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Evolve Food Consultants is an agency dedicated to supporting food and beverage brands with a meaningful purpose. Our operational experience allows us to craft the perfect solution for your project. Operations CPG Consultant:Serve as lead and advisor for operations transformations while implementing Operational Excellence concepts to improve areas such as Inventory management, Production Planning, Procurement, Logistics, and Co-manufacturing relationships. Example Projects:- Production scaling support from bench-top to manufacturing, ensuring production efficiency and product quality. - Co-Man matching and scaling production setup.- Strategic ingredient sourcing, and formulation support.

Providing fractional operational support across the supply chain for CPG brands and companies, including areas such as Quality, Food Safety, Supply Chain, and Operations.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Comprehensive and multifaceted position managing operational strategy and supply chain operations remotely. This encompassed a wide array of responsibilities, starting from supplier and co-packer management to overseeing third-party logistics (3PL) operations. Deep involvement in sourcing and procurement, ensuring the seamless management of sales orders and overseeing both inbound and outbound logistics. Responsible for intricate tasks such as inventory forecasting and management, production planning, and meticulously monitoring costs and performance metrics. Within the realm of innovation, supported new product development through research and development (R&D) initiatives. Quality management and adherence to compliance practices were integral to the role, ensuring the highest standards were met. Provided crucial support to finance operations, and resource management decisions. The role demanded a holistic understanding of the supply chain, from its conceptualization to its financial intricacies. Efficiency and excellence across all these domains were offered at all times.Main Accomplishments: - Designed and developed inventory plan and goals based on annual forecast.- Created inventory cycle counts and inventory strategy for all goods. - Developed KPIs to monitor sales forecast accuracy vs actual sales. - Developed operational KPIs including inventory, sales order management, logistics, and quality. - Created customer complaint standard procedure, concerns monitoring, and standard responses to address any food safety or quality complaints. - Built supplier program through the creation of standard agreements, documentation, and the development of necessary tools to monitor approved suppliers and their up-to-date documentation.- Completed Gluten-Free Certification documentation phase, including the creation of a Gluten-Free Program, supplier and vendor documentation, and testing frequency and record for raw materials and finished goods.

Miami, Fl, Us

Led and served as a project lead in a challenging M&A environment, successfully creating a roadmap for seamless inventory integration within ERP systems. Implemented training initiatives, coaching, and guidance for the management team across various projects, focusing on resource management and process development.- Determine and define project scopes and objectives.- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner. - Develop and manage detailed project schedule and work plan.- Define, Measure, Analyze, and Control project performance to identify areas of improvement. - Training, Coaching, and Guiding team members.- Develop KPIs across multidisciplinary areas.Accomplishments:- 20% item rationalization for Raw Materials ingredients to increase efficiency in planning, storage, and production. - Implementation of lot-level traceability for packaging across the supply chain. - System transfer and integration to Microsoft Great Plains and Parity Factory.- Developed proposal for employee evaluation review including standard procedure, guidelines, evaluation form, and self-assessment form.

Miami, Fl, Us

- Coordinate production workflow for multiple products (90+ SKUs and 100+ Raw and packaging materials).- Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.- Determine time, labor, raw and packaging materials needed to cover demand.- Monitor work orders to ensure timely completion within budget.- Obtain output information including performance and production yields.- Monitor finished goods costs COGS.- Monitor inventory levels based on cycle counts.- Perform inventory adjustments frequently to maintain accurate data in the system. - Communicate with Sales about inventory levels, productions constraints, and forecast discrepancies.- Create and lead continuous improvement projects to standardize processes and reduce waste.Accomplishments:- Created the inventory control department, inventory control plan, inventory tracking documents, and reconciliation reports. - Fully trained inventory coordinators (new positions) to take over the daily inventory control plan. - Creating minimum inventory strategy based on an ABC model for finished goods, raw ingredients, and packaging. The scope of the strategy included 92 SKUs and 100 ingredients.

Miami, Fl, Us

-Coordinate production workflow for multiple products.-Analyze back orders, current orders and upcoming orders to prioritize, plan, and schedule the production operations.-Plan inventory management processes to avoid shortages and excesses.-Develop and review production plan.-Monitor line performance and efficiency.-Develop and achieve company goals and controls. Make suggestions for improvement in areas of cost reduction, processes, quality and productivity.-Confer with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; inventory levels, and solving production problems.Accomplishments:- Increasing production planning time from weekly to monthly allowing higher flexility to changes, complying with frozen product thawing times and creating better visibility for the entire operations team.- Including production planning as part of the ERP system to allow better visibility of production plan to other departments.- Creating a Reorder Report Analysis for all active SKUs based on past sales average and future sales forecast to monitor inventory levels and guarantee timely production scheduling. - Updating bill of materials (BOMs) for all active SKUs to ensure formulas standardization based on quality approved flavor profiles and procurement needs. - Updating production Batch Sheets (Formulas & Instructions Sheets) for all active SKU's based on current bills of materials to guarantee quality and compliance of approved formulations.- Creating an Inventory Adjustment Report for packaging materials to frequently monitor inventory discrepancies based on cycle counts.- Creating a discard plan for all obsolete materials.

