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Ontario, Canada

• Re-engineered the MS Excel Purchasing tool to a higher efficiency level, which allowed to reduce the analysis time by 80%, and helped to have a higher price consistency between offers
• Leader of the Purchasing department and process (Roses/Others), in continuous contact with key vendors and South America representatives
• Responsible for the Forecasting and Demand Planning for all product categories/varieties.
• Maintain fluid communication with vendors in Colombia, Ecuador, and other countries, to ensure a high-quality and cost-effective business relationship

Ontario, Canada

• Purchasing department processes improved and partially automated, leading to more effective activities backed up by historical data.
• Owner of the Purchasing process from start to finish for both the Roses category
• Responsible for the Price management of Open Market offers on a daily basis, in order to meet the volume requirement at the right price, at the right time.

Santiago, Chile

• Travel to the countries where Sodimac operates to help the local Planning & Replenishment departments operate according to the corporate guidelines (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay).
• Responsible for the Purchase Module of the internal Corporate Importations system, making continuous improvements to the design and functionality.
• Develop and expand programs with the most important suppliers of each category and each Sodimac branch to ensure 100% fill rate on time shipments.
• Set the guidelines for the corporate demand planning and replenishment under the same criteria and timings.

Santiago, Chile

• Start the Planning & Replenishment sub-area of the Corporate Supply Chain department, which is in charge of leading the operations of the same local department in each of the countries were the company operates.
• Travel and work with all the Sodimac branches to make sure the operations are similar between them and that they are working under the same logical criteria, in order to have a greater negotiation power with suppliers.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the replenishment process at corporate level, monitoring the main KPIs of the company and involving the sales and marketing departments in order to get better results in.

Lima, Peru

• "Demand & Fulfillment" (D&F) project leader for Sodimac Peru (corporate system that involved the 4 countries were Sodimac was operating at that time). Regular travels to Chile for meetings with the supplier team (JDA).
• Optimization of the Replenishment process of imported products, considering seasonality, demand projections, and marketing plans of all categories.
• ‘Open to Buy’ definition for every important Commercial campaign of the year working directly with the Commercial Management.
• Generation and updates of the company Sales, Costs, and Inventory Plans according to the Margin, Rotation and GMROI goals of the year.

Lima, Peru

• Responsible of the Demand Planning of the international products of the company.
• Responsible for the replenishment analysis and process of the several categories.
• Evaluate the price elasticity of products to plan a good coverage during certain ranges of time for promotions or catalogs.
• Conduct regular meetings with the category manager to discuss the demand and replenishment of new products, coming promotions, and discontinuation of the slow-moving products.

Lima, Peru

• Analyze import costs for new products and new promotions.
• Coordinate with marketing department for new promotions and new SKUs launchings according to the Demand Planner sales projections.
• Importations follow up and coordination for the containers entrance to the warehouse.
• Analyze historical sales and make reports to assign the new goals for the Sales Senior Executives.

Florida, USA

Lima, Peru

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Licensed Industrial Engineer of University of Lima, Peru.

Design Thinking

Supply Chain Connections Program