Riegel Leonor

• An individual with 25 years of international experience in end-to-end Supply Chain who works well in a fast-paced demanding environment and had established SIOP process in various companies. 
• 18 years experience working in global companies such as Nestle, Nokia, Blackberry and Philips.
• 15 years of experience in Procurement and leading Supply chain teams.
• Subject matter expert in demand planning, data analytics, supply management, order management, import/export, shipping, inventory control and warehousing in a variety of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, CPG, oil and gas. 
• Consistently driven towards a solution-based approach to problem solving and always organizes workload to meet critical deadlines. 
• Is highly adaptable with a broad range of transferable skills. Would be an asset to any organization seeking someone who can make a positive contribution.
• Solid experience in SAP APO/SD/Analytics Cloud/BW/BO, SAS FS Data Analytics, Tableau, Qlikview and Cognos.

1) CHEMTRADE LOGISTICS FUND, INC CANADA 2018-Present

Project Manager, Supply Chain

SIOP, Analytics, Process & various SC Improvement lead.

• Implements a well-structured Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning process for this $1.8 B chemical company for all major divisions. This includes creation of reports, KPI, dashboards, responsibility matrix, automated tools and user-training.
• Collaborates with plant managers, supply chain, transportation, procurement and finance teams to ensure SIOP open issues that may affect operations are monitored and actions are taken.
• Engages senior leadership through constant dialogue, consultation and communication on what the business need to support over-all company objectives.
• Lead supply chain improvement projects related to raw material inventory, freight cost optimization, fleet sizing of railcars and trucks, margin improvement, damage claims, manufacturing OEE, raw material, transportation tools and order process improvement and modelling.
• Lead collaboration between business and IT in creating new tools and reports to support the SIOP implementation and automation.
• Collaborate and engages the sales and business managers in validating the 12-24 monthly customer level forecast vs. statistics forecast for 2,000 skus.
• Manages inventory levels of 65 plants across United States and Canada.
• Monitors daily customers orders to ensure sales (outbound) are on track and weekly replenishment of raw material (inbound) are on time.
• Coach and train people in planning, analysis and use of tools.
• Maintain documentation, generates monthly and weekly reports, KPIs, coaches and train people in planning, analysis and use of various tools.
• Saved $1.2M on various productivity projects such as derailment, damage claims, freight optimization.

2) NESTLE Canada 2012-2018

Category Demand Planning – Beverage, Health Science

Senior Analyst – Supply Chain Decision Support

• Conducted SIOP and collaborated with Customer in forecasting and modelling, planning and execution for Shoppers’, Walmart, Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, John Coutu, GFS and other major food and health distributors.
• Owned the 18-24 months planning horizon and engaged marketing, customer development and sales team to come up with a consensus demand.
• SC Subject Matter Expert and participated on company automation of forecasting demand and supply tools, reports and productivity projects.

3) BLACKBERRY Canada 2010-2012

Regional Demand Planner 

• Conducted SIOP and collaborate with customers on corporate/customer-level forecasting and planning.
• Owned the 18-24 months and the 30/60/90 planning horizon and engaged marketing, customer development and sales team to come up with a consensus demand.

Demand Planning Manager

• Responsible for SIOP, SAP migration, Vendor Management, Import, Warehousing and Distribution. 
• Owned the 12-18 months planning horizon and engaged marketing, customer development and sales team to come up with a consensus demand.

Purchasing Manager

• Responsible for Purchasing, Vendor management, Import and Policy-making of the company.

Supply Chain Manager

• Responsible for SIOP, Procurement, Import, Manufacturing, Transportation and Warehousing.

Team Lead/Project Supply Chain Log. Coordinator

• Responsible for SIOP, Procurement, Vendor Management, Customer relationship and forecasting of mobile phones, Import/Export, Transportation and Warehousing 

Business Coordinator

• Responsible for Procurement, Import/Export, Letter of Credit, Transportation and Warehousing 

Quantic School of Business & Technology, Washington DC, USA

• Executive MBA (2020 – 2021)

• Master of Arts in Education major in Mathematics-Candidate (2005) 
• Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering (1993)