EDNA RAMIREZ

Achievements:

• Developed supply chain solutions and strategies to improve process efficiency and customer delivery, which supported an increase in service metrics for the AMER region with a +6 PP year-end.
• Led process improvements and simplification for the AMER region by successfully launching eight major initiatives.
• Drove strategic initiatives, and fostered a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement that supported $1.9 billion in shipments year-to-date in the OCS division.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and track regional Supply Chain KPIs.
• Lead the creation and execution of America's Supply Chain Strategy, consistent with America's Manufacturing guidelines (cost, capacity, capability, and culture).
• Developed and implemented supply chain strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
• Resolved any issues that arose throughout the course of executing a successful supply chain program.
• Conducted regular meetings with cross-functional teams to review progress towards goals for supply chain performance.
• Ensure the Supply Chain is linked with business and functional strategies.
• Lead and support the creation and execution of strategy projects.
• Collaborate across the Americas region to support and facilitate consistency, and linkages to enable sharing of ideas and processes.
• Ensure adequate cost reduction portfolio and linkage to performance excellence portfolio to achieve stretch targets.
• Facilitate the staff meeting agenda and annual calendar of topics, including regional collaboration activities.
• Lead Supply Chain projects and analyses.

• Responsible for the direct materials purchasing team for cable and connectivity plants.
• Managed two Purchasing Supervisors with a total headcount of 16 buyers and 10 commodities, such as packaging, subcontracting, GRP, copper, aramids, specialty compounds, molding resins, fiber devices, connectors, molded parts, polish films, and tubing's.
• SCM is responsible for the CM supplier with five product lines at Piedra's Negras, with 300 FG and 450 RM.
• Achieving record sales and metric service improvement.
• Assure material availability for production schedules, develop purchasing strategies to avoid shortages, and maintain two-digit ITOs (12 RAM-15 RCC).
• Work closely with the Import/Export team to ensure compliance and that the materials importation process is performed on time and at a low cost.
• Collaborate with finance for the PPV process, internal, and external audits.
• Developed inventory strategies aligned with business requirements that allowed us to reduce $22M during 2022, and $10M YTD.
• Lead the team to reduce invoice resolution time.
• Delivering a 90% improvement with only 8% of past-due invoices.
• Constant participation in cost-reduction projects that delivered $2M in savings.

• Analyze customer order requirements, production capacity, and material availability to acknowledge shipping dates for a CM product line based in Piedra's Negras.
• Review daily sales and operation plans.
• Execute and troubleshoot MRP messages and recommendations to ensure raw material components from internal and external suppliers are ordered on time, according to our sales expectations (forecast).
• Communicate issues and concerns related to schedule changes caused by design problems, capacity limitations, or material shortages to appropriate levels within the organization.

• Responsible for overseeing 12 buyers, managing direct material, and 46% of purchases for the Reynosa campus.
• Supervised key commodities include resins, splitter devices, packaging, GRP, specialty compounds, polishing films, and subcontracting.
• Maintain Purchasing and Supply Chain KPIs such as OTP, OTD, PLT, PPV, inventory management, E&O, suppliers' scorecards, and ERP maintenance (MOQs, LT, prices, and SS).
• Participate with GSM on QBR for supplier evaluations. Raw Material Inventory champion for Reynosa Campus, achieving a $4.5M reduction.

• Ensure on-time delivery for raw material in order to meet production requirements.
• Handled high-cost parts for local and overseas suppliers with commodities such as resins, electronic components (PCBs, semiconductors, capacitors, resistors, microchips, IC), and metal stamped parts.
• Monitored inventory in the warehouse to avoid shortages, excess, or dead stock.
• Contributed to strategies to reduce raw material inventory from $21M to $16M.

• Coordinating purchasing activities for new product introduction: expedite materials, release purchase orders through the SAP system, and quote for all new materials.
• Lead Buyer for a project responsible for assured supply of direct materials for new business acquisition, leading inventory transfer from 3M plants to Corning Reynosa.
• Lead Buyer for a project responsible for assured supply of direct materials for new business acquisition, leading inventory transfer from 3M plants to Corning Reynosa.
• Track supplier delivery performance. Resolve suppliers’ unpaid invoices. Managed 5 commodities, which included 132 suppliers that represented 30% of Reynosa's spend.
• Managed 5 commodities, which included 132 suppliers that represented 30% of Reynosa's spend.