Carlos Torres

Dedicated key player

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jabil (Jan 2022 at Date)

American worldwide manufacturing services,has around 100 plants in 30 countries, including healthcare, life sciences, clean technology, instrumentation, defense, aerospace, automotive, computing, storage, consumer products, networking and telecommunications, with 260,000 employees worldwide

Planner Senior

Manage all planning activities for the dedicated assigned workcell and mentor the Production Planners and Document Coordinators in the workcell, ensure 100% OTD, and accurate revenue forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Master Production Schedule (MPS) and load into Jabil’s ERP system, including Purchase Order (PO) coverage, ensure the MPS is always 100% accurate and achievable.
• Reconcile the MPS to customer PO coverage weekly to ensure that Jabil is not exposed over and above customer PO coverage or other authorized customer demand.
• Own production planning, BOM and document control with or without additional support.
• Lead the Workcell on the creation of Bills of Material (BOMs) and routings that allows accurate tracking of WIP assemblies and accurate inventory movement transactions.

Major achievements:

• Recover the revenue, beign from $800,k monthly, reaching $1.4K, including, looking for sales oportunities for $1.7k

 The Safariland Group (Nov 2017 at Jan 2022)

 The Safariland Group manufactures and distributes law enforcement and security products including duty gear, holsters, body armor and tactical headsets.

 Planner-Buyer Senior                                              

Responsible for leading and supporting thru Purchasing, Planning and Shipping areas, based on Materials availability and capacity constrain analyst, having direct impact based on the analysis of data information.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate purchasing and planning tasks to ensure the workflow through supply chain 
• Design and analyzing customer delivery tools, and communicate performance and risk on deliveries
• Coordinate data integration, and streamline proper use based on ERP criteria
• Responsible to keep the optimal inventory levels on finished goods and assemblies on distributions centers, negotiate delivery dates according supply chain performance.
• Identify variability on demand, capacities and materials constrains, to design tools to reduce variability, as Wheel schedules (OEE), super cells or cross working load.

Major achievements:

• Recognition as best employee due reduce backorder from $230’k thru leass than $3’k
• Received recognition by GM by successfully and smooth transfer form operations Ont CA,  reducing risk on customer’s loss, as making the difference.
• Improve and solidify distributions centers relationships, by improving customer scorecards reducing latest orders no more 30 days, less 20 SO.

 Parker Legris FSHC/Norma Group (Nov 2012 at 2017)               

 Legris has been providing new solutions to O.E.M’s for over 30 years in a changing and demanding market. Whatever the activity, the Legris range continues to provide ever-increasing performance, quality and safety based on certification according to demanding referential such as ISO/TS 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, automotive process industry and food applications

Master Scheduler (PFEP)

Improve and analyst data integrate within the Plan for Every Part database, PFEP, Responsible of efficiency on work load in molding areas, and manufacturing cells.

Responsibilities:

• Developed a comprehensive forecasting model and weekly dashboard report Interface with manufacturing with respect to schedule controls, inventory management, capacity utilization and customer needs, focus on invoice levels. 
• Plan, measure, and report number of orders scheduled daily by product line as well as those that are in the queue while meeting internal and external customer requirements, escalating issues to management for resolution. 
• Accountable for analyzing material availability, working with suppliers on their molding operations, and manufacturing to ensure material availability to meet the needs of the customer.
• ABC/XYZ regeneration and evaluation, stocking policy analysis, integrated in ERP

Major achievements:

• Managed and implementation for PFEP, being model for sisters manufacturing plants.
• Implemenattion of ABC/XYZ inventory policies, on all Supply Chain activities, whitin ERP
• Drove transfer supply chain task to new operations from Tijuana to Monterrey (Norma Group) ending 4 months before due date.
• Design and optimize cost reduction on material handling of FG/Subasemblies into ERP for optimize lead time, based on Value Stream Mapping.

 International Laser Group (Aug 2009 at Nov 2012) 

Founded in 1989, ILG is an industry-leading manufacturer of superior-quality compatible imaging supplies; offer a huge selection of laser toner cartridges, MICR toner cartridges, and Inkjet Cartridges and Thermal Transfer products 

Material Coordinator 

Provide leadership and direct team activities necessary to collect data, analyze trends, implement processes, and prepare forecast necessary to develop SIOP.

