Jose Aponte

• Oversee and process a high volume of domestic and international purchases, including imports and direct shipments to overseas customers. • Manage all Packaging vendor relationships with the support of Management, including by making visits to domestic and foreign vendors. • Lead sourcing efforts for packaging materials, including by attending trade shows and leveraging online resources. • Assist with inventory management, forecasting and related analysis. • Track all imports and direct shipments, as well as vendor performance. • Interface with all internal departments, including Warehouse, Customer Service & Logistics, Sales, and Accounting, as well as outside service providers, such as customs brokers. • Ensure that quote requests from sales team are answered in a timely manner. • Support quality control and regulatory compliance initiatives.

Back-up Power Solutions for the Telecommunications and Oil industries Supply Chain Manager (2015 – 2017) • Led multidisciplinary team including procurement specialists, project managers, and contractors to meet customer scope, cost, quality, and timing needs. • Managed annual budgets up to $25 million while successfully sourcing start-up project for telecom’s backup energy business.

• Improved bidding process to allocate service contracts with third party back-up energy equipment providers. • Consolidated contractors to achieve 15% in cost savings and 25% in cost avoidance. • Improved procurement and logistic processes by developing and monitoring KPIs. • Led project to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from SAP.

• Negotiated and monitored $10 million annual contracts with construction suppliers. • Developed bidding process for construction of 25 new stores in one year. • Designed procurement policies and procedures. • Negoatiated and designed logistic to import equipment for distribution center.

• Closed business contracts up to $7 million annually with Brazilian and Mexican suppliers. • Teamed with global peers to achieve 10% in procurement savings for injection molding materials. • Reduced packaging expense by 10% through cost reduction and direct negotiation programs.