Manager Lean

Electrolux North America April **** - April ****

Senior Manager of Warehouse Operations September 2018 – April 2020 Charlotte, NC

Managed 5 Regional Distribution Centers with a total annual spend of $44.8M. Lead an average of 200 team members within a total approximate of 2M SQFT Achieved a 5% reduction on labor cost to the annual plan absorbing inflation and salary increases to come 112K under plan.

• Oversaw the inbound and outbound functions of all finished products from the production plants to the regional distribution centers.

• Responsible for the creation of annual financial budgets, various financial re-forecasts, and variance reporting to plan.

• Responsible of setting the path towards sustainable continuous improvement with an achieved target of a 5% reduction to the variable labor and scrap spend annual plan. Director of North American Warehouse Operations December 2017 – September 2018 Charlotte, NC

Managed 17 Regional Distribution Centers with a total annual spend of $160M. Lead an average of 500 team members within a total approximate of 5.3M SQFT.

• Prepare, monitor, and control all aspects of the capital, fixed, and variable cost budgets.

• Strategize and optimize logistics operations and manage and develop relationships with third party providers. This includes overseeing high-level negotiations with third party logistics (3PL) companies and building strategic relationships with other external Supply Chain partners.

• Drive continuous improvement across the organization, ensuring best practice sharing and constant drive for cost excellence.

Lean Manager Supply Chain North America December 2016 – December 2017 Charlotte, NC

Designed the Key Performance Indicator structure and operational reporting of the warehousing network. Designed and implemented the layered team operational communication structure to communicate goals and performance of the key performance indicators.

• Provided instruction on Lean topics including Lean Basics, Value Stream Design, Lean Logistics Basics (incl. Pull and Leveling), and Standardized Work.

• Redesigned the Reverse Logistics process for all RDC’s

• Facilitated workshops related to Lean implementation such as Value Stream Map and Design, Leveling, Pull Systems, and Standardized Work.

Plant Manager May 2012 – Nov 2016

Juarez, Mexico

Managed 750K sqft facility with 600+ team members in average. The plant managed a yearly spend of $68M USD

Gerardo Carreón Moncada

linkedin.com/in/gerardo-carreon-2b480758

Mobile: +1-980-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Soft Skills:

100% Bilingual English/Spanish

Plant Management

Supply Chain Management

Lean Management

Financial forecasting and control

Root cause analysis

Strategic sourcing

Kaizen

Lean manufacturing

Plant management.

Supply Chain Management

Hard Skills:

Office Productivity: Word, Excel, Statistics,

PowerPoint,

Project and Access.

AS400 WMS

MINITAB

AutoCAD

Value steam mapping

Kaizen

Lean manufacturing

OPEX /CAPEX

Process validation and optimization

Vendor management

Negotiation

Delivered DL efficiency year over year of 5% reduction every year absorbing inflation and raises. Which lead to the insource of 4 new models with a volume of 1.4M units from China to Mexico.

• Managed all aspects of the operation such as: Human Resources, Finance, Maintenance, Production, Engineering, Product Care Engineering, Purchasing, Supply Chain and Procurement. Supply Chain/Purchasing Director August 2009 – May 2012 Juarez, Mexico

Implementation of DM savings projects for a result of $4.2M in savings out of a $68M spend which were made by negotiation and consolidation of suppliers.

Implementation of advanced purchasing (should cost analysis) with a 98.9% accuracy on estimation of new components vs actual supplier quotes.

• NPI of 2 platforms with the total cost approach making them more competitive to manufacture in Mex vs China.

• Implementation of supplier delivery precision metrics to track and ensure correct deliveries of local, domestic and overseas suppliers.

• Raw material warehouse management and material supply process design.

• Managing and controlling all the company’s external suppliers with emphasis on the purchase of Materials and finished parts for production.

Lean Manufacturing Director April 2011 – Aug 2014

Mexico, Brazil and

Hungary.

Took the Juarez plant from no implementation of lean to be in the top 6 out of 40 in the company. Realized annualized savings in lean conversion projects for $1.9 M USD

• Lead of lean implementation on the small appliance factories in Mexico, Brazil and Hungary assuring lean manufacturing sustainability and Kaizen workshop lead.

• Lead the 2014 best practice project for the worldwide competition made in Stockholm, SE. winning 1st place out of 500 projects for all factories.

• Taught Lean tools to all levels of the organization (Kaizen, 5S, TPM, Set-up reduction, Standard Work, Visual Management, SQDC boards, etc.).

• Managed and mentored focused process improvement projects as part of our Lean transformation plan and coordinate other Lean events (Kaizen & 5S) following your plan. Engineering & Lean Manager July 2008 – August 2009 Juarez, Mexico Industrial Engineer April 2006 – March 2008 Juarez, Mexico Lear Corporation January2003 - March 2006

Product Care Engineer Juarez, Mexico

Education

Industrial Engineering 1999 – 2004 Juarez, Mexico

Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

Masters in Professional Studies in Supply Chain Management. 2019 – In Process Penn State University

Certifications and Training

Lean manufacturing techniques training by APICS

Lean SIGMA Black belt

Lean Supply Chain by Lean Enterprise Institute

OHSAS 18001

Internal auditor ISO9001:2000

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