david martin

I have a Mechanical Engineering degree by Florida International University and an M.B.A. by
Universidad de Deusto. For the last 10 years I have been working in supply chain at Eastman
Chemical Company in Mexico.

Eastman
Tlaxcala, México
2015/04 - today

Latin America Regional Planning Manager from 2022 - today
Starting 2022 focused on Saflex © business, leading one production plant
and administering 7 warehouses inside Latin America Region (LAR), in
different countries. Centered in meeting customer expectations and
internal demand plan, while keeping monthly and annual targets for
finished products and raw materials,
Since the end of 2022 I have been helping out North America Region
(NAR) as interim
Regional Planning Manager while keeping up with my LAR duties.
My additional NAR duties were both in finish product replenishment
planning as well as leading the NAR planning team, similar to LAR. I also
had to interact directly with a greater group of Eastman sales and
customer service representatives and sometimes participated in customer
meetings.
I interacted daily with the leadership team for both production sites, finish
product and raw materials, and in total was involved with 9 sites between
warehouses and production plants.
After the 2020 pandemic supply chains around the world were severely
affected which impacted import’s transit time. In all cases this increased
complexity and strain not only the flow of materials but also the supply
chain planning teams.
Supply Chain Team Lead from 2015 – 2022
Responsible for Eastman intercompany products replenishment at Mexico,
as well as two production plants and their raw materials and finish
products. For one specific business, Saflex ©, I participated on the S&OP
and built the plant capacity planning based on the internal demand plan.
Globally for all business I moved 60 million kg/year between raw materials
and sales at multiple warehouses around the country with all the
challenges that involves.
 

Mechanical Engineering degree by Florida International University and an M.B.A. by Universidad de Deusto