Operations Manager

• Jul 2022 - Present

Logistics Manager

• Nov 2018 - Mar 2021

• Production planning focused on delivery dates, short, medium and long term • Order confirmation and fulfillment planning • Transport, invoice and export documents • Transport partners negotiation and approval • Booking transports and close follow deliveries • Warehouse operation of storage and expedition (anual volume of approximately 12 million pairs of boots) • Organization of transports, coordination with clients and sales agents • Preparation of transport & customs documents • Preparation of billing documents (invoices, credit and debit notes) • Negotiation of transport costs and contracts • Deliveries Planning on a monthly, weekly and daily level • Planning the loading activities • Evaluation and selection of transport suppliers • Checking and approval of invoices • Sub-contracting process management • Annual department budget, follow up and revisions (latest estimations) • Management Team member • Quality Team Member • Periodical reporting (monthly and quarterly) • Project manager on Logistics operation improvement – layout change on warehouse, racks installation, WMS+SMS implementation (with bar code readers) Show less

Logistics & Production Planning Manager

• Jul 2008 - Oct 2018

• Reception & Collection of all information relevant to the implementation of projects • Analysis and interpretation of project’s information • Projects preparation: Planning extrusion, drying, firing, cutting, packing and deliveries • Presentation of the projects to all departments (needed to order raw materials and start dies construction) • Production planning focused on delivery dates given the best possible occupation of the machines in order to have the lowest costs • This planning has to be able to manage all different projects that are in production and the ones that are ready for being produced according to the colour & thickness changes and the drying and firing curves optimization always considering the delivery dates • Project Management - Analysis and process of information from production • Organization of transports, coordination with clients and sales agents • Preparation of transport & customs documents • Preparation of billing documents (invoices, credit and debit notes) • Negotiation of transport costs and contracts • Deliveries Planning on a monthly, weekly and daily level • Planning the loading activities • Evaluation and selection of transport suppliers • Evaluation and selection of waste management suppliers • Company Residues’ Management; • Manage the company's relationship with the Portuguese Environment Agency • Checking and approval of invoices • Calculation of FCPs in order to quote new projects ("Gate Keeper" function) • Design and implementation, from scratch, of an administrative and production managment system (“In house” IT solution) • Key User and local responsible for implementing SAP • Logistics, shipping and invoicing system implementation • Reporting, KPI design and analysis followup • General and close support to the Plant Manager Show less

Wharehouse Manager

• 2006 - Jun 2007

• The control of the receiving of pharmaceutical raw-materials; packaging material; finished product and semi-finished product; • The SAP entry of raw-materials; packaging material; finished product and semi-finished product; • The Sending up to the Production Area of all pharmaceutical raw-materials, packaging material and semi-finished product; • The Expedition of goods to the national and international market; • The SAP goods’ transactions (returns, blocking, unblocking, amendment of stocks); • The Stocks’ Control and Management; • The Inventory; • The Amendment of stocks from inventory verification; • The Free samples’ withdrawal from the stock; • The Orders’ Management; • The Claims’ Management; • The Management of returned Pharmaceutical Products; • The Company Residues’ Management; • The Control of the warehouse organization; • The Team Management; • The SAP Transactions: • Entries: o Raw-materials; o Packaging materials; o Finished Product; o Activating expiry dates. • Stock’s Management: o Stock Control; o Verification of expiry dates; o Free samples’ withdrawal. • Expedition of Goods: o Register of the expedition of goods; • Inventory: o Inventory docs; o Amendment of stocks from inventory. • SAP transactions: o Blocking; o Unblocking; o Transfers. It was kept a close contact with the Sales force regarding the management of all orders and distribution process. Planning was a must in order to keep the warehouse running as a fine and tuned machine and a push/pull strategy was assumed leading to a better performance in the company. Show less