Luis Dominguez

Demand Planning Manager • Manage a team of 13 demand planners tasked with maintaining and improving a demand planning/analytics process that guides purchasing and manager decision making. • Responsible for crafting a department strategy and vision, that maximizes forecasting results and efficiency and promotes a data driven culture of personal accountability. • Responsible for communicating forecasting results and impact on the business to senior leadership. • Evaluate and manage employee performance to insure alignment with department and divisional KPIs. • Facilitator for the development of new and innovative tools, procedures and reporting that add value and efficiency to our forecasting process: aggregation, segmentation, future planning tool, and mean forecast accuracy trending report. • Team is responsible for researching and predicting market demand changes for 8 USF divisions, 52k active SKUs, with weekly case sales of 1.8M, and total inventory value of $210M.

• Manage a team of 9 buyers responsible for maintaining replenishment operations to service the USF south region. • Responsible for implementing a replenishment and inventory management strategy that maximizes customer service levels while minimizing spoilage and optimizing cash-flow. • Evaluate employee performance to insure that team members are executing to assigned KPIs.

• Maintain a comprehensive demand analytics process that examines sales data to identify industry trends, seasonality, and optimal forecasts to be used for inventory planning and buying operations. • Determine appropriate forecast models and create custom profiles to maximize forecast accuracy and increase service levels, while adhering to inventory goals. • Research product seasonality and assign forecast algorithms, based on analysis of product characteristics, in order to create a long-term, sustainable inventory strategy.

Forecasting/Process Improvement Consultant • Improved and documented the forecasting process for import items. • Created flow-charts and documented all process improvements to be used as future training material.

Production Coordinator – Medcrest (Textile Division) • Administered forecasting and demand planning process for surgical apparel product line comprised of 7,000 SKUs with inventory value exceeding $11M • Responsible for master scheduling in two offshore manufacturing facilities located in Yucatan, Mexico • Developed capacity planning model utilizing SAP APO and improved factory efficiency through review of lot sizes, lead-times and forecast parameters, thus increasing schedule adherence and reducing backorders by 27% • Implemented and managed a Tariff Preference Level (TPL) program resulting in $875,000 in annual savings • Directed redeployment of inventory between 35 distribution centers to ensure achievement of target customer service levels • Provided customer service support via regular communication with sales representatives, product managers and division executives • Increased service levels 3 consecutive years running and reduced surplus inventory by 24% through improved forecasting accuracy and inventory redeployment

● Director of hiring and managing for eight person sales team ● Designed marketing and sales strategy, while generating $41,9000 dollars in revenue for the 2007 spring break season

Sigma Delta Pi: Spanish Honors Society Vice President and Treasurer Pi Kappa Alpha External Affairs Chair