Arturo Acevedo Fernández

Functions

• Lead the IBP integration process for Colombia, Central America, Venezuela and Europe business units.
• Lead the Demand Planning team to execute the forecasting process.
• Lead the Supply Planning team to execute the inventory purchasing strategies.
• Lead the Store Allocation to ensure accurate inventory across the store network.
• Co-lead the industrial planning process to ensure adequate production in order to guarantee inventory availability.

Achievements

• +20pp improvement in the assertiveness of the demand forecast for spare parts business in Colombia.
• +15pp improvement in fill rate for spare parts business in Colombia.
• Decrease of -3,7mm usd in excesses for vehicle business across the region.
• SAP S/4 HANA (ERP) implementation for planning modules across the region.
  
  

Functions

• Lead the S&OP integration process for the entire Latin America and Asia Pacific region
• Lead the forecasting process for the Latin American and Asia Pacific markets
• Lead the supply planning process for the entire retail network in the Latin America and Asia Pacific region (+ 700 stores)
• Lead the supply and inventory optimization process for the warehouse in Brazil, Sao Paulo
• Lead the integration of planning process between ASIAN and LATAM clusters

Achievements

• 35pp increased in the assertiveness of the demand forecast
• 5pp increased in fill rate
• Decrease of -23pp in excesses for the Mexican market (-3 MM USD)
• Decrease of -17pp in excesses for the Brazilian warehouse, Sao Paulo (-1MM USD)
• Opening of 216 stores in the Latin American market

Functions

• Lead the commercial strategic planning process for the Central American cluster, Ecuador and Venezuela.
• Lead and integrate the S&OP process between sales, finance, marketing and operations teams.
• Lead the integration planning softwares (SAPR3 and JDA).
• Guarantee continuous supply from different manufacturing plants to get the fill rate objective.

Achievements

• Increase in assertiveness and predictability by 75%
• Increase in commercial execution by 35%
• Decrease of 500k usd in excesses from promotional plans

Functions

• Lead the forecasting process for base line, newness and promotional products for Andean region (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela)
• Provide demand inputs to supply production area to ensure continuous supply, taking into account strategies defined in the S&OP process
• Ensure the launch of every new product including normativity areas as INVIma
• Provide to finance area the comparisons, analysis and main GAPS versus annual budget

Achievements

• +13pp of improvement in forecast accuracy metric for pets category
• +4pp of improvement in forecast accuracy metry or base line products by new statistical models
• Collaborative forecasting with PERUFARMA (biggest customer of Peru) improving the accuracy by make to order flow

Functions

• Lead forecasting process for base line, newness and promotionals products
• Validate and discuss with the committee the final forecast division
• Communciation axe between division and logistic area
• Responsible for customer service area, ensuring the budgeted level of service

Achievements

• -25pp in order claims
• 69% of forecast accuracy (+4pp on top the target)
• -12pp of decrease in excess and obsoletes
• Forecast Pro software implementation
• Source flow analysis with an potential savings og 700k usd