Kathy Zhang
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Korean Elementary proficiency
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English Professional working proficiency
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Chinese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Experience
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Auria
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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500 - 600 Employee
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Logistics Manager
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Oct 2021 - Present
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BMW of North America, LLC
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Lead Logistics Quality
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Feb 2019 - Present
Contracted with Redi GROUP.- Project Lead in G42 launch in BMW Mexico, G18 launch in BMW China, and G45 launch in Spartanburg in BMW USA.- Mentor to new team members, training and coaching.- Member of supplier selection Clover Leaf team. - Qualify parts suppliers within NAFTA to ensure that parts suppliers meet BMW logistics requirements. - Intervene in the event that supplier performance falls to levels requiring escalation, lead for problem solving. - Continuous improvement initiative with suppliers. - Stabilize the supply chain between suppliers and BMW. Show less
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Logistics Quality Specialist
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Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Contracted with Redi GROUP.• Take full responsibility for the quality of 10 suppliers within NAFTA to ensure that parts suppliers meet BMW logistics requirements. • Evaluates supplier logistics infrastructure, process capability and effectiveness (risk analysis for launch support). • Intervene in the event that supplier performance falls to escalation levels to bring them to compliance by inspecting their operations in order to determine the fault and then following up to ensure that the fault has been dealt with in an appropriate manner. • Work with suppliers to determine what, if any, improvements are necessary and schedule a follow-up in order to ensure that the necessary improvements have been made. • Stabilize the supply chain beginning from when the parts supplier orders the required raw materials to when they are delivered to the BMW manufacturing facility. • Conducts LOPA’s internal and external and follow-up on corrective actions. • Managing of Quality Alerts. • Represents BMW in a professional manner in dealing with suppliers. • Initiates and manages supplier meetings. • Document activities of the logistics’ complaint reports in the appropriate system. Show less
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BMW Group
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Germany
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Manager Logistics Quality
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Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
• As wrong-delivery prevention project lead, to draft related tools and train team member on the supplier qualification, report to management on the project status. • Mentor to fresh team member on variants of business needs. • Act as JIS core team member to focus on JIS supplier qualification process development and optimization. • Participate in the selection of suppliers, in cooperation with the Purchasing, Quality and Development departments. • Qualify parts suppliers within Asia to ensure that parts suppliers meet BMW logistics requirements. • Intervene in the event that supplier performance falls to unacceptable levels to bring them to appropriate levels of performance by inspecting their operations in order to determine the fault and then following up to ensure that that fault has been dealt with in an appropriate manner. • Work with suppliers to determine what, if any, improvements are necessary and schedule a follow-up in order to ensure that the necessary improvements have been made. • Stabilize the supply chain beginning from when the parts supplier orders the required raw material to when they are delivered to the BMW manufacturing facility. Show less
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Senior Speicalist Logistics Quality
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
• Participate in the selection of suppliers, in cooperation with the Purchasing, Quality and Development departments. • Qualify parts suppliers within Asia to ensure that parts suppliers meet BMW logistics requirements. • Intervene in the event that supplier performance falls to unacceptable levels to bring them to appropriate levels of performance by inspecting their operations in order to determine the fault and then following up to ensure that that fault has been dealt with in an appropriate manner. • Work with suppliers to determine what, if any, improvements are necessary and schedule a follow-up in order to ensure that the necessary improvements have been made. • Stabilize the supply chain beginning from when the parts supplier orders the required raw material to when they are delivered to the BMW manufacturing facility. Show less
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BMW Group
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Germany
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant to Vice President
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May 2010 - Oct 2012
• Perform full secretarial and administrative duties for, and on behalf of, the Vice President. • Handle external inquiries related to various departmental issues. • Organize team activities and events. • Create KPI reports for the department. • Support the supplier nomination process by collecting feedback from Specialist Logistics Quality personnel and relaying that information back to headquarter in Germany.
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Student Intern
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Jun 2009 - Apr 2010
• Assist the Senior Manager of Central Planning with daily business arrangements. • Interface between Finance, HR and IT departments. • Support events management and follow up within the team (ie. Workshops). • Documentation and archiving for parts purchasing contracts. • Maintain the supplier database for parts purchasing. • Established an efficient electronic archiving process.
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Education
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Spartanburg Community College
Entrepreneurship Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General -
Liaoning University
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General -
Shenyang Aerospace University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering