James Mills
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Yamaha Marine today announced the expansion of its Marine Procure Department into a new Marine Procurement Division. The move aims to organize the company’s growing team into four departments along functional lines.
James Mills will serve as division manager, leading all of Yamaha’s procurement departments, including strategy and planning and the concurrent engineering, quality engineering and control departments. Mills has been with the company for 33 years and has held a variety of leadership roles.
“James Mills’ in-depth knowledge of Yamaha products and procedures, coupled with years of experience, will serve the new Marine Procurement Department well as he assumes the division manager leadership role,” Bill Boehman, Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit vice president, said in a statement. “The new division will streamline communication channels within Yamaha, allowing the company to more efficiently source, process orders and ultimately enhance product quality.”
The company said senior manager Matin Kato will assume the role of acting department manager of the Strategy and Planning Department, as well as the Concurrent Engineering Department. Ko Ito will serve as department manager, leading the Quality Engineering Department, and Brian Rodgers is department manager of the Control Department.”
Yamaha’s procurement division reports to Boehman.
