Guillermo Nieva
Zurich
Summary
Supply Chain Professional committed to achieving sustainable and profitable results. Analytical. Good communicator. Multi-skilled. Multicultural. APICS Certified. Driven professional with comprehensive background in supply chain planning and coordination. Successfully managed end-to-end supply chain processes, aligning inventory levels with demand forecasts and production schedules. Demonstrated ability in optimizing logistics operations and fostering vendor relationships.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
End-to-End Supply Chain Master Planner
Takeda
12.2022 - Current
- Master Planning: Balanced supply with demand, respecting production capacities and market needs, to generate and smooth out short-term variability, ultimately maintaining Master Production Schedules (MPS) from WCB input to Final Drug Product (FDP)
- Capacity Management: Aligned with Biologics OpU/site on capacity usage and utilization, verified and challenged capabilities where appropriate, and provided crucial input into Takeda's budget processes
- Interpreted demand signals during MYC (36 months) and LRF (11 years) horizons, supporting the resolution of different forecasts to maintain a robust and validated end-to-end forecast
- Governance & Inventory Management: Developed content and scenarios for required governance (S&OP - GSRM) to communicate and resolve issues with the plan, review performance, and secure endorsed decisions on trade-off situations
- Ensured inventory levels for all production stages from WCB to FDP were on target, supporting customer service levels while optimizing the cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Monitored inventory status, took corrective actions to minimize slow-moving inventory, highlighted potential inventory shortages/excess, and mitigate write-offs
- Project Activities: Steered the lifecycle management of the portfolio, participated in projects to ensure long-term market supply, led launch management and geographic expansion activities, and executed appropriate rationalization
- Provided long-range capacity planning (LRCP) insights, drove network design decisions, and acted as the point of contact for site/network capacity requests to support expansions and resolve supply bottlenecks
- Coordinated and participated in product team initiatives across the product network from a supply chain perspective, including strategic projects, lifecycle management roadmap, risk register review, and network Value Stream Analysis (VSA) initiatives
- Participated in the whole network 'Air to Sea' conversion for FDP shipments.
Supply Chain Planning Manager - CPN Spain
Cargill
06.2019 - 11.2022
- Responsible for 5 direct reports performing supply activities (1.5k+ SKUs), inventory optimization ($8.5M) and transport management ($0.8M)
- Managed performance and development
- SAP IBP Implementation
- Coordinate of different departments to adjust master data, perform testing and go-live execution
- Responsible for Supply team SAP 4HANA implementation
- Lead Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process
- Coached and interacted with other functions, such as Commercial, Supply Planning, Deployment Planning, IT and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Ensured cross functional accountability to IBP deliverables, tools, and commitments
- Responsible for Scheduling process for one of the manufacturing sites
- Calculated cycle time, capacity planning and associated costs to optimize output and margins
- Designed a semi-automated tool to propose production plans according to labor and raw material availability
- Reduced changeover time by 15% and increased margins by 6%.
Senior Demand Planner - CPN - ESP/POL/UKR
Cargill
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Designed forecasting program to select best models between statistical and machine learning algorithms while incorporating commercial intelligence and new/discontinued products
- Created demand plans for different product groups to obtain manufacturing and raw material requirements
- Lead root cause analysis to identify and correct forecast deviations
- Developed new scheduling system based on MTS/MTO strategies and real-time customer orders
- 18% potential inventory reduction.
Suppy Chain Coordinator
Fundación Vicente Ferrer
01.2019 - 06.2019
- Design and Implementing of Supply Chain in a non-profit project employing 300 disabled women
- $0.8M revenue
- 50% increase inventory turns / 20% sales increase
- Introduction of quantitative methods to analyze production planning and inventory costs
- ODOO open software ERP implementation
- Production - Scheduling - Sourcing platforms design
- Revised and implemented process to calculate variable costs (raw materials and labor)
- Establish production plans optimizing quantities, demand and delivery terms
- Implemented quality control processes; finished goods and raw materials
- Creating processes to increase productivity through tools, data collection and cost optimization
- Design specific workshops to teach supply chain management techniques and prevention of occupational hazards.
Senior Inventory Planner
Oracle Packaging
09.2015 - 01.2018
- Management of $30M Raw Materials inventory / +15K SKU's
- / 98% fulfillment level / 38% $ reduction
- Created Re-Order-Point platform to maintain optimal inventory levels through KPI's
- TOR/DSI/Obsolete
- & Slow Inv $
- Advanced forecast developed to obtain accurate inventory requirements
- Performed risk assessment evaluation through financial impact report based on different demand scenarios
- Evaluated and advised board of directors on $1.5M weekly raw material purchases
- Analyzed customer demand based on statistical methods to predict and test through market simulations
- Created visual Inventory Tracking Dashboard (Tableau) used on S&OP to analyze and prepare for market trends and financial targets
- Lead a team of a junior Inventory Analyst and four senior Buyers on vendor management and contract negotiation
- Warehouse inbound/outbound flow design
- Age material decrease in 40% within 10 months
- Performed Commonality Analysis
- Final reduction of 18% total Inv$ shared in several finished goods decreasing demand variability.
Plant Production Manager
Tangent Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015
- Responsible for $0.3M production (70,000 lbs recycled plastic) shift - 26 lines/12 hour base
- Decreased scrap production in 7% within a period of 9 months
- Inventory optimization of +150 SKU, coordination of material flow across inventory-production buildings and decreased material on hand in 15%
- Statistical analysis of influence of multiple variables in Global Production, seeking a better understanding of impact of different events in final production, increasing schedule and forecast accuracy
- Managed a crew of 20 operators and 3 technicians, performing training, salary politics, performance evaluations leading them to position number one among company shifts.
Education
Master's degree - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
01.2019
Master's degree - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Zaragoza Logistics Center
01.2019
Master's Degree - Construction Engineering and Management
Illinois Institute of Technology
01.2014
M.S. & B.S. - Industrial Engineering - Supply Chain Management Specialization
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
01.2013
Skills
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Procurement processes
- Sales and operations planning
- Technology Implementation
- Materials Management
- Demand forecasting
- Capacity Planning
- Product Lifecycle Management
Languages
Español
Inglés
Personal Information
Title: Supply Chain Planning Manager
Awards
- Participant of the Entrepreneurship Contest at Polytechnic Madrid, Spain University of Madrid. Second Place.
- USA Studies Scholarship
Locations
Zúrich, Zurich, Suiza
Timeline
End-to-End Supply Chain Master Planner
Takeda
12.2022 - Current
Supply Chain Planning Manager - CPN Spain
Cargill
06.2019 - 11.2022
Senior Demand Planner - CPN - ESP/POL/UKR
Cargill
06.2019 - 08.2021
Suppy Chain Coordinator
Fundación Vicente Ferrer
01.2019 - 06.2019
Senior Inventory Planner
Oracle Packaging
09.2015 - 01.2018
Plant Production Manager
Tangent Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015
Master's degree - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Zaragoza Logistics Center
Master's Degree - Construction Engineering and Management
Illinois Institute of Technology
M.S. & B.S. - Industrial Engineering - Supply Chain Management Specialization
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Master's degree - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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