Dalila Rivera Email & Phone Number

Riverside, California, Us

Riverside, California, Us

Salinas, California, Us

Procurement and Planning Manager

Riverside, California, Us

• Intergrade processes and sop to bridge the needs of commercial and production, in order to reduce waste in raw material or lost of sales due to short shipments• Created systems where all stakeholder is able to track and maintain the inbound and outbound of their goods from all over the world, tailor our practices to fit each growing regions• Coordinate with growers and inbound shipping company, base on needs of production and sales – we were able to increase customer service level from 85% to 99.5%• Maintain a rolling 4 month weekly forecast and 5 weeks of daily forecast – allows for better buying power against standard cost and improve production efficiency

• Maintained an overall weekly forecast accuracy of 95% for the past seven years.• Created a rolling 4 months weekly forecast and 5 weeks daily forecast. The forecast factors in the production capacity, historical sales, updated projections from the sales department, promotional activity and new business opportunities.• Working with commercial planners to ensure customer expectation are met, and all retail promotions are being plan with insight into what operations can do, so as not to exceed their capacity. • Reduction in dead list inventory from $6,000,000 annually $750,000 first 3rd year and down to $250,000 last 3 years• Created a daily Material Requirement Plan to analyze and identify material shortages; with the options build into the weekly Master Production plan, including manufacturing, order lead time and possible waste. • Improve on procurements PPV and COGs reduction by 5% of $2.5 million dollar weekly sales • Ensure the daily master schedule is update and maintained with accurate shelf life, inventory on hand and current orders to allow the material requirement plan to function correctly.• Approve plan deviations and report reasons; create action plan to prevent future occurrences.• Control the inventory to minimize stock holding and waste. I was able to reduce our waste from $60,000 per week to $7,000 (annual savings of $2.7 million).• Maintain detailed knowledge of crop and market conditions to provide advance notice that could affect the company’s marketing activities.• Facilitate the weekly forecast meeting with sales, production and commercial buyers to ensure proper planning of labor, raw material pricing and packaging supplies.• Work with production to reduce change over time, balance the production schedule to eliminate unnecessary overtime, improve efficiency and achieve lean manufacturing principles.• Determine Production ability to execute the plan. This includes equipment, shifts and manpower, hours needed to produce product.

Lake Zurich, Illinois, Us

• Developed, release and maintain a Master production schedule based on capacities and goods availability. • Negotiate and enforce the timely delivery of goods used for manufacturing from external vendor.• Manage the Retail and commercial accounts for Office Depot and Staples to ensure on time deliveries and avoid fines.• Collaborate across teams to share information and coordinate promotions.• Ensure the production plan and forecast is correct to support the commercial plan.• Create SOPs for scheduler and demand planners