Samuel Lopez Lira Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Lead the Demand Planning process for CPS North America by tracking and creating the demand plans, working closely with the Customer Service Managers, Supply Planning and Finance teams, as well as other Supply Chain Services Functions, Bottlers and Operating Unit partners.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

• Actively participate in building and implementation of new planning tools with respect to forecasting and inventory management.• Set up demand planning strategy with the new acquisitions, ensuring the use of adequate planning methods and an optimal process structure with business functions.• Develop and document the standard planning processes with a focus on implementing global common approaches and practices.• Manage the Demand Planning process based on statistical signals including trend/seasonality, model selection/building, event incorporation/exclusion, and Risk & Opportunity evaluation.• Generating and reviewing monthly forecast based on separate processes of Make to Stock, Make to Order and Limited-Edition planning.• Manage Product Life Cycle: Phase-In / Phase-Out and prevent obsolescence of Finished Goods.• Collaborate with Commercial, Marketing, Supply & Production, Finance and Customer Service teams to identify best-fitting solutions.• Situationally creating a constrained forecast based on feedback from Supply planning on Capacity constraints. Adjusting the expectation for the future towards Finance and Commercial.• Coordinate the S&OP process and have an effective alignment with business functions, with respect to the company objectives.• Ensuring that a demand plan is provided to respective stakeholders and is complete, up to date, and accurate.• Tracking and improving the KPIs like Forecast Accuracy (based on MAPE), % In Stock, OTIF and Backorders.• Working within the scope of the following systems: Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Advanced Planning System (o9 Solutions).

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

*Coordinate the forecast process in close collaboration with commercial organization to identify best-fitting solutions to provide the plants with a most accurate demand plan based on a statistical baseline and input from sales.*Contribute to S&OP process with demand planning results and effective alignment with business functions.*Generate and review monthly forecasts and measure, track and improve forecast accuracy.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

• Translate rolling demand plan into executable and feasible purchasing plan that incorporates catalogs and promotions plans, statistical and historical trends, vendors’ production capacities, and lead times. • Participate in monthly S&OP (Sales & Operations Process) and weekly S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) processes by providing inputs and insights to support alignment between supply/demand as well as improving and upgrading existing business practices.• Analyze stock at SKU level and ensure these are reordered at the right time and in the right quantity while optimizing working capital and appropriately fulfilling customer orders.• Ensure existing reporting tools are utilized to allow for prompt identification and resolution of any nuances related to In Stock %, backorders, excess inventory and any other areas for improvement.• Effectively communicating with vendors on day-to-day issues resolution.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Analyze demand planning forecast and production capacity to evaluate the factory’s ability to fulfill the demand.• Generate requirement for GCC factories and other suppliers. • Coordinate shipments from factory with Logistics.• Project and communicate to Demand Planning, sales/MKT team any potential risk of out of stock and the ship date back to the market.

Estelí, Nicaragua

• Planning of the production, packaging and export areas of the cigar factory. • Analysis of the inventory level of Packaging Material and product in process.• Prepare reports of productivity and service level.

Nantucket, Massachusetts

• Training on production and supply chain of vegetables, ornamental plants and flowers during the period of 2007. • Supervise the production activities in the greenhouses and the field for the production of vegetables and ornamental plants during the period of 2008.

Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Make a efficiency analysis of two methods to keep away depredators in the shrimp farms of ENACA, including the cost / benefit analysis.