Experience

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  Consorcio de productores de fruta s.a.

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Logistic assistant / quality supervisor

  Logistic Assistant May 2009 – Aug. 2009- Provided customer service and coordinated the logistics with packing sheds, freight forwarders, and vessel lines.Quality Supervisor Apr. 2008 – Apr.2009 - Improved and updated the quality procedures.- Monitored and kept quality certificates of the packaging sheds up to date.- Delivered technical training regarding packing and food safety practices. Meno dettagli

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  Agrícola chapi s.a. (asparagus, flowers and grapes)

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

  Sales and logistics

  • Analyzed client portfolio and quality requirements to establish commercial programs. • Coordinated the logistics by air & sea. Ensure timely issuance of shipping docs. Provide customer service / order status. • Attended weekly meetings with procurement, and operations to discuss packing specifications and materials needs.

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  Sociedad agricola saturno s.a. (grapes, mangos, and avocados)

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2013

  Chief of exports

  • Managed the exports unit. Ensure completion of internal tasks in a timely manner (Booking, invoicing, collection of advance payments, issuance of phyto certificates, and the mailing of shipping document). • Provide customer service in terms of order status, confirming shipped quantities, ETDs and ETAs • Built the shipping schedule and volume based on commercial contracts and quality requirements. • Negotiated with freight forwarders and vessel lines services rates and scope. • Prepared end-of-season reports to analyze not only vendors’ and buyers’ performance, but also final logistics cost per port. Meno dettagli

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  Muranaka farms

  Jan 2013 - Mar 2014

  Product supply coordinator /salesperson

  • Negotiated with vendors purchase prices and volume. Responsible for assuring steady raw product supply. • Analyzed sales needs, inventory on hand, and volume in transit to determine supply needs and safety stocks. • Monitored inventory rotation to avoid inventory loss.

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  Rainfield ranches lp

  Mar 2014 - Nov 2017

  Cost analyst / logistics / sales.

  • Directly negotiated with vendors prices, payment terms, lead times and cost reduction alternatives/options. • Planned and managed steady raw products supply to fulfill Sales team needs. Calculated safety stock levels and approved POs. ● Coordinated and established the shipping schedule, packing specifications, and materials needs with 3 packing houses. ● Entry and reconciliation of bills. Posting cash. Budget cash flow needs. ● Prepared monthly & end-of-season sales and P&L reports (COGS, skus with higher margin, inventory rotation, and ROI). Meno dettagli

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  Abbyson

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2022

  • Communicated with foreign factories (10+) to discuss short shipments, poor quality, payment discrepancies and chargebacks. • Directly work with the VP and CFO by calculating cash needs to cover advance and final payments. ● Constantly communicated with other teams (DCs, Logistics, Customer Service) to discuss the financial impact of poor-quality items, returns rates and penalties due to a late submission of shipping documents. Used that information to prepare chargebacks. ● Directly worked with the VP and Inventory management teams to exchange information regarding incoming volume, payment terms, discounts at SKU and collection levels to avoid payment discrepancies. ● Prepared monthly reports for the CFO about the incurrent customs duties and AP budget for freight forwarder vendors based on priority, payment terms and arrivals schedule. ● Constantly communicated to Supply Chain & DC teams to prevent demurrage & per diem charges. ● Reconcile accounts and invoices to identify red flags and double billing. Post cash. Meno dettagli • Coordinated & managed inventory-related transactions with the DC and seven other 3PL sites (Year-end inventory count, inbound schedule, transfers, cycle counts). Addressed inventory shortage and send its value to the AP team. • Performed monthly account reconciliations to confirm inventory value and to solve fulfillment issues. Go to the 3PLs portals (Wayfair, Overstock, UDL, Metropolitan, Fragilepak) to confirm order cancellations, returns rates, and to pull inbound receipts. • Prepared reports for third party auditors (Inventory value, year-end count & variance, rollbacks). Meno dettagli

  • Accounts Payable Specialist

    Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Inventory Specialist

    Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
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  Bayer cropscience vegetable seeds

  Jan 2022 - Jan 2024

  • Manage projects. Work with technicians, HSE, and Global Engineering to build action plans. • Monitor KPIs to ensure no less than 90% of OPO attainment rate. ● Supervise operations and the performance of 14 technicians within the Conditioning department. Coach and guide my team by encouraging cross training, promoting accountability, assigning projects and establishing goals and expectations. Approve QMS Documents (WI, procedures), overtime, timecards and vacation time(KRONOS). ● Guarantee the timely delivery of clean seed to fulfill commercial contracts and to speed up the grower payment process. ● Manage resources (manpower and materials) to efficiently operate at max capacity. ● Provide customer service to different stakeholders (Production, Supply, Sales, HSE, and accounting teams). Perform Gemba walks to improve processes and Root-Cause analysis to close CARs and Observations. Meno dettagli • Worked closely with Op. Supervisors to establish the weekly schedule for different units (Cleaning, washing, sizing, priming and pelleting) based on current capacity, demand window and resources. Helped to determine overtime requirements. • Acted quickly to reduce the impact of unforeseen events (equipment down time, power outrage, shortage of manpower). • Point of contact between Operations and Supply teams. Approved hot order requests. Responsible to provide weekly updates to stakeholders in terms of capacity, and order status. Closely worked with Maintenance team to schedule PMS on the lines. Meno dettagli

  • Operations Supervisor

    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Master Production Scheduler

    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
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  Graphic packaging international, llc

  Jan 2024 - now

  Financial analyst