Arnaldo Pérez Algarín

Leading the operations team (Sourcing, P2P and Supplier Relations) for Colombia and Ecuador, to ensure compliance with customer requirements, within budget, on time and with a high level of service and quality, and managing appropriately the supplier base of both countries. Responsible for personnel decisions. Teamwork with peers in the region to develop and implement common best practices in the region. Agreements with strategic suppliers in Colombia to set SLAs, KPIs.

Leading the Allocation area working with the 3PL, ensuring adequate supply from imports of garments to the stores. Ensure quality in execution of processes in the distribution center, serving an excellent level of service. Execution of quality audits of the logistics service in stores and DC. Logistics costs optimization. Contracts signed with charitable foundations and recycling company to give final action to write-offs. Implementation of WMS for on-hold stock.

o Container supply planning (returnable containers) to production plants, ensuring compliance with production plans, both with containers in the national network and new containers from the supplier (CAPEX management); correctly managing the resources allocated to the process and optimizing its cost, working as a team with the Primary Transportation area, in the implementation of TMS. o Product Owner, design and development of the container planning tool for the COPEC area (Colombia - Peru - Ecuador).

Finished goods planning for some regions, ensuring the supply according to the demand, minimizing the risks of stockouts and write-offs. Standardization of the planning model for the Island of San Andrés. Leader of the Planners pool for Colombia. Management with commercial teams, Production and Resource Planning, Foreign Trade, Demand, Distribution Centers; to coordinate product availability. Design and development of the FG planning tool for implementation in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador

Fixed costs and capex planning for Operations Division, nationwide. Guarantee cost optimization based on company guidelines. Managing national contracts for the sale of by-products and industrial surpluses, and their operation at the Tocancipá Brewery. Sourcing the negotiation of national contracts for Warehouses (toilets, forklifts, by-products, industrial surpluses). SAP national security super user for warehouses.

Warehouse and inventory management, both of raw materials and spare parts, from the entry of merchandise to its dispatch to production areas. Standardization of processes in the PM and Spare Parts warehouse.

Support in the implementation of VMI (Vendor Management Inventory). Support in imports coordination. Optimization of the POS Business Management Processes in Supertiendas y Droguerías Olímpica S.A., in the Fruver section. Barranquilla, Colombia, 2006.

IMF Business School and Camilo Jose Cela University (Spain).