RAYMOND A. RIVERA VEGA

Urb. Paraíso de Coamo *** Calle Amistad, Coamo, PR 00769

Mobile 787-***-****, 787-***-****

E-mail: nwwemn@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications

• MBA - Master’s Degree in Materials Management.

• Over 10 years’ experience in Materials Management Functions, developing, coordinating, execution of demand forecast, internal warehouse management, 3PL warehouse management, purchasing (raw materials and MRO), receiving and shipping.

• Excellent people and organizational skill.

• Well focused and oriented to compliance to customer service; internal and external.

• Interaction with corporate marketing functions and arranging production schedules to meet national and international sales forecasts.

• Vast MRP II knowledge both theory and experience.

• Knowledge of integrated Supply Chain systems (SAP R/3, JDE)

• Proficiency in MS Office Programs: Words, Excel, Power Point etc..

• Compliance with policies and procedures defined by GMP’s, SOP’s, FDA, OSHA regulations and ISO 9000/14000.

• Fully Bilingual/ English and Spanish.

Professional Experience

MATERIALS, PLANNING AND STRATEGIC MANAGER (May 10, 2010 to November 30, 2011)

Hamilton Sundstrand de Puerto Rico

A United Technologies Company

Felicia Industrial Park, Street B Lot 14

Santa Isabel, P.R. 00757

Responsible for all materials management and control, production planning, strategic planning, purchasing, receiving, and shipping management functions. Primary contact of all direct sales and inter-company finished goods transfers to external and interplant customers.

• Responsible for OTD (on time delivery), to interplant customers and direct sales customers.

• Primary contact with external direct sales customers and product management offices in Corporate Central Customers Offices.

• In charge all strategic planning functions; BOM’s, Routings, Kanban Product Line Settings, Shop Floor System Control Strategic Settings.

• Responsible for production planning and shop floor order management.

• Responsible for all warehouse activities; for example: receiving, dispatching, product claims, physical inventories and shipping.

• Inventory Control Management; cycle counting program execution and monitoring; inventory adjustments and corrective action execution process.

SUPPLY CHAIN CUSTOMER LOGISTICS MANAGER (2006 to 2010)

Johnson & Johnson Medical Caribbean

Division of Johnson & Johnson International – Guaynabo, PR

Responsible for managing consistent, reliable and responsive customer logistics processes for Central America and Caribbean; with logistics central operations in Panama, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

• Responsible for the guarantee of on time and complete delivery according to our customer’s expectations in line with Company’s strategy and objectives.

• Define goals, objectives, resources and budget to for the customer logistics subdivision.

• Responsible for establishing a process to measure, follow-up and improve Key Performance Indicators within subdivision.

• Responsible for People Management processes including the selection, retention, motivation and development of the customer logistics team.

• Ensure that Company’s quality standards, guidelines and policies are being followed within my team and with outsource companies including also local and regulatory requirements.

• Negotiate with outsource companies (3PL) cost, service level agreements, performance tracking and recommend and follow-up on improvement initiatives.

• Responsible for all warehouse activities; for example: receiving, dispatching, inventory control, quality, product claims and physical inventories.

• Systematically meet with Franchises and functional areas to review, validate and improve current processes as to gather new Company requirements.

• Systematically meet with customers to review, validate and improve current processes as to gather new requirements.

• Participate in regional projects and process improvement initiatives being responsible for its local implementation.

MATERIALS MANAGER (2004 to 2005)

Beckton & Dickinson – Cayey, PR

Plans, organize, control and direct the materials management function

• Responsible to developing, coordinating, executing and monitoring the plant demand forecast with Corporate BD Diagnostics Supply Planner.

• Responsible for raw materials and finished goods, production and inventory control, scheduling and routing, purchasing, shipping and receiving and warehouse.

• Responsible for communicating significant current/ potential supply performance problems to the Plant Management and Baltimore Supply Management.

Participate in the plant-focused Supply Consensus component

of Sales & Operations Planning Process

• Oversees the management and data integrity of product availability information and supply planning parameters.

• Responsible in analyzing actual results versus projected forecast, to identify major variations that could be causing the forecast errors.

• Discuss and implement strategies with Corporate Supply Management based on past years findings to improve forecast parameters and process.

Assist in the development of the annual budget process

• Projected forecast from one year to the next five years; using pre-established tools for seasoning and shutdown periods.

Inventory Accomplishments

• Turns from 6.0 to 11 in 10 months (Target for the year was 7.0 turns).

• Reduction of total backorder of 700k to 100k in 10 months (Target for the year was 226k).

• Reduction of total inventory from 7.8 million to 6.7 million in 10 months (Target for year was 7.0 million).

PLANNING MANAGER (2000 to 2004)

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Responsible for the materials management activities required

in the Primary Production Unit of PPU Effexor Area

• Developing, coordinating and execution of demand forecast.

• Managing, monitoring, usage and updating of the forecasting tool in SAP MRP II system APO

• Management of all warehouse activities.

• Scheduling of the manufacturing of bulk production.

