Heriberto Vazquez
Stockton
Summary
Professional inventory management expert prepared to excel in this role. Demonstrates strong ability to streamline operations, optimize inventory levels, and enhance supply chain efficiency. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to changing needs to drive results. Proficient in inventory control systems, demand forecasting, and vendor management with focus on reliability and strategic problem-solving.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Inventory Manager
World Class Distribution
08.2024 - Current
- Created and updated regular inventory reports and records.
- Maintained sufficient inventory levels to meet customer demands at all times.
- Analyzed inventory data to identify and address stock discrepancies.
- Participated in regular cycle counts to confirm accuracy of inventory records.
- Enhanced inventory accuracy by conducting regular audits and implementing efficient tracking systems.
- Labeled, organized and located inventory items in staging areas or on shelves according to quantity, size, or type of material.
- Reduced stock discrepancies with thorough monitoring of inventory levels and timely resolution of issues.
- Developed and implemented policies and procedures for inventory management.
- Coordinated with suppliers to guarantee timely delivery of inventory and materials.
- Monitored inventory levels to confirm compliance with company policy.
- Achieved operational excellence by continuously improving processes, systems, and procedures related to inventory management.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement within the team by encouraging idea generation and problem-solving initiatives.
- Built and nurtured positive working relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Managed relationships with vendors to ensure timely delivery of products while maintaining quality standards.
- Maximized storage capacity by effectively organizing warehouse layout and implementing space-saving techniques.
- Maintained high levels of customer satisfaction through efficient handling of orders, prompt issue resolution, and effective communication channels with clients.
- Optimized supply chain processes by collaborating with suppliers, distributors, and transportation providers for seamless inventory management.
- Developed accurate forecasting models to predict future inventory needs and inform purchasing decisions.
- Increased efficiency in inventory turnover, reducing holding costs and increasing cash flow.
- Conducted thorough training for new staff to ensure high standards of inventory management.
- Ensured compliance with industry regulations and safety protocols in all aspects of inventory management operations.
- Established robust inventory control measures to minimize loss and theft.
- Achieved significant cost savings through meticulous negotiation with suppliers.
- Optimized inventory levels to meet fluctuating demand, ensuring product availability.
- Enhanced accuracy of stock levels by implementing robust auditing system.
- Reduced stock discrepancies by introducing state-of-the-art tracking system.
- Enhanced sustainability practices in inventory management, reducing environmental impact.
- Developed comprehensive reporting system to provide insights into inventory performance.
- Improved warehouse organization, leading to more efficient retrieval system.
- Enhanced team productivity with introduction of collaborative planning and forecasting system.
- Fostered strong relationships with vendors to secure timely deliveries and maintain stock levels.
- Led improvement initiatives to advance operational efficiencies and increase revenue.
- Organized records of vehicles, schedules and completed orders.
- Prospected for leads to build pipeline and convert to sales opportunities.
- Reviewed established business practices and improved processes to reduce expenses.
- Oversaw warehouse staff and maintained efficiency in fast-paced environment.
- Developed and maintained knowledgeable and productive team of employees.
- Reduced worker accidents by implementing improved safety standards and monitoring procedures.
- Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality and service standards.
- Automated routine inventory tasks, freeing up time for strategic planning and analysis.
- Improved inventory accuracy, ensuring that stock levels closely matched records through regular audits.
- Coordinated with sales and marketing teams to align inventory with promotional activities, boosting sales.
Logistics Manager
Paragon Products, LLC
07.2023 - 07.2024
- Managing Kitting Department, overseeing all created shop orders ensuring that BOM’s, system locations, physical locations, and routing locations are correct
- Streamlined logistics processes by implementing efficient inventory management systems.
- Implemented advanced forecasting techniques to anticipate demand fluctuations and optimize inventory levels accordingly.
- Improved inventory accuracy with introduction of cycle counting program, ensuring stock levels were always up-to-date.
- Trained new staff on job duties, company policies, and safety procedures for rapid onboarding.
- Oversaw warehouse staff and maintained efficiency in fast-paced environment.
- Maintained established levels of goods based on sales forecasts and demand to fulfill orders on time.
- Collaborated with manufacturing and supply chain management.
- Managing Receiving department, overseeing all purchase orders and ensuring shipments and forecast meet production demand
- Create cycle count reports for all new products to be counted
- Receive all stock into system making sure all purchase orders match lines and quantities
- Efficiently managed budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of resources towards critical projects while minimizing unnecessary expenditures.
