SUMMARY:

Vendor / Client Relations - Bilingual English - Spanish - Oil, Chemical & Gas Industry Excellent communicator who builds: strengthens relationships with vendors and suppliers. I'm a Supply Chain Professional with more than 15 years’ experience with international logistics - procurement. Human Resources consultant for International candidates - Legal issues, Planned, coordinated and executed office team events. Order Management / logistics processes, planning, supporting daily operational functions. Coordinating, expediting, and preparing proposals, quotations. Assisting customers, suppliers, and vendors handling inquiries order status, pricing, schedules. Distribution process. Expertise in reviewing contracts, invoices and shipping manifests Compliance with local customs and international regulations. SAP and Oracle experience. Export / Customs. Rail/truck logistics. NAFTA. Negotiation-Savings cost initiative, Sales. Monitoring and maintaining Inventory control. ITAR. Personnel Supervising. Instructor and Test proctoring Facilitator. Problem solving skills. KPI. Air, Ocean, Overland and courier export.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Special Skills: Fully fluent writer and speaker on English and Spanish. Able to communicate in basic Portuguese and Italian languages.

Skillful /experienced on: SAP System, Oracle 12C, TCTP System, EBP (Enterprise Buyer Professional), TMS, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Visio, Metronome.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and leading end to end logistics operations/solutions.
• Process improvement initiatives while balancing daily responsibilities.
• Performed all transportation planning, executing, and monitoring transportation modes.
• Conducted transportation planning activities including capacity planning, shipment and fleet planning, carrier selection, routing, scheduling, tendering, and load building.
• Transportation booking activities.
• Shipping documentation coordinated with site logistics to execute shipments.
• Monitored shipments and resolved exceptions.
• Tracked and monitored logistics provider, customer, and organization logistics KPIs and cost performance.
• Supported freight cost payment, management, and invoicing.
• Developed performance reports.
• Frequency and cause of service failures.
• Developed plans to identify solutions.
• Supported acquisition of transport capacity including spot booking.
• Warehousing optimization/Lean projects - Established and maintaining ISO/GAC approved procedures for all operations.
• Developed, coached and lead consolidation team.
• Managed drop shipments to Confidential end overseas customers setting up routes within TMS and freight forwarders.
• Managed outbound flow through network design in TMS to overseas countries.
• On-time shipments to internal/external customers through TMS and network redesign.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr Logistics Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for KPI development, data quality, root-cause analysis, ad-hoc reporting, and freight costing guidance.
• Rail/truck/ocean/air logistics.
• Operational responsibilities including management of inbound freight for a given region.
• Duties: Development of standard reports and metrics to measure key Logistics Network KPIs. Performed on-going data quality analysis.
• Managed follow-up resolution with provider’s data accuracy in GT Nexus, VF’s external inbound visibility system and international freight audit/payment system.
• Responsible for contracts, ad-hoc freight quotes cadenced freight costing reporting.
• Supported on-going documentation of all logistics procedures, reporting, analysis, systems updates, and communications and implement improvements in collaboration with process owners.
• Inbound freight tracking and execution for one or more regions.
• Negotiated with forwarding agent-steam ship line, AES-compliance procedures.

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX

Project Manager / Sr. Logistics Analyst

Responsibilities:

• International shipping of goods.
• ITAR shipments.
• Created delivery ticket from ISTO, created shipment number.
• Dealt with oversize and hazardous materials. Handled supply chain and logistics problems, finds root causes, and developed solutions.
• Monitored compliance of carriers and other logistics PPS service providers.
• Evolved strategic initiatives to improve areas of transportation costs, service, and accuracy in reporting metrics.
• Builds and utilizes reporting, forecasting, and database tools to improve productivity and decision making.
• Moved chemical (drilling fluids) by ocean, booking, quoting, Preparing paperwork, shipping documents.
• KPI and Performance Improvement Plans (PIP) - Radioactive - Explosive - ITAR and Hazardous exporting by air, ocean.
• Participated in carrier negotiations, to improve processes - pursuing Competitive freight cost.

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX

Logistics Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Order status, pricing, schedule, and shipments information.
• Proposals, negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques, purchase contracts.
• Determined potential sources, stimulate competition and perform continual market analysis in monitoring supplier Progress
• Maintained inventory stock records, reconciled inventory balances at month end.
• Tracked, used and maintained of corporate cars and other motor vehicles.
• Placed orders per end user requests, Ensuring products, parts, or supplies were shipped, distributed, and received.
• Took precautions to secure warehouse Contents against loss.
• Arranged for transportation of orders or shipments when it is accountable for the costs.
• Oversaw Monitored material and Supply inventories through computer information systems.
• Access to the Siemens AG EBP System.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Traffic Analyst / Buyer / Expeditor

Responsibilities:

• Developed effective processes and directed complex logistics functions for multimillion-dollar project.
• Coordinating tasks of numerous internal divisions and external agencies to ensure rapid, accurate deliveries of perishable goods and resources.
• Compliance with local customs and international regulations.
• Lead a five member team to develop highly efficient routing system for $47 million in perishable goods and resources.
• By demand requirements placed purchase orders, Oversaw Accounting issues involving price or count discrepancies.
• Quality, delivery issues, inventory. Supplier issues on-time delivery, quality, etc