INGRID D. BENAVIDES Linkedin.com/in/ingrid-benavides-b2b3352a Georgetown, KY 40324 cell +1 [502] 370-6768. ad2yh6@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Inventory Analyst Supervisor Montaplast of North America. Automotive Systems Americas. Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. Feb2023: Present

Created a tool that accurately determine the proper tariff classification Parts and accessories of bodies for trucks, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles included but not limited to 802 HTS Code pertaining according to and for the automobile industry classification. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS) for multiple customs jurisdictions and countries..

Created a tool to accurately and mathematically simplify the 152K data down to 74,776 customers’ parts to a calculation of formulas to provide the eligibility or non-eligibility process from 670 seconds down to 3.2 seconds of each and all global Trade and Customs Prepared and hoc Customs financial and import reports using the US Customs database portals.

Responsible for maintaining inventory tracking, daily cycle counting of over 50 components, preparing balance and shortage reports, and stocking and distributing supplies.

Successfully completed the submission of over1,00,131 Global Trade and Customs Documentations include among others the USMCA, FTA, MA, CAFTA, AALA, NAFTA, COO, ECCN processing information and documentation for MBUSI, Mercedes, GM, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen and Mazda

Improved inventory accuracy by 90% and demand requirements to ensure stock availability of over 42K components utilized in the production of parts for the automobile industry this I have supported the organization's management with purchasing inventory from 333 suppliers and 21 countries.

Industrial Engineer Montaplast of North America. Automotive Systems Americas. Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. Mar2022- Feb2023

Accomplished 60 run at rate studies to evaluate launch readiness of new products and processes .

Analyzed the cause of production issues on second shift aside from the first shift study identifying 52 opportunities for improvement

Completed 98% of all daily tasks from the task management systems created by TPD and others on time for ongoing activities and new product launch.

Daily analyzation of production data to determine the direction for continuous improvement activities workplace and material flow to determine root cause for deviation from production standards and or quality defects and the setting of specific targets for those activities.

Designed process improvements to boost efficiency reducing cycle and improving labor deviation by 73% on average in a monthly basis.

Determined cost effectiveness of rework operations and create 25 instructions for rework if needed.

Industrial engineer responsible for over 314 operators, training those with difficulties with a successful rate goal 98% in improving quality and operators performance reaching and other passing the daily production goals.

Industrial Engineer responsible for two manufacturing plants running by 150 assembling, cloth, glue, welding and injection molding machines and robotics for our customers of current and new launch parts for MBUSI, Mercedes, GM, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen and Mazda.

Most recently, successfully reduced labor cost and cycle times reaching over $3millions USD in annual l savings in just 3 parts and other major increased millions in savings on other parts.

Wrote over 798 work instructions, ergonomic instructions, packaging instructions, and other manufacturing instructions in English and Spanish.

Engineering Translator. Hitachi – Astemo, Automotive Systems Americas. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, USA. Mar2021: Dec2022

Responsible for the translation of engineering fundamental training documents of engineering studies used for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, Fluid power and FANUC robotics training classes. Translations and amendments of training classes and materials for the manufacturing and production of materials such as 4M Change Point, 8 Control Items, 5S3T, FMDS, 8 Step Problem Solving, GEMBA management, Safe workforce, COKA, OEE, Production Efficiency, KPI Analysis, Job Observations, Work Instructions, and training materials for Microsoft Excel training classes for Hitachi -Astemo for USA, Mexico, and Japan

Distribution and Logistics Data Analyst. Galls, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Apr2021: Mar2022

Created, published, and presented reporting, benchmarking, forecasting dashboards and performance metrics on a monthly, quarterly, annual, and as-needed basis from extracted, dirty to cleaned data to various departments within the Distribution & Logistics including inbound, outbound, picking, replenishments, returns, inventory ctrl, shipping, VAS (value added services) and engineering.

Decreased costs and increased the service by analyzing data, trends, and gaps within Distribution & Logistics KPIs and Spend and make recommendations for improvements.

Effectively achieved data analytics of FedEx shipping information of oversize, overweight and hazmat items for the intentional purpose of cost reduction by 35%.

Generated 2022 budgets for all the Distribution & Logistics departments.

Monitored and analyzed incoming freight invoices for trends and variances from over 1.8M tracking numbers via vessels, portal, parcel, air, LTL’s and trucking national and international.

Provided continuous feedback on Service Level Agreement adherence to optimize performance

Responsible for advanced data gathering, accuracy verification and analysis utilizing various software’s such as Costume ERP, Tableau, SAS and others.

Successfully achieved 95% reduction of excess and incorrect invoices of UPS billings of third party canceled account numbers, incorrect addresses, outbound human errors, and IT internal misplayed.

Operations Technical Writer. Leggett & Platt, Inc. Georgetown, Kentucky, USA Oct2019: Mar2020

Kept abreast of changes in various department methods, and other materials by reading journals, observing work processes attending and conducting meetings, interviewing business leaders (President, VP, Directors, Managers) and others within the organization to research and analyze information required for the enhancement of a policy or procedure, forms or documentation and approvals for regulatory compliance purposes and legal requirements. Clarified complex contents by utilizing diagrams, sketches, charts, and work instructions following the standards, conciseness, and appropriate terminology, to illustrate information for the Quality Control (RAM, CARS and EOL production), Procurement (logistics, purchasing, invoicing) and Customer Service (over 50 WI of procedures and reports)

Leaded and performed business architecture activities (such as workflows and reports) as well as the contribution in planning in putting into place, formulating recommendation to enhance and support business activities to increase production and revenue research for improvement.

