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Toronto, ON, CA

Honduras, Central America

• Coordinated the Sales and Operation Planning process (S&OP) to integrate the operation of production, logistics, sales, and marketing plans.
• Developed a one-year rolling demand forecast in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service teams to streamline strategic decision-making, mitigate risks, seize opportunities, and align with Business Plan.
• Spearheaded the monthly Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process to develop the supply plan and determine material procurement needs, ensuring continuous and uninterrupted operational flow.
• Placed and managed purchase orders based on MRP analysis aligned with the supply plan, accounting for vendor lead times, transit times, and optimized container palletization, resulting in a 13.3% reduction in.
• Analyzed daily inventory levels and sales trends to promptly communicate stock-out risks, overstock, expirations, and product availability, enabling the simulation of new demand forecasts and supply scenarios.
• Updated and applied the correct harmonized codes of products resulting in CAD 175 K as annual savings.

Honduras, Central America

• Implemented the Monthly Business Planning (MBP) process, integrating the processes, inputs, and expertise of Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams to support strategic business objectives.
• Spearheaded planning meetings with Marketing and Sales teams to forecast demand, discuss issues, and apply adjustments based on forecast and sales discrepancies, updated market needs, and plant capabilities.
• Conceptualized and developed innovative planning tools, notably the Inventory Control Tool and the Consensus Demand Planning Tool, aimed at streamlining decision-making processes.
• Exceeded forecast accuracy targets by achieving a forecast accuracy of 80.7%, surpassing the set target of 78.0%.
• Managed inventory by controlling damaged and expiring products, maintaining them below the maximum acceptable threshold of 0.5% of Net Sales. Achieved a rate of 0.3%; thereby, minimizing write-offs.
• Coordinated the annual Master Plan to establish strategic goals for the upcoming year.

Honduras, Central America

• Implemented the 4th Party Logistics service for the main cell phone company in the country attaining 100% in the Service Level Agreements in just two quarters since starting the service.
• Coordinated the logistics operations for the shipment of mobile devices to fulfill the supply needs of local Millicom facilities, ensuring seamless and timely deliveries.
• Projected the mobile devices' demand collaboratively with the customer and proposed action plans to enhance their accuracy and achieve the inventory levels according to the Service Level Agreement.
• Conducted daily trend sales analysis to identify potential under and over-demand risks, facilitating proactive communication with the customer and mitigating stock-out risks effectively.
• Improved inventory levels, reducing them to $3.0 million from a maximum acceptable limit of $3.5 million, while maintaining coverage months below the 4-month target and achieving a service level of 96% compared to the.
• Prepared forecast and sales performance reports for presentation at the weekly Demand and Supply (D&S) meetings, where action plans were reviewed and redefined in response to demand deviations and supply issues.

Honduras, Central America

• Conceptualized and established a dedicated planning department to manage this function independently while restructuring the buying team from a vendor-focused model to a product-category-based approach, enhancing.
• Updated procedures for domestic and international purchases, and tenders, and implemented quarterly vendor assessments.
• Reduced lead time for shipments from China from 50 to 30 days by switching to an alternative port, lowering logistics costs, and delivering products to customers earlier.
• Eliminated port demurrage by implementing strategic measures, including engaging new shipping partners and negotiating improved operational terms with existing ones.

Honduras, Central America

• Assessed vendor services according to their administrative skills, responsiveness, technology, and quality criteria as well as determined the action plans to aim for a world-class service level (95%) for all A-category.
• Analyzed, negotiated, and implemented purchasing strategies for products and services in terms of market conditions, supplier’s categorization, cost, time delivery, availability, quality, responsiveness, risks, and.
• Introduced operational improvements in transportation, packaging, and staffing, resulting in projected annual savings of CAD 42K, enhanced customer service, and increased operator efficiency.
• Spearheaded the bidding process for essential services including security and maintenance, leading to substantial annual cost savings of approximately CAD 7,800.
• Facilitated a seamless procurement process by initiating requests for quotations (RFQs), overseeing purchase orders, and meticulously managing the delivery and receipt of goods, achieving a consistent 95% service level.

Honduras, Central America

• Coordinated the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) along with marketing, sales, and financial teams resulting in a more holistic approach to predict the demand and capabilities to serve the market.
• Implemented collaborative forecasting with select customers to understand and incorporate their insights into projected demand, resulting in logistics benefits such as improved forecast accuracy and reduced bullwhip.
• Introduced Forecast Accuracy measurement at the customer and sales executive level, enabling easier identification of key process issues.
• Managed inventory levels for the company’s two distribution centers, achieving 34-day inventory aligned with the company’s objectives, and reduced slow-moving inventory by 25%.
• Achieved a world-class fill rate of 95.2%, surpassing the target of 95.0%, through timely product availability and focus on demand outliers.
• Analyzed forecast trends, seasonality, market events, outliers, profit, and product portfolios to identify and recommend adjustments for SKUs that did not meet the desired performance.

Honduras, Central America

• Optimized tax application through the proper utilization of free trade agreements and accurate harmonized codes, resulting in an annual cost avoidance of CAD 19.5K.
• Improved the freight custody method by consolidating the truck shipments in convoys allowing optimization of the security resources generating USD 48K in savings per year.
• Led the Wet Wipes New Classification project resulting in approximately CAD 260K yearly savings by researching and analyzing its current harmonized code and changing it to the right one.
• Reduced the customs physical inspection requests of shipments from 91% to 25% by ensuring accurate information in the vendor’s documentation in terms of price, quantity, INCOTERM, weights, harmonized codes, and general.
• Conceptualized and contributed to the development of the Container Tracking Tool to monitor in real time the movement of the incoming overseas company’s shipments.
• Reduced the total freight cost for containers from South America by negotiating a special rate for the inland section at the destination, resulting in CAD 10.1K as yearly savings.

Honduras, Central America

• Maximized the efficiency of the truck loading space in order to lower the metric-cubic freight cost achieving a 93% of used space vs a 90% of target.
• Determined the best distribution and customer delivery route for every shipment to minimize the time and the traveled distance to keep the cost of freight at 1.7% of net sales vs 2.0% as the maximum acceptable.
• Developed and implemented the Pallet Automatic Estimation system for determining the pallet requirements in shipments to the country's most prominent retailer, leading to a more predictable allocation of resources.
• Managed the transportation payments for international freights of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

San Pedro Sula

Review of employee profiles and identify training needs for each of them.

Business Diploma, Supply Chain & Operations

Activities and Societies: Graduated with honours GPA: 4.29

Bachelor In Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of the Association of Scholarship Students. Awarded First Place in the program, demonstrating academic.