Patrick Fredrick
About
Patrick Fredrick is from Whitmore Lake, Michigan, United States. Patrick is currently Purchasing Director - Direct Purchasing at Yazaki North America. In Patrick's previous role as a Purchasing Director - Indirect Purchasing at Yazaki North America, Patrick worked in until Jul 2005. Prior to joining Yazaki North America, Patrick was a Indirect Purchasing Manager at Yazaki North America and held the position of Indirect Purchasing Manager. Prior to that, Patrick was a Finance Manager at Yazaki North America from Mar 1995 to Dec 1999. Patrick started working as Buyer at Yazaki North America in Apr 1992.
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Patrick Fredrick's current jobs
Responsible for both Commodity and Advanced Purchasing for all components going into our end products (wire harnesses, electronic modules, and other electronis). Major activities: Cost Reduction, Contract Negotiation, Supply Risk Analysis, Minority Sourcing, and Program Management. Manage 650,000,000 in spend for the America's region
Patrick Fredrick's past jobs
Responsible for all Indirect Purchasing activities in North Americain. Major Activities: Consolidateing Spend, Contract Negotiation, Centralized P.O. funtion, Category Sourcing.
Responsible to investigate and propose a strategy to centralize indirect purchasing at Yazaki (We ended up bringing in ATKearney to help us source 5 categories and teach us how to do this on our own moving forward). Over the course of 4 years I created a centralized organaztion that became responsible for all contact negotiations and indirect transation. The department grew from 2 to 16 over that time period.
In charge of month end P&L close, budgeting, and forecasting for the components bussiness unit. ( for 3 P&L cost centers)
Commodity Buyer responsible for routing components, bulk coverings, connectors, terminals, and injection molding tooling.