Verónica Lemas
Montevideo
Summary
Senior level supply chain planner and Team Leader with extensive experience in creating strategies and leading execution of supply planning activities, including logistics, import and export manufacturing and management. Manages teams to drive product supply and productivity improvements. Lead and solving issues, while driving supply chain strategies for end-to-end pipeline management and supply planning.
Skilled in training to other team members, in leading improvement projects, in negotiation and strategic decision making.
Results focused, quality driven professional with extensive experience in Supply Chain Planning in high tech and Project Management. Demonstrate consistent achievement of objectives, strong forecast, analytical skills, and dedication to organizational goals.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Supply Chain Planner Coordinator
Syngenta Crop Protection
07.2016 - Current
- Planning activities: excellent knowledge to review unconstraint and constraint forecast. Review along with demand planners, marketing, and commercial team as well as my stakeholders in origin (planner, procurement team).
- Balance demand and supply while aligning volumes and mix to achieve production objectives.
- Negotiate allocations, pushing to demand planner to have a correct demand and aligning with commercial team volumes distribution.
- Manage productions levels (RCCP), identified shortages, excess of supply and monitored inventory level, write offs to meet financial requirements.
- Integrated financial and operation plans with strategic objectives to deliver supply and financial result.
- Lead change management initiatives (projects) and designed, proposed ideas to support demand planning, master data, logistics strategy.
- Applied supply planning knowledge being part of projects to implement new way of working or improvements in the regional or cross regional areas.
- Establish vision and master plan for regional end to end structure, sourcing, and delivery.
- Supervise 3-4 members tasked with handling material planning, purchasing and customer service issues.
- Participate proactivity in strategic and operational meetings to introduce changes, solve issues, monitor materials.
- System (ERP) oriented, transparency in applied routines, plan through the system avoiding manual files.
- Data Analytics implementation, working with reports, creating, analyzing, and presenting accurate information to give a clear and easy visibility.
- Build continues improvement culture that attracting and retained high performing employees.
International Operations Analyst
Shimadzu Corporation
08.2013 - 07.2016
- Control Logistics cost. Inbound / Outbound cost, freights, insurances.
- Negotiate the freight rates and quote the different shipments.
- Follow up and coordination of the Sea shipments (FCL/LCL) and air shipments (big volumes and hazardous products).
- Analyze and supervision the international operations to seek improvements in different procedures to achieve the company targets.
- Logistic Support to the operations team. Mainly, training the new staff members.
- Preparing reports to plan inventory.
- Train users to use the systems effectively
Foreign Trade Responsible and Planner
SKF
03.2010 - 08.2013
- Responsible of all international operations.
- Follow up the shipments, achieving delivery times requested by internal and external customers.
- Analyze trends and identify opportunities for improving the accuracy of future sales forecasts
- Prepare the unconstraint forecast
- Monthly reports about Inventory and Logistics cost to the Logistics manager located at Sweden.
- Negotiate the freight rates.
- Cost controller.
- Assist to the commercial and planning department with logistic Support.
Import Assistant.
SPB Ingenieria Electronica
07.2009 - 03.2010
- Import activities
Education
MBA - Business Administration
ORT University
Uruguay, Montevideo04.2025
Undergraduate in International Business - Postgrado En Comercio Internacional
Universidad De Montevideo
Uruguay, Montevideo03.2017
Bachelor of International Business - Relaciones Internacionales
UDELAR
Uruguay, Montevideo05.2012
Portuguese, Advanced
Casa Do Brasil
2012
English (First Certificate)
Anglo
Uruguay, Montevideo06.2008
Skills
Team Leader
High level of organization
Supply chain Planner (Senior level) & Long Term planner vision
Project Management
Multitasking activities
Easy doing / Quick reaction
Demonstrated leadership abilities and interpersonal skills
Active listening
SAP (Senior)
Qliksense
Problem solving
Chemical area knowledge (planning, logistics perspective)
Transparent and Honest
Additional Information
References:
Javier Siekavica. Ex Administrive / RRHH Chief. Shimadzu Latin America S.A. Phone. 098 509700
Leonardo Aguilar. Logistics Chief. SKF Uruguay Phone. 099 167046
Timeline
Supply Chain Planner Coordinator
Syngenta Crop Protection
07.2016 - Current
International Operations Analyst
Shimadzu Corporation
08.2013 - 07.2016
Foreign Trade Responsible and Planner
SKF
03.2010 - 08.2013
Import Assistant.
SPB Ingenieria Electronica
07.2009 - 03.2010
MBA - Business Administration
ORT University
Undergraduate in International Business - Postgrado En Comercio Internacional
Universidad De Montevideo
Bachelor of International Business - Relaciones Internacionales
UDELAR
Portuguese, Advanced
Casa Do Brasil
English (First Certificate)
Anglo
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