Performed analysis in support of decisions on organizational design required to achieve a business objective or key result.

Performed the research and the creation of documents for the Quality Control team, Customer Service and Procurement departments, in accordance with their respective business goals, regulatory compliance, and legal requirements.

Operations Data Analyst. Leggett & Platt, Inc. Georgetown, Kentucky, USA Jul2019: Oct2019

Creation of multiple reports for data clean up and update of such using difference sources and databases for its complete and absolute true data.

Designed, formulated a spreadsheet for the tracking of every shipment requested from our customers located in USA including the two mayors

errors by transferring all data from different reports onto one and finding miscalculations and duplicates in RMA’s requests.

Established the creation of a tracking spreadsheet for our Quality Control team of the RMA’s and CAR’s shipments delivered by the vendors and grading each of these vendors based on their quality, timing, service, and others. Created a tracking system for all EOL production

for the quality team in every product’s several testes such as the control boxes, pinch sensors, foot actuators, under bed lighting, etc)

Identified over $60K USD discrepancy in RAM’s performed by Customer Service to pay back to our Mattress Firm customer by human

Member of the data team for the creation of an MRP system for procurement, logistics and finance users such as Mattress Firm and Sleep Number to China and forth into USA of orders and its shipments used for our Logistics and procurement

Scientific Data Analyst. GenCanna Global USA, Inc. Winchester, Kentucky. Aug2018: Jan2019

Data Analyst: statistical analysis, physical & logical database models as I created detailed mapping for lab and business intelligence report. Designed tracked data and ran reports on performance metrics while conducting research by planning, maintain, collecting high quality data from experimental farms fields, hemp plants, water & pesticides diagnosis located in multiple locations in Kentucky by multiples laboratories such as ProVerde, Pacific Analysis Labs, & others. Provided research for new projects & new concepts and findings for the production, finance, and QA & QC laboratory team.

Financial Auditor: for the investors’ legal contracts, shares & documentations required to acquire the submission for IPO. & budget analysis.

Legal Auditor: for the Sales team and CMO’s on legal documentations and tracking on Purchase Agreements, Supply Agreements, Manufacturing Agreements, Certificates of Insurance, Tax Certifications (In state and Out state), Confidentiality Agreements and Terms and Conditions.

Production Analyst: designed a data process throughout the production of the raw material, baking, extraction, formulation to acquire the CBD & Isolate in locating within the process from percentages, temperatures weight where decreased and loss of CBD.

Production Auditor: on share consumables, raw materials, fixed assets, such as laboratory, extractions, refinement, dewax, formulations, and product. Implemented a system for inventory tracking and accounting using SalesForce.

International Marketing & Sales Administrator. LBX Company LLC, Lexington, Kentucky USA. Nov2013: Mar2016

Cost Analyst: executed cost-analysis to control costs and actualize plans to reduce freight cost and manuals cost from $30K annual to $50K from USA to LAR. Logistics ocean freight cost from Japan & USA to LAR between $2K to $6K per & still the three parties made profits in the thousands. Warehouse rentals compared to FTZ location from $200 to $25 monthly an annual savings of over $85K.

Expedited Latin America sales orders & follows up after prepared solicitations competitive bids. RFI, RFP, RFT and RFQ’S. Assisted & supported the NAR & CAN. Logistics search for vessels, freight manifests, l& transportation & coordination for delivery of excavators from Japan, or USA to Latin America countries along with the preparation of custom documents required based on regulations of their destination.

Sales Analyst: Processed LAR sales orders Coordinated the gathering competitive information pertaining to prices, new market entrants, new products, regional market developments and Supply Chain Logistics for best value, lowest cost approach to purchasing along with price negotiation

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Languages: Spanish (Native) English (Fluent) Italian (Conversational)

Tools and Software: Adobe Acrobat, AS400, Atlas, Aurora, BDE, BI, C#, CC++, CAD, CaseMap, Civil Dockets, Crystal, DepPrep, EDI, E-filing, Google Sheets, Ideals svdr, LexisNexis, LPCS, MFAT, MIC, MRP, MPS, Navision, NoteMap, Lotus, OmnibusLaw, Oracle, Outlook, Pacer, PowerBi, PowerPoint, Python, SalesForce, SAP, SAS, SharePoint, Siebel, SQL, Statistical Analysis, Tableau, TimeMap, TrinDocs, VBA, Microsoft programs and WestLawNext.

Methodologies: Lean/ Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen, 5S, Time and motion studies. International Commerce Specialist, World Trade Center of Kentucky Feb 2015.

EDUCATION

Paralegal Certification, Boston University. MA Aug 2013. Collections Law & Excel Certification. Fred Pryor. KY, Nov 2012 & Aug 2013. Computer Programming, Tampa Technical Institute. FL, Mar 1996. Business Administration & Psychology studies, UK. KY, Aug 1994: Jun 1995. Marian Heights Academy, IN 1993: 94.

RECOGNITION & AWARDS

State of Indiana Good Citizenship Award 1994. National Honor Society Member Jun 2017, Member of the Recognition Committee Program Awards to Lexmark employees Nov2007, Awards, Bank of America. FL Feb2003 [Mar2006: Efficiency Award (three) +Quality Perform Benchmark Award (five) +Excellence Award (five) +Outstanding Performance Award (one) +Customer Service Award (seven) +Top Performance Award (two)]

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