- Training of all supervisors and leads and ensure meets company standards
- Managing Inventory department, overseeing all inventory transactions and projects
- Create all cycle count workflows for all discrepant product and system discrepancies
- Ensure that all inventory gets consumed to the right shop orders
- Vendor and consumer communication
- Weekly investigation report for process improvement
- Training of all supervisors and leads and ensure meets company standards
- Managing Replenishment department, overseeing all product returned from unused shop orders are returned to their primary locations
- Making sure that all parts are systematically pulled from unused shop orders
- Create all over stock locations and implement (FIFO) if product has expiration date
- Managing leadership meetings, create reports for all recorded counts, discrepancies, times, ongoing mistakes for a better process improvement to present to teams
- Full quarterly reconciliation report of all inventory to be completed and submitted
- Delivery and carrier meetings
- Urgent product meetings to go over any items that may cause any production line downs
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by closely monitoring order fulfillment and addressing issues promptly.
- Ensured regulatory compliance in all aspects of logistics operations, including transportation safety standards and customs requirements.
- Improved on-time delivery rates by optimizing transportation routes and scheduling.
- Managed a team of logistics professionals, providing coaching and guidance for career development and skill enhancement.
Inventory Control Manager
DHL Supply Chain
09.2020 - 07.2023
- Improved inventory accuracy by conducting regular cycle counts and reconciling discrepancies.
- Led a team of inventory control specialists, providing guidance, performance evaluations, and professional development opportunities.
- Decreased inventory shrinkage through diligent monitoring, security measures, and employee training on loss prevention practices.
- Optimized storage space utilization by reorganizing warehouse layout and product placement.
- Reduced stock discrepancies with thorough audits of physical inventory and warehouse organization.
- Implemented barcode scanning system to improve inventory tracking and reduce manual data entry errors.
- Streamlined warehouse operations by implementing efficient inventory control processes and procedures.
- Facilitated regular communication between departments for seamless coordination in replenishment activities.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams for successful execution of annual physical inventories and reconciliation activities.
- Ensured compliance with safety regulations by maintaining a clean, organized warehouse environment and proper handling of hazardous materials.
- Supported company''s growth strategies by effectively managing higher volumes of products without compromising accuracy or efficiency.
- Collaborated with purchasing department to maintain optimal stock levels and minimize overstocks or stockouts.
- Analyzed sales trends to forecast future demand patterns, enabling proactive adjustments to inventory levels as needed.
- Enhanced order fulfillment speed, ensuring accurate picking, packing, and shipping of customer orders.
- Minimized overstock and understock situations, adjusting inventory levels based on trend analysis and sales forecasts.
- Reduced waste and increased sustainability by analyzing inventory data to identify and eliminate slow-moving items.
- Coordinated with sales and production teams to align inventory levels with upcoming promotions and launches, ensuring readiness.
- Achieved significant time savings for inventory counts with introduction of RFID technology, simplifying audit process.
- Implemented returns management process that streamlined handling of defective or unsold products, recuperating value.
- Improved team productivity by training staff on best practices in inventory control and management.
- Enhanced accuracy of stock levels with meticulous record-keeping and periodic audits, ensuring warehouse efficiency.
- Motivated workers to exceptional performance through implementation of new strategies.
- Worked closely with personnel, customers, and contractors to resolve problems.
- Recommended measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and team operation and productivity.
- Maintained safe work environment and confirmed current compliance with OSHA and other governmental regulations.
- Managed labor assignments and equipment allocations and met transportation, operations and production goals.
- Achieved notable reduction in order processing times by reorganizing picking and packing system.
- Enhanced employee engagement and reduced turnover by developing comprehensive training and development program for inventory team.
- Processed damaged goods and completed wasted inventory paperwork.
- Maintained control of cycle counts, physical inventory and discrepancy research.
- Inventoried warehouse stock on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Collaborated with other departments within facility to educate and understand how functions affect inventory.
- Motivated and managed performance, activities and responsibilities of Inventory Control Team.
- Improved inventory accuracy by implementing a robust cycle counting program and refining warehouse organization strategies.
- Conducted regular audits of inventory levels to identify discrepancies, taking corrective action when necessary to maintain accurate records.
Inventory Control Supervisor
GAF Materials Corporation
09.2017 - 09.2020
- Improved inventory accuracy by conducting regular cycle counts and reconciling discrepancies.
- Led a team of inventory control specialists, providing guidance, performance evaluations, and professional development opportunities.
- Decreased inventory shrinkage through diligent monitoring, security measures, and employee training on loss prevention practices.
- Optimized storage space utilization by reorganizing warehouse layout and product placement.
- Minimized overstock and understock situations, adjusting inventory levels based on trend analysis and sales forecasts.
- Reduced waste and increased sustainability by analyzing inventory data to identify and eliminate slow-moving items.
- Developed comprehensive disaster recovery plan, ensuring business continuity in event of unforeseen disruptions to inventory.
