MARK A. GONZALES
Cypress
Summary
Results-oriented Supply Chain Analyst with a proven track record at Westlake Pipe & Fittings, driving a 26% reduction in credit counts. Expert in data analysis and KPI development, leveraging Oracle and SAP to enhance reporting capabilities. Strong collaborator and leader, committed to continuous improvement and optimizing supply chain performance.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Supply Chain Analyst II
Westlake pIPE & FITTINGS
01.2019 - Current
- Support all aspects of the supply chain organization, providing analytical support in the areas of sales and operations, planning, and inventory.
- Responsibilities include weekly, monthly, quarterly and ad hoc reporting on key metrics for the North American region.
- Project lead, working with IT, business and accounting to provide an automated and aggregated view of production, inventory, backlog, sales/shipment and daily orders data for pipe and fittings plants in the U.S. and Canada.
- Prior to project completion data was gathered manually on a daily basis process took 4-5 hours.
- With the acquisition of Lasco leading effort to add Lasco data to the above daily metrics summary.
- Led credit count reduction project. Project goal was to reduce credit counts in U.S. and Canada by 20% year over year. The team reduced credit counts year over year by 26%.
- Provide key inputs and data analysis to manage aged inventory. Focus is to reduce inventory at plants over 6 months old.
- Effectively collaborate with S&OP team on operational planning activities and issues as needed.
Supply Chain Performance Manager
Richard, Wayne and Roberts Huntsman
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Performance Management of HPP’s AMER Supply Chain.
- Responsible for developing and monitoring key KPIs and metrics for AMER Supply Chain.
- Responsible for providing monthly reporting on metrics to raise awareness and drive continuous improvement.
- Develop and enhance monthly reporting capabilities. This includes HSIMS (SAP) power user and adapting OBIEE (Oracle) reports into new HSIMS reports.
- Partnered with Commercial Sales team in developing key HSIMS reports, transitioning to SAP reporting environment.
- Single point of contact for Commercial Sales team report transition to SAP. Included training sales team on new report format and interface.
Supply Planner
HP Inc.
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Manage all phases of NA supply and demand within Supply Chain for Optical Drives.
- Coordinate with regional contacts for supply positioning, life cycle management, and excess and obsolescence prevention.
- Maintain strong working relationships with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure open orders are filled in a timely manner.
- Identify and resolve material risk issues that negatively impact open orders.
- Analyze and manage MRP demand and supply signals to ensure correct demand and supply position is communicated correctly.
- Maintain and manage excess and obsolescence database for Optical Drives.
Supply Chain/ Business Analyst/ Process Improvement Leader
M-I SWACO, A SCHLUMBERGER COMPANY
01.2011 - 12.2016
- Supported organization through global data analysis and reporting, improving Supply Chain operations.
- Emphasis on standard, ad-hoc reporting, and project management.
- Led the implementation of systemic cycle and physical inventory counts in Oracle globally. Includes testing, training, and development of reports needed to implement processes in Oracle. Current process is spreadsheet driven.
- Project lead on Transportation Management System enhancement project. Purpose of project was to add ability to tender multi stop shipments via MI’s trucking carriers.
- Responsibilities included coordinating efforts with IT and operation teams, as well as Transworks, our trucking transportation administrator.
- Developed training materials in order to train analysts on new process and procedures.
- Project lead on On-Time Vendor Delivery performance project. Project established a solution to communicate vendor commitment and execution dates.
- Coordinated changes needed in Oracle 11i. Trained analysts on the new OTD processes and procedures.
- Designed and implemented metrics used by management to communicate vendor on-time delivery performance.
- Gathered, consolidated, and validated large data sets for analysis from multiple databases.
- Cognos Impromptu Administrator was reporting tool used to create catalogs and tables needed to consolidate global data within the Supply Chain Solutions environment.
Team Lead/ Project Manager
Tranzon Auction Resolutions
01.2009 - 12.2011
- Independent contractor working with the FDIC in an asset management role.
- Coordinated federal bank asset removal processes, processes included asset auditing, customer interface and customer removal processes at federal banks throughout the U.S. and U.S. provinces.
- Weekly travel required.
- Managed on-site Tranzon teams of 2-6 individuals on a weekly basis; responsibilities included scheduling, expense and payroll reporting.
- Facilitated customer and FDIC issue resolutions.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration -
University of Houston Downtown
Houston, TexasSkills
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Continuous Improvement
- Oracle
- SAP
- KPI’s
- Supply Chain Dashboards
- Relational Databases
- Data analysis
- Supply chain management
- Inventory optimization
- SAP reporting
- Performance metrics
- Continuous improvement
- Key performance indicators
- Attention to detail
- Production planning
- Supply chain planning
- Supply and demand requirements
- Process improvements
- Teamwork
- Cross-functional team leadership
Timeline
Supply Chain Analyst II
Westlake pIPE & FITTINGS
01.2019 - Current
Supply Chain Performance Manager
Richard, Wayne and Roberts Huntsman
01.2017 - 01.2018
Supply Planner
HP Inc.
01.2017 - 12.2017
Supply Chain/ Business Analyst/ Process Improvement Leader
M-I SWACO, A SCHLUMBERGER COMPANY
01.2011 - 12.2016
Team Lead/ Project Manager
Tranzon Auction Resolutions
01.2009 - 12.2011
Bachelor of Business Administration -
University of Houston Downtown