Miami, Fl, Us

- Assist with the compliance of FDA, FLDACS, NOP, and USDA Regulations- Support current third party certifications: Organic, Biodynamic, Kosher certificates, and Non-GMO- Develop and update the company’s current SOPs, Checklists, HACCP Plan and GMP- Maintain and lead supplier approval process including documentation and samples evaluation - Partaker in the sensory evaluations of Raw Materials, Semi-finished and Finished Products to guarantee compliance with product specifications- Develop product specification sheets- Create and maintain OPP (Organic Product Profile) - Maintain proper documentation and an organized filing system- Assist with QA/ QC Program- Assist in the development of Nutritional Facts- Participate in the approval of juice batches to maintain a consistent final product flavor profileAccomplishments: - Full review and update of all nutritional facts for 90+ SKUs. - Develop first revision of production-related SOPs.

- Weekly inventory control and improvement. - Manage shifts, which include: daily decision-making, scheduling, and planning while upholding standards, product quality and cleanliness.- Ensure positive guest service in all areas. Respond to complaints, taking any and all appropriate actions to turn dissatisfied guests into return guests.- Monitoring quality standards of products and services. - Responsible for ensuring consistent high quality of food preparation and service (Food Safety and Sanitation according to FDA regulations).

Doral, Fl, Us

Millennia Atlantic University strives to inspire and develop students' potential using almost personalized classes to prepare future professionals for the real business world. With a mission based on the students as a priority, the university encourages each department to follow the same path on their internal objectives and goals. "Students First".Responsibilities: -Update spreadsheets, databases, and inventories with statistical, financial and non-financial information.-Compose and post online content on the company’s website and social media accounts.-Develop creative arts for printed advertising. -Assist in the organizing of promotional events and traditional or digital campaigns and attend them to facilitate their success.-Communicate directly with suppliers and encourage trusting relationships.-Conduct market research (Latin-American leads) and analyze consumer behavior. -Organizing and executing marketing strategies.-Actively collects leads and documents appropriate information to facilitate follow-up.-Generate quarterly reports for short term and long term campaign results.-Manages department budget related to all business development and field recruitment activities.Accomplishments: -Increase students internal activities from semiannual to monthly, enhancing participation and a sense of belonging. -Decrease annual budget by 20% through creating digital art design in house instead of using a outside vendor.

Vevey, Ch

Nestlé is the leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. With operations in almost every country in the world, Nestlé is dedicated to enhancing people’s lives, everywhere, every day. They believe that leadership is about behaviour, and they recognize that trust is earned over a long period of time by consistently delivering on our promises.As part of the Food and Beverage Industry, Nestlé specializes in coffee and beverages, dairy, confectionary, culinary and frozen food, ice cream, infant nutrition, healthcare nutrition, weight management, out of home F&B solutions and petcare.Responsibilities: - Perform sensory evaluation of RAW material, semi finished products and finished products.- Conduct daily inspections routines in the production lines of the warehouse.- Execute daily monitoring of organoleptic characteristics for finished products.- Perform shelf life study and Keeping Quality Test.- Develop tests and evaluations for R&D processes.- Develop visual aids and standards.- Manage quality indicators of the Sensory Evaluation area. -Assist in identifying root cause of defect trends or customers' escapes and recommend corrective/containment action as appropriate.- Release raw materials and finished products through SAP system after sensory evaluation.- Experienced in building and training teams. Direct supervisor of approximately 15 labs employees per shift. - Attend to daily and weekly operational reviews, filling indicators and explaining results by using NCE (Nestle Continuous Excellent) culture and tools (Continuous improvement). Accomplishments:- Increase the participation of taster panel by 35% through the use of indicators and recognition programs (Continuous improvement strategies).- Spearheaded the implementation of SHO reviews (Shift Handover Operational review) for Sensory Evaluation Labs contributing with the opening of the 2015 Gate (NCE) as part of the lean manufacturing culture of the company.

Vevey, Ch

Responsibilities:- Daily control of quality deviations and incidents.- Conduct GSTD (Go, See, Think and Do) technique for root cause identification. - Weekly verification of hygiene on the production lines (Checklist verification).- Attend to daily and weekly operational reviews, filling indicators and explaining results by using NCE (Nestle Continuous Excellent) culture and tools.

Vevey, Ch

Responsibilities:- Develop key performance indicator through cascade method (upstream -downstream).Targets calculation.- Communication center improvement for operational reviews (boards, indicators, visual aids). - Participate on coaching sessions in the operational reviews. - Participate in the implementation of problem solving tools like Go, See, Think and Do (GSTD).Accomplishments:- Implementation of operational reviews on 5 production lines, with a 100% of compliance in to the Wafer area.- Partaker on the implementation of NCE (Nestle Continuous Excellence) y NGMP (Nestle Good Manufacturing Practices).

Tinaplas, C.A. is a company formed by experts in the field of plastic, in which is manufactured PVC products as tanks, tubes and other plastic parts. For all the above, Tinaplas use standardized production processes as extrusion, modeling and injection. Responsibilities:Project leader: Documentation of production and administrative processes -Develop job descriptions for each department of the company.-Documentation of processes and procedures for all production lines.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Responsibilities:-Manufacturing process auditing-Quality management system documentation-Development of operational instruction sheets (O.I.S)Accomplishments:- Provide standard work for the assembly process increasing overall employee satisfaction and improving new employees' training.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Associate'S Degree, Industrial Production