Mike Baughman has over 20+ years of Supply Chain leadership and training experience and graduated from the prestigious California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, in Engineering in 1981.  Mike began his career in “the early days” of Silicon Valley working for high-tech pioneers: Apple Computer, Atari, and Sun Microsystems in the early ‘80s.  His executive level experience began in 1995 and since then has held Director of supply management positions with Watkins-Johnson,  KLA-Tencor, and Lam Research.  In addition to his “real-world” expertise in outsourcing, global sourcing, supply chain reengineering, Mike has developed training based on his 20+ years of background in contract writing, negotiation, management, arbitration and even contractual legal battles.

Mike was Director of Outsourcing Supplier Management with Lam Research a ($1.5B) company during the period where Lam re-engineered the materials organization and outsourced 90% of manufacturing.  Inventory turns increased over 250% to over 7,  margin increased from 34% to 51%, and manufacturing output capability increased 300% with 50% less factory space.

With KLA-Tencor a ($1.5B/yr.) manufacturer of semiconductor inspection equipment, Mike was Director of Materials for the Reticule Division, managing Purchasing, Planning, and Inventory Control for NPI and Production. Mike helped implement Lean Manufacturing both internally and with suppliers, and outsourced 30% of manufacturing to local tier one suppliers during this period.

At Watkins-Johnson, Palo Alto, CA a ($400M/yr.) manufacturer of Microwave Communications and Test Equipment Mike managed both internal and outsourced supply chain operations including operations in Palo Alto, CA,  Bangkok, Thailand, Manila,  Philippines, and Shanghi, China.  Mike implemented long term enterprise wide contracts with all outsource providers.

As Sun Microsystems began to outsource non-core operations,  Mike transitioned from Engineering Management into Outsourcing Supplier Management to create new outsource processes and manage outsourced global operations for Input / Output Devices,  Fab - PCBs,  Software Duplication,  and OEM PCBA products.  Mike was the architect of the outsource RFQ process and assisted in the development of the “Total Cost of Ownership”  scorecard process still in use by Sun today.

Mike began his career designing and installing high volume manufacturing and warehousing facilities.  During this time Mike designed and installed over 3 million sq. ft. including the games facilities of Atari in Limerick and  Raheen, Ireland (1983),  the Macintosh automated facility in Fremont, CA (1985) and the Sun Microsystems Milpitas, CA automated facility that was on the cover of Modern Materials Handling (Aug. 87).  

Mike is currently an outsourcing project manager  for ICR Enterprises.