Julio Meza, MBA

Overseeing Manufacturing Facilities in the US and Canada from a Corporate Procurement standpoint. Develop, document, and execute corporate procurement strategies for Raw Materials across multiple categories and plants. Provide leadership to the team to drive continuous improvement of all Sourcing and Purchasing metrics. Develop and implement plans needed to achieve corporate strategic goals, including cost-competitiveness, vendor management inventory programs, payment terms enhancements, rebate programs implementations, negotiated contracts as well as multiple tenders.

Sr Manager, Procurement responsible for sites in the US and Canada.

Responsible for all aspects of Supply Chain Management and Logistics which includes Production Planning and Scheduling, Customer Service, Procurement & Outsourcing, Inventory Storage & Control, Shipping/Receiving, Import & Export, Transportation Logistic. • Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements. • Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans. • Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best economic strategy for production planning to support customer demand. • Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control. Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company’s business growth and sourcing requirements. • Identify, develop and manage effective relationships with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets. • Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance. • Adhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect purchasing policies. • Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future. • Achieves financial objectives by working with management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions. • Negotiate carrier contracts with the different logistics companies, to reduce costs.

Integrated Energy Technologies Inc Doncasters December 2012 – Present STRATEGIC SOURCING MANAGER • Manages the sourcing deals, contracts, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle, ensuring the commercial and cost saving benefits are realized at the P&L level and ensuring on time delivery with the suppliers • Identifies opportunities for operational excellence and cost saving in the areas of subcontracting jobs • Reviews and negotiates supply contracts, subcontractor agreements, and other terms and conditions • Create and report overall strategic sourcing plan for direct materials, metals, components, indirect. • Lead bidding processes while ensuring cost and quality targets are met. • Developing and maintaining monthly spend analysis and savings tracking. • Interview, identify, and qualify potential new vendors or suppliers in order to secure more cost-effective sources of products and services

IDEX Corporation February 2012 – December 2012 MASTER SCHEDULER Responsibilities • In charge of implementing the Master Schedule module thru BAAN system • Creates tools for capacity analysis projection and demand planning • Establishes metrics for production plan monitoring accomplishment • Daily review of inventory levels for key customers on Kanban programs • Provides support to the planners for their daily activities and tracks on time delivery and • past due metrics • Analyzes sales forecast and works with staff to establish, drive, and review customer requirements • Provides for continual improvement on inventory controls systems to track and reduce inventory levels and increase turns • Responsible for ongoing management of Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) and plan for every part

Work closely with the Sales department to develop annual forecasts and create monthly schedule based on market trend. Define in conjunction with Sales the shipment allocation to Walmart distribution centers. Daily review with Sales on TV inventory levels at Walmart and Sanyo's warehouses, Including POS (Point of Sale) and shipment reliability. In charge of loading and updating the Master Schedule (Microsoft Dynamics) Develop tools to improve Plant Planning based on Panel availability. Provide Plant Capacity Projection to the different Areas in order to accomplish PSI (Planning, Scheduling, Inventory). Molding, PC Boards, Final. Established metrics to monitor production schedule to master schedule. Implemented actions to measure and control raw material Inventory (WIP and Days of Supply) for Production Control purposes. Hold daily meetings with all the departments for production schedule status. (Operations Meeting) Follow up on potential shortages or materials constraints with Purchasing Department. Coordinate the development schedule for Pilot Runs, Pre-Productions and Mass production of new models in conjunction with Product Engineering. Weekly planning meeting with Production & Industrial Engineering, to review projects for run rate and process improvements.

Working closely with Production, Engineering, and Materials to maximize the effectiveness, compliance and day by day management of the strategic supply base. Working with several suppliers to include them into the Consignment Program, in order to assure material availability at all time for Production, and proper documentation flow. Handled vendor price negotiations for cost reductions, specifications, quality, and any other requirements while maintaining excellent supplier - customer relationships. Research the market for current trends and price fluctuations in order to negotiate pricing and services. Provide Planning and leadership for Plant purchasing for Inventory targets accomplishment. based on customers orders. Responsible of managing phase out models for obsolescence material termination. Worked on several cost reduction projects in the Electronic Commodity. (SMT,PCB Assy's) Supervised three buyers for metals, plastics and electronics.

Develop and implemented Master Schedule process into AS400 System to measure line Capacity for inventory control purposes and customer service response. (Capacity Analysis). Automatize reports to improve Plant planning performance. In charge of loading and updating the Master Schedule. Support Planners with their activities, same as Sales, and implemented On time, Past Due, inventory metrics. Coordinate logistics & operations regarding the supply of material to the Plant. Establish target receipts and following up. Responsible of managing and reducing the Excess & Obsolete material, And following up with Purchasing on EOL components as well. Control of the Warehouse operations, for supply of material and implemented FIFO. Elaborate the Sales Plan based on the SIOP meetings. Achieved a reduction on inventory by 1.5 Million in just three months.

Responsible for scheduling production and vendor materials. Handled production lines in Tijuana and China locations. Maintained product planning for Customers such as Toyota, Hyundai, Ford, Nissan. Worked in the project for Business Unit strategy implementation for Manufacturing areas. Coordinated vendor planning in the US & China. In charge of implementation projects (Automatic Insertion, New Products).

Responsible for internet-based Kanban (I-Kanban) program in the West Coast Operations, comprising two production facilities at Mexicali and Long Beach. Developed strategy to deploy Kanban and Consignment programs in top 80% of annual Purchasing spent. Responsible for inter-plant I-Kanban system between Long Beach and Mexicali, in which 100% of the items were under the program. Responsible for implementation, training, hardware, software and communication for Kanban system with three key Customers. Coordinated supply chain planning with local cardboard supplier. Worked with planners to reduce inventory and implement DOS target to create more of lean manufacturing system. Participated in Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Process (SIOP) and led monthly planning reviews in which Min-Max consignment levels and Kanban volumes were adjusted due to seasonal demand changes. Designed and implemented Crystal Reports as decision-making tools. Participated in Green Belt Project aimed to achieve $1.4 million inventory reduction. Achieved over 98% delivery performance at American Water Heater, one of our top Customers

In charge of loading and updating the Master Schedule. Responsible for the production scheduling, vendor scheduling and material expediting functions. Elaborated a priority-based schedule and analyzed material availability to meet our shipping commitments to be able to achieve 95% on-time delivery and line item completeness. Close communication with Customer Service, Purchasing and Engineering departments. Coordinated Customer Samples Program with Sales, Engineering and Production teams and achieved zero past due samples. Responsible for Revenue forecast and tracking within my Business Unit.

Responsible for negotiations and communication with key customers, such as Sony (SD, TJ, Mexicali), Mitsubishi, Hitachi, NEC and Kisho. Responsible for Production and Inventory Control for SMT, Automatic Insertion and Hand Mount Business Units. Coordinated shipping activities.