Ricardo Freire Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo, Brasil

Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

Curitiba E Região, Brasil

• Delivered 3rd highest growth rate in daily rides in second half of 2019 among biggest operations of 99 in Brazil.• Developed a structured way to measure marketing campaigns results, including KPIs, targets, benchmarks and valuation method.• Ran a pilot project with an electric vehicles company to test this technology in ride hailing platform which had a big repercussion in press locally and nationally.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

• Implemented regional planning among São Paulo, Porto Alegre and Curitiba by creating an integrated view with a structured process with statistical forecast tool and consensus meetings with cities managers to define quarterly plans.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Delivered 34% reduction in obsolete raw materials in 2018 first semester collection compared to previous ones in Sporting Goods BU by resuming raw materials management activity, which consists in defining monthly meetings and building action plans with Marketing, Product Design, Production Plan and Control and Sales to tackle obsolete materials.• Created a new forum for demand discussion in constrained horizon in order to enhance Plant's capability of supporting short term business opportunities, giving more visibility of Operations scenario and contributing to less raw material waste in styles phase-out.• Standardized Apparel & Accessories planning processes based on big-figures background (Sell Out and Customer's inventory level), demand consensus, purchasing strategies and follow-up meetings schedule.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Achieved a 26% drop in WMAPE of sandals 17-18 collection (vs previous collection) by developing a structured process to discuss demand with Marketing, Sales and Finance highlighting big-figures background, main deviations from previous plans and the most relevant SKUs for deeper consensus.• Delivered 99% of accuracy in 2016 internal market big figures in Sandals Business Unit by building a quarterly big-figures-vision by sales channel to analyze customers’ sales and their inventory levels in order to estimate company sales.• Defined new forecasting process with statistical tool to estimate product-lines figures and the breakdown to style level focused on discussing the most realistic demand with Marketing, contributing to a leaner process in Sandals BU.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Established technical and legal requirement for importation operations startup in Brazil, resulting in products availability in the defined business model for the company.• Defined warehousing and orders preparation rules with third party warehouse, assuring shipments on time and in full to own stores and customers.• Reached R$ 300k in operations year savings with new suppliers development, freight negotiations and financial expenses revision (5,8% vs 5% target).• Developed a partnership with new freight forwarder, resulting in a transit time between Europe and Brazil 57% shorter with no impact regarding costs to the operation.• Developed Company’s Cash Management Controls, assuring reliability in payment process, on time receivings and agility in P&L analysis.• Eliminated accounting entries without managerial dimensions, meeting company’s international finance policies, allowing Americas Financial Results consolidation on time and contributing with a quicker executive decision-taking process.• Reduced R$ 600k in yearly costs, developing a file with importations costs structure and defining the margin used between the two companies of the group in order to avoid the Transfer Price penalty, as stated by Customs Authority, Receita Federal do Brasil.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

Sorocaba Area, Brazil

• Worked as Super User in Production Control Global System implementation project in two factories of the company in Brazil, defining system setup, running individual & integrated trials and rehearsals, defining production instruction with productive areas and JIT parts scheduling with procurement, without line stop in production startup.• Redefined the vehicles in delay management through: productive process critical analysis; information system building with Quality área; and development of a Vehicles in Repair Control Area, achieving a massive improvement from 85 to 97% of vehicles delivered on time in Sorocaba’s plant.• Defined the ramp up plan of Sorocaba’s plant, considering Procurement, Suppliers Park and Productive Areas, resulting in a production startup without line stop.• Defined and setup the production instruction to the Suppliers Park of Sorocaba’s factory, assuring the start of operation with JIT parts delivered without impacts for production.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

Indaiatuba - Sp

Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

São Paulo - Sp

• Structured a new way of monitoring products replenishment to Key Accounts customers, standardizing their performance indicators and quickly informing Sales side, improving inventory coverage by 6%.• Structured the Order’s Book Management Tool, allowing lead times analysis, giving visibility on replenishment issues and contributing to a quicker take-action process to reduce this occurrence.• Created the Booked Deliveries Warning Tool, informing automatically to the distribution center which orders were booked for the following day, achieving 27% of improvement in on time booked deliveries, generating products availability and therefore customer satisfaction.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

Vinhedo - Sp

• Standardized the way of extracting data from system and of calculating the performance indicators of America region, assuring reliability to the KPI’s and more productivity in managerial discussions.• Redesigned performance reports of factories’ groups of region, establishing automatic link with database, reaching 50% less time when elaborating them.• Designed the capital expenditure control in region factories, evaluating the internal project management practices and also external benchmarks, promoting visibility on resources management flow and therefore contributing to a quicker executive decision-taking process.• Elaborated a benchmark study with performance indicators of all factories in Americas region, in order to find the best performances in each indicator and to promote best practices exchanges among factories across different groups.Operations Management, Supply Chain, Continuous Improvement, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning

Gclog - Graduate Certificate In Logistics And Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, Mbf 57

Production (Industrial) Engineering, Industrial Engineering