Drew Huff

Responsible for the development and implementation of the North American sourcing strategy that supports the company’s aggressive growth plans and new product implementation while ensuring product quality, availability and customer service are consistently met.

• Responsible for developing and implementing growth strategies • Create and manage budgets • Overseas daily business operation • Lead all business decisions for analysis and purchasing additional properties • Negotiates all aspects of services and repairs • Improving revenue

• Led global supply chain teams of 9 manufacturing plants in an effective integration of systems and processes of $152M in spend with 1 direct report and 11 indirect reports • Oversaw supply chain team in attaining over $1.3M in synergy savings in the first 9 months of integration and developed path to attain over $2M additional synergies in next 12 months • Critical focus in ensuring accuracy and alignment between project savings and actual financial results • Managed operations and engineering teams to design and attain quotes for capital equipment to insource an operation; reduced lead time by 85% and cost by 50% with less than a 3-year ROI • Negotiated savings of over $850K off purchase of $4.3M capital equipment • Partnered with export department to assure 2,000+ SKUs were coded correctly for timely port passage and tariff compliance

• Led global supply chain and operations teams of 9 manufacturing plants in U.S., EU and Asia to generate over $3M in savings YOY for the last 5 years • Senior leadership team responsible for developing spend budgets for last 11 years • Spend responsibility of $152M+ annually • Demonstrated leadership and problem-solving abilities to overcome an outside single source supplier filing Chapter 7, following takeover, and led the business for 3 years; improved on time delivery from 50% to over 95% and reduced scrap by 95% • Oversaw the implementation plan utilizing a 3PL for LTL freight and negotiated savings of $250K+ in year one • Lead negotiator and oversite of local fleet of trucks; insourced freight for an annual savings of $100K+ • Supervised a fleet of over 90 vehicles across 7 manufacturing and 12 distribution facilities • Managed 100K sq. ft. warehouse servicing 4 companies, shipped $63M+ annually, and reduced cost of operation by $200K in year one; oversaw 60 employees – 65% temps • Led the supply chain and purchasing teams in the successful integration of two acquisitions • Lead negotiator in implementing 30K sq. ft. warehouse in India

• Full P&L responsibility and directed a team accountable for shipping 12M pounds of fasteners and near net shapes annually • Led cross-functional teams and developed the process to reduce past due from $650K to $150K in 6 months • Managed 67 union and 13 salaried employees • Handled 25 primary forming and 37 secondary machines along with a full tool and die room • Held responsibility for developing and reporting forecasts to the President • Oversaw the operations team to increase production efficiency from 33% to 55% over a 2-year period • Developed real time production reporting system and scrap reduction program

• Direct responsibility for 3 salaried employees in customer service, 4 salaried employees in inside sales, and 5 salaried employees in scheduling • Dotted-line responsibility for materials planning and coordinated efforts between customer service and materials planning teams to maintain 95%+ on time delivery for last three years • Managed all order processing both manual and EDI with an annual value of $80M+ • Oversaw forecasting usage of over 1K SKUs

• Major contributor in design and installation of warehouse in Indiana of over 100K sq. ft., consisting of both manual and automatic packing, picking, assembling and shipping operations; developed and installed real time packing and shipping RF bar coding systems in conjunction with IT department • Oversaw all shipment planning and scheduling for Ohio and Indiana plants • Developed annual operating and capital expenditure budgets for multi-plant operation such as packing, assembling, shipping and warehouse activities, in addition to production reporting, asset utilization, operating expenses, safety, and maximizing efficiency • Directed 10 salaried and 50 labor employees • Led cross-functional teams of operations and sales to develop inventory stocking levels • Developed, managed and analyzed monthly performance results, key performance indicators, and operational metrics to ensure alignment with business objectives and initiatives • Member of the company negotiations and grievance committee, as well as company representative at arbitrations

• Held responsibility for manufacturing planning and scheduling of 16 primary assets and 15 secondary assets • Co-Leader of the development and implementation of a new ERP business system • Became super-user of new ERP system and primary leader in train-the-trainer program

• Scheduled various primary heading and secondary threading machines • Responsible for products shipping to outside vendors on a daily basis • Daily contact with vendors to assure outside processes were completed and product returned on time

• Maintained Costed Bill of Materials • Completed Inventory Audits • Provided actual spend and PPV reports to manager monthly