Dain Peer: Sr. PDP Purchasing Lead - Commercial, Government, Defense, & Slingshot in St Paul, MN

- Responsible for managing supply base selection and new project execution for future programs within Commercial, Government, Defense, & Slingshot business units - Accountable for ensuring new product bill of material costs achieve project targets to meet margin expectations and supply chain related project costs stay within allowances and contribute to needed project payback.

- Developed and led execution of Supplier Quality plans through launch of Scout Bobber, Springfield Dark Horse, Chieftain Limited, Chieftain Elite, Roadmaster Elite. Developed and initiated Supplier Quality plans for all MY19 and MY20 Indian motorcycle products. - Led Advanced Product Quality Planning for Motorcycle projects. - Led Supplier Quality support efforts for suspension systems across all Polaris business units.

- Developed and led implementation of fabricated part Center of Excellence (CoE) strategy with goal of improving material utilization and driving simplicity through ~$1B fabrications spend. Developed recommendations to save $500k annually in initial pilot scope. - Led project with strategic fabrications supplier to implement New Part Introduction team; reducing lead time to launch parts by 60%, improving first pass yield by 32%, and reducing process handoffs by 73%. - Led 350 suppliers through international supply chain readiness effort supporting 7 new product releases in USA, Belgian, and Romanian manufacturing facilities. Successfully mitigated 88% of supply chain risk prior to launch. - Developed new enterprise-wide tool to assess suppliers’ operational efficiency across 11 dimensions and 45 specific business processes. Used to provide improvement roadmap for existing suppliers and pre-qualify new suppliers. - Led one of three Corporate Feed Forward teams tasked with improving

- Led on-site capability assessments of potential steel, grey, and ductile iron castings suppliers across Mexico, China, and Turkey to determine suppliers’ ability to support low cost country (LCC) sourcing objectives. - Led 56 suppliers through international supply chain readiness effort based out of Shanghai, China to support an average 800% volume increase across 5 scissor lift models at Tianjin, CN manufacturing facility. - Developed three-tiered strategy for analyzing and improving, supplier capacity using simulation tools including full development of a low-cost, excel-based capacity modeling tool.