CARMEN ROSAS
Nogales
Summary
Proactive and resulted oriented procurement & supply chain professional, with more than fifteen years of proven experience handling end-to-end supply chain processes, including planning, scheduling, inventory control, logistics, and process improvement. Enthusiastic and customer focused, highly motivated to reach the company goals. Driven to reach the operational excellence, implement cost reduction strategies and foster a team spirit environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Supply Chain Manager
ITT Control Technologies
01.2024 - Current
- Lead the continuous improvement of supply chain inventory, warehouse operations, and logistics while cultivating relationships with partners and suppliers.
- Coordinate the workflow for supply chain and warehousing, freight forwarding, customs clearance, and integrated supply chain services.
- Responsible for the solution of the problems generated by the daily operation of all the materials handling areas.
- Designed and implemented VMI and spares hub demand forecasting, replenishment planning processes and order promising.
- Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
- Developed strong vendor relationships to ensure timely delivery of materials and maintain high-quality standards.
Focus Factory Manager
ITT Control Technologies
07.2021 - 12.2023
- Planned and developed area structure.
- Supervise staff of one Production Supervisor, one Quality Engineer, one Manufacturing Engineer, one Master Scheduler and one Buyer.
- Responsible for meeting all production schedules, while ensuring timely release of all finished goods, and assurance of any discrepancies being closed and addressed in appropriate fashion to meet customer demand.
- Ensured production metrics were met (scrap, downtime, and OTD) through monitoring and management of Key Process Indicators.
- Achieved over 95% OTD YTD / 1/2 Day Sales Past Due / 05% Scrap over Sales.
- Analyzed financial reports, assessed factory productivity, and devised plans of action to build productive plant operations.
- Actively managed and controlled inventory level through consignments, proper line scheduling to manage account receipt vs Actual, resize Kanban, and monitor work in process (WIP).
Purchasing Supervisor
ITT Control Technologies
07.2017 - 07.2021
- Responsible for metric reporting on inventory, issues, location, cycle counts, receiving and spare parts.
- Work closely with buyers, shipping/receiving, shop personal, site leaders, and other departments to ascertain delivery commitments and/or recovery plans.
- Responsible for level inventory accuracy, planning, execution, and count reconciliation.
- Supervise staff of six (6) procurement professionals.
- Coordinate all purchasing tasks from Nogales Mexico and Valencia California plant.
- Pursued long and short-term partnership relationships with external vendors and developed volume, generating promotions that effectively influenced business.
- Creation of weekly metrics to improve shortages analysis and follow up on existing orders.
- Source of new suppliers and continuous negotiations.
- Kanban & VMI consignments implementations.
- Raw material inventory reduction for around 1.5 million USD thru 2 years, negotiating MOQ with vendors and creating safety stock agreements for high runners. January 2018 5.192 M / 2021 3.7 M.
- Active participation on cost reduction projects, in collaboration with suppliers.
- 2018-2020 Savings around $1.5M USD.
- Save around $300k USD on inventory with re-certification process with external vendors for perishable materials.
Purchasing Supervisor
EATON
01.2015 - 07.2017
- Supervise purchasing department (Personnel 4 Buyers).
- Expedite orders to cover raw material shortages needed to meet current or new demand.
- Controlled inventory to ensure adequate material levels, thus eliminating over inventory and ensuring material availability (goal of 9 turnovers per year).
- Reports all Purchase Variances by quarter to management (PPV).
- Monitoring buyer's performance / Metrics definition, creation and follow up.
- Source of new suppliers and continuous negotiations.
- Establish annual supply chain strategy, goals, and priorities.
- Ongoing projects to get price savings, consolidation of suppliers and inventory reductions.
- As reference, personal cost reduction savings: 2015 - $341K USD / 2016 - $258K USD / 2017 - $282K USD.
Senior Buyer
Eaton
08.2012 - 01.2015
- Knowledge, Maintenance & daily support of the Material Resource Planning (MRP).
- Responsible for the analysis of requisition, specifications, pricing, delivery, and reports for quality.
- Administrative support for area, supplier management, production control, shipping management area, supplier selection.
- Contract negotiation with suppliers for consignment material, set priorities according to customer request date.
- Resolve problems related to, inventory levels, production schedules, and material shortages.
- Handling goods and services in support of production requirements.
- Military practices, purchase of parts that are under ITAR only.
Education
Master’s degree in supply chain & logistics -
ISU Universidad
Puebla, PueblaBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) -
Universidad De Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco07.2012
Skills
- Strong Team Building
- Excel
- ERP/MRP vast experience
- Procurement
- Performance Reviews
- Inventory Control
- Logistics Management
- Warehouse Operations
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Continuous Improvement Initiatives
Certification
- APICS Certification for 5 Modules by Pearson Tucson Chapter
- Program execution: SAP, BPCS, Oracle systems knowledge
- Knowledge and practice of ISO, 5's, Kaizen and TPM
- Certified Lead Auditor for ISO & AS9100. CMM Nogales Sonora, México 2020
- Certified Core Tools. CMM Nogales Sonora, México 2023
Timeline
Supply Chain Manager
ITT Control Technologies
01.2024 - Current
Focus Factory Manager
ITT Control Technologies
07.2021 - 12.2023
Purchasing Supervisor
ITT Control Technologies
07.2017 - 07.2021
Purchasing Supervisor
EATON
01.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Buyer
Eaton
08.2012 - 01.2015
Master’s degree in supply chain & logistics -
ISU Universidad
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) -
Universidad De Guadalajara
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