Frédéric Arenas
EMEA, Supply Chain Solution, Pre sales consultant, SAS Institute
Kind of things i love in my job are, understand customer's pain; organisation; starting from the "As is" point to "Will be" situation. Push and share vision ! Listen to the customer !, don't try to sell a software solution, but help the customer to solve his/her business pain with the shortest possible ROI !
After 20 years of experience in logistics, including 15 in senior position, i chose to bring my domain expertise to a major editor of Business’ Analytics solutions, especially in areas of Demand Driven Forecasting, multi-echelon optimization, and finally optimization under constraints. In Pre sales phase at EMEA level, i support the sales forces for opportunity’s qualification , responses to RFI / RFP and demonstrations of three solutions:
SAS Service Parts Optimization
SAS Demand-Driven Forecasting
SAS Forecasting for SAP APO.
2003 - 2007Spare parts optimization, improvement spare parts availability & delivery from 85 % to 96,2 %.
Reduced stock value of 26 % without negative impact on SLA's
Reengineering distribution flow in France.
Managing Sub contractors
Creating and writing Logistics Processes
French stocktake manager (perpetual and annual)
Significantly improve Spare parts selling activity with our Partner,
Internal Audit, SOX, Reporting Development, Team Management,
2003 - 2003Audit on distribution flow for computer spare parts industry (EMC2). Correctives actions to improve reliability. Reengineering.
1994 - 2002 Team Manager (Orders; picking and shipping)
Procurement manager (Europe and USA);
Managing local subcontractors (Scrap ; Carriers with ISO 9002 KPI)
Quality system Management
Optimisation of in coming and out going flow and storage areas
Interface with account Dpt (Accruals ;stock depreciation)
Cost reduction of 137 K€ (27 % of budget ) on 3 years
Stock Value reduction of 47 % with no negative impact on Service.
Annual stocktake result with less than 1 % of deviation