Osman Akın Şimşek

Managing China Sourcing & Manufacturing hub through vendors located in Hangzhou & Ninbo locations. Responsible for all Product Development, Sourcing, Manufacturing & QA Operations

Managing of 5 Sourcing Team as Denim-Non Denim/Flats-Knits-Sweaters & Accessories with total 45 Sourcing Engineers, Product Developers, Pattern Makers and Technical Designers to source&supply 9 million units a year from sourcing bases Turkey, China, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

Managing all production activities of 2 shirt plants with 15.000 uts/per day manufacturing at located in Bilecik and Istanbul with 1200 employees, 11 direct reports Managing company functions of DC, Quality Management, Technical Service, Planning & Procurement and Outsourcing Departments. Investing & building shirt plant in Alexandria-Egypt with 4500 uts/day outcome. Investement is started at 2006 and managed until its completed 80% until Feb 2007.

Supply Chain Manager-Levi Strauss Turkey, M.E&Israel Levi Strauss-Dockers B.V, Amsterdam senior Developer-Dockers Bottoms Levi Strauss Europe S.A. Supply Account Manager/Contractor Manager

Manufacturing capabilities of company has been completely changed from woven shirts and jackets to woven bottoms within 1 year. All key customers has been evaluated and new portfolio has been created. New account like Levis,H&M,Express,Esprit de corp, GAP,Banana Republic,Cortifield/Springfield have been added into customer portfolio. Merchandising team re-formed, trained and managed. Total sales of company has been increased to $15mio/year P