Faculty Profile: Marty Ross

Marty Ross is the Senior Manager of Purchasing Central Functions at Volkswagen of America, Inc.  He is responsible for leading Team Members for Procurement Cost Analysis, Systems and Genuine Service Parts Procurement.  The team is responsible for generating 5% annual manpower efficiency improvements, and for the administration of more than 40 procurement systems for sourcing and pricing. The team is responsible to estimate a real-world market based cost estimation of more than $100m in annual production parts cost and more than $100m tooling investments.