• Inventory control and follow-up.

• Awareness of existing and potential back orders.

Accomplishments

• Actively participated in all the initiatives that permitted the excellent product transfer of one of the highest volume products in Wyeth, Effexor Capsules.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/DIVESTITURE/NEW PRODUCTS MANAGER

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Responsible of overlooking the activities related to the divestiture process

• Logistic and materials management.

• Responsible of monitoring the demand forecast against actual production for all the product lines under my responsibility.

• Quality assurance, regulatory affairs, technical services, product transfer and technical and supply agreement contracts.

• Due diligence with official and /or potential clients.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION MANAGER

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Planed, organized, directed and, controlled the activities related to the Production Specifications

• Management, preparation and review of the Master Batch Records in the plant.

• Responsible for the introduction of New Products and Packaging Presentations relating the Logistics and Materials Management.

• In charge of the Master Data File of the MRP II System (SAP System).

PLANNING MANAGER (1991 to 1999)

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical / Janssen, Gurabo, PR

Plan, organize, direct and, control all the Plant Activities related to Master Production Schedule (MPS)

• Responsible for the continuous monitoring of projected forecast against actual sales trend.

• Participate in Corporate Sales and Operations meetings to provide marketing a new overview of changes based of new demand projections.

• Establish projected forecast for the next year and the following five years using as basis previous years and pre-established tools for seasoning and new products introduction.

• Scheduling, procurement and inventory control of all the production materials required for the manufacturing of the products under my responsibility.

• Responsible for preparing a new manufacturing area called Quicksolv, for International Regulatory Agency and FDA. Approval granted.

Education

MBA Materials Administration and Control

Turabo University, Gurabo, PR

Summa Cum Laude Graduate

BBA Accounting, University of Puerto Rico

Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Professional

- ACE Program Associate Level - Lean manufacturing internal program certification – Dec 2010

- Hamilton Sundstrand Benchmark training – York, Nebraska Nov 2010

- Process Improvement Certification Training Course - (Depuy Private Plans Administration and Hospital Procedures Coordination) - May 2008

- Lean Manufacturing Customer Logistics Workshop – Nov 2007

- Six Sigma Transactional Certification Course – Dec 2004

- All five CPIM Courses has been taken and the first test for Basics of Supply Change Management has been approved.

- Certified Diversity Awareness Train the Trainer Program – March 2005

- Lean Manufacturing Managers and Supervisors Training – October 2004

- Part Time Professor at Inter American University, Guayama Campus – Operations Management Course in the Business Administration Department, year 2004.

- Affiliation – APICS (American Production Inventory Control Society) San Juan Chapter

Qualifications

• MBA - Master’s Degree in Materials Management.

• Over 10 years’ experience in Materials Management Functions, developing, coordinating, execution of demand forecast, internal warehouse management, 3PL warehouse management, purchasing (raw materials and MRO), receiving and shipping.

• Excellent people and organizational skill.

• Well focused and oriented to compliance to customer service; internal and external.

• Interaction with corporate marketing functions and arranging production schedules to meet national and international sales forecasts.

• Vast MRP II knowledge both theory and experience.

• Knowledge of integrated Supply Chain systems (SAP R/3, JDE)

• Proficiency in MS Office Programs: Words, Excel, Power Point etc..

• Compliance with policies and procedures defined by GMP’s, SOP’s, FDA, OSHA regulations and ISO 9000/14000.

• Fully Bilingual/ English and Spanish.

Professional Experience

MATERIALS, PLANNING AND STRATEGIC MANAGER (May 10, 2010 to November 30, 2011)

Hamilton Sundstrand de Puerto Rico

A United Technologies Company

Felicia Industrial Park, Street B Lot 14

Santa Isabel, P.R. 00757

Responsible for all materials management and control, production planning, strategic planning, purchasing, receiving, and shipping management functions. Primary contact of all direct sales and inter-company finished goods transfers to external and interplant customers.

• Responsible for OTD (on time delivery), to interplant customers and direct sales customers.

• Primary contact with external direct sales customers and product management offices in Corporate Central Customers Offices.

• In charge all strategic planning functions; BOM’s, Routings, Kanban Product Line Settings, Shop Floor System Control Strategic Settings.

• Responsible for production planning and shop floor order management.

• Responsible for all warehouse activities; for example: receiving, dispatching, product claims, physical inventories and shipping.

• Inventory Control Management; cycle counting program execution and monitoring; inventory adjustments and corrective action execution process.

SUPPLY CHAIN CUSTOMER LOGISTICS MANAGER (2006 to 2010)

Johnson & Johnson Medical Caribbean

Division of Johnson & Johnson International – Guaynabo, PR

Responsible for managing consistent, reliable and responsive customer logistics processes for Central America and Caribbean; with logistics central operations in Panama, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

• Responsible for the guarantee of on time and complete delivery according to our customer’s expectations in line with Company’s strategy and objectives.

• Define goals, objectives, resources and budget to for the customer logistics subdivision.

• Responsible for establishing a process to measure, follow-up and improve Key Performance Indicators within subdivision.

