Alejandro Arechiga

• Developed a standardized process for the Indirect and CapEx purchasing in the Americas, I organized the team and developed a flow chart that will cover the needs of the current Global procedures and checklists needed to help us thoroughly purchasing compliance. Each individual participated on the needs of their unique locations they are responsible to share their specific needs developing a one regional flow / process that will cover most of the needs from the locations. Each team member took a single assignment and to this day, this process has been the benchmark for regional procurement procedures at NORMA Group that has been successfully using this methodology. • Developed Commodity strategies roadmap for the sub commodities for the region using a strategic sourcing process to identify, negotiate and implement indirect procurement initiatives to drive cost savings reflecting results on the P&L of each location (business unit). • Develop a network with internal customers and management to explain the indirect procurement strategies y for the region, identifying new and potential improvements to integrate into the different sub commodity strategies (HR Services, Legal Services, Financial Services, etc.) that will help to the achievement of the group goals. • Developed Metal Components regional strategy • Developed Supplier list panel Direct and Indirect materials & Services. Including the vendor scoring taking in consideration the lead-time, quality, cost and competitive vendors. Throughout a competitive analysis and bid comparison. • Support of regional Plant buyers and Purchasing Manager

Global Annual Sales: € 6,104 MiEUR - NAO Annual MRO & Capital Purchasing budget:+ $135 MiEUR Achievements: • Met 2011 to 2013 MRO savings target with an average of $ 8.5 mi.usd on achieved and validated savings • Met during 2011 to 2013 Capital savings on presses, Hot stamping lines, furnaces, welding cells, tooling and other press / weld equipment a 14.3 mi.usd total savings from PTC • Developed a Capital Investments Purchasing process through the K1 (Quote) - K2 (Awarded) process that supported having on time capital projects • Support K3 operations with global and regional negotiations for services • Developed purchasing strategy based on commodities / developing suppliers Duties and Responsibilities: • Approval purchase orders for Indirect, Tooling and Capital investments • Manages purchasing process / E Auctions , In charge of NAO contract negotiations with Logistics carriers • Reports cost, savings, and operations to Purchasing VP NAO in the U.S. and to the Global Commodity Director’s in Paderborn, Germany • Annual purchasing budget perpetration, based on plant and commodity spend • Negotiates corporate contracts with our global and regional suppliers • Support with the global negotiations for US based suppliers

• Responsible for expediting 850 part numbers • Assigned suppliers and parts to planners • Released supplier demand analysis (Diamond Reports) • Parameters analysis on part numbers, based on lead and transit time • Buffer and Safety stock analysis based on the client changing demand / weekly broadcast • Responsible on the corrective actions by suppliers based on DMR's (material Discrepancy Report) closing 7D’s reports

• Purchased of RAW material (Steel & Stampings) 5.7 MiUSD, tooling (Dies), supervise an MRO buyer & 1 Traffic supervisor. • Negotiated RAW material and deliveries for North America, Europe and Asia • Develop suppliers for RAW materials and held corporate negotiations. • Logistics on purchased resources and sea, ground and air delivery services. • Warehouse optimization and RAW material control, through FIFO’s. • Organization and control of national and international shipments

Annual sales 120 MiUSD - Annual Purchase Budget . – 0.750 MiUSD Achievements: Managed purchases below projected savings approx. $300,000 USD per year Develop the Preventive Maintenance MP2 System for Preventive, Predictive and Corrective Maintenance Duties and Responsibilities: • Follow-up procedures on acquired domestic and foreign services and products. • Negotiation procedures with customs agents for the quick release of acquired resources. • Supervision of due payments to suppliers and sub-contractors. • Reports generated on Down Time and Preventive Maintenance vs. Non-production,

Achievements: Improve max / min and ware house re-order Develop maintenance program • Development of the Maintenance Management Program MP2 (purchase and warehouse). • Organization of the Maintenance Area Purchase Department. • Organization and Management of the Spare Parts Warehouse, implementing the maximum-minimum system. Purchase Manager. Duties and Responsibilities: Achievements: Develop new suppliers in México and North America for non-guarantee equipment Savings of $ 450,000 usd (average per year, below budget) on indirect material such as maintenance spare parts, office supplies, uniforms etc. • Acquisition of all of the plant’s requirements, such as stock and spare parts in general (hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical and electrical), as well as carpeting and tpo. • Relation Development and negotiation with new domestic and international suppliers. • Generation of important cost reductive procedures for purchased resources. • Purchasing procedures (QS-9000).