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Provide strategic leadership for 2 production facilities to ensure smooth, efficient business processes by implementing strategic plans, improving productivity, optimizing operational workflows, managing budgets, developing, and ensuring compliance with regulations.Oversee all supply chain and procurement operations, developing and executing sourcing strategies, driving operational efficiency, and implementing cost-saving initiatives across the organization. Lead demand forecasting, optimize inventory management and negotiate high-level contracts to ensure the highest quality and cost efficiency standards.

Implemented the strategic sourcing and manufacturing development efforts along with the execution and production of finished goods and supported the development, implementation, and management of strategies for optimal supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality, and delivery performance; reengineering Materials/Production Planning and warehouses to supply over than 300 points of sales in México and up to 58 countries with products like ammunition, uniforms, ballistic equipment, and technology among others. Developed, executed, and drove Quality Improvement, Strategic Sourcing, Risk reduction, and operational improvement programs. KPIs, Balanced Scorecard, and Oracle cloud implementation.

Managed the change in supply chain management to turn around the processes, championing activities and continuous improvement initiatives along the value stream, organizational change, operational restructuring, business process redesign, systems implementations, and risk management. Developed and executed a strategic sourcing and category management to define logistics service operational guidelines, parameters, service levels, and standards with the third-party vendors. Led the activities and corrective actions to secure KPIs compliance.

Drive profit and loss performance to achieve business financial goals. Developed and implemented critical processes such as sales and operations planning (S&OP), master production schedule (MPS), capacity plant analysis, demand management focused on generating profitability, and comprehensive management of manufacturing applying TPM, Lean, and TOC; increased efficiency, maximized assets utilization and cost reduced. Establish and keep an annual budget (OPEX and CAPEX). Team Building, talent development, effective & efficient team inception by coaching and training to the staff.

Led a multicultural team of customer service and supply chain professionals in México and Brazil to deliver finished goods to LATAM. Accountable for regional supply strategy development, established close contact with customers organizations to remain abreast of the strategics, thinking, policies and procedures and create a demand forecast process accordingly.