• Responsible for People Management processes including the selection, retention, motivation and development of the customer logistics team.

• Ensure that Company’s quality standards, guidelines and policies are being followed within my team and with outsource companies including also local and regulatory requirements.

• Negotiate with outsource companies (3PL) cost, service level agreements, performance tracking and recommend and follow-up on improvement initiatives.

• Responsible for all warehouse activities; for example: receiving, dispatching, inventory control, quality, product claims and physical inventories.

• Systematically meet with Franchises and functional areas to review, validate and improve current processes as to gather new Company requirements.

• Systematically meet with customers to review, validate and improve current processes as to gather new requirements.

• Participate in regional projects and process improvement initiatives being responsible for its local implementation.

MATERIALS MANAGER (2004 to 2005)

Beckton & Dickinson – Cayey, PR

Plans, organize, control and direct the materials management function

• Responsible to developing, coordinating, executing and monitoring the plant demand forecast with Corporate BD Diagnostics Supply Planner.

• Responsible for raw materials and finished goods, production and inventory control, scheduling and routing, purchasing, shipping and receiving and warehouse.

• Responsible for communicating significant current/ potential supply performance problems to the Plant Management and Baltimore Supply Management.

Participate in the plant-focused Supply Consensus component

of Sales & Operations Planning Process

• Oversees the management and data integrity of product availability information and supply planning parameters.

• Responsible in analyzing actual results versus projected forecast, to identify major variations that could be causing the forecast errors.

• Discuss and implement strategies with Corporate Supply Management based on past years findings to improve forecast parameters and process.

Assist in the development of the annual budget process

• Projected forecast from one year to the next five years; using pre-established tools for seasoning and shutdown periods.

Inventory Accomplishments

• Turns from 6.0 to 11 in 10 months (Target for the year was 7.0 turns).

• Reduction of total backorder of 700k to 100k in 10 months (Target for the year was 226k).

• Reduction of total inventory from 7.8 million to 6.7 million in 10 months (Target for year was 7.0 million).

PLANNING MANAGER (2000 to 2004)

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Responsible for the materials management activities required

in the Primary Production Unit of PPU Effexor Area

• Developing, coordinating and execution of demand forecast.

• Managing, monitoring, usage and updating of the forecasting tool in SAP MRP II system APO

• Management of all warehouse activities.

• Scheduling of the manufacturing of bulk production.

• Inventory control and follow-up.

• Awareness of existing and potential back orders.

Accomplishments

• Actively participated in all the initiatives that permitted the excellent product transfer of one of the highest volume products in Wyeth, Effexor Capsules.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/DIVESTITURE/NEW PRODUCTS MANAGER

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Responsible of overlooking the activities related to the divestiture process

• Logistic and materials management.

• Responsible of monitoring the demand forecast against actual production for all the product lines under my responsibility.

• Quality assurance, regulatory affairs, technical services, product transfer and technical and supply agreement contracts.

• Due diligence with official and /or potential clients.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION MANAGER

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Guayama, PR

Planed, organized, directed and, controlled the activities related to the Production Specifications

• Management, preparation and review of the Master Batch Records in the plant.

• Responsible for the introduction of New Products and Packaging Presentations relating the Logistics and Materials Management.

• In charge of the Master Data File of the MRP II System (SAP System).

PLANNING MANAGER (1991 to 1999)

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical / Janssen, Gurabo, PR

Plan, organize, direct and, control all the Plant Activities related to Master Production Schedule (MPS)

• Responsible for the continuous monitoring of projected forecast against actual sales trend.

• Participate in Corporate Sales and Operations meetings to provide marketing a new overview of changes based of new demand projections.

• Establish projected forecast for the next year and the following five years using as basis previous years and pre-established tools for seasoning and new products introduction.

• Scheduling, procurement and inventory control of all the production materials required for the manufacturing of the products under my responsibility.

• Responsible for preparing a new manufacturing area called Quicksolv, for International Regulatory Agency and FDA. Approval granted.

Education

MBA Materials Administration and Control

Turabo University, Gurabo, PR

Summa Cum Laude Graduate

BBA Accounting, University of Puerto Rico

Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Professional

- ACE Program Associate Level - Lean manufacturing internal program certification – Dec 2010

- Hamilton Sundstrand Benchmark training – York, Nebraska Nov 2010

- Process Improvement Certification Training Course - (Depuy Private Plans Administration and Hospital Procedures Coordination) - May 2008

- Lean Manufacturing Customer Logistics Workshop – Nov 2007

- Six Sigma Transactional Certification Course – Dec 2004

- All five CPIM Courses has been taken and the first test for Basics of Supply Change Management has been approved.

- Certified Diversity Awareness Train the Trainer Program – March 2005

- Lean Manufacturing Managers and Supervisors Training – October 2004

- Part Time Professor at Inter American University, Guayama Campus – Operations Management Course in the Business Administration Department, year 2004.

- Affiliation – APICS (American Production Inventory Control Society) San Juan Chapter

Contact this candidate