Juan Antonio Alvarado
Cel 915-***-****
Columbus NE 68601
************@*****.***
PROCUREMENT MANAGER:
Customer Service, Production & Materials, Customs & Warehouse
Bilingual, Management experience in Manufacturing, Production and Quality Systems, Solid background in Materials, Implementation of information systems and reporting, looking for opportunity breaches for improvement, cost savings and being team mate for the operational departments.
30 years of Materials Management experience * Electronics, Medical and Telecommunications
Operations start Up Experience * Demand and Forecast Planning * Customer Service * Materials Planning and Purchasing * Master Planning & Production Planning * Master Scheduling * Inventory Management * Warehouse
Custom Regulations USA & Mexico * C-TPAT/BASC
Fully Bilingual & Multicultural
SAP, MRP, Agile, PACE
Procureweb, Power Buy, Supply Chain Management, Prisma, Oracle
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stewart EFI 05/21-09/22
Company Leader in Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication.
Sr Buyer
In charge of Purchasing all MRO items for the facility, inventory control, packaging and various suppliers for metal coils.
Operational / Financial Achievements:
Procurement of Metal Coils (Stainless Steel, Aluminum), Packaging and MRO
Develop programs for cost reduction, consolidate corrugated boxes, JIT process for metal and packaging.
Inventory control.
MRP system
Vendor Consolidation
Responsible for the PAST DUE Invoices and ON TIME DELIVERY
Budget control on the weekly bases on the MRO products
Implementation of Kanban system
Larsen Manufacturing 01/15-12/20
Company Leader in Precision Sheet Metal fabrication.
Program Manager and Procurement
Responsible for managing all facets of Program Management. This includes direct communication with other Department Managers at all Larsen locations. As a Program Manager, manage customers’ interface to achieve high Customer Satisfaction, Quality, Customer Service, and Supply Chain Management from order entry to shipment of product. Provides strong team leadership internally of the customers’ demands to ensure customers’ needs are met while maintaining out expected profit margin and BU Objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities
Familiarity with the Quality Policies and Objectives for Larsen Manufacturing
Management of Customer’s Programs
Product Realization Stamping / NPI (New Product Introduction) launches
Responsible for OTD (On Time Delivery) and project profitability
Manage outside suppliers, E-coat metal parts, Welding and powder paint.
Manage Logistics for customer shipments
Procurement of Packaging supplies ( Boxes, Plastic Bags, Plastic Totes)
Work with customer(s), Purchasing, and Operations to manage build and delivery schedule
Assist in resolving Accounts Receivable (A/R) issues as required
Communicate effectively with customer(s) both internal and external
Lead end of life program management to meet customer goals pertaining to product availability and component material planning, including working with Engineering to determine alternate component solutions
Assist other team members, as needed, to ensure customers’ needs are met and assist in providing resources needed by Department Managers to accomplish task which include equipment purchases, and training requirements.
Procurement of Metal Coils (Stainless Steel, Galvanized, Electro Galvanized, Aluminum)
Develop programs for cost reduction, consolidate corrugated boxes, JIT process for metal and packaging.
Inventory control.
Foxconn / Scientific Atlanta. Juarez Chihuahua 10/10 – 12/14
Company Leader in the Manufacturing and Telecommunication Systems. Responsible for Supply Chain Management for Plant in Juarez and Distribution Center in El Paso Tx. Interaction with over 3 Business Units, 3 shipping locations, 400 Suppliers, with annual revenues for $ 860M usd.
Logistic / Procurement Manager
In charge of Supply Chain Management, Customer Service, Purchasing, Production Planning, Inventory Management, Custom and Distribution, supporting operational departments in cost reductions programs and with its Continuous Improvements programs, Managed 30 people.
Operational / Financial Achievements:
Vendor negotiation annual spend $400M on raw material.
Responsible MRO team with cost savings $ 1 M annually supporting Engineering department, contract, Services, capital - actives, Tool Crib and facilities.
Management of NPI parts ( pilot runs ).
Center Warehouse ( Schenker) closure for savings of 2 M.
Inventory control – implementing local HUBS (Kanban, GHub, MHub) for Lean manufacturing – 12 inventory turns annually.
Vendor integration with over 9000 parts numbers.
P3 (Perfect Planning Process) SAP Upgrade implementation.
CDP (Customer Demand Planning) process establishment
Sustainability Logistic process for On time delivery improvement from 67% to 95%. Premium Freight reduction by 2 M savings, MRB reduction by 50% . Inventory reduction by consignment for 20% inventory value.
EDI connection for Customers and Supplies.
Management of all commodities within the Plant (mechanical, passives, PCB, IC’s, Hardware).
Cost recovery from Customers and Suppliers by 1M.
Launched program for suppliers relocation from Europe and Asia to Mexico.
Safe transfers of production lines to Foxconn Mexico locations in Chicago, Toronto, Houston, China.
Project Management for product transfers from Scientific Atlanta / Cisco.
Approving engineering changes due to revision levels upgrades or deviations.
Implementation of returnable packaging system for mechanical parts with local suppliers.
SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA Juarez Chih. 1/98 – 10/10
Company leader in the Design, Development, manufacturing, refurbishment, upgrade and distribution of equipment and systems for Telecommunications, especially Settops Boxes. Responsible for Budget, Warehouses, MRP, Traffic from Three Plants in Juarez Chih. 1 Distribution Center in El Paso Tx. Having Cablevision, Rodgers, Verizon, Cisco, & Time Warner as main customers, with annual revenues for $800 M dollars.
Mechanical Team Leader
Manager for Three Warehouses in Juarez, Tool Crib and MRO Purchasing, Managed 6 peoples in 3 shifts.
Operational / Financial Achievements:
Procurement of mechanical parts, metals stampings, castings aluminum, plastics (injection molding) packing, hardware.
Re-assigned 3 people for improvement programs by outsourcing Tool Crib and closing one external warehouse.
Leaded cable manufacturing transfer from Belgica, Chicago, Atlanta & Remanufacturing Process from Toronto to the plant.
Implementation of Kanban system on volume parts.
Stocking program with suppliers and inventory control.
Leaded several improvements projects as centralized label printing, scrap reductions, space (warehouse solder bar)..
Established and Internal Distribution Center for negotiation Direct of excess and obsolete Inventory.
Awarded with Excellent Medal for Cost Savings.
KOKOPELI Juarez Chih. 1/97 – 12/97
Manufacturer of Electronics devices for Industry.
Purchasing Coordinator