Alexander M. Carels
122 Lawton Street
Greenwood, SC 29649
864-538-8462
CAREER OVERVIEW
A highly motivated, experienced Multilingual Purchasing and Sales Professional with a proven record in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Sales and Customer Service. Focused on finding supply chain solutions to internal and external customer needs in a manufacturing and logistics environment. Both a motivator, leader, and team player. Highly analytically minded, with a problem solving attitude. “There are no problems, only solutions.”
EXPERIENCE
December 2014-December 2017
Multilingual Procurement Specialist 2
Fujifilm Manufacturing USA - Greenwood, SC
Global Procurement:
●Contract negotiation; pricing and assuring stable supply of L-Plant raw materials (one-time use cameras), Japanese chemicals for all other plants (aluminum offset plate, silver-treated photo paper)
●Raw materials and capital at Fujifilm Hunt Chemicals, Rolling Meadows, IL
●Responsible for all Capital Procurement across the Fujifilm Greenwood manufacturing site (eight plants, Fujifilm's largest DC, two Wastewater Treatment facilities, and one Recycling Center, including aluminum and silver recovery projects.
●Improvements in Supply Chain Management, Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI), Vendor Relations, Freight, etc.
●Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2015 in Transition ISO Team
●Communicated and assisted with Japanese head office in Tokyo, and Japanese vendors, in Japanese. Communicated and assisted with Dutch head office in Tilburg (in Dutch and English), and in German and French with European offices.
2006-2014
Multilingual Senior Supply Chain Analyst
JST Corp - Waukegan, IL & Guntersville, AL
●Responsible for $2M inventory for one of the largest electronic component manufacturers.
●Responsible for purchasing components from Japanese factories, as well as Asian and European factories within the JST network
●Procure of tooling equipment for the manufacturing, stamping, and molding of electric components
●Managed sales accounts to domestic and international external customers for the Automotive Appliance, Medical, and Distribution divisions
●Provided Japanese-language support in technical and quality issues for internal and external customers
●Negotiated with global forwarders on rates, delivery, and SCM solutions
●Provided management reports in Excel and Powerpoint for presentation regarding sales, inventory and supply chain analyses
●Created in-depth action plan for improving the JST supply chain, including saving tens of thousand of dollars in JST USA’s Brazil Route
●Responsible for compliance with both import and export regulations. Created an Import Manual for the Guntersville, AL office
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-2006
Customer and Cargo Agent
Japan Airlines - Worldwide Flight Services - O’Hare International Airport - Chicago, IL
●Provided customer service and cargo arrangements
●December 2006 - Employee of the Month
1994-2005
Supply Chain Coordinator
Heineken International Corp [Nederland B.V]
Zoeterwoude & Maastricht, Netherlands
●In Corporate Distribution and Logistic departments, provided and setup Supply Chain Management training sessions and manuals to Heineken managers worldwide
●Provided manufacturing, technical, and quality support services for the Heineken Brewery (DeRidder) in Maastricht, Netherlands
LANGUAGES
●I am a Dutch national, and green card holder since 2005. I actively speak, read, and write in five languages, including:
●Dutch - native speaker
●English - near native level
●Japanese - business Japanese; writing, spoken
●German - business
●French - basic level
EDUCATION
1989-1990
Leiden University - Leiden, Netherlands
Degree in English Language & Literature
1990-1994
Maastricht College of Translation - Maastricht, Netherlands
Degree in Japanese/English Translation
REFERENCES
Benny Piland
Facilities Engineer - Fujifilm Manufacturing USA
864-554-0859
Sumiaki Nagase
Electrical Materials Manager - Astronics CSC
617-308-2742
Hirofumi Takenaka
Operations Manager - JST Corp
847-473-1957
Kaoru Takahashi
Sales Manager - All Nippon Airlines (ANA)
773-686-5206