Steven Smith
About
Steven Smith is from Orange County, California, United States. Steven works in the following industries: "Medical Device", and "Cosmetics". Steven is currently Vice President Operations & Supply Chain at PakLab, located in Greater Los Angeles Area. In Steven's previous role as a Management Consultant at Smith Consulting, Steven worked in Greater Los Angeles Area until Apr 2011. Prior to joining Smith Consulting, Steven was a Vice President Supply Chain at Sechrist Industries, Inc. (private equity: The Jordan Company) and held the position of Vice President Supply Chain at Orange County, California Area. Prior to that, Steven was a Director of Manufacturing & Supply Chain at Sechrist Industries, Inc. (private ownership), based in Orange County, California Area from Feb 2000 to Nov 2005. Steven started working as Director Of Manufacturing at Sechrist Industries, Inc. (private equity: Summit Partners) in Orange County, California Area in Dec 1994. From Mar 1990 to Dec 1994, Steven was Manufacturing Manager at Baxter Healthcare, Inc., based in Orange County, California Area.
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Steven Smith's current jobs
Leadership of multi-site contract manufacturing operations, including supply chain and procurement team, planning team, packaging engineering team, customer service, project management, estimating, cost accounting, IT, and inventory control functions with clients in the OTC drug, beauty and grooming, and personal care industry. Commercial liaison to large corporate accounts including Procter & Gamble, L’Oréal, Allergan, and others.
Steven Smith's past jobs
Management consulting services in the medical device arena with a focus on organizational development, continuous improvement as a culture, and process improvement methods. Key customer KAP Medical where services were provided in a leadership role as a General Manager role of a FDA regulated medical products business (therapeutic support systems). Provided departmental structure development and personnel hiring of key business positions in support of a rapid growth business segment, while driving the organization to ISO13485 registration. Key negotiator in corporate relationships for delivery, terms and distribution rights.
Leadership in operations and supply chain in a FDA regulated medical device business (hyperbaric oxygen chambers, infant ventilators, adult ventilators, phototherapy lamps, gas oxygen mixers). Areas of responsibility included strategic planning, supply chain development, demand planning, materials forecasting, purchasing, production planning, and warehouse operations, product costing, and standard cost development. * Led strategic procurement initiative and established supply chain with key manufacturers in China and Taiwan resulting in 34% door-to-door cost savings. * Established demand planning model that increased product on-time delivery to 98+%. * Negotiated corporate contracts with common carrier and ocean freight carriers resulting in priority-position freight-in and increased freight savings of 27%.
* Developed third party supply management system for company-owned subsidiary wound care business (Praxis Clinical Services: 50+ hospital sites). Resulted in 80% reduction in Praxis inventory carry. * Led Lean initiative that decreased in-house machining operations throughput time by 38%. * Developed product configuration strategy that eliminated the need for stocking of product variations: results were 6% inventory avoidance.
* Led manufacturing operations restructuring in preparation for Initial Public Offering. * Developed standard operating procedures and led manufacturing implementation for ISO9001, ISO13485 and EN46001 certifications. * Led implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (SoftBrands: Fourth Shift) in successful Class A implementation: resulted in 20% total inventory reduction.
Led manufacturing operations of analytical chemistry systems and consumables in $160MM medical device division. Operations included functional system testing, electronic assembly and test, electromechanical assembly, molding operations, and consumables packaging. * Led cell manufacturing team resulting in 60% throughput increase. * Led MRP system (Computer Associates: Pansophic) implementation team for manufacturing. * Led Research & Development team (spectrophotometry) in product development of new analytical platform, utilizing cross-functional team approach. * Developed division supplier certification program with supplier development team.