Elizabeth Arias

Negotiated with customers and multiple functional groups.Peparing status reports for use in communication to stakeholders Escalating issues and areas of concern to senior managers. Driving forecast demand (consignment -tow and third party- and non-consignment), to ensure adequate supply to customer. Driving automotive and electronics projects summarizing annual budget over 12 million USD.

Negotiated with domestic and foreign strut roads suppliers (direct, indirect and secondary process), Implemented inventory metrics reports to ensure accurate and on-going control and cost reduction. Reviewed historical data including sales trends, analysis of customer demand Managed to decrease by 7% the inventory level. Team work with purchasing, production control, quality, sales.

Coordinated research data to identify significant variances. Share, communicate and report on variances to both internal and external supply chain to prevent customer stock outs. Expedite and reschedule open purchase orders to suit customer production planning requirements. Escalating issues and areas of concern to senior managers. Driving different projects summarizing an annual budget over 10 million USD. Managed to decrease by a 10% the annual inventory level. Transferring projects.

Ensure customer received material on timely manner Expedite and rescheduled open purchase orders to cover customer requirements. Processing RMA’s, RFQ’s. Prepares, generates and distributes daily reports and order acknowledgements to customers Development and implementation of delivery metrics

Improved Kanban levels, from 75 to 80%. Defined the safety stock process to prevent stock outs. Collaborated with Business group to determine annual budget. Performed customer requirement analysis. Supported and advised planning team and business unit managers.

Engaged new business opportunities. Supported customer requirements, ensuring on time delivery to prevent customer stockouts, quotations, processing RMA’s. Supported and operated on the Latin America and Mexican market, teaming with sales, research and development, quality, production and logistics. ISO 9000 Internal Auditor, in addition to the responsibilities of reviewing, improving and updating the quality procedures to maintain the company quality levels and ISO certification

Business Administration