David Sifuentes Palomino

Lead end-to-end Supply Chain operations overseeing Sourcing, Procurement, Materials Planning, Inventory Control, Warehouse, and Logistics functions, ensuring operational continuity and alignment with China headquarters. • Lead supplier sourcing and development initiatives across national and international markets. • Drive cost reduction strategies, spend management, and supplier performance optimization. • Support NPI initiatives through supplier development, material readiness, and sourcing strategy execution. • Serve as primary liaison with China headquarters aligning material strategy and operational targets. • Lead cross-functional SCM teams focused on operational efficiency and continuous improvement. • Oversee capital equipment purchasing and construction outsourcing initiatives. • Currently completing APICS CPIM certification (Expected 2026).

Lead the purchasing, planning, receiving, and shipping departments. The main areas of responsibility include Direct participation in the activities of the departments. • Proactively lead the materials team to continually improve processes and procedures. • Budgets, Purchasing, strategic inventory management, supplier network, expediting of raw materials, identification, and development of new suppliers. • Provide input and data to support ongoing strategic planning and client delivery process. • Identify and develop strategies to support business objectives. • Establish departmental goals and objectives that deliver world-class materials performance to the organization. • Monitor inventory levels in the warehouse and FG to keep them at optimal levels for the company. • Manage the warehouse to maintain the optimal internal service level.

Coordinate with the NPI team the assurance of the projects SOP in time and form, from a Supply Chain perspective. By focusing mostly on. • Confirming customer production model, sequence, batch, type of forecast and releases, firm schedule weeks, confirm distance, transportation, packaging, location, frequency, transit List of suppliers, materials, location, transit, packaging, supply rules, packaging alternate when they are returnable, etc. • Set up planning parameters, confirm arrivals for each component, space, racks, type of transport, traffic, etc. • Review of MBOM R and maintain the master list of all materials in the new BOM.

Specialist Planner/Buyer. Creative and multifaceted buyer with more than 4+ years of experience in the automotive industry and custom manufacturing. Exceeds goals with an effective management style, superior communication skills, and strategic planning in the purchase and negotiation of material. Successfully secures purchase and arrival on time of the materials taking advantage of the skills as an expediter. Strategic planning, material analysis and trend forecasting to successfully increase purchase accuracy and keeping my Entitlement.

Planning/Expeditor Savings to company using negotiating skills in purchasing and expediting material; improve delivery date of material by 60%-75%. 100% consistency in processing and expediting orders. PROVEN PROFESSIONALISM: Upstanding work ethic, successful work history, professional demeanor in all situations, high level of integrity, high ethical standards, character & honesty and flexibility to change and integration to job improvements.