Alfonso Dávalos

Responsible of Purchasing Department for the 3 factories in México and USA. Procurement Capex (machinery, construction), Energy, Industrial services and Indirect Categories. Focused on profitability and capital efficiencies at North America region. Leading a team of 5 buyers. Developing Sourcing Process and Project Management Process.

I led the Strategic Purchasing Department, responsible for OSHKOSH CORPORATION Engineering Products and Material Fabrications Products, I developed and implemented the strategic sourcing process and NPD processes managing multiples categories. I led a team of three Commodities Managers and one trainee, to ensure Quality, Delivery, Cost and Savings of direct material. I used best practice to manage analysis of TCO, TLC, localization rate as best place to buy opportunities, warehouse inventory levels, PFEP, Raw Material Global Market Trending (Steel, Copper, Casting, Alum), I aligned the local team commodity strategies, the NPD multiple projects and Purchasing activities to the Global Procurement Supply Chain (GPSC) at Corporation and Segment Division Levels reporting in dot line to the board of Management(Purchasing and SCM CPO,VP’s, Directors, Segment Managers, Global Commodity Director and also Project Managers, NPD Director, Finance Controllers).

Categories in charge: Electrical Components (Harness, Cables, Sensors, GPS, Joysticks, Control Modules, Chargers, Motor Drivers, etc.), Hydraulics (Cylinders, Pump Bumps, Hoses, Connectors, etc.), Rubbers, Insulation, Powder Metal, VMI parts, Wheels/Tires and Powertrain (Motors). Focus on commodity strategy development, localization, managing multiple projects of NPD and developing sourcing strategies, the definition and implementation, saving analysis focus on TCO & TLC.

Responsible of execute Remy's global purchasing strategies in NAFTA region, supporting global commodity manager strategies and actions from the other regions (Europe, China and South Korea). I was responsible of purchasing activity across Mexico, I led activity in 4 Remy Manufacture plants on OE & AM environments and led cross functional teams in NPD and Savings projects. Categories in charge: Stamped Steel, Steel round bars, Plastic injection, Rubbers, Insulation, Powder Metal, springs, Copper (Acting), Direct Services as Plating, Paint and Heat Treatment. My main activities were: Savings results($500 K), contract negotiation, LTA’s, sourcing process and new business award, cost reduction programs, resourcing, new business on hold, phase in/out of suppliers, VA/VE, NPD, and ECN implementation, ERP system set up, supplier negotiations.

• Working in multi-platforms for project's with regional and global scope, developing new product's for customers as TOYOTA, NISSAN, FORD, VW. • Supporting project's quotations during customer RFQ, quoting competitive cost and defined plan of productivities before project acquisition. • Leverage in the commodity organization to reach pre-sourcing and sourcing decisions to meet project's target's and offset with the supply base quick savings imposed by customer's. • Control, improve and monitor the Project Purchasing Index. • For global platform's assembled in multiple plants of Valeo, coordinate with Purchasing Group / Planning Purchasing Project Director and other Project Buyers to ensure project will meet from SOP with (i) Commodity strategy requirements in every region, (ii) localization in line with needs of receiving plant, (iii) global leverage and security of the supply base for the platform. • Liaise with purchasing Non Production organization to achieve project investments and tooling targets. • Manage achievement of all project milestone related to suppliers (APQP). • Define and control communications flows and contents between project teams and suppliers (R&D, Quality, Logistic and Finance), design to cost. • Warrants utilization of Group project purchasing, supplier quality tools and information systems. • Responsible for aluminum casting commodity at the beginning during 6 months.

• Commodity Responsibility: Grey Cast Iron, Grey Cast Iron Machined, Zinc Pressure Die Casting (Zamak), Ducts, Raceways, Formed parts made of thermoplastics, parts made of soft rubber. • Responsible for negotiations with direct material suppliers (TOCO- total cost analysis) and definition of contracts. • Project implementation of new line of Motors XP, launching toolings and development of new Grey Cast Iron components. • Planning and execution of procurement strategy. Searching, selection, evaluation and development of supplier¬s, support the strategy and project development of commodity manager with Indian suppliers. • Responsible to define budget and forecast of commodities in charge. • Coordination and communication with logistics and quality departments. Supplier quality reviews, corrective action plan & root cause analysis, participation in 8D reports, Audit`s VDA 6.3.

I was hired for a temporary position to develop a catalog of spare parts in six months, but I finished it in 3 months so, I started to support the purchase process and import of CAPEX machines, also I reviewed and implement some contracts of spare parts with suppliers and participated in ROI analysis for CAPEX projects.

Responsible to manage spare parts and general services categories. Main activities Quote and Negotiate with local and international suppliers, manage iRFQ, manage tenders and sourcing process, place purchase orders and track deliveries. I Developed and implemented KPI’s metrics to follow up, track and control internal user request (iRFQ's) performance, tracking the productivity of five indirect buyer related to: time of response to get quotations, suggest a buy option and close iRFQ coming from all the departments, tracking and reporting savings.