RANDALL SCHMIDT

I earned the reputation of being able to grasp technical purchasing. So, when the supervisor of electrical purchasing retired, I was invited to become the Senior Buyer of Electrical Commodities. As such, I was responsible for all major electrical systems and controls on our equipment, a $15-million/year spend... I purchased $18 million in subcontract services (heat treating, machining, plating, fabricating, stamping) and production items (electronics, gears, brakes, springs). At the time, Twin Disc's sales exceeded its labor and machine tool capacity for "primary operations" - the machining of raw castings and forgings into gear blanks by turning, facing, boring and other operations. It was my challenge to direct a massive outsourcing program. This required an in-depth understanding of incremental costed bills of material, interpretation of drawings to match subcontractor capability with our needs and the ability to source approximately 40 machine shops... While I was at GB, the firm..