understand technical
specifications.
For NPI project, worked together with R&D Team and supplier make project develop and
validation plan and schedule.
Using Caterpillar supplier evaluation system with key performance indicators, regular release
supplier performance report and review with internal customers management team and supplier
management team.
Solved all kinds for related quality issues (quality defects, delivery delay, slow response, etc),
Organized and performed training for supplier in order to identify improvement opportunities
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through VSM, Metrics.
Aug, 2007~Jul 2010, Caterpillar (China) Investment Co., LTD
Global Purchasing Indirect purchasing Management Trainee—Strategic Sourcing (3 Years)
1st Year Rotation (Global Purchasing shanghai – Indirect—Machine &Equipment ,APA)
Responsible for maintaining the relationship with customers (Caterpillar Manufacturing facility)
by understanding customers’ requirements and coordinating the relationship between customers
and suppliers.To drive early supplier involvement activities.
Prepared RFQ and collected competitive quotations and proposals from multiple suppliers.
Negotiated with the suppliers to ensure the total cost (Price, Quality, Logistics, Manufacturing,
Payment,etc.) lower by identifying new qualified suppliers and optimizing the cost level of
existing suppliers
Created the PO and all related commercial terms, made sure all these terms meet commercial
requirements and business requirements.
Responsible for all supplier contracts to ensure that the required legal terms, commercial terms
(Price, Payment, Delivery, maintenance, warranty, etc) and technical terms (drawings,
specifications, etc) met each Business Unit’s requirements.
Responsible for quarterly reporting regarding purchasing activity and supplier quality
performance. For example, total spending, Level 1 and Level 3 cost savings, supplier delivery
performance, supplier quality performance.
Solved all kinds of procurement issues by working together with cross function team, such as ,
quality issues, delivery delay, payment issues, etc.
2nd Year Rotation (Caterpillar Xuzhou Co., Limited. – Operation supervisor-Fabrication)
Daily Production Plan Execution; Allocated production task to team member in order to ensure
production to be finished in compliance with safe job procedures and on time.
Conducted process improvement dialogs with team.To solve daily production issues timely,
made sure new ideas are generated and implemented.
Performed safety/waste walk to audit safety behavior,5s and house keeping, Driven the waste
elimination by CPS 15 principles.
Worked together with technical team for processing support (work instruction, tooling, lifting
device and methods) to meet production requirements.
Worked together with supply chain team, make sure that necessary parts and materials are
ordered and distributed in a timely and efficient manner.
Identified and resolved preventive maintenance issues, Ensured preventive maintenance is
performed according to schedule.
According to the production plan, reviewed machine capacities and manpower balance to ensure
resources available
Team performance management by metric board: daily collected operator's performance from
PQVC side, Encouraged and inspired them work actively and effectively through monthly
metrics boards.
3rd Year Rotation (Caterpillar Suzhou Co., Limited. – Assembly Process Engineer)
Selected the proper torque tools, small tools, fixture, lifting device and tool boards for Assembly
line.
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Selecting and/or designing right gauges/devices for inspection
Led some key equipments and tools implemented, like as DC torque tools, Line wrench, and
Andon system.
Led Data integration system project implementation to ensure product quality improvement and
control.
Torque lab technical support; developed the tools procurement process, the tools distribution
process and the tools calibration process, To improve the work and communication efficiency,
and tools calibration accuracy at different joint type situations.
Preparing documents to support the shop floor production. Like as Work Instruction Sheet,
Operation Instruction, Quality Checking Inspections and codes that fits the equipment
On site supporting for assembly line, solved the production issues in timely.
Apr.2005-Aug.2007 GE China Technology Center (CTC ) Program manager
Responsible for leading fixture new product development, following company development
process. Worked with Product Manager and System Manager, understood technical specification
and customer expectations, and working with program team to delivery quality product within
time and budget;
Worked with Design and Electrical engineer on design, evaluation, tooling and product
qualification. Participated in defining design specifications, Design Failure Modes and Effects
Analysis, Design Freeze, Design Validation, Product Qualification;
Worked with Sourcing and Quality on Supplier selection, tooling cost/Unit price evaluation, and
quality control;
Worked with supplier to improve the product performance to test capability meet GE
requirement;
Jul.2000-Aug.2002 Xuchang Tobacco Machine LTD.
Mechanical Design Engineer
Designed the hopper and the cutter head of the MKS,MK95,Super9 Tobacco maker that make
the cigarettes .Independently designed the sub-assembly of the cutter and all parts ,worked out
the virtual assemble of the new product by Pro-e2000i.
Project Documentation and Project reporting
Documented the English technical data for new product exporting, including of the user manual,
specification and product configuration in English.
Workshop Engineer
CNC programming, coordinate manufacturing process, Designing fixture in the workshop.
Educational Background :
2002.9---2005.3 Master Shanghai University
1996.9---2000.6 Bachelor Institute of GuiLin Electronic Industry Technology.
English Skill:
Good Listening ,Reading and writing English skills, 2~3times meeting/week with USA team in
English directly.
Computer Skill:
Proficiency in MS Office software,etc.
Certification :
6 Sigma BB Certification