Raul Ramirez
Santa Clarita,CA
Summary
Dedicated, focused, and diligent Supply Chain and Purchasing Manager. Advanced data analysis skills, problem solving background, continuous improvement, and project management skills. Expert problem-solver and planner with demonstrated business leadership skills. Proven reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Seeking career advancement opportunity to build success with exciting organization.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Supply Chain Manager
Hubbell Incorporated
03.2023 - Current
- Supervise 31 staff members tasked with handling materials management, planning, purchasing, and customer service duties.
- Oversee demand planning, purchasing, and logistics
- Collaborate with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods
- Track and monitor purchase orders, deliveries and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance
- Improve, standardize and document planning and scheduling processes
- Streamline shipping and receiving operations to reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction
- Implement inventory-management strategies to maximize availability and decrease waste
- Design plant layouts, tooling fixtures and flowcharts of materials to meet delivery targets
- Organize and maintain correct inventory levels to drive highest turns possible on inventory
- Reduce inventory levels and improve supply chain visibility using strategic initiatives
- Develop and implement actionable improvements to increase inventory replenishment efficiency and reduce downtime
- Formulate demand planning and generate supply chain management metrics
Senior Operations Scheduler
ITT
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Led daily production requirements to meet customer expectation by planning and scheduling based on material availability, capacity, and forecasted requirements
- Responsible for manufacturing forecast, definition of lot size optimization, establishing minimum balances, raw material release, and shop order release
- Identified constraints in the capacity and coordinated removing constraints to ensure customer demand schedule is attained
- Generated production resource requirement plan to include labor, equipment, fixtures, tools, and sub-materials
- Data analysis and decision making to support raw material supply and finished goods changes
- Recommended viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality
- Identified changes to the production schedule and coordinated with the relevant departments to resolve customer deliveries
- Identified and researched the root cause for past due sales orders' on-time delivery to find solutions to avoid it in the future
- Determined reasons for aging inventory and engaged with Focus Factory Leadership to correct inventory discrepancies
- Proactively worked with Purchasing and Fabrication to eliminate material shortages in time to meet customer delivery dates as well as safety stock levels as indicated by MRP
Customer Support Operations Manager
Harman International
05.2019 - 08.2021
- Responsible for inventory management for major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Apple
- Promote positive customer experience through day-to-day supervision and management of 137 agents
- Lead S&OP meetings between cross functional departments
- Worked closely with Purchasing, Sales, Finance, and Quality
- Created and manage Demand Forecasts for supply procurement and distribution
- Lead the implementation of important initiatives through facilitation of meetings
- Follow-up documentation, and escalation of key risks and issues
- Analyzed forecast and MRP to ensure the timely procurement of spare parts
- Provided analysis of data regarding inventory & trend reports to facilitate decision making
- Managed stock levels and analysis of excess/obsoletes
- Reduced air freight costs by 20% by identifying supply gaps using sell through reports
- Instill continuous improvement principles and techniques while evaluating opportunities within existing processes
Purchasing and Supply Chain Manager
Align Aerospace, LLC
09.2015 - 05.2019
- Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets
- Identified material shortages and monitored inventory levels to meet order delivery requirements
- Analyzed historical sales trends and customer forecasts, conducted balancing with contract requirements, generated aggregated inventory plan to ensure the timely procurement of goods in support of customer needs
- Identified, prevented, and minimized slow moving and obsolete inventory
- Presented customer analytics, key trends, and solution proposals during customer QBR's
- Reduced inventory by 11% in one year by improving statistical forecasting and managing depth of buy strategy
- Successfully implemented Six Sigma project improving the PO approval process and reducing buyer handling time by 20%.
Parts Planner/Supply Chain Analyst
Harman International
05.2009 - 09.2015
- Optimized execution of supply chain by forecasting, loading demand into the system, scheduling orders, and balancing inventory levels for multiple major retailers (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Apple)
- Designed and produced monthly internal reports and metrics to measure performance against contractual deliverables, and to measure internal operational performance, identify trends and issues, and to measure internal efficiency
- Discovered and implemented the most cost-effective shipping modes and schedules
- Collaborated with the procurement and logistics to enhance service delivery and supply of continuous goods
Master Scheduler/Senior Production Control Planner
Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Harman International Incorporated
01.1998 - 01.2009
- Reviewed material lists for completeness and resolved material shortages on a daily basis
- Work hand-in-hand with manufacturing, planners, and shipping to make sure that all issues that are related to scheduling are properly handled and resolved
- Maintained high levels of Customer Delivery Adherence and On Time Delivery in the upper 90 percentile while minimizing obsolescence
- Effectively scheduled, expedited, and shipped new products with potential revenues of over thirty-six million dollars
- SAP implementation and utilization of Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Inbound Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) modules
Buyer/Planner
Harman International Consumer Division
01.1993 - 01.1998
- Responsible for planning and procurement of all Engineering materials; production buying, vendor selection, price negotiation, shipping arrangements, expediting with vendors, management of Engineering stockroom, shortage reports, project status using Excel
Education
California State University
Northridge, CA01.1998
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Demand Planning
- Inventory management
- SAP Implementation
- APICS training
- Inventory Management
- Six Sigma methodologies
- Negotiations & Supplier Management
- Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- Cost reduction strategies
- ERP systems proficiency
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Supply Chain Manager
Hubbell Incorporated
03.2023 - Current
Senior Operations Scheduler
ITT
09.2021 - 09.2022
Customer Support Operations Manager
Harman International
05.2019 - 08.2021
Purchasing and Supply Chain Manager
Align Aerospace, LLC
09.2015 - 05.2019
Parts Planner/Supply Chain Analyst
Harman International
05.2009 - 09.2015
Master Scheduler/Senior Production Control Planner
Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Harman International Incorporated
01.1998 - 01.2009
Buyer/Planner
Harman International Consumer Division
01.1993 - 01.1998
California State University
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