Experience

TRINTERNATIONAL, INC. - @TRIChemicals

• United States
• Wholesale Chemical and Allied Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contracts Specialist

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Responsible for bidding on Government and Corporate contracts to acquire business for TRI Responsible for bidding on Government and Corporate contracts to acquire business for TRI



Cargill

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supply Chain Planner II

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2019

  Cargill, Inc. Starches, Sweeteners & Texturizers• Utilize SAP/APO to understand replenishment needs and issue purchase orders to suppliers as needed.• Use SAP to monitor key master data and supply chain parameters in planning in SAP/APO systems.• Track shipments through customs to the final warehouse.• Monitor inventory levels at third-party warehouse and replenish as needed.• Work with shared service partners to ensure import compliance and logistics success.• Monitor/manage capacity of inventory in relation to demand/customer orders. Provide insights to forecast accuracy. • Set stocking levels and monitors inventory health for multiple products or warehouse sites including shelf life management. Monitor inventory imbalances and adjust inventory levels, locations, materials as needed.• Balance production planning and load leveling in preparation for maintenance shut downs, price changes, and vessel/container availability.• Validate, coordinate, and execute sales and operations plans and other supply chain strategies. • Convert the demand plan into a network supply plan, review forecasts and passes insights to demand planner, optimize order portfolio and capacity of multiple products, models, and plans capacity projections as part of the Sales and Operation Planning Integrated Business Planning Process, raw material planning and purchasing. • Reviews channel capacity and develop plan in case of gaps and constraints to minimize costs and impacts to customers to meet plan. Communicate issues with relevant stakeholders. • Provide insights to the supply chain operations for nutritional product lines to key stakeholders and decision makers, including Product Line Management, Sales, Production, Finance, and Food Safety Quality, and Regulatory (FSQR).• Participate in cross-functional teams to execute, evaluate, and recommend work processes and improvements.• Assist with continuous improvement projects resulting in service improvement and cost savings.

• Supply Chain Planner

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2016

  Cargill, Inc. Corn Milling• Plan and manage import pipeline for distribution products including creating purchase orders and ensuring proper payments to vendors in SAP.• Work closely with Demand Planner and Product Line Managers to ensure solid pipeline.• Manage inventory levels, safety stock levels, and replenishment planning and execution.• Ensure vendors are meeting agreed to contract terms and supply, provide forecast demand and resolve all open issues.• Manage cost, performance metrics, and identify process improvements.• Act as the BU tag for all import and export questions and work with Cargill Transportation and Logistics and the Coral Gables forwarding team to manage the SLA and ensure BU requirements are being met.• Manage the customs broker SOP, compliance manual, coordinate duty drawback claims, and generate NAFTA’s from the GTS system.• Hold monthly meetings on non-conformances and establish root cause analysis and corrective actions in QM10.• Provide supply chain expertise on new trade lane flows and setting up new materials in SAP.

• SAP Tartan Implementation Team Super User/Subject Matter Expert/Tester Supply Chain Planning

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2011

  SAP Tartan Implementation Team Cargill, Inc. Health and Nutrition• Leverage cross function Cargill Heath and Nutrition (CHN) team and functions to ensure requirements are understood and translated.• Understand Key Performance Improvement (KPI) metrics within area of influence and provide proactive leadership around continuous process improvement and process adherence.• Capture value realization areas for CHN Supply Chain Planning/Manage Goods Movement & Storage and develop processes to track and report value realization.• Escalate issues, gaps, and potential improvement opportunities to the appropriate stakeholders.• Successful execution and outcome for assigned tasks by established delivery dates including localization of training materials.• Actively participate in product testing and user acceptance training.

• Logistics Coordinator

  • Mar 2004 - Oct 2010

  Cargill, Inc. Health and Nutrition• Coordinate import, export, and domestic shipments across multiple product lines.• Manage and reconcile inventory of raw materials, co-products, and finished products to ensure appropriate levels are inventoried to minimize costs and meet customer requirements.• Act as liaison between Customer Service, Sales, Production, Quality Assurance, and Finance.• Select and manage carriers, warehouses, custom brokers, and freight forwarders, including performing rate negotiations and reconciling freight payables.• Provide input into forecasting and production planning of products.• Ensure regulatory compliance with US and global import and exports customers.• Identify and network supply chain opportunities and capabilities across multiple Cargill functions and business units• Successfully cross train replacement for my move to our Tartan SAP Implementation Team.

• Logistics Coordinator

  • Nov 1996 - Mar 2004

  Cargill, Inc. Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain North America• Constructively interact with merchandising and elevator operations, making recommendations based on logistics constraints and opportunities, and execute logistics related components of merchandising and operations plans.• Expedite private rail cars in fleet service to ensure optimal turn times.• Ongoing coordination of rail and barge freight into Cargill owned and third-party interior loading/unloading facilities. • Generate and maintain pipeline blend projections by product line and by facility.• Coordination of origin/destination shuttle freight incentive program execution and tracking of overall incentive program results maximizing rail incentives.• Analysis and resolution of origin demurrage/dispatch issues to ensure optimal results.



TRINTERNATIONAL, INC. - @TRIChemicals

• United States
• Wholesale Chemical and Allied Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Oct 1992 - May 1996

  • Negotiate, contract, and hire cargo carriers for domestic and international freight. • Filled customer orders and maintain inventory of raw chemicals as necessary across the United States. • Work with International Letters of Credit and provide necessary shipping documentation. • Managed the training of new personnel office operations. • Oversee payables and receivables to ensure the accuracy of invoices. • Negotiate, contract, and hire cargo carriers for domestic and international freight. • Filled customer orders and maintain inventory of raw chemicals as necessary across the United States. • Work with International Letters of Credit and provide necessary shipping documentation. • Managed the training of new personnel office operations. • Oversee payables and receivables to ensure the accuracy of invoices.