Background Data

Whirlpool Latin America is a giant multinational that manufactures and sells major home appliances. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Gladiator Garage Works, Inglis, Estate, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul, and other major brand names to consumers in nearly every country around the world.

Strategic Targets

• Increase the quality of local part supliers.
• Integrate part supliers who originaly operated just in certain brands.
• Consolidate the number of supliers making suply-management easier and cheaper.

My influence

• Planned and implemented a self-assessment system which would be embeded into a training and purging campaign with vendors.
• The self-assessment system allowed vendors to graphically visualize the areas where they would need to improve in order to continue as supliers to the company.