Supply Chain Continuous Improvement

Dennis H. Salazar B.

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SUMMARY

Lean Transformations Practitioner, Operational Excellence, Demand Planning, Logistics, Production and Supply Chain Professional with 20+ years of experience demonstrating strong leadership with analytical, relationships management and technical skills key to developing continuous improvement processes and teams, generating economic growth to the organizations by applying team work and innovative solutions to achieve targets and profitable results. Specialties: Lean transformations manager and coach, Operational excellence, Continuous improvement, logistics & Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Import & Export, Demand Planning, Black Belt Lean Six Sigma, Processes Standardization, SOP, Work Flow Diagrams, Value Stream Maps, Kaizen, Production Management, KPIs, Inventory & Warehouse Management, SAP, MS Office, Project Management, 5S, WMS, Customer Service, fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

SYNLAB INTERNATIONAL GmbH

Latam Lean Transformation Manager (Operational Excellence) Aug/18 – Dec/2023

• Promoted operational excellence, continuous improvement and Lean transformation in the laboratories in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, leading the Lean deployment in order to create a culture of continuous improvement, leading training, coaching and supporting local teams in the process of change, strengthening and maintaining the new culture and leading the design and development of processes improving projects.

• Carried out the design and analysis of the KPIs, generating the corrective, preventive or improvement actions that were necessary to ensure the continuous optimization of the processes and operational excellence.

• Led multidisciplinary teams in different countries in order to train and guide in the identification of initiatives, the calculation of savings in economic impacts, the socialization of results and actions to be developed in favor of the Lean Culture and the continuous improvement of processes. ACOSIXSIGMA. Colombian Society of Six Sigma. www.acosixsigma.com Processes Improvement Engineer. Contract work. Sep/2011 – Aug/2018

•Developed coaching and training to Green and Black Belt Lean Six Sigma candidates who completed multiple projects in several companies, related to reengineering and continuous improvement processes in logistics, operations, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain and production fields through the analysis and interaction with customers and the design of new and improved processes and services. SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES www.sutherlandglobal.com Organizational Excellence Manager Dec/16 – Aug/17

•Led processes improvement initiatives, coached Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Projects, designed and developed action plans that allowed to achieve and keep the Gold Status in the Global Site Score Card for Bogota (Google Colombia, Google Trails Guardian, McAfee, Spotify, Account Now, AT&T Loyalty Chat and Schlumberger accounts), achieving financial (Contribution Margin Vs Budget =80%) and operational Dashboards targets (Table F 50/75 Rules, Laser Focus, F100) EQUION ENERGY LIMITED. www.equion-energia.com

Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization Engineer. PSCM (Professional Supply Chain Management). Contract work June/2013 – August/2014

•Improved the cost of the Inventory (USD25 000.000) by the development of the TIME project (Total Inventory Management at Equion) based on Lean Six Sigma Methodology and tools, the analysis of current processes and 3.5 years of data for 27.844 inventory materials creating an optimization plan and improvement strategy for Inventory levels, demand planning, warehouse management, KPI, forecast, procurement, logistics and Supply Chain for DC&I, O&M and PE&C areas at Equion Energy interacting with third party logistics suppliers and matching their services to the new operation needs BRIGHTSTAR CORPORATION www.brightstar.com/

Operations Manager – Claro Project. Contract work August 2010 – February 2011

•Set up, designed, documented, managed and controlled logistics, procurement and supply chain processes and operations for COMCEL (the most important cellular phone Company in Colombia), logistics Project, interacting with customers, calculating process indicators, Inventory control, metrics and dashboards to improve the productivity and performance of the nationwide warehouses operation and developing executive performances for the high administration in Colombia and USA IBERO-AMERICAN PLÁSTICS COMPANY (IBERPLAST S.A., PEPSI COLA COLOMBIA)- ARDILA LÜLLE ORGANIZATION. Colombia. http://www.iberplast.com.co/ Production Planning Manager. Direct hire (Sep./1993-Dec./1996) (June/2008 – April/2010)

•Satisfied 100% of customers’ needs through the right management and development of inventory levels, demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, inventory control, procurement processes, distribution programs and the design of production schedules and international / national transportation programs for 6 plants, 70 machines and 420 employees involved in several plastics production processes.

NOMADA Ltda. http://www.nomadaoutdoor.com/

Logistics and Production Manager. Direct hire. (May/2000 – October/2001) (March/2004 – November2007)

•Planned, managed and controlled the continuous supply of imported raw material and the inventory of the Company, achieving an 18% decrease in the loss of raw material and optimized by 4% the costs of the importing and production processes designing better transportation and logistics practices. ETB. Telecommunications Company of Bogotá. Colombia. www.etb.com.co Specialized professional I. Direct hire September/2002 – January/2004

•Managed the Activity Based Costing process, providing cost calculations to the financial vice-president of the Company in order to advice in the products and services pricing process and the decision-making activities.

TECH GROUP - TRIMCO S.A. Colombia. http://www.trimco.com.co Logistics and Supply Chain Engineer. Direct hire October/2001 – September/2002

•Managed international logistics Procurement and Supply Chain operations for the continuous supply of raw material and auto parts to the production process, performing buying, search and development of new suppliers (raw material and third party logistics), cost analysis and logistics importing strategies to purchase project specific supplies and materials by issuing purchase orders to obtain materials at the lowest cost and best quality according to urgency of needs and customers’ requirements. Profit increased by 10%.

Central University. Business Administration Career. Feb./95-Jun./99 Organization and Methods Professor

•Taught and advised 120 students per semester in the Business Administration Career in processes, documentation, organizational improvement techniques and continuous improvement culture. Almaviva S.A. Colombia http://www.almaviva.com.co

Ford Motor of Colombia Auto Parts Importing and Distribution Center Project Logistics Manager. Contract work January/1997-July/1997

•Set up, managed and controlled the warehouse and logistic operations for the reception of auto parts coming from abroad, and for the storage and distribution of them in Colombia according to the training received in Valencia’s Ford Motor Andean Regional plant in Venezuela designing the optimal logistics and transportation operations according to customer needs and third party logistics suppliers services. EDUCATION:

Ongoing EMBA Candidate. Westfield Business School. Miami, FL. USA 2020 Master in Logistics Management. International University of La Rioja (Spain) 2010 Black Belt Lean 6 Sigma. ACOSIXSIGMA. Colombia Society of Six Sigma. Bogotá D.C. 07/26/2010. www.acosixsigma.com

1994 Universidad Distrital “Francisco José de Caldas”. Bogotá, Colombia. BSIE. Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, April 1994. www.udistrital.edu.co/

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