Celso Pereira

• Experienced professional in operations management cycle (E2E) with a wide range of assignments in industry sectors as automotive, electronics, chemicals, packaging and others. 
• Responsible for supply chain management, from customers to suppliers includes supply and demand planning, production scheduling and control, management of inbound and outbound transportation, warehouse activities management since goods receiving, storage, order picking, shipping until customers delivering, procurement and foreign trade activities, project implementation and process improvement.
• Identification and management of supply chain risks, establishing  short and long term strategies in order to attend company policies and being compliance with inventory procedures, logistics costs control, customer service satisfaction and achieving KPIs goals.
• Implementation of Supply Chain Strategy, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Logistics Network Redesign and Optimization, Project Management of ERP systems and BI tools.

Supply Chain senior Associate (2022 ~actual)

XCELIS (Consulting Supply Chain Company) 

• Management of Supply Chain, Logistics, Strategic Sourcing and network logistics and taxes projects, optimizing the productivity of processes and operations, and implementing the designed solutions projects of large and medium-sized companies, focusing on cost reduction and implementation of optimum end-to-end supply chain flows enhancing service level and reducing logistics costs.Supply Chain Director (2017 ~2021)

Avanti Systems (Consulting Company) 

• Responsible for planning and implementation of supply chain strategies to reduce costs, mitigate risk, improve quality, shorten lead times and reduce inventories involving entire operation focusing on quality and productivity using methodology such as Lean, Kaizen, MASP, A3, BPM, VSM, PDCA in order to improve indicators goals.
• Create structure, hire, train and develop staff, give direction, integrate and leverage capabilities, and hold team members accountable.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and Operations to improve Product Lifecycle Mgt., sourcing initiatives to introduce products on time, on budget, and in stock.
• Challenge suppliers and factories to upgrade their capabilities, negotiate supply agreements and cost reduction based on physical and systemic solutions, with the objective of ensuring all projects deliverables using ‘best-practices’ approach according agreed scope, time and cost.

LATAM Demand & Supply Head (2015 ~ 2016)

Henkel Ltda. (Chemical Industry) 

• Responsible for Demand and planning operations in LATAM, involving demand and supply, Importation & Exportation and Customer Service of a team of forty employees.
• Developed and launched the company’s S&OP model in 3 phases increasing performance management system ensuring a direct link between Sales, Production and Finance and clear rules and goals at each business unit and corporate levels. 
• Has implemented deep changes, aligned to global guidelines operations, increasing service level and improving supply chain performance in Latin America South, including large cost reduction and process improvement. 
• Provided the business increase of Forecast from 59% up to 95% with inventory reduction from 109 down to 90 days, through market conditions understanding and future trends to enable better budgeting and forecasting accuracy.
• Back order reduction from 7% to less than 1,5% of sales revenue and keep overall performance of the supply chain to ensure continuous improvement.

Supply Chain Manager (2009 ~ 2014)

Toyota do Brasil (Automotive Industry) 

• Responsible for Planning and management of Customer Service operations in Brazil with 136 dealers and 5 transport companies, demand and supply, Importation & Exportation, dealers call center and operations in a day-to-day activities with a team of one hundred employees.
• Implementation of new outsourced warehouse since project planning align with global strategies to ensure on-time delivery and cost competitiveness, according global policies and procedures, defining best location and service logistic provider until operations running.
• Reduced by 50% the time required to respond the customers’ requests and customer satisfaction increase levels in 25% by solving customer enquiries and complaints in 24 hours.
• Launching new vehicle increasing 2,5% Market Share, considering parts and accessories distribution to domestic and foreign markets.
• Innovation through the implementation of accessories after production series with a 15% increase in sales.
• Implementation of a global logistic system to increase efficiency among suppliers, dealers and warehouses and standardize operations processes.

Logistics Projects and costs Supervisor (1999 ~ 2009)

Volkswagen do Brasil (Automotive industry) 

• Responsible for project investigation, planning, launching, and costs reduction activities of production operations in Brazil involving five plants operations. 
• Nationalization of imported material resulting in 15% logistics cost reduction by eliminating costs of packaging, international freight and handling inside consolidation center. 
• Bidding, contract preparation and implementation of logistic service provider’s operators with contracts over R$ 20 million, optimizing transport routes and operations process improvement with direct reporting to company Board of directors.
• Development of Packaging Standardization for the production adopted by 5 plants inside Brazil and suppliers, reducing more than R$ 30M investments and improving material flow, eliminating 50% of one-way packaging waste.
• Reduce logistics costs by 20% integrated logistics of Suppliers, Plants and dealers increasing truck space utilization and reduce freights costs by utilization of tracking and tracing data.

• Master's degree: Technology and innovation management - Mackenzie University 
• MBA: Operations management: USP 
• Post-graduation: Industrial administration: USP
• Graduation: Electrical engineering: Mackenzie University
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• Language skills 
• English fluent / Spanish advanced / German basic 
• Certificates
• Lean manager: Toyota motor corporation (Japan) 
• Supply chain process and systems: Volkswagen AG (Germany) 
• Total costs concepts and products - Nefab AB (Sweden)