Rene Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

• Manage tactical procurement, detailed production planning, master planning, warehousing operations, receiving and shipping operations for the Mexicali Campus (2 fabrications plants and 1 final assembly plant).
• Direct manager for 2 functional managers: Planning and Purchasing Manager and Inventory Control Manager (2)
• Direct manager for Master Planner and Senior Demand Analyst
• Functional responsibility for tactical procurement, including 7 tactical buyers
• Functional responsibility for production planning, including 4 production planners and 1 Junior Planner.
• Functional responsibility for inventory control operations for the Mexicali Campus (Warehouse, Receiving and Shipping), including 2 warehouse supervisors, 1 Cycle Count and MRB Coordinator and a head count of 43 hourly.

Mexicali Area, Mexico

• Autolite is the leading supplier of spark plugs in North America with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and part of the UCI-FRAM Group, a $2+billion global businesses within RANK Group Limited. The role reports.
• Leading the SIOP process for Autolite with monthly demand plan and supply plan that assures minimal inventory and meets customer needs.
• Managing Customers Line Fill to meet 98% min. goal including manufactured product for Aftermarket / OE/S, Purchased product including outsourced spark plugs and wire sets and glow.
• Leading Autolite Brand Level Strategic Deployment Working Capital Action Plan designed to meet AOP targets on Gross Inventory Value and Inventory turn.
• Creating Customer and Supplier connectivity to assure timely and prompt response on all Customer Service inquiries; assist in New Product Introduction (NPI) Process to assure flawless product launches for each program.
• Direct Manager for SIOP Manager, Mexico Plant Materials Manager and Aftermarket Senior Analyst; also matrix manager for two U.S. based materials managers.

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

• Manage materials planning / purchasing of direct materials (Procurement Management), SIOP process, Detailed Production Scheduling and Receiving / Shipping / Warehousing areas
• Functional responsibility for the materials planning group & Sourcing Specialist (4)
• Indirect responsibility for the production planning group (5)
• Functional responsibility for plant’s warehouse operation including stores, receiving, shipping and local transportation including a head count of 42 indirect employees and 3 supervisors
• Functional responsibility to external warehouse operations
• Participates in the development of SIOP supply plans for inventory and capacity manpower requirements.

• Manage all materials department functions such as Procurement Management, Sales and Operations Plan, Production Scheduling, Vendor Planning, Warehouse and Inventory for the Tecate Fabrication Plant and Plating Plant.
• Functional responsibility for the production scheduling group (a group of 2 production scheduler and 2 Production Control Coordinators)
• Responsible for vendor scheduling (raw material procurement) for a group of 1 Planning Supervisor, Brass Business Unit Vendor Planner, Falcon Business Unit planner buyer as well as OSP Planner
• Responsible for warehouse operation including stores, receiving, shipping and local transportation including a group of 1 supervisor, 3 leaders, 1 Logistics Analyst, 1 Inventory Analyst and 17 clerks in the Tecate site.
• Responsible for Tijuana Plating materials operations (scheduling, procurement, flow of material in/out)
• Actively participates in the development of the AOP & SOP plans for Inventory, Capacity and Manpower requirements.

• Implement, Manage and Lead the SIOP process (Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning) for the three Mexico locations linked with corporate commercial and residential SIOP in support of Schlage Lock Company of.
• Lead the SIOP process and procedures for the three Mexico plants
• Responsible to develop and implement the necessary procedures to successfully manage demand, FG inventory levels, manpower requirements and capacity plan
• Responsible to leverage and standardize procurement planning processes across the sites in the region.
• Leads monthly, quarterly SIOP internal and business unit processes for the Mexico Region
• Actively participates in the development of the AOP plans for the Mexico Region for Inventory, Capacity and Manpower requirements.

• Manage a team of planners and schedulers responsible for procurement planning and detailed production scheduling for the Gas Controls Business unit, reporting directly to the Business Unit Operations Manager:
• Lead and managed the SIOP process for the business unit, improving capacity and manpower utilization by more than 30% and at the same time improving schedule adherence from less than 70% to 90% consistently
• Lead and managed the customer service group and activities for the business unit, improving service ratings eliminating Customer complaints
• Responsible to execute and track performance of production planning, past due reduction, revenue/shipments, and OTD (on time delivery)
• Lead the group to re-engineer the planning structure from repetitive manufacturing to discrete manufacturing, reducing past dues to manageable levels (70% reduction), improving on time delivery to 95% plus, from a.
• Lead the materials group in the implementation of SIOP-MPS/CTB process

• Responsible for the SIOP and Master scheduling processes of the Caterpillar business unit, managing a team responsible to develop the MPS and production plan, reporting to the Operations Manager
• Lead monthly quarterly SIOP meetings to ensure the Operations management team had the right levels of visibility of demand forecast to properly plan for manpower, inventory and capacity utilization, prepare master plan.
• Managed a group of planners and shop floor schedulers to drive efficiency and productivity improvements in the areas of: inventory turns from 9 to 14, capacity utilization from the low 80% to better than 95%
• Coordinated the activities to prepare the sales, inventory and operations plan
• Lead the customer service activities for the business unit
• Analyze and translate into an executable production plan the sales and marketing demand forecast, improving on time delivery from 75% to better than 98% consistently

Mba Degree, Major In Finance

Bachelor Degree In Business Administration, Complete