- Reduced product loss by establishing rigorous quality control procedures upon receipt of goods.
- Implemented returns management process that streamlined handling of defective or unsold products, recuperating value.
- Fostered culture of continuous improvement, leading initiatives for process optimization that enhanced operational efficiency.
- Processed damaged goods and completed wasted inventory paperwork.
- Maintained control of cycle counts, physical inventory and discrepancy research.
- Managed multiple complex inventory activities and client-driven projects.
- Managed labor assignments and equipment allocations and met transportation, operations and production goals.
- Recommended measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and team operation and productivity.
Inventory control specialist
Vistar Performance Food Groups
01.2014 - 03.2017
- Ensure all products are properly following FIFO to eliminate expired products
- Conducted periodic cycle counts to verify inventory accuracy, identifying discrepancies early on to mitigate potential issues.
- Completed physical inventory counts each month.
- Completed daily cycle counts to maintain accuracy of records.
- Audited and corrected discrepancies in inventory numbers.
- Verified incoming products and checked delivery totals to keep system records current and accurate.
- Improved stock visibility by maintaining up-to-date records of product locations within the warehouse, enabling quicker retrieval times.
- Unloaded shipments, reviewed merchandise, and tracked paperwork.
- Trained new employees on inventory management best practices, contributing to a knowledgeable workforce capable of maintaining high standards of accuracy.
- Performed data entry and completed proper paperwork.
- Packed, secured, labeled and applied postage to materials to prepare items for shipment.
- Moved shipment materials to and from designated areas using lift and hand trucks.
- Utilized forklift or pallet truck to load, unload, transport and store goods.
- Rejected damaged items, recorded shortages and corresponded with shippers to rectify issues.
- Inspected incoming and outgoing shipments to identify discrepancies with records.
- Handled day-to-day shipping and receiving overseeing more than [Number] packages per day.
- Compared shipping orders and invoices against contents received to verify accuracy.
- Sorted and delivered materials to different work areas and staff.
- Temperature audits on all locations for proper storage
- Investigation into all missing and damaged products
- Reports on all inventory projects completed or missed for process improvement
- Used equipment like forklifts and pallet jacks to move inventory.
- Worked effectively with shippers to resolve shipment issues, damaged materials and shortages.
Education
Associate of Arts - IT And Programing
ITT Technical Institute
10863 Gold Center Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 9567007.2015
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- SAP
- Oracle
- Pro Track
- Macola operating system
- Building departments
- Placement racks
- Bar codes
- Picking routes
- Workflows
- Hiring staff
- Training employees
- End of month reconciliation
- Year end reconciliation
- Leading teams
- Problem solving
- High Reach
- Dock stocker
- Order picker
- Sit down
- Electric pallet jack certified
- Generating reports
- Presenting
- Typing 120 words per minute
- Task coordination
- Problem solving and investigation
- Developing growth strategies
- Managing department budgets
- Directing company agencies
- Managing business activities
- Developing effective business strategies
- Allocating budget resources
- Managing operational costs
- Formulating policies
- Coordinating business operations
- Monitoring business operations
- Paperwork reviewing
- Inventory management
- Critical thinking
- Data analysis
- Order processing
- Forecasting techniques
- Materials management
- Cycle counting
- Inventory audits
- Process improvement
- Maintaining stock levels
- Vendor management
- Supplier relations
- Inventory control systems
- Warehouse optimization
- Inventory optimization
- Customer service
- Cost reduction
- Collaboration skills
- Report preparation
- Team leadership
- Audit coordination
- Auditing processes
- Shipping and receiving
- Decision-making
- Purchasing management
- Personnel management
- Inventory distribution
- Team development
- Logistics scheduling
- New product acquisition
- Cost control
- Stock rotation
- Product replenishing
- SOP creation
- FIFO stocking
Accomplishments
- Achieved impact to lost cost by completing inventory audits with accuracy and efficiency.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Achieved communication through effectively helping with other departments.
- Supervised team of 27 staff members.
Certification
- National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Compliance Certificate (NISPOM) – Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.
- Supply Chain Operations Reference Model Master Instructor Certificate(SCOR-P)- APICS.
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc., or (ISC)^2.
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Inventory Manager
World Class Distribution
08.2024 - Current
Logistics Manager
Paragon Products, LLC
07.2023 - 07.2024
Inventory Control Manager
DHL Supply Chain
09.2020 - 07.2023
Inventory Control Supervisor
GAF Materials Corporation
09.2017 - 09.2020
Inventory control specialist
Vistar Performance Food Groups
01.2014 - 03.2017
Associate of Arts - IT And Programing
ITT Technical Institute
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