Michael Erb

I'm a Global Supply Chain and Procurement Executive with 20+ years across energy and industrial manufacturing, with proven scale-up in both venture-stage and Fortune-scale environments. At Fluence Energy, I built the global supply chain function from a single hire to a 46-person organization while annual spend grew from $70M to $2.6B. I signed the energy storage industry's first $1B three-year battery supply agreement in 2018, later expanded to $3B, and negotiated $600M+ in cumulative cost savings across batteries, power conversion, and contract manufacturing. At LEDVANCE, I ran chief-procurement-officer-level operations for a 120-person team managing $2B+ in spend across direct materials, contract manufacturing, and purchase for resale, capturing $400M+ in cumulative savings. Before that, I progressed from buyer to Senior Director across 13 years at OSRAM in Germany and the US, doubling annual bottom-line contribution from $40M to $80M as Senior Director of Procurement Americas. The pattern across my career is the same: I take procurement and supply chain operations and rebuild them into measurable financial engines, whether that means establishing logistics from scratch to cut $300M in working capital, lifting forecast accuracy from 50% to 80% through Integrated Business Planning, or standing up the supply chain to serve AI hyperscaler energy storage deployments. My career savings total over $1B, but the more interesting number is the gap between what these organizations were doing before I built the function and what they could do after.
✓ Built Fluence Energy's global supply chain from first hire to a 46-person organization as annual spend grew from $70M to $2.6B.
✓ Signed the energy storage industry's first $1B three-year battery supply agreement, later expanded to $3B, and negotiated $600M+ in cumulative cost savings at Fluence.
✓ Established logistics from scratch at Fluence, cutting lead times by 8 weeks and improving cash flow by $300M.
✓ Led a 120-person global procurement organization at LEDVANCE managing $2B+ in annual spend, capturing $400M+ in cumulative savings and cutting operational processing times by 50% through Lean.
✓ Doubled annual bottom-line contribution from $40M to $80M leading procurement across the Americas at OSRAM.
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