Alejandro De Leon Salas Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As the Global Director of IT Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Novelis, I strategically lead the digital transformation for end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing operations across four regions: North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Aligned with Novelis' ambitious 3x30 vision, I co-lead the strategic Plant of the Future Innovation Program to advance sustainability, increase recycled content, and drive productivity within the recycling industry. I develop resilient digital supply chain and manufacturing capabilities, adopting a cloud-first approach to reduce complexity, expand resiliency, and accelerate growth and productivity. Collaborating with C-level executives and senior business leaders, I shape the strategic supply chain and manufacturing technology roadmap while fostering global leadership development. I drive a vision for visibility, control, process orchestration, and intelligence within a connected, data-driven manufacturing ecosystem. Leveraging global architectural frameworks, cutting-edge technologies, industry leadership, business acumen, technology trends, backward planning, and innovation frameworks, I set industry standards, create impact, and influence both the business and customers while aligning operations with Novelis' long-term strategic objectives.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

As the Global Digital Transformation Head at BUILT (Vaco Company Start Up), I established the strategic vision and set the framework and launched a Digital Transformation Practice , processes, and procedures that drive end-to-end practice execution, customer engagement prioritization, and long-term business growth. I designed and implemented advanced cloud-based supply chain solutions tailored for industries such as transportation, appliance manufacturing, CPG, and industrial heavy manufacturing, enabling digital transformation and optimizing operational efficiency. By crafting and executing a comprehensive business plan, I focused on delivering high-impact solutions that positioned BUILT as a trusted partner in the manufacturing and supply chain sectors.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for establishing the strategic vision and defining the policy, process, and procedures for the end-to-end practice execution, customer engagement prioritization, headcount planning, talent management target, and goals to grow the Canadian and Latin Americas Region. I Managed senior-level mechanisms to ensure goal alignment with the company's vision. Oversee large, complex, strategic relationships considered business critical with significant bottom-line impact; and led a team of experienced professionals responsible for strategic customer engagements demanding compelling and differentiated supply chain cloud capabilities and industry thought leadership focused on accelerating the Customer's supply chain digital transformations time to value.

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Responsible for the Global Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain Transformation while running the Digital COE (Center of Excellence) for the Carrier manufacturing footprint, consisting of 50 manufacturing sites across three regions: Americas, EMEA, and APAC plants serving the HVAC, Refrigeration, and Fire & Security Products business units running more than 40 million cost standard hours. The responsibilities include the DT Transformation Strategy, DT investments for a portfolio of $100+ M USD projects, and the transformational plan to enable the business capabilities powered by the right digital capabilities to have Connected Data, Connect Shop Floor and Business to Business e-commerce and Connected Supply Chain Systems for the Carrier footprint.

Lake Forest, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the E-commerce business strategy & the Digital platform transformation for Grainger Mexico. That included the planning, team building, and development for a flawless execution that positioned Grainger Mexico to Lead the e-MRO market, growing sales from 9% of total company participation to 25% in 3 years while also expanding the model into B2B, B2C, and industry-oriented microsites. Led the implementation of Americas SAP for MX, which was part of a global deployment of a USD 170M strategic program to deploy global processes for Mexico, the United States, and Canada along with other countries in Latin Americas to strategically build a robust technology and processes foundation to support scale and position Grainger within the Americas Market. The project included, beyond SAP, several systems and platforms to address Grainger Mexico's needs, including Point of sales solution for retail stores, Vistex pricing, SOLR search engine tools for order entry processes productivity, electronic invoicing solutions, a best-in-class warehouse management system (Manhattan), Point of sales solution to drive x-selling and up-selling capabilities, CRM features and advanced inventory planning tools like SPP (Spare parts planning) to leverage Supply chain Network gaining corporate scale

Boston, Ma, Us

Led an integration process to consolidate the infrastructure of 3 manufacturing facilities into a new comprehensive manufacturing facility at Monterrey, creating the telecommunications and networking infrastructure for the Health Care Monterrey plant. It included the Oracle ERP 11i implementation for the Monterrey Manufacturing plant. It included General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Inventory, Work in Process, Manufacturing, and e-procurement.Created IT testing procedures as per FDA standards. Also led & deployed several projects, among others: warehouse bar code to control inventory, RFID Manufacturing Cycle times to measure manufacturing productivity, Kanban Cards to control for fasteners, HR Payroll, e-vacations, EHS passport to store vendors & visitors records, FDA documentation libraries, etc. As Lean Leader, took the Lean Deployment initiative at the Monterrey site, creating the culture & achieving the following: inventory turns reduction from 9 to 12; total Inventory value decrease from 20M to 13M; manufacturing space reduction by 30%; labor cost 11 % & Cycle Time by 20 % on the overall site in 2 years. Executed multiple GE Lean Events in MX and US at distinct GE Business: GE Transportation USA, GE Corporate, GE Consumer Finance & GE Healthcare. Mentored more than 20 Six Sigma Projects, Highlighting BRM Shield Fails Elimination, Cooper Wire Reduction, BRM Bubbles, and X-Ray Clean Room, which improved product quality and had cost avoidance of over 3M USD.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Engineer Computer Science, Computer/Information Technology