Guido Herrera

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Hialeah FL 33015

Cell # 786-***-****

E-mail : acscg1@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Several years of supply chain experience in the areas of operations, purchasing, Traffic, inventory planning & control, Transportation, Warehousing, Customer service and information systems in Latin America region.

Professional Experience

2014 – 2015 Stanley Black & Decker Inc Miramar, FL

DC Manager

Administration of 2 DCs and 40 employees

Monitoring, follow up and keeping import documents from receiving 700 containers in a year from China and Thailand mainly.

Coordinate outbound shipments to export to Latin America

Control Inbound and outbound expenses for transportation

2012 – 2014 Harley-Davidson Motor Co Doral, FL

Sr. Dealer Service &Logistic Analyst - Latin America Region

Shipping Parts and motorcycles exports to LADM, Mexico and Brazil dealers

Control and monitor all physical inventory of product at Laredo, TX and Miami

Negotiate and consolidate shipments to Latin America

SPOC (Single Point of Contact) to the dealers

Control 3PL expenses for warehousing and exporting

Set up the DHL express for urgent parts of informal clearance to Latin America

2012 Lennox Global Doral, FL

Sourcing Inventory Planner for Latin America Region

Responsible for Asian 3d party direct orders

Demand planning :Forecasting and ordering Asia product

Inventory Control of Asia product (Turns)

Control product offering

Deliver order status, inventory, sales forecast reports

2003 – 2011 York Int’l - Johnson Controls Inc.Miami, FL

Customer Service and Logistic Manager for Middle America Region

Established Logistic/ Customer Service organization for Caribbean & Central America, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela & Ecuador.

Control all the warehousing and shipping at Miami, PR, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador

Reporting 41 persons and 5 direct reports

Established Inventory Cycle counting achieving more than 99.98% of accuracy

Purchased all direct and indirect materials to third parties.

Increased Inventory Turnovers from 3.8 to 6.6

Reduced in more than a half the CSR & Logistic headcount

Implemented DRP for purchasing planning for Miami & Puerto Rico.

Implemented direct shipments from China and Thailand.

Saved more than $ 300K by consolidating shipments.

Established replenishment system from China for Sam’s & Wal-Mart

Order fill rate = 100% for 18 months with Sam’s Club.

1999 – 2003 Polaroid Corporation Miami, FL

Logistic Manager for Latin America

Purchased products to third parties.

Reduced in TWO THIRDS of Latin America Logistics expenses.

Reduced 80% of Latin America product cycle time for delivery.

Implemented and managed complete supply chain for 35 countries.

Reduced to HALF inventory for the region.

Reduced LA Logistics headcount by over 50%.

1996 – 1999 Canon U.S.A., Inc Miami, FL

Senior Parts Inventory Controller

Implemented parts distribution system for LA, reducing cycle time from 2 months to 10 days.

Ensured that proper service levels > 95% was maintained.

Provided good customer service by answering faster than 2 working days

1991-1996 Black & Decker Corporation Miami, FL

Inventory Control Manager

Managed household products division for LA.

Implemented forecasting accuracy and purchases planning which led to over a 30% reduction in inventory levels.

Centralized purchasing for the region subsidiaries.

Implemented ABC for inventory control.

1987 – 1991 Novartis Cartagena, Colombia

Administrative Manager of Production Plant

Responsibilities inventory control, warehousing, distribution, imports/exports, budget control, purchasing for agro-chemical products.

Reduced lead time for raw material purchases by 50% reducing inventory levels in 30%

Managed delivery routing and scheduling.

1984 – 1987 Dow Chemical Cartagena, Colombia

Production Planning and Purchasing Engineer

Responsibilities sales forecasting control, production planning (MRP) for plastics, agrochemical and specialties products; imports of raw materials, inventory control and purchasing

Reduced inventory from 32 to 14 days in A-items with 100% sales increase.

Implemented MRP system for production planning.

Achieved 42% cost reduction by annual negotiations with third party vendors.

Education

1982 Javeriana University Bogota, Colombia

B.S. Industrial Engineering

1982 Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Certificate, Fundamentals of Data Processing

1982 Roxburry College Boston, MA

Certificate, COBOL Programming Language

1999 Polaroid Corporation Cambridge, MA

SAP, Logistics module training

2005 York International Corp. Carolina, PR

Finance for then Non-Financial Manager

Lean6Sigma Awareness

Problem Solving

Team Power

2006 Center-for-Creative-Leadership Mexico

Innovative Leadership seminar

2012 Harley-Davidson Doral, FL

Certificate, Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Skills

MS Excel (pivot table, macros, vlookup, sum IF)

Access 2003

Demand Solutions software

Languages

Fluent in English and Spanish.

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