Stephanie Fournier

Schneider Electric - Telecontrol (Beynost, France)
The Medium Voltage Power factory for Schneider Electric with a turnover of 37M€
Plant Purchasing Manager – Stakes: 20M€

. Responsible for electronic boards for Schneider Electric Telecontrol
Stakes: 7M€
- Deploy supplier evaluation - Purchasing/Quality/Logistic/Process audits
- Put in place the EMS subcontracting strategy for Telecontrol
- Follow-up mass production, product transfer and new product
-> Rationalization of the EMS suppliers from 8 to 4 following =S= policy

. Manage Printed Circuit Boards purchasing for Schneider Electric Corporate - Stakes: 5M€
- Deploy global Cost-Quality-Delivery negotiations with global supplier for 370 parts
- Represent Schneider Electric in front of one given PCB supplier with 2M€ of turnover

. Pilot Purchasing Productivity Project for Schneider Electric Telecontrol
Stakes: 8M€
- Manage a Cross function project team (Purchasing/Quality/Engineering/Industrial/R&D/Commercial)
- Dedicate to productivity search on serial products
-> Achievement of 250K€ of Productivity P&L in 2008 (target = 180k€)
Target of 290k€ for 2009

. Lead purchasing coordination between Corporate and Telecontrol
- Project ROHS / Reach => Launch of the RoHS Project for 40 PCBA
- Brand Migration => Migration of 5 brands to Schneider Electric

. Represent Schneider Electric within EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Service)
- Organize monthly Operational Business Review
- Collect and consolidate the monthly EMS KPI

. Facilitate reactivity both ways (Schneider <=> EMS)
- Deploy weekly quality and logistic meetings
- Follow-up mass production, product transfer and new product introduction

. Supervise existing action plans put in place by the EMS

=> Results:
Transfer of 6 product families completed on schedule
Business of 100 PCBA references for 30MUSD/year

. Implement the sustaining process such as tracking tool and communication
. Support all the international manufacturing sites (Europe and Asia)
. Lead value analysis project