My Strategic Sourcing Consulting practice focuses on setting up and optimizing supply bases, and accelerating product to market. Clients avoid months of trial and error supplier validation for all mechanical, electromechanical, and electronics parts and assemblies. Since typically 70% of costs are designed into parts, I work closely with client/supplier engineering teams on early stage DFMA. Supply chains become extensions of engineering and R&D efforts.
Adam Shayevitz MBA, President and Principal Consultant
Adam’s 30 year career academically and professionally has been focused on Global Strategic Sourcing. Upon graduation from Babson’s International MBA Program he began working as the Strategic Planning Manager for Mascon, a multinational trading firm specializing in sourcing electronic parts and assemblies from the Far East. Adam then moved on to AMP (now merged with Tyco Electronics) as Market Development Manager developing a low cost model for sourcing commodity connectors. He joined Parker Hannifin’s, Chomerics Division in 1997 as the Global Sourcing Manager. Promoted to Business Unit Manager and then Division Manager for Global Sourcing.
After 14 years at Parker, a $12B industrial conglomerate, he decided to apply his skills towards building supplier partnerships for Rethink Robotics, a technology start-up. Adam installed the Baxter collaborative robots' global supply base of mechanical and electromechanical parts, for both quick prototyping and volume production. He achieved the goals of world’s lowest cost industrial robot with majority USA content.
Adam graduated Skidmore College with a BA in Economics earning both College and Departmental Honors. He received an MBA in International Business from Babson's Graduate School of Business. He has lived and worked in Taiwan and Japan and speaks proficient Mandarin Chinese. Adam's articles are regularly featured on Linkedin's Pulse Logistics and Supply Chain section, and is the most viewed writer on Quora's Strategic Sourcing topics .
