BLANCA HIDROGO

Houston, TX ***** T: 832-***-**** Email: adm7dj@r.postjobfree.com

Production control and Sourcing Specialist

Highly motivated and experienced professional with expert proficiency in coordinating targeted business strategy and operational excellence for highly successful organizations; skilled in the procurement of materials in the Automotive, Aerospace, Energy, and Oil & Gas Industries.

Highly skilled in developing customer relations, supplier development; thrive in demanding situations and effective problem resolution.

Core Skills and Competencies

Supply Chain Development

Vendor Relationship Management

Budget Management

Problem Resolution Management

Continuous Improvement

Financial Analysis

Aerospace Products Industry

Automotive Products Industry

Energy, Oil & Gas. Products Industry

Purchasing

Speak/write Spanish

Selected Career Achievements

Wyman Gordon. Improved turnarounds and relationships with our internal groups along with our vendors. Implemented several matrices to review potential production shortages and down times, allowing us to be proactive and avoid potential customer shortages. Improved cost negotiations with outside labs for better pricing and better lead times; recognized and promoted within the company less than a year.

Irvin Automotive. Introduced and implemented cross training within my materials department subordinates, allowing the Materials department to be more proactive and diverse within the business units. Responsible for the merged of two Manufacturing plant for cost reduction and successfully succeeded within three months, the transition was up and running without any delays nor production down times.

Professional Experience

2020 to Present: SPM Oil and Gas a Caterpillar Comp. Houston, TX

Buyer

Team participant on meeting year to date PPV of 700k by reviewing/analyzing and enforcing better planning and be proactive.

Improved supplier visualization demand on providing minmax and forecasting for better OTD and costing.

Foresee the delivery of materials to meet production schedules.

Achieved PPV savings on two millions in 2020

Work with Accounts Payable to correct purchase order/receipt discrepancies.

Support company objectives in areas of quality, delivery, inventory, and cost.

Improved communications with our current suppliers to avoid down times or expedites.

Monitor and analyze forecast for potential shortages in production.

Responsible for commercial RFQ’s, submit qualified suppliers and recommend the best source based on cost, quality and delivery requirements.

Exercise judgment and working knowledge of materials and sources of supply to make purchase at a price consistent with quality and scheduling requirement.

2019 to 2020: Weir Seaboard. Houston, TX Production Scheduler

Ensure schedules were met by customer priorities.

Participate in daily/weekly scheduling meeting with Production and Master Planner.

Plan the production activities on a weekly basis allowing the efficiency to increase from 87% to 93% .

Ensure alterative parts are used where necessary in order to meet production schedules and avoid down times.

Ensure the daily production workload schedules is displayed daily.

2017 to 2019: Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. Houston, TX

Production Control Analyst

Analyzed and Execute the production schedules for the production floor, ensuring the best optimization of labor cost, production volume, efficiency and zero down time occurs.

Analyze customer requirements and set production expectations

Develop Production metrics while providing insight and analysis on trends to drive more inform business decisions.

Work with cross functional teams to plan, analyze production rates and determine production efficiency.

Evaluate issues and analyze root causes and derive solutions.

Monitor the execution of production plan and identify deviations.

Generate production reports for management and customers.

Process all planned orders for timely completion.

Attend weekly meetings to discuss about production issues and capacity plans for future schedules.

2016 to 2017: TR FASTENINGS, Houston, TX

SOURCING SPECIALIST

Building relationships with manufacturing facilities and throughout the supply chain, negotiating cost and developing agreements that ultimately helping the company grow and become more profitable.

Managed the new potential projects allocated to our division.

Accountable to analyzed future EAU and life time of the programs.

Liable to negotiate lead times and manufacturing cost.

Responsible to seek and develop potential vendors to our supply chain throughout our Europe Manufacturers.

Improved turnarounds and relationships.

2015 to 2016: Treto Trucking, Big lake, Texas

Logistics and Customer Service Rep.

Responsible of ensuring for the coordination and the organization of company resources, to focused on delivering and Customer satisfaction.

Lead for the coordination and negotiation of the company resources.

Plan and track the shipments of final products according to customer requirements.

Responsible to seek and develop potential customers.

2013 to 2015: Wyman Gordon, Houston, Texas

Master Production Scheduler

Responsible of ensuring production orders were planned with efficiency and capacities utilized, by constructing schedules to meet customer needs, and ensuring production specifications were properly translated and interpreted prior to the start of the process.

Successfully schedule and managed logistics between 8 machining/finishing shops.

Responsible for trucking /logistics variable cost for all facilities. Reduced overall by 44%.

Managed daily level-loading of inventory between all facilities to ensure consistent throughput to meet theory of constraint business model goals.

Responsible for sequencing of heat treat loads to optimized throughput and minimized down time.

Provide daily and weekly reports to upper management.

Reliable for annual physical inventory.

Managed and create master production plans based on customer demand, production capability and inventory requirements.

Interface with all value chain functions: Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Engineering and Customer Service.

Monitor mechanical testing schedules and assessing test results to ensure compliance with customer and internal test specifications.

Execute and analyzed customer production orders and provide eta’s on finish product availability.

1999 to 2012: Irvin Automotive, Acuña, Mexico

MATERIALS SUPERINTENDENT

Highly skilled employee moving from customer service analyst to buyer to material superintendent. Responsible for developing, implementing and the continual improvement of Materials Dept, including the cross training, leading and development of internal tools to minimize cost and down time.

Accountable for supervision of customer service representatives, buyers and production schedulers.

Maintained Finish Goods, Raw Materials and WIP inventory levels in accordance with business goals and objectives, and ensured effective FIFO practices.

Successfully launched new programs and ensured minimal obsolescence.

Supported customers and suppliers to ensure flawless new program launch.

Participate and establish continues improvement groups to optimized lean manufacture.

Establish cross training within my department to optimized personal efficiency.

Responsible for critical suppliers, over $60 million per year.

Effectively managed vendors to eliminate shortages and avoid downtime n productions lines.

Responsible of auditing and submitting obsolesce claims to our customers.

Maintain and analyzed customer demand, informed them on any potential issues might be presented in the future.

Education & Professional Development

Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Psychology– CECH Acuña Coahuila Mexico

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – Lone Star College

MMOG/LE – Materials Management Operations Guideline / Logistics Evaluation

Lean Manufacturing

APICS CPIM Training

MPS / MRP training

I-Supply, Oracle, EDDL, SAP and Syteline system

AS400 platform (PRMS, MAPICS) Six Sigma Green Belt training

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