Alberto Salas Email and Phone Number

• Manage forecast plans for over 750 SKUs for main sport nutrition stores, retailers and distributors across North and Latin America.• Lead monthly consensus meeting with sales and brand teams to develop and update forecast plans supporting business objectives achievement.• Maintain and distribute daily product inventory, product transition and promotional forecast reports.• Facilitate new SKU launch, discontinuation and product substitution process.

• Manage and develop forecast plans for over 300 SKUs to ensure effective product supply through major retailers.• Promote solid working relationships and facilitate collaborative planning with retailers.• Manage inventory levels, product transitions over-stocked inventory and product allocation process.• Collaborate with Sales and Operations Teams ensuring product availability to meet promotional campaign, sales targets and business objectives.

• Work in the operational launch new of Carriers/Partners to implement all operational processes in readiness for service and product launch• Perform operational reviews with Partner and consult/advise/assist/guide accordingly based on the findings• Assist and ensure that effective operational business processes are implemented and/or improved upon with the Partner to support the introduction of new and existing RIM products and services• Provide information, advice and guidance to Partners in order to aid in their development of the BlackBerry solution within their organization• Act as primary operational point of contact before and during the development of a new services

• Managed all facets for the first 90 days of the demand forecast (demand, channel inventory, sell-through) together with the Carrier Partner and the RIM Channel Business Unit• Established regular contact and exchange of information between the Carrier Partner, the Carrier Business Unit through CPFR to channel inventory, sell through forecasts, assumptions and unconsumed demand, providing the supply team with an accurate up front demand perspective to plan resources and materials ahead of an order arriving• Responsible for ensuring a seamless order fulfillment experience globally for our carrier partners to ensure predictable, accurate and consistent delivery schedules• Continuously monitored sell through and inventory levels to identify exceptions to the demand signals• Worked with the Sales teams to identify gaps to target and potential gap closing solutions• Periodically reviewed demand plan for risks based on a deep understanding of the carriers supply chain• Performed risk and opportunities review with Sales team to drive a conversation around assumption differences

• Ensured seamless order fulfilment experience for Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. based carriers.• Liaised with internal suppliers to ensure predictable, accurate, consistent delivery of products and services• Acted on behalf of the carrier and the associated business unit• Managed projects with internal functional areas and carriers• Acted as focal point of escalation between carriers and stakeholders

• Successfully assisted shippers, consignees and local carriers with intermodal operations inquiries.• Arranged and ensured the successful delivery of Import / Export shipments within Ontario, Quebec and Eastern Canada.• Elaboration of daily equipment inventory and booking reports used by the Export Traffic Group and Sales Managers for booking forecast and Vessel allocation planning.• Maintained updated container activity records• Arranged off hire of leased containers, achieving the highest volume of containers off hired of the North America inland division in 2006