GUSTAVO ZULUAGA
Astoria,USA
Summary
Professional with more than 20 years in Logistics and Supply Chain Industry. Skilled in Operation Management, Warehouse Operations, Project Management, Inventory Control and Domestic and International Distribution Management. Self-motivated, team player with strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Leadership skills to obtain improvements in supply chain processes, resulting in savings, storage, and distribution costs; Strong skills in SAP, JDE, AS400, SELLER CLOUD, SHIPBRIDGE, MS EXCEL.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing Coordinator
TOURNEAU I BUCHERER
Long Island City, USA
01.2024 - Current
- Supplier Relationship Management: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers/vendors.
- Continuously evaluate supplier performance and address any issues promptly.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand procurement needs and ensure timely delivery of materials.
- Inventory Management: Work closely with inventory management teams to maintain optimal inventory levels and minimize stock outs.
- Maintain inventory control measures to reduce excess inventory and carrying costs.
- Collect orders from all departments.
- Submit purchase orders & track from order to completion.
- Reconcile invoices and communicate any issues to accounts payable.
- Develop new systems to increase productivity & precision.
- Provide excellent customer service to customers & team members when communicating about orders, repairs, or damages.
- Administrative Operations: Perform other admin related duties as assigned.
Assistant Logistics Manager
W.S. WILSON CORPORATION
Port Washington, USA
03.2023 - 09.2023
- Prepare shipments for both domestic and international orders on FedEx/UPS portals.
- Warehouse organization and assist with distribution flow.
- All inventory Record Maintenance in ERP software.
- Inventory transfers among divisions and branch plants.
- Manage Inventory Planning Application.
- Ensure proper inventory classifications and descriptions.
- Cycle count management, staging and investigate variances.
- Manage Kitting and labeling Process.
- ABC Staffing Solution
Logistics Manager
Rock & Soul DJ Equipments
Manhattan, USA
04.2022 - 03.2023
- Guarantee the workflow of the entire operation (Inventory, Receiving, Shipping, Storage).
- Monitoring that all the sell orders received (Amazon, EBay, Reverb, etc) will be processed and shipped on time.
- Following the billing to wholesale customers.
- Prepare Shipments with USPS / UPS / ENDICIA Portals.
Shipping Lead
Twezzerman International, LLC
Port Washington, USA
12.2021 - 04.2022
- Attend and be in constant communication with the area of production, quality, inventories, and sales.
- Monitoring and schedule the shipments (Domestic & International) orders with the different transportation companies.
- Time tracking for all outbound orders, efficient scheduling of the zone routes.
- Review the volume of orders and classify according to the type of product, customer and/or special request.
- Enter and report in the different internal/external systems the volumes, quantities, and availability of the inventory.
- Manage requests from operations management.
- Update the metrics of the operation and send the established reports.
- Review the status of machinery, staging areas and warehouse conditions to inform operations management.
- Present ideas for continuous improvement and execute action plans.
Head of Logistics Manager
Kuehne - Nagel S.A.S
Siberia, Colombia
04.2009 - 05.2016
- Ensure operational excellence in daily activities of the entire operation regarding all the services offered by the company.
- Plan & organize Identify improvement projects in operations, seeking to achieve effectiveness in operations.
- Oversee the billing and financial results of the operations to charge, as well as monitor the savings achieved.
- Improvement in the generation of monthly KPI reports, internal to the company, managing to increase billing by 3%, seeking service values added to the client.
- Optimization of the flow of operational processes and in WMS, reducing setup times and improving the quality of delivery in supermarkets, reducing the number of rejections and returns, obtaining as a result significant economic savings for the operation and better customer relations.
- Reduction of costs, expenses operations and improvement in preparation times by implementing a maquila zone within the facilities, offering this as an added value for all customers.
- Development of new account implementation programs. SOPs created for the customers on my branch: Lexmark, Robert Bosch, Usana, McGraw Hill and Donaldson.
- Renegotiation and renewal of the contract for an additional period with the client Lexmark (4 Years).
- Successfully implementation of warehousing and logistics projects into facilities over 15.000 square feet.
- KPIs performance over 99.97%
Logistics Manager
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Bogota DC, Colombia
11.2002 - 04.2009
- Logically safeguard Lexmark's inventory in SAP.
- Analyze stock reports, backlog report to raise options in search of lowering the BO (reserve stock, Recovery of units in Damage).
- Remain in contact with the entire supply chain to guarantee the permanent flow of the operation (Product Managers, Lexmark Sales Representatives, WTO, Finance, Lexmark Operations, K+N Operations, Customer Operations).
- Cost reduction by 81% in the storage area for the SUP ISD by implementing a new layout for its storage.
- Reduction of occupied pallet positions by 47% storage between 2011 and 2012, through the analysis of the occupied area at the close of the penultimate day of the week to generate an optimization report and position consolidation.
- Implementation of light interfaces with the 3PL for Colombia. Support and execution throughout the migration and integration process from WMS JDE to SAP ERP.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - International Business/Trade/Commerce
Fundación Universitaria Compensar
Bogota DC, Colombia01.2022
Operations Analysis Techonologist - Customs and Financial
Unipanamericana
Bogota DC, Colombia01.2017
Professional Technician - recognition of Customs
Unipanamericana
Bogota DC, Colombia01.2014
Academic Bachelor -
Colegio Jose Allamano
Bogota DC, Colombia01.1997
Skills
- Integrated supply chain management
- Supply chain management
- Import/export operations
- Custom clearance
- Problem solving
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Purchase order processing
- Supplier relationship management
- Inventory management
- Effective communication
Languages
Spanish
Native – Level 5
English
Fluent – IRL 4+
Timeline
Purchasing Coordinator
TOURNEAU I BUCHERER
01.2024 - Current
Assistant Logistics Manager
W.S. WILSON CORPORATION
03.2023 - 09.2023
Logistics Manager
Rock & Soul DJ Equipments
04.2022 - 03.2023
Shipping Lead
Twezzerman International, LLC
12.2021 - 04.2022
Head of Logistics Manager
Kuehne - Nagel S.A.S
04.2009 - 05.2016
Logistics Manager
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
11.2002 - 04.2009
Bachelor’s degree - International Business/Trade/Commerce
Fundación Universitaria Compensar
Operations Analysis Techonologist - Customs and Financial
Unipanamericana
Professional Technician - recognition of Customs
Unipanamericana
Academic Bachelor -
Colegio Jose Allamano