Alberto Barabaschi

Background

About Alberto Barabaschi

My strengths are the following: 1) Proactivity: when a problem occurs I never go in search of the culprit and I never try to unload responsibility; I face the situation trying to find a solution in the shortest possible time and at the lowest cost. Once the problem is solved, I analyze the causes that generated it and introduce the necessary mitigation actions to avoid the repetition of the same problem in the future. 2) Teamwork: I strongly believe that a team of people who work together produces better results than many individuals. For this reason, I always try to maintain excellent relationships with the people within my team and with other departments, avoiding conflict situations. 3) Quality of work: I never privilege quantity at the expense of quality; from experience I have learned that roughly performed works produce negative feedback in the medium / long term. 4) Cost reduction (Saving): experience and knowledge of processes/techniques for achieving the best cost. I always try to get the best possible contractual conditions in supply chain management, always taking into consideration that price is only one of the variables to consider during a negotiation; in reality it is necessary to take into consideration the TCO (Total Cost Of Ownership) which in addition to the price includes other aspects such as transport cost, export/import duties cost, tooling cost, etc. 5) Supplier contracts: experience and knowledge of managing contracts with suppliers, starting with NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) contracts and then moving on to the management of Kanban and long-term Frame Agreements. 6) Material planning: experience and knowledge of warehouse management logics, starting from the FIFO (First In First Out), passing through the 5S methodology (a place for each thing and everything in its place) and Kaizen (continuous improvement), to get to the management of the material through the logic of the Supermarket and Kanban (ability to calculate safety stocks according to lead time and average consumption, identifying the reorder point). 7) Suppliers management: skills and experience in suppliers management. I always try to avoid single source product categories, introducing new suppliers if necessary. Furthermore, I always carefully evaluate the turnover of the supplier with the company in proportion to the total turnover of the supplier to define the '' bargaining power ''; this allows specific bargaining strategies based on the type of supplier.