Cristian Alejandro Cañas Espino

• Negotiated policies and contracts with vendors to achieve optimal pricing and consistent availability in logistics services such as road freight, air, intermodal and ocean freight, as long as customs brokerage and warehousing services.
• Met with suppliers to assess changes and determine proper courses of action.
• Managed COVID crisis ensuring capacity for our business in times of scarcity of services, during 2 years.
• Determined lowest possible cost, factoring in quality and reliability and negotiated favorable contracts.
• Performed extensive vendor and supplier research to identify cost-effective options and service availability.
• Purchased over $30 million EUR in logistics services, delivering savings of 6% annually.

• To provide air and express logistics solutions at global level, securing supply and quality, at competitive cost; following strategy and growth plan of the company and ensuring compliance and governance in the execution of such services.
• Responsible of drafting and executing the procurement strategy of air & express logistics services world wide.
• Practiced standard sourcing process of opportunity assessment through supplier on-boarding to achieve goals.
• Researched, prepared for and led supplier negotiation process for managed category in Asia-Pacific, Great Middle East, America and Europe.
• Monitored market to capitalize on latest trends.
• Visited supplier offices and operational facilities together with shareholders and to investigate capacity to meet quality requirements, specifications and delivery dates as long as participating in QBRs.
• To be the face of Supplier Management team for our internal and external stakeholders for topics related to air & express logistics services.

Achievements

• Concluded RFPs linked to express freight and courier services for all markets were Tetra Pak operates, securing operations continuity, supporting in face in and face out of suppliers according to awarding and delivering savings.
• Concluded RFPs for air freight for main lanes from Sweden to different countries, securing operations continuity and supporting in face in - face out of suppliers according to the awarding and delivering savings.
• Maintaining more competitive agreements than market standard conditions with DHL and FedEx.

• To provide logistics solutions for Canada, United States and Mexico as long as providing customs compliance expertise for 9 campus of Tetra Pak in these countries.

Achievements

• Negotiated with various freight companies and received annual contracts, resulting in cost savings of average 5% yearly.
• Monitored and complied with strict budgets by negotiating freight in alignment with needs and specifications.
• Collaborated with manufacturing and supply chain management.
• Implemented Customs Control Tower setup to improve processes, systems and behavior related to logistics and customs.
• Managed spend of 12 million euro in logistics services delivering constant savings.

• Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
• Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
• Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
• Processed purchase orders for logistics services in SAP and coordinated delivery of services with suppliers.
• Monitor purchase to payment process to suppliers and worked to solve deviations to ensure on time payment.
• Supported procurement manager to achieve savings.