Fernando Padilla

Abbott

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

MBA – SUPPLY CHAIN Industrial Engineer with expertise in End to End Supply Chain, logistics and operations in a variety of high-volume consumer goods industries, leading S&OP and YtoY forecast, with a broad vision in developing strategies to standardize and implement continuous improvement projects.

Experience

  • S&OP / Demand Planning at Abbott
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Leading demand forecast for EMEA portfolios to ensure supply efficiently, to provide data-driven insights that inform strategic decisions related to capacity, market expansion, and financial planning. • Generate monthly sales demand forecast for the EMEA within direct and distributor market. • Support Global Demand Planning team and the S&OP demand meeting. • Collaborate with Project, Marketing, Supply Planning and Regulatory teams for new product implementations. • Present monthly demand reviews for Marketing, Supply Planning and Finance teams and high level management,

  • Supply Chain at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Responsible for supply planning portfolios providing production planning inputs, follow up and giving clarity of risk and opportunity. • Driving planning activities for finished goods products phase-in & phase-out. • Responsible for planning based on forecast, connecting with E2E planning. • Participate in BeNeFr ramp up lines and new launch products meetings as business partner.

  • Strategic Planner at Alfa Productos
    Apr 2016 - Mar 2023 · 7 yrs

    Responsible for the operation of the company porfolios within the beauty industry, ensuring logistics, accurate inventory and supply to our clients. •Own and lead strategies for operations, administration and purchasing areas. • Development of new suppliers and negotiating actual credit terms. • Implementation of schedules for operations focused on increasing efficiency & quality system, S&OP plus demand planning. • Annual operative budget (forecast vs real), elaboration and follow up, and an aggressive reduction cost strategy. • Strategize new supplier service level agreement negotiations (win-win). • Leading commercial department, customer service and annual sales plan.

  • Supply Chain at ECOM Trading
    May 2014 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs

    Lead the proper performance of mills, improving production costs, delivery times and improvement of supply chain taking the best practices in LATAM • Define strategy and operation planning, identifying risk and opportunities into SCM for organization in Mexico. • Understand and communicate to all stakeholders impacts in change process. • Demand planning and S&OP, inventory management for all the clusters. • Development and implementation of procedures for operations based on internal control System & ISO rules. • Design KPI´s for effectiveness and service quality. • Annual operative budget, elaboration and follow up. • Drive continuous improvement development process & measurement, control technology, RFID, preventive & predictive maintenance. Ensure efficiency in all factories in order to achieve supply chain cost reduction.

  • Operations México & LATAM at Grupo Salinas
    May 2012 - Apr 2014 · 2 yrs

    Standardize the operation of the points of sale (branches) for the bank in the LATAM region and implement new technologies to optimize resources. • Responsible for design and implementation of business strategy for process optimization in Mexico and Latin America (2,600 branches). • Define and analyze balanced scorecard to evaluate Mexico and Latam’s performance. • Guarantee policies and procedures are in place to ensure compliance, effectiveness and quality of service. • Annual budget elaboration and follow up ($10 million euros). • Develop, implement and maintain procedures to increase customer service and efficiency. • Implement and maintain the monitoring, testing and reporting program to provide senior management with objective and timely assessments of improvements. • Implementation of technological innovations in order to achieve time reduction. • Capacity planning evaluation. • Cost benefits analysis and project’s profitability.