I can help grow your business by improving you bottom line. Plain and simple.
This is the web site of Carlos Ortiz, management professional with eleven years of world-class expertise in purchasing management and five years in manufacturing management. If you are looking for an individual who can help you or your clients with strategic initiatives to reduce costs, or if you need an executive to help you manage complex procurement environments, you have come to the right place.
In this site you can learn about my career, how I became a trusted advisor to employers and clients, my contributions to cost control initiatives at several companies and how to get in touch with me.
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No simple answer. Almost everybody has a different idea, but all of the ones I consider correct, revolve around the following common themes:
1.- Cost control.
2.- Inclussion of different processes such as procurement, sourcing, supply chain, spend analysis, contract management, invoicing and outsourcing.
3.- Resource optimization.
4.- Risk Management
So, the spend management professional is an expert in controlling costs by ways of optimizing how, when, how much and where the purchased goods and services are delivered to the enterprise from the right vendor, at the right price with the minimum of risk.
Carlos is a procurement professional who specializes in helping organizations realize the promise of cost savings by utilizing advanced management skills in Strategic Sourcing. This process shortens best-practices adoption timelines, and also provides the ability to tackle some of the most difficult problems affecting a company, such as managing complex procuremet organizations, inventory overflow, rogue purchasing, unrealized savings, sustainability and lack of spend visibility.
Since early 2011 he has been working as a Consulting Manager at BravoSolution , a leading supplier of software and services for the enterprise sourcing professional. In that role Carlos is in charge of implementing the solution, support change management processes, identify sourcing opportunities and execute comprehensive sourcing processes to identify savings across a wide array of categories.
He has worked at the forefront of the spend management practice for about eleven years, first at FreeMarkets, Inc. and then Ariba , Inc, both of which merged in 2004. Late in 2009, he started a new role as the third US based employee at an emerging spend management software company, Ivalua, an established software publisher based out of France which was launching new operations in North America.
Carlos worked for 5 years at the FreeMarkets Brazil office managing clients in Latin America and in 2006 he moved to Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area to manage some Ariba clients in the High Tech, Oil&Gas and Utilities sectors. During this second phase Carlos worked in developing and managing multi-million engagements, interacting with C level executives, creating commodity strategies and in general helping corporations save hundreds of millions of dollars by setting new strategic goals and by optimizing sourcing and procurement processes.
During his tenure at the companies listed above, he also led the deployment of end-to-end spend management programs at Fortune 500 client corporations around the globe, in a wide range of industries such as Oil & Gas, Food, Diversified Manufacturing, High Tech, Retail and Mining.
Also, in 2009 as acting Director of Procurement & IT at EcoGreen Group, a non-profit start-up in Silicon Valley, he was focused on developing a sustainable procurement framework for corporations and advocating how innovative software solutions and cloud computing can save money while reducing carbon footprints.
He holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, is a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M), speaks Spanish, Portuguese and English, thrives on OpenSource software and now lives in Santa Clara, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Strategy Development
Spend Management Program design and leadership
Savings Implementation
Spend Assessments
End-to-end sourcing practice redesign
Gap analysis
Category Management
Electronic Sourcing via SaaS platform
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
George S. Patton
- Developed a multi-year Strategic Sourcing process improvement plan by conducting a full operational and strategic assessment of the Purchasing department and by performing a gap analysis which comprised detailed review of nine organizational elements and comparison to a best-in-class operation.
- Project timeline was only 6 weeks, and I delivered the results on-time, with high commendation from client.
- The methodology developed and deliverables presented to client became the foundation of a new product offering by Ariba.
- Lead the execution of 20 projects with spend of US$ 300M and 10% average identified savings including: Globalization, Reverse Logistics, APAC Logistics, BPO Finance, Sheet metal enclosures, Engineering Consumables, Recycling Services, and others.
- Scoped and executed several initiatives within the Supply Management area, including: execution of spend assessments, redesign of sourcing processes, workforce training, supplier performance management benchmarking, and overall client management.
Lead as Project Manager the delivery of a seven RFP, US$ 2 Billion Well Services sourcing project by managing a team of 3 on-site and 5 off-site Ariba consultants, supporting the design of RFP electronic templates on Ariba's SaaS sourcing platform, supporting 85 vendors across the globe, organizing and optimizing RFP results and coordinating with two other consultancies on-site.
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