Responsibilities :

• Responsible for the entire Supply Chain operation, Sales forecast and Customer Service, direct and Indirect (MROs) Purchasing, Materials Planning, Warehouse, MPS, Production Control.
• Identify opportunities for inventory reductions, proven track record of cost savings, inventory turns improvement, and implementation of advanced purchasing/planning approaches.
• Lead in identification, data analysis, and disposal of Excess and Obsolete items.
• Implementation of a World class Supply chain Management. Improve the adequate flow for the New Product, to support the customer demand maintaining, based on ERP criteria
• Improve KPI Supply Chain.Customer Delivery, MPS Compliance, DOH, WIP inventory Included.

Major achievements:

• Reduced Freight expense 15% each year for 3 consecutive years.
• Drove transfer facility to improve same goal levels than previous facility (Woodland Hills, CA)
• Led Value Stream Mapping courses, resulting on improving material flow and reduce wait-times.
• Implemented databases that allow the transfer and control of materials at low handling time, introduced Bar Code Scanning.

Dj Orthopedics, LLC (Dec 2005 at Aug 2009) 

Business Planner Scheduler 

Responsibilities :

• Create and share the SoP, with marketing for approval, based on Market, and Family description. 
• Lead on new product fulfill requirements before production start, evaluate preproduction product schedule, for machine shop, and molding area. 
• Measure, improve and control the Forecast, Seasonality (New products and mass production) 
• Production Control based on Earned Hours, and Manpower vs. Forecast. 
• Analyze demand fluctuation and identify those critical items, classify liability for obsolete material, RM-Inventory and Safety Stock control.

Major achievements:

• Key player in the integration of the distribution center, and drove FG levels to achieve it 
• Successful implementation of stocking programs, KANBAN, supermarkets. 
• Developed actions plans into SCM for two transfers, Procare and Aircast

Pulidos Industriales S.A. de C.V. (March 2004 at Dec 2005) 

Production Control Coordinator 

Responsibilities :

• Coordinator of Job Floor Control, production reports in real time, balancing of the workload, and introducing the new products. 
• Coordinator of inventories and cycle counts in production areas. 
• Development of procedures to improve the flow of materials (RCCP), based on Low lead time process. Analyze Future Demand. prevent potential risks 
• In charge of training of procedures involving material transferring and Inventories politics control. 
• Responsible to accomplish the requirement of mass Production, based on Dispatch work load.

Major achievements:

• Create the planning department, efficiently, with planning activities, and control of materials through barcode, taking it from 35 employees to 5 planners, and 2 inventory analysts
• Developed the planning system that reduced the delivery time from 8 days to 3, based on the RCCP structure. 

SMITH MEDICAL R.S.P. S.A de C.V. (September 2001 at March 2004) 

Planner Senior / Warehouse Supervisor 

Responsibilities :

• Implementation of Inventory’s Control, design and Implement inventory model for New Products and requirements for all the supply. 
• FIFOs on Warehouse to Tree Buildings, Including their Warehouses. 
• Assure new product requirements, evaluate pre-production product schedule, and establish plans for products Politics of Transfers, on molding areas, and prod. Cells. 
• Planning on Seven departments, since Purchasing Material at Shipping Finished goods (400 manpower) 
• Responsible to Kanban’s Project (Lean Manufacturing Implementation). 
• Analyze and determine root causes of inaccuracies of Inventory records and work to develop procedures, to prevent them from occurring again.

Major achievements:

• Lead business units team (Blowers), which were at 30% of their demand in backorder, thru zero backorder, and have 1 week of stock in service
• Implementation and transfer of the central warehouse that supplies three industrial warehouses, gaining trust as part of the recognition of goals achieved.

• Master of Science of Supply Chain and Logistic.

SUMMA University.

• Industrial Engineer with speciality in Productivity.

Instituto Tecnológico de Durango, 1999.

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Trainning

IDET, 2008.

• Shingo Prize, AME (American Manufacturing Excellence)

DJOGlobal, 2007.

• Certified in Production Control and Inventory Management (In progress)

Apics Tijuana Calafia 

• Computer Systems Engineering.

UTEL Universidad, Current attendant.