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Cali, CO

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Lead the business integrated planning process, aiming to balance the needs of demand and supplies, through the coordination of information and processes across business units and stakeholders across 7 manufacturing.
• Organize decision-making around customer service goals, sales volumes, production rates, and inventory levels.
• Manage the S&OP process and developments in terms of inventory management, demand, internal movement of production items and joint actions with the supply area.
• Manage the evolution of relevant indicators to services that include the chain of receipt, storage and delivery of movement of productive items.

Yumbo, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Program, coordinate and control the production processes of the recycling plant (crushing, smelting and refining), based on the efficient administration of resources, optimizing the plant's installed capacity and.
• Control and optimize inventories of raw materials, product in process and final product for a value of 10.5M USD.
• Develop the master plan for the recycling plant and definition of inventories to optimize working capital.Achievements:
• Developed the planning model for the recycling plant, facilitating the preparation of budgets and the generation of scenarios for decision making.
• Decreased the total lead inventory in the circuit by 43% reaching a cash flow release of 4.5M USD.

Yumbo, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Program, coordinate and control the production processes of the Assembly, plate manufacturing (Oxide, Grids, Pasting and Curing) and smelter plants, based on the efficient administration of resources, optimizing the.
• Manage and optimize inventories of raw materials, product in process and final product for a value of 4.9M USD.
• Elaboration and projection of master plan (capacities) for the Assembly, Plate Making and Smelter plants according to the projected sale, ensuring the continuity of the business in the medium and long term.
• Ensure Compliance of delivery to customers through capacity balancing in the 4 lines of the Assembly plant and the 14 lines of the plate manufacturing plant (OREC).Achievements:
• I implemented a six sigma project achieving a 19.8% decrease in inventory value and working capital (savings 185k USD) by optimizing cured plate inventory utilization and developing forecast by reference.
• I developed a six sigma project achieving a 61.2% decrease in lead tape inventory value (267K USD savings) by reducing inventory days.

Yumbo, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Lead a team of 145 people responsible for carrying out the raw battery assembly process.
• Ensure process variables within specification and compliance with the control plan.
• Root cause analysis to generate action plans to avoid recurrence of process deviation.
• Guarantee continuity of the operation through the correct use of human, technical, material and financial resources.
• Load balancing through training design and development of multiskills.
• Execute improvement plans to increase productivity in the assembly process.Achievements:

Yumbo, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Creation and follow-up of KPIs applied to the employee idea system.
• Lead as Champion the Visual Factory principle of the Johnson Controls manufacturing system (JCMS) applied to the 4 production plants.
• Monthly calculation and follow up to plant indicators as scrap, productivity (batteries per man hour), 5'S, accident rate and PPMs.Achievements:
• I successfully implemented the employee idea system reaching 80% participation of the personnel in the first active semester.
• I successfully deployed the visual plant management and control program reaching level 3 in internal manufacturing system.
• I implemented the "JCMS Acceleration" program in assembly line 1 obtaining an increase in productivity from 3 to 3.7 batteries per minute.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

• Calculation of the efficiency indicator of the productive plant (OEE).
• Detailed analysis of efficiency losses (establish root cause and objective action plans).
• Measurement and control of waste using concepts such as Scrap and Wastage.
• Survey and structuring of product routes for the master plan development.
• Control and management of production plant improvement groups.
• Control and execution of calibrations for all critical equipment included in the metrology matrix.

Master In Business Administration Mba

Engineering, Industrial Engineering