TOYOTA DAIHATSU Samutprakarn, Thailand
ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. (REGIONAL HEAD QUARTER)
Assistant Manager (Management level): APAC Production Control & Logistics Department January 2015 – December 2018
- Lead multi-projects of supply chain improvement across APAC manufacturing plants
- Improved vehicle on-time delivery (OTD) in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam & Malaysia.
- Co-operated with Sales division to review customer (External & Internal) demand to prepare for supply planning in manufacturing plant and distribution center.
- Set up new supply chain concept, milk run, operation, lay out including operation procedure for new manufacturing plant in Malaysia.
- Developed SMOOTH and SLIM strategy to improve manufacturing plant and distribution center supply chain in APAC.
- Conducted monthly KPI review for APAC manufacturing plant and distribution center to identified weak point and analysis prior to do improvement activities.
- Leaded and conducted continuous improvement in APAC manufacturing plant through workshop to level up supply chain operation and lead time to meet company’s target.
- Monthly suppliers’ performance review through suppliers meeting and site visit to improve suppliers’ supply chain operation to align with Toyota’s supply chain condition.
- Developed 3PL cost reduction in Philippines and Malaysia to meet company’s cost reduction target.
Senior Engineer: APAC Production Control & Logistics Department January 2012 – December 2014
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Developed inbound logistics improvement in APAC to maximize operation efficiency.
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Reviewed production plan, material call off & internal logistics methodology to minimize material shortage and
overflow for Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines & Pakistan.
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Prepared and designed supply chain process & operation for new model implementation in APAC.
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Reviewed manufacturing plant and distribution center capacity and operation to prepare for new material receiving.
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Monthly production plan for Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia manufacturing plant.
Engineer: Plant Operation Support Department April 2011 – December 2011
- Cooperated with Japan & Vietnam plant for supply chain renovation project in Vietnam plant by process redesigned to eliminate un-alignment of production plan and inbound logistics operation.
TOYOTA MOTOR THAILAND CO., LTD. Samutprakarn, Thailand
Engineer: Assembly & Logistics Engineering Department April 2008 - March 2011
- Improved import part warehouse inventory with cooperation of sales division to support demand fluctuation and production flexibility.
- Monthly stock taking leading to reflect on-hand inventory prior to do part procurement.
- Controlled overall project schedule & milestone for Takt time change and model change in portion of inbound logistics.
- Prepared operations, man powers, and equipment to support all changing point for inbound logistics i.e., Takt time change, Vehicle model/minor change and other improvement to support production requirement)
- Developed changing point management strategy to make proactive preventing action, and did the production preparation in time of change, for example, production volume change and model/minor change.
- Utilized Toyota Production System (TPS) and lean management to minimize resources for inbound logistics.
- Applied new systems and tools to improve inbound logistics operation efficiency.
- Developed KPI for inbound logistics operation to monitor, control, and improve weakness of each process.
- Set up inbound logistics operation standard to improve quality in process.
- Set annual investment budget for new project, also managed, controlled, and structured cost reduction
- Transportation efficiency improvement to minimize transportation cost.