Juan

About Me - Short Overview

Experienced professional with 20+ years in Canada and abroad, specializing in supply chain and inventory management for maintenance operations, with added expertise in sales support, customer service, and software programming.

Key Career Highlights - Actions, Results

Led SAP ERP master data implementation across six Molson Coors breweries, building a bilingual inventory network and delivering $96K in savings.

Optimized spare parts forecasting at Toronto Transit Commission, managing over $40M in inventory and reducing surplus by $7M.

Analyzed procurement data at Rio Tinto, providing actionable recommendations that improved supplier agreements and streamlined mining operations.

Improved order fulfillment and accuracy at Canadian Tire by monitoring dealer orders, resolving discrepancies, and generating reports to identify trends.

Enhanced inventory deployment at Labatt by analyzing logistics data, supporting S&OP, and coordinating RTD/innovation product rollouts.

Provided contract leasing and inventory management expertise at Pratt & Whitney, aligning customer MRO/AOG needs with forecasts and production plans.

Strengthened customer service operations in telecom and utilities (Bell, National Home Services), coordinating service requests and supporting 2000+ SKUs.

Implemented same-day order processing model at Medaxio, improving supply chain responsiveness for 500 nurses across medical operations.

What size(s) of businesses / organizations do you have experience with?

Start-ups
Small (<100 employees)
Medium (101-499 employees)
Large (500+ employees)

List the names of companies/organizations you have worked for and/or consulted for, regardless of size:

Canadian Tire – Bilingual Dealer Order Specialist Circular Materials – Bilingual Account Specialist Rio Tinto – Procurement Analyst Pratt & Whitney Canada – Rental Management Specialist Labatt – Logistics Coordinator Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) – Project Coordinator, Inventory Management Bell Canada – Wireless Planning Analyst Molson Coors Canada – National Inventory Specialist Medaxio Medical Insurance Services – Inventory Administrator National Home Services – Bilingual Service Coordinator

Credentials - Degrees, Accreditations, Qualifications

BBA, Diploma in Management, Certification in Web Development

What perspectives along the value chain do you have insights on, whether direct or indirect (stakeholder engagement), as an expert?

Raw material production
Manufacturing
Wholesaling / Logistics / Transportation
Retailing
Government / Public Service
NGO / Charity
Consumer groups
Other

Testimonials

RE: Juan Fernando Vanegas
Dear Prospective Employer,
I would like to summarize for you my experience working with Mr. Juan Vanegas to provide you
with insight I hope you will find valuable in considering him for employment with your
company.
Having global responsible for the performance of our assets, ensuring that MRO inventory and
its related processes are optimized is one of my highest priorities. Trying to integrate the
necessary systems and related resources is one of my greatest challenges. This past year, in our
Canadian business unit, Juan provided the leadership that allowed us to begin a journey to
excellence in MRO optimization.
The processes needed to manage the work streams related to supplier/vendor, inventory,
storerooms, master data and MRO buying are discretely unique. To optimize any one of them,
they must be driven in parallel as a collaborative effort. Juan utilized his significant breadth and
depth of knowledge related to these multiple facets of MRO to dig deep into the myriad
information management tools being used, pulling and pooling the data, then analyzing it for the
opportunities everyone else had missed. He then employed various innovative means to present
the analytics to the stakeholders of all work streams in a way that helped them understand the
connectivity of their efforts and inspired them to drive value collaboratively.
Juan also played a significant role in our SAP (Materials Management) implementation, inserting
his acumen into our business process design efforts, ensuring a system that would enable our
MRO optimization efforts. Also invaluable was his assistance with our Master Data cleansing, an
effort that ensured 74,000 parts across Canada shared one naming and attribute standard. From
there, Juan was able to lead an effort to identify and eliminate over 20,000 obsolete and duplicate
items, providing us with ‘non-toxic’ data in time for our SAP go-live.
Juan is a self-starter, a collaborator, a thought leader who is selflessly dedicated to the success of
the team. I highly recommend him for any role you may have that requires these qualities.
Sincerely,
Hank Ward
Global Asset Care Lead
Molson Coors Brewing Company
1801 California St. Suite 4600
Denver, CO. 80202