Luis Velez
About
Luis Velez is from Chicago, Illinois, United States. Luis is currently Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Director at ITW, located in Glenview, IL. Luis also works as Strategic Sourcing Director - Welding Group at ITW, a job Luis has held since Jul 2013. In Luis's previous role as a Director, Global Strategic Sourcing at Whirlpool Corporation, Luis worked in until Jul 2013. Prior to joining Whirlpool Corporation, Luis was a Director, Global Lighting Purchasing at Visteon Corporation and held the position of Director, Global Lighting Purchasing. Prior to that, Luis was a Director, Purchasing Electronics at Visteon Corporation from Oct 2006 to May 2007. Luis started working as Americas and New & Emerging Purchasing Manager at Ford Motor Company in May 1995. From Jan 1994 to Jan 1995, Luis was Advanced Manufacturing Manager at Altec Electronica de Chihuahua (Ford Motor Co. Electronics Div. subs.). Prior to that, Luis was a Advanced Manufacturing Manager at Ford Electronics (Altec) from Jan 1988 to Jan 1992.
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Luis Velez's current jobs
Strategic Sourcing for Direct and Inderect Materials of the Welding Group.
Luis Velez's past jobs
Director, Global Strategic Sourcing - Electronics & HMI
Establishing a Global purchasing organization responsible to manage and control $0.6B of global spend, delivering supply commodity sstrategies, increase Lowest Delivery Cost (LDC) country sourcing, new products introduction and Total Cost Managemnt (TCM) using VA/VE and Lean concepts.
New model introduction
Responsible for leading and develop new local suppliers to support the Americas region and New and Emerging marktes. Facilitaded supplier international ventures to support local market requirements, balance trade, reduce import tariffs and new programs launches.
New product launch & introduction, 5 yr manufacturing planning, CapEx planning and executing, Lead Simultaneous and Concurring Engineering,
New product introduction from concept design to production, test strategy and equipment design, 5-yr manufacturing plan and capacity.