Juan Antonio Alvarez Ramirez

· Stakeholder Management & Strategy Development:

Ø Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to align internal strategies and identify productivity opportunities across procurement functions.

· Supplier Innovation & Sourcing:

Ø Continuously scout for innovative suppliers and breakthrough technologies to drive cost-effective and future-ready solutions.

Cost Savings:

Ø Develop and carry out a strategy to generate competition among resin suppliers (80) to generate competitive tension and thus eliminate single source and generate almost 20-25% of the total savings plan.

• Supplier Development:

Ø Enable and support the development of new global and local suppliers to ensure a resilient supply base.

• Service Level Agreements (SLAs):

Ø Defining, managing, and continuously improving SLAs for each procurement category.

• People Leadership & Capability Building:

Ø Coach and develop teams to build a strong internal talent pipeline and foster a high-performance culture.

• Agility & Innovation:

Ø Lead and deploy initiatives aligned with the Agility Agenda to accelerate business transformation and elevate procurement impact across the organization

• Analyze MRP demand, and replenish stocks timely.
• Place purchase orders (POs) on time to suppliers and feeder plants.
• Get confirmation dates or estimated times of arrival (ETA) for all POs.
• Assure the correct receipt in our ERP system (SAP).
• Attend daily production meetings.
• Execute on a regular basis, the exception messages.
• Align with suppliers' requested dates in POs to avoid impacts in Production.
• Send reports to the supplier to review the status of open lines and avoid past due purchase orders.
• Communicate any risks related to purchased items and shortages to the Planning and Production area.
• Escalate issues with Global Procurement or Regional Materials through the correct channels (JIRA process).
• Be able to analyze lines of balances (LOB) when vendors have issues.
• Analyze the monthly forecast, and send it to suppliers.
• Assure that problems relating to delivery, pricing, and invoicing are promptly conveyed to the vendor and resolved in a timely manner.
• Monitor vendor performance and on-time delivery for suppliers.
• Support other areas to ensure proper feedback and corrective actions are in place to improve vendor development and deliveries.
• Implement a project related to reducing the level of inventory, excess, and obsolete items.
• Review daily arrivals of raw materials at the Customs Broker Warehouse, and request them to the Logistics area.
• Resolve discrepancy problems in a timely manner, and collaborate with the Warehouse and Logistics team to solve them.
• Respond to invoices assigned in Maple (AP discrepancies).
• Participate in safety committees and safety audits as required.
• Participate in risk assessments and ISO audits.
• Participate in training programs, and comply with JCI internal trainings.
• Develop and review procedures, and work instructions.

• Established and maintained relationships with customers, including operations and sales teams.
• Reviewed incoming customer orders for accuracy in part number, quantity, and pricing per quotations.
• Entered orders into operating system and communicated acknowledged ship dates to customers and field sales.
• Resolved discrepancies between quotes and purchase orders by obtaining revised documents from customers.
• Acted as liaison between customers and the Company to enhance satisfaction with products sold.
• Coordinated expedited delivery requests with operations to meet urgent customer requirements.
• Identified process improvement opportunities to streamline customer service operations.

• As a Sourcing Leader, I designed and executed sourcing strategies that generated a cumulative 15% savings across key categories, led RFP processes, optimized the supplier base, and negotiated contracts with a TCO view. I implemented Power BI dashboards and worked closely with Finance, Operations, and Legal.
• Search for and continue developing sources to generate savings, taking care of the quality and strong supplier relationships.
• Create commercial agreements that allow the company to increase profits by achieving maximum performance by taking advantage and creating business opportunities, high quality business relationships with international companies. Cost reduction directly benefiting the company in terms of profits and performance. Find opportunities in each crisis.