Cesar Bernal

Experience in High Pressure Die Casting parts for the plants in North America; responsible for Electronic and Electrification die casting parts for USMCA region.

· Quality, delivering and best price, are the main focus for mi actual commodities.

· Always looking for a better negotiations and price savings opportunities

· Currently under development of Negotiation Expert on the region (cost claims, Nego approach, relationship building with suppliers, etc)

Currently Scouting Leader for all categories within HPDC parts and business strategy for all suppliers in NA region.

Achievements:

· Cost claim successful negotiation for 1.6 MUSD for the next plants: Juarez, Aguascalientes, Toluca, Elgin Illinois. (2018-2019)

· Cost claim successful negotiation for 900k USD for the next plants: Check Republic, San Luis P. and Toluca.

· Negotiation achievement of 10% savings for 2021 with a specific supplier

· Turn around of supplier development (quality, relationship and deliveries), teamwork with quality and technical team

• Buyer for plastics components (injected parts) for American OEMS (CHRYSLER, TESLA, GM):
• · 1 year of experience in develop new suppliers for plastic parts (car interiors)
• · In charge for the 8 plants of Grupo Antolin under the scope mention above

Achievements:

• · Secure deliveries from the suppliers of the 8 plants that I am responsible for my commodity
• · Always looking for better prices than the nominated from the Client, once I got a supplier a comparison chart need to be presented to my top management for approval
• · Search for potential reductions in order to over archive the target of this fiscal year
• · Analysis of cost breakdown of all suppliers when sourcing was needed

Purchasing Original Equipment Buyer – Power Train, Pistons set, Piston Rings for Mexico plants, and High Pressure Die Casting parts for Nissan North America:

· Relationship building between suppliers and intercultural coworkers

· Cost savings orientated with the support of technical, quality and production process.

Achievements:

I archive an aggressive target of 7% of cost reduction for the fiscal year 2015 doing the next:

- Visit to the suppliers looking for improvement ideas in their production line (THANKS activities)

- Looking for ideas to improve their logistic and packaging in order to get better prices

- Work with material team for a better negotiation between the suppliers (raw material) and the company.

- Daily negotiation with supplier of how can this target be achieve

- With new projects negotiation regarding business link and productivities

- Localization activities of the suppliers that were located in other regions

- Good relationship between purchasing, suppliers and the different internal areas

- Help to solved quality issues and understand root cause

- Secure deliveries from the suppliers

- I was responsible for Nissan Mexico and Nissan North America commodity, so I reported to two persons (one in Nashville and one in México)

- Leader of some internal activities for my team (Peso Policy, Raw material fluctuation) where I reported to the management the progress of the team

- Understand and help to solve capacity problems with my suppliers

- Analysis of cost breakdown of all suppliers when sourcing was needed

COURSES:

· Nissan Technical Center, Course of ANPQP Alliance New Product Procedure.

· Nissan Technical Center, Course of leadership and effective negotiations

· Nissan Technical Center, Course of Productivity and Collaboration

· Nissan Technical Center, Intercultural relationships

Buyer of indirect parts and materials for the different assembly plants in Mexico. (June 2009 – August 2010).

Achievements:

· secure deliveries to the plants to avoid any production problem

· I was responsible to buy safety equipment to the personal, racks, cutting tools, spare parts for the robots on the production line, etc

· I was responsible of looking for potential suppliers for the different requirements of the plants

I was responsible of looking for better prices for all the parts need it