1. ADRIAN RIVAS
Paseo de las Bugambilias. Fraccionamiento jardines de agua caliente
Tijuana B.C., México
Cell phone number (044-664) 628-3429
Ontn.aragon06@hotmail.com
Summary
Planning & purchasing professional with strengths in supply chain, inventory control, production
control, new process implementation, team work, leadership and customer service.
Experience on:
Working with multi-cultural personnel
Leading multiple departments
Setting and following up on departments KPIs
Developing personnel
Dealing with difficult suppliers
To negotiate both internally, as externally
On using a proactive approach on task assigned
Professional Experience:
Zodiac Aerospace From 2015 to December 2016
Purchasing Manager
Responsible for the procurement of raw materials (Boeing & Airbus programs)
Responsible for developing strategies:
To reduce inventory
To set department KPIs
To increase department productivity
To increase SOTD
To have POs confirm in an average of 6 days
To take actions on MRB items
For the developing of site´s buyers
In charge of negotiating critical expedites
Responsible of system parameters accuracy
Responsible of monitoring execution of buyer´s action messages
In charge of working with planning group on demand issues
To follow up on settings and procurement of transferred and new items
In partnership with sourcing, responsible of fixing site PPVs
To follow up on weekly and monthly calls with critical suppliers
Attend weekly customers calls (demand review, priorities settings)
Rain Bird May 2012 to 2015
Sr Planner/Buyer
Raw materials procurement
Plant Transfer Projects Coordinator
Leader of the molding meeting (Next steps with tools not running)
Lead the inter-companies team that works on cost reduction efforts for packaging
Part of the team that negotiates Stocking/VMI agreements with suppliers
Part of the team of Suppliers drops/ transfers (face out plans)
Analysis reports of excess obsoletes
System data maintenance
Department process implementation
MRP analysis/adjustments in conjunction with planning
April 2004 to May 2012 Honeywell WCO
Purchasing Supervisor

2. Responsible for the procurement of all raw materials for the TJ & SD sites ($100m yearly spent)
Inventory dollars target
NPI Projects
Buyer’s development (coaching)
Buyer’s workloads
Improvements projects (Min-Max, supplier transitions, supplier development)
Suppliers’ delivery (Responsible for corrective actions, both internally & externally)
Negotiations with both suppliers & commodity managers on site requirements
Previous
Lead Planner/ Buyer
Responsible for the weekly production schedules and all materials procurement
Unit’s delivery target with customers
Negotiation of orders with customer service (drop orders)
Order re-promising
Inventory dollars for both finish product and raw materials
Part of the site AOP team
Warehouse supervisor
Achievements:
Zodiac
Inventory reduction of around $7.5 million in the last 10 months
Increased the site SOTD from the mid 50%, to the mid 90%
Reduced the average number of days of our pending to approve POs from the low 30s, to an
average of around 9 days
Reduced our invoices on hold backorder from months aging, to couple of weeks
Reduced the average number of days of the items sitting in MRB for the Boeing program, from
around 45 days, to 12 days
Rain Bird
Inventory reduction, by adding suppliers to stocking programs, adjusting parts set ups (reduced SS,
reduced time fences, set up proper prices) new orders with different MOQs, scrap obsolete
inventories
Releases of new products on target; in 2014 was part of 4 new products implementations teams;
from November to January have lead 2 other project implementation teams
Improved the material flow from sisters companies,; by ordering smaller amounts, with 2 o 3
deliveries per week.
Reduction of part shortages; corrected parts set ups in the system; placed international orders
understanding suppliers lead times, modifying the shipping method for selected international orders,
started to do almost on daily bases cardboards releases.
Reduced the invoices on hold, from almost 150, to less than 20; not only fixing the invoice hold, but
attacking the root cause of the problem.
I have assigned all inter-companies parts; I´m the person that coordinates (and push) the efforts of
various departments (engineering, quality, other departments) in order to get parts qualify, ship on
time, molds repairs, molds transferred.
Improved the communication between departments, by knocking on doors and making clear the
urgency of a situation, by discussing in person hot issues (arranging meetings when needed)
In 2014 I lead the inter-companies team that worked in cost reduction process for packaging
materials; savings for all plants were $160K
Have negotiated with suppliers cost reductions, increased number on weekly deliveries, special
shipments, others
Honeywell
In 2011 as purchasing supervisor was able to sustained production lines material requirements,
while at the same time reduced inventory dollars to moving target
Reduction on invoices on hold
Reduction on pending to approve POs
Year over year delivery improvement (from the low 80%, to the high 90%)

3. Reduced to minimum the amount of shortage parts per week
Reduction in past due POs
Developed 2 Jr. Buyers into full time buyers
Negotiated for the site stocking agreements
Successfully managed the implementation of new production lines,
Implemented with other co-workers, strategies that helped us achieved:
A delivery of 94% per week (more than 100 items scheduled per week)
Achieved a 96% weekly OS accomplishment
Education:
Degree in business administration from CETYS Tijuana
Graduated from Harmon Hall
Have taken all 5 APICS seminars
Green belt certified while working at Honeywell
Have taken negotiation Classes from the KARRAS group
While working at Rain Bird took seminar on Effective leadership
Computer system skills: Oracle, People Soft, M3 & Microsoft Office.