Andrew Zuleta Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Results-driven Supply Chain Professional with extensive experience at Newell Brands, overseeing the end-to-end supply chain for leading brands including Oster®, Mr. Coffee®, Crock-Pot®, and Calphalon® Bakeware across the USA and Canada markets. Leveraged advanced analytics tools and MRP systems to optimize procurement, production planning, and distribution.

Boca Raton, FL, 33432

• Managed Product R&D, Packaging Development and Procurement Strategy
• Production Planning, timetables and execution: ensure the purchase of all packaging material, vetting suppliers for the best prices, identifying most cost effective quantities per individual order and coordinating.
• Determine short term and long term procurement and manufacturing needs based on sales projections and forecasting as well as order fulfillment and Warranty Terms.
• Develop Cost analysis needed to improve Business strategy and profitability.
• Quality assurance control – assure standard level of quality for all inbound and outbound shipments with keen eye for detail
• Negotiate INCOTERMS, ship inbound and outbound, from/to domestic and overseas suppliers and customers - LCL and FCL shipments, ground, ocean, air – creating and obtaining the necessary documents for Customs release.

Boca Raton, FL

• Analyzed order discrepancies, over viewed and ensured customer satisfaction through on-time shipment deliveries, shipment tracking, and managed customer complaints.
• Implemented the use of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) in the management of PO’s and ASN’s, facilitating the connections between EDI and QuickBooks, fulfilling Customer requirements and business guidelines.
• Coordinated, supervised and controlled the distribution process to major Retail Chains, from the PO’s placing until delivery in DC’s across the country, ensuring the compliance with customer guidelines and KPI’s.
• Established and developed business relationships with national and international freight forwarders while negotiating competitive shipping prices, coordinated and supervised international shipments to Canada and.

Medellin, Colombia

• Built and expanded relationships with existing customers to facilitate their logistics and mobility needs
• Prepared and negotiated fee-based pricing of services, ensuring account profitability in a value-based approach for the scope of service and the costs associated with the client's service.
• Managed inbound and outbound logistics operations, including transportation, inventory control, safety performance, and logistics quality management for all land inbound and outbound goods.
• Monitored import and export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory legal requirements, including recording and distributing the necessary paperwork for Colombian customs; maintained metrics, reports, process.
• Developed a project to export cars to Ecuador, by creating a complete new fleet of car-carrying trailers that allowed the company to gain the business account of SOFASA-RENAULT COLOMBIA, one of the biggest car assembly.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.9

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, International Business, Trade, And Tax Law, 3.0

Bachelor'S Degree Of Business Administration, International Business, 3

Activities and Societies: AIESEC INTERNATIONALProject of Entrepreneurship Tutoring for High school students in low income communities.