Ricardo Castro Alvarado
Senior Supply Chain Executive
Curridabat,Costa Rica
Summary
Supply Chain & Sourcing manager with 18 years of experience in Multinational Operations. A highly motivated, creative, and flexible leader with extensive skills in Global Sourcing , bringing the know-how for the optimization of the Supply Chain . A Subject matter expert in the procurement of goods and services, committed to personal excellence and high integrity, capable of managing local and multicultural teams, problem-solving, and crisis management.
Overview
10
10
years of post-secondary education
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Strategic Procurement Consultant / Amazon Professional Seller
Castal Trading
San Jose, Costa Rica
01.2018 - Current
- Responsible to lead and engage projects that allow boosting productivity and cost control.
- Promote guidance to the teams on shifting the focus from the price to the Cost and Value to the company.
- I also started a Laundry franchise in Costa Rica called Mr.Jeff.
- I built my brand to sell products on Amazon - CookPal.
- I Fostered Projects based on margin enhancement.
- Promoted to transforms supplier relationships into alliances.
- Led projects focused on total cost management.
Supply Chain Manager
Suttle
Alajuela , Costa Rica
03.2015 - 12.2017
- Manage, plan, coordinate, and monitor the transfer of goods and materials from suppliers and manufacturers to customers.
- Developed an in-depth understanding of value-added manufacturing processes and costs, reverse logistics, and market intelligence, and applied this knowledge to influence Suttle future product roadmap and sourcing decisions.
- Successfully lead the core team of IFS implementation (ERP) that ensured purchasing and logistics parameters and establishing KPI's to enable a secure data analysis.
- Integrated financial and operation plans with strategic objectives to deliver improved operational and financial results to boost customer satisfaction, profitability and working capital.
- Oversaw supply chain and supported tech transfer projects, batch release testing, change management and resolution of customer complaints.
Global Procurement Manager
Suttle
Alajuela , Costa Rica
03.2010 - 02.2015
- A key leader that enabled all the related challenges of supporting the sourcing requirements for the NPI (New Product Introduction) teams into strategies for cost reduction activities and improve the speed to market programs.
- Responsible to lead project management and execution of procurement initiatives with high value to the organization. As the cost reduction in resin for $250k in the major volume product in 2015.
- I articulated a VMI project with a finance team that allowed us to reduce our inventory of an A item from 60days lead time to 8 days, reducing our inventory and cash flow.
- Sourced and negotiated capital equipment (CAPEX).
- I Identified and segregated the overly complex purchase categories allowing simplifying purchase-making decisions in most of the purchased items.
Country Manager
Total PET Packaging
Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
02.2007 - 02.2010
- Responsible for the whole business units of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
- In charge of the P&L (Profits and Losses), the commercial strategy, and its execution.
- Responsible for Human Capital and the development of the Operational Excellence culture in the Production Operation.
- Implemented the S&OP dynamic that allowed the production to gain focus on the profitable lines.
- Implemented Pull System, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), 5S, and Visual Management and led Kaizen events on manufacturing lines, increasing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from 50% to 82% and expanding machine capacity while maintaining optimum utilization.
- Lead the NPI processes allowing optimization, automation, and standardization allowing a cost reduction with some customers of 10% in our operation cost.
Supply Chain Manager
Vitec Manufacturing
Cartago , Costa Rica
04.2002 - 01.2007
- Responsible for procurement transfer, management of contract negotiations, supplier developments, warehousing, logistics, and distribution.
- A key leader in transferring our supply chain process from our European suppliers to the Americas region, developing new suppliers and business regionally to support our Manufacturing operations in Cartago, Costa Rica.
- Lead “Startup and Development” of the supply chain with local and regional suppliers, achieving 35% savings and relocating in 3 years more than $100 million spent from high to low-cost region.
- Lead the transition of “European Sourcing into regional suppliers” transferring: plastic injection tools, die-casting tools, and more than 700 metallic parts.
- Coordinated the search, assess – full appraisal of suppliers including technology capabilities, quality operation systems, and
- Developed and installed an “In-house Supplier” with a VMI (vendor managed inventory) and JIT (just in time) scheme that allowed the factory to remove the shortages of small secondary parts and supplies.
Education
Senior Executive Management Program - Business Administration And Management
INCAE
Panama & Costa Rica 10.2016 - 03.2017
CPIM (training of All Modules) Pending Exams - Production And Inventory Management
APICS
Training In The Company 02.2015 - 06.2016
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Candidate (ASQ Exam Pending) -
Blackberry&Cross
San Jose 02.2013 - 11.2013
MBA - Business Administration, Finance
Universidad Interamericana De Costa Rica
Heredia 02.2009 - 04.2012
Master of Arts - Business Management
Universidad Latina
San José 02.1998 - 10.2001
Associate of Arts - International Business
Universidad De Costa Rica
San Jose 02.1997 - 04.1998
Skills
Strategic Sourcing
undefinedWork Availability
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Professional Development
▪ Perspectiva Financiera de la Cadena de Suministros, INCAE, Costa Rica
▪ Balance Scorecard, ADEN Business School .
▪ Enfoque & Ejecución, Franklin Covey , Costa Rica
▪ Los 7 hábitos para las personas altamente efectivas, Franklin Covey , Costa Rica .
▪ Bilingual English - Spanish
▪ Updated Passport & USA Visa.
Quote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Strategic Procurement Consultant / Amazon Professional Seller
Castal Trading
01.2018 - Current
Senior Executive Management Program - Business Administration And Management
INCAE
10.2016 - 03.2017
Supply Chain Manager
Suttle
03.2015 - 12.2017
CPIM (training of All Modules) Pending Exams - Production And Inventory Management
APICS
02.2015 - 06.2016
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Candidate (ASQ Exam Pending) -
Blackberry&Cross
02.2013 - 11.2013
Global Procurement Manager
Suttle
03.2010 - 02.2015
MBA - Business Administration, Finance
Universidad Interamericana De Costa Rica
02.2009 - 04.2012
Country Manager
Total PET Packaging
02.2007 - 02.2010
Supply Chain Manager
Vitec Manufacturing
04.2002 - 01.2007
Master of Arts - Business Management
Universidad Latina
02.1998 - 10.2001
Associate of Arts - International Business
Universidad De Costa Rica
02.1997 - 04.1998
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