Eduardo B.

• Purchasing manager of the hardware and gardening departments. 
 • Negotiation and Improve relationships with suppliers. • Client contact, always taking care of promoting effective communication and developing a good relationship. • Margin, utility and sale tracking. • Product store distribution according to potencial and historical results maximizing sale out results. • Review and negotiation of contracts. 
 • Working with operations and planning to maintain low inventory levels. 

 • Negotiation with International Suppliers • Tracking discount plans in order to detect opportunities and the ROI. • Develop new documents for analysis and decision making to improve negotiation and to understand supplier results.

• Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function. • Reviewed historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepared forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluated forecast results. • Used and maintained the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool. • Provided input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
 • Worked closely with Transportation and Logistics to ensure timely deliveries. 
 • Monitored and verified data accuracy within the ERP system and sales forecast tools.

• Administration and planning. 
 • Administration of human and financial resources and supervision of 
operations. • Monitoring and control of financial flows. 
 • Payroll processing. 
 • Monitored costs to ensure that profit margins were maximized. 
 • Trained employees as needed to ensure that client specifications were followed and 
expectations were met.

• Coordination of shipments to customers, Warehouse Manager, Supervision of delivery schedules, relationship with warehouses of suppliers, analysis of transportation costs, supplies, inventories and average costs. 
 • Monitoring, updating and verification of the operations cycle with ERP software (purchase orders, referrals, budget requests, area transactions, customer billing. • Participation in the implementation project of Open ERP and SAP business by design.