Mauricio Argumedo García

Central & Eastern Regions and Free Trade Zones | 2024 – Present
Western & Southern Regions and Free Trade Zones | 2022 – 2024
Northern Region | 2019 – 2022

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and ensure the fulfillment and warehousing strategy, guaranteeing alignment with SOPs, PMI standards, and service‑level.
• Manage and monitor the performance of logistics operators and transportation providers, ensuring sustained KPI compliance through DDS (Daily Direction Setting) models.
• Establish and lead end‑to‑end inventory control, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and data integrity through SAP–WMS reconciliations.
• Manage the logistics operating budget, driving productivity, efficiency, and cost‑optimization initiatives.
• Ensure cross‑functional alignment with key stakeholders (Sales, Planning, Allocation, and Foreign Trade), enabling timely decision‑making and operational continuity.

Key Achievements

• Designed a 30% reduction in distribution costs (USD 1.2M) through the implementation of a digital asset‑light transportation model.
• Increased inventory accuracy to 99.8% by implementing a robust daily SAP–WMS reconciliation model.
• Improved national OTIF performance by +2% in a high‑complexity presales (TAT) operation with nationwide coverage (109 routes, ~4,000 customers served daily).
• Achieved 99.95% In‑Full performance through the implementation of a certified picking line.
• Drove a 15% productivity increase by transforming warehouse operations through cell‑based operating models
• Implemented a multi–Free Trade Zone operating model, delivering USD 150K in annual savings.
• Contributed to the design and deployment of a centralized control tower, ensuring end‑to‑end visibility and service level stability.
• Designed the national distribution network for the presales model in Colombia, ensuring business continuity with no operational disruption.
• Increased truck fill rate from 83% to 93% through the implementation of cubing and load‑optimization technology.
• Redesigned the customer service model by migrating operations to free trade zones, achieving USD 45K annual savings and improved service levels.
• • Implemented PDCA methodology and KPI management, positively impacting Service Level performance.
• •Optimized route-to-market logistics processes, reducing loading and reconciliation times by 53%.
• •Designed and implemented SIGIT, automating shipment authorization tracking and preventing penalties, generating USD 240K in annual savings.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead large‑scale operational teams (~40 employees), fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and alignment with PMI standards and business objectives.
• Integrate and synchronize maintenance, processing, and finished‑goods warehousing operations, ensuring operational stability and consistent service levels for domestic and international markets.
• Ensure accuracy and reliability of spare parts, raw materials, and finished goods inventories, supporting business continuity across all areas.
• Design and implement Behavior‑Based Safety programs, strengthening risk management and occupational health and safety culture.
• Lead and participate in regional benchmarking programs across the Americas, identifying best practices and driving standardization in manufacturing and warehousing.
• Manage CAPEX budgets, enabling efficient resource allocation and productivity initiatives.

Key Achievements:

• Improved processing line performance, achieving a 2% Yield increase.
• Implemented High Throughput initiatives, increasing process flow by 35% (USD 300K annual savings).
• Strengthened safety management, achieving 95% closure of unsafe conditions (vs. 80% target).
• Implemented a smart preventive maintenance program, generating USD 200K in annual savings.
• Achieved excellent inventory results with minimal discrepancies and zero variance in packed goods inventory.
• Recovered and reused 4,920 C‑48 boxes, enhancing operational efficiency and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate production planning and scheduling, ensuring effective execution of daily dispatch, inbound logistics, and inventory activities aligned with service‑level targets.
• Implement operational empowerment and continuous improvement models, focusing on KPIs related to Service Level, inventory accuracy, and production compliance.
• Design and deliver continuous improvement projects to enhance productivity and operational efficiency.
• Promote occupational health and safety awareness, embedding safety as a core cultural value.
• Define and implement process standardization plans across operations.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 standards.

Key Achievements

• Designed and implemented a process standardization plan, increasing tobacco sheet yield by 2%.
• Implemented self‑managed production units, recognition systems, and Leader Standard Work with 100% compliance.
• Implemented High Throughput initiatives, increasing process flow by 20% (USD 180K annual savings).
• Led the implementation and certification of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 management systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete extensive technical and operational training over two years, including field exposure across all tobacco purchasing and growing regions.
• Execute tobacco purchasing and re‑grading activities, ensuring timely supply aligned with business standards.
• Coordinate raw material receiving and blending operations, ensuring defined ratios, quality, and blend uniformity.
• Lead the tobacco fermentation process for surplus field production.

Key Achievements

• Implemented FIFO supported by technological tools, reducing storage‑related waste from 8% to 4%.
• Implemented SMED (Single‑Minute Exchange of Die) in tobacco receiving, reducing unloading preparation time from 25 to 9 minutes per vehicle, increasing receiving capacity by 25%.
• Designed the distribution network from collection centers to the processing plant, enabling continuous production runs of at least 8 hours, ensuring operational stability.