Passion for collaborating and partnering with cross functional teams in challenging environments to strategize and pursue new and diverse ways to problem solve resulting in teams working together to drive business improvement and people culture. Comprehensive experience in various operational business settings with strategic roles supporting both Global and North America supply chain. A wide range of operational experience in planning, process improvement, problem solving, and team leadership. Excel at stabilizing and improving processes in chaotic situations. Commitment to managing operations and projects that drive results, promote growth, sustainability and opportunities that impact revenue. Bilingual in Spanish and English.CORE COMPETENCIESStrategic Planning | Process Improvement | Customer Focus | Leadership & Development | Program & Project Leadership | Sales & Inventory Forecasting | Sales & Operations Planning | ERP System Implementation | Inventory & Allocation Planning | Sporting GoodsHIGHLIGHTS• Excels in collaborating directly with stakeholders, decisive, analytical, and driven by continuous improvement. • Transcend under-pressure, adhering to target timelines, with performance and quality consistently achieved while managing change and conflict by focusing on issues with essential impact. • Prioritize strategic initiatives and focus on motivating staff to embrace and maximize engagement.TECHNICAL SKILLSMicrosoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Adobe, Oracle, Domo, Business Objects
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Director, North America Order Fulfillment & Materials Planning | Global Systems OperationsTaylormade Golf Company Jun 2020 - Jun 2023Carlsbad, California, UsLead and provide strategic direction to a team of 20 in areas of order fulfillment, materials planning, and operations “IT” systems support to achieve customer-focused results through calculated short term and long-term product planning a wide range of inline and go-to-market timelines and milestones, identifying, communicating, and closing gaps that could impact from a planning and systems readiness position.- Designed Domo reporting giving Sales a one stop shop for monthly order book management. Supplied Sales with visibility to capitalize opportunities and expedite the decision and execution process. Led to better alignment of warehouse execution and monthly revenue opportunity. - Crafted report that identified product opportunities for Sales that led to enabling the sales and planning execution of the largest Pack & Hold in the history of TaylorMade (P&H opportunity doubled).- Introduced a revenue back out process to better tie supply and demand execution with Commercial Finance to improve reforecast planning cycle and working capital alignment.- Lead, build, develop, and motivate a team of individuals to achieve the highest-level revenue through the pandemic. - Drive execution of NAM buys, management of orders to optimize warehouse flow and maximize monthly revenue targets while balancing service metrics. - Create inventory forecast utilized in working capital process driving open-to-buy approval. Facilitates and aligns inventory forecast with Commercial and Performance Management Teams in support of Inventory Management objectives (DIO, OTB process).- Collaborate with Supply Chain Finance to track and manage activity-based cost performance.- Drive and stabilize monthly cadence of SIOP and TWC meetings with cross functional teams for Club, Ball and Accessory categories.- Manage Systems Operations Project Managers responsible for bridging systemic infrastructure and data reporting in support of global operational business needs. -
Director, Global Systems & ReportingTaylormade Golf Company Mar 2014 - Jun 2020Carlsbad, California, UsManage operations system team in evolution and support of global systems that support Sales and Operations day to day execution (optimization, performance, functionality, and reliability as it relates to operations business need). Global business role working with “IT” and partnering with business to understand current and future state business application needs to assist in formulating future systems enhancements to keep pace with business demands.- Lead ERP project implementation for Planned-to-Build & Procure-to-Pay tracks in North America, United Kingdom, Japan, Greater China Area, and Australia all on time with no major incidents at go-live.- Successful B2B implementation for the U.S. market on time with no major incidents. Implementation support as need for Canada and United Kingdom. - Implementation of Tijuana assembly facility from an operations systems perspective. Inventory system set-up creation with all attributes required to be fully functional within a 3-month period.- Operations representative and interface with IT for system down incidents or priority enhancements at a global level to achieve resolution of issues in an acceptable business time limit. - Run point on distributor model from order-to-cash conversion through separation from Adidas resulting in all distributors running smoothly on day one of separation. - Continuous implementation and improvement of current and future systems that optimize business capability, functionality, flexibility, and reliability.- Facilitate and manage end to end global operations project coordination, including future acquisitions.- Manage global change request queue, business requirement collection review, collaborate with IT and developers, and prepare business for regression testing.- Full ownership of prioritization of projects in the queue. Police global platform standardization and with “IT” approve deviations to standardization based on regional business need. -
Director, Global Materials PlanningTaylormade-Adidas Golf Company Aug 2006 - Mar 2014Manage, oversee, and coordinate the conversion of equipment market forecasts to procurement, assembly, and financial committed shipment and distribution plans for all Carlsbad supported business units. Materials planning activities include: (1) Performance tracking, and approval of market forecasts, (2) Allocation, launch, and closeout planning for product lifecycles, (3) Creation and approval of component and FG inventory plans for supported regions, and (4) Sales and Operations facilitation and reporting at the regional and executive levels. Materials Planning responsibilities for global Carlsbad specified product supported regions: USA, Europe, Canada, APAC, and various export accounts.- Execute the review and approval of monthly global market forecasts in accordance with AOP targets and regional business requirements.- Responsible for final creation of sku level assembly and procurement plans for use by the operations and distribution groups, materials planning and execution.- Gatekeeper in charge of providing detailed information and resolution to regional questions and concerns from internal and external stakeholders regarding demand plans, supply issues, distribution, and allocations. - Anticipate and resolve supply chain issues through initiative-taking action plans to minimize the effect of demand material to secure availability and optimize inventory performance.- Collaborate with commercial units, operations, and product managers, to establish baseline lifecycle plans (volumes, revenue, margins) and manage a methodology for subsequent tracking and reporting to facilitate necessary changes in tactical and strategic plans.- Formulate materials planning metrics to track regional performance. Propose improvements/initiatives, and coordinate implementation. - Manage and coordinate key events within product lifecycles, (wave planning), product repositioning, product allocations, and closeouts. - Facilitate monthly execution of global SIOP.
Silvia G. Saldivar Education Details
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Arizona State UniversityMaterials Management
Frequently Asked Questions about Silvia G. Saldivar
What is Silvia G. Saldivar's role at the current company?
Silvia G. Saldivar's current role is North America Fulfillment & Materials Planning Leader | Global Systems & Process Support Enforcer | Program & Project Leader | Sales & Inventory Forecaster | Sales & Operations Planner | ERP System Implementer.
What schools did Silvia G. Saldivar attend?
Silvia G. Saldivar attended Arizona State University.
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