{"id":5683270,"date":"2020-04-06T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/interview-with-david-cristobal-logistics-manager\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T20:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:55:01","slug":"interview-with-david-cristobal-logistics-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/interview-with-david-cristobal-logistics-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with David Crist\u00f3bal, Logistics Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>TELL US ABOUT DAVID, WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND IN THE LOGISTICS AREA AND, ESPECIALLY, IN THE COMPANY?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>The\n10 years before I joined the company I worked in companies\nlinked to the logistics sector. For 3 years I even had my own\nbusiness. I have been working at Mtech for 13 years now, of which I spent a total of 5\nyears partially detached from this area, in commercial and\ncustomer service tasks, which allowed me to get closer to the concerns and\nneeds of these departments. In September 2019 I assumed the position of\nDirector of Logistics, which allows me to project and realize many of the\nideas and proposals for improvement that I believe can bring us differential value.   <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO TALK ABOUT LOGISTICS?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>For\nme logistics is one of the fundamental pillars of any company,\nbeing able to be at the same level as other areas such as commercial or financial\n. To talk about logistics is to talk about purchasing, inventory value,\ninternal and external supply, transport, packaging, cost optimization and\na fundamental part in the last link of the supply chain, since\nis the last brushstroke in customer service. In our case, moreover,\ntakes on such important aspects as recycling and waste management.  <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>WHAT HAS CHANGED AT MTECH TO NECESSITATE DRIVING THE LOGISTICS PROPOSITION INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY?  <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s\nglobal growth has been key. The move to a new headquarters of\n5,000m2 with its internal implications in terms of product transit for\nmanufacturing and the increase in exports were the trigger to move to\nto the next level. It has also been fundamental the emergence of new sectors\nof work in our business, each with its particularities in terms\nlogistics &#8230; Customers as important in the energy sectors, tertiary,\nrenewable, rail &#8230; They require many things that without this step would not be\npossible, such as the generation of documentation for exports, calculations of\npackaging and loads, compliance with international regulations, etc..  <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>WHAT ARE THE FIRST CHANGES YOU HAVE MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE INITIATIVE TO CREATE A LOGISTICS DEPARTMENT?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>The most important thing\nhas been to take a step in the professionalization of the team, to\nbe able to be at the height of this new stage, with the incorporations in our\nstaff of 2 more people with experience in the sector and the creation of a\nadministrative position exclusively for the new department. The revision of\nour procedures has also been very important, having adapted them to the\ndesign of our current operational flow. <\/p>\n\n<p>Other\nprojected issues that we are working on are the acquisition of\nnew mechanical means to optimize times and the inclusion of new\ndigital tools that allow us to work with Big Data to be more\nefficient and to be able to make corrections and improvements.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>DO YOU BELIEVE THAT LOGISTICS IS A DIFFERENTIAL VALUE IN COMPANIES? IS IT SUFFICIENTLY VALUED? <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>As\nsaid at the beginning, it is a fundamental pillar. Except for the companies that are dedicated\nspecifically to transport or logistics in general, for the rest of companies\nthe correct and careful management of logistics can affect (and much) to the\nincome statement, as well as to the image and the valuation of the good service\nof these. It is useless to make a commercially excellent management with a\nclient if the logistic aspect is not worked correctly.  <\/p>\n\n<p>I think\nthat, although the trend is changing lately, the logistics departments\nof companies (when they exist as such) have been undervalued.\n&#8220;Logistics&#8221; has often been associated only with warehouse management and\ndelivery, especially in SMEs like us, and it has been only recently\nwhen we are starting to talk about logistics in capital letters. The\ninternationalization of Spanish small and medium-sized companies since the\ncrisis of 2008 has had a lot to do with this. Models such as those that have been used\nfor years in other countries have fortunately begun to be implemented\nin Spain.    <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>WHAT DO YOU THINK WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT MTECH THAN OTHER COMPANIES IN OUR BUSINESS?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>In\nfirstly, to give the logistics area its own entity as a department, with all\nthe aspects that the term encompasses. The participation of the team in all the\nphases of the business, including that of offers. Another differential value is the\ntraining, since all members of our logistics team are trained\nor receive training on aspects such as international transport, means and\nspecial packaging techniques such as maritime or certain equipment &#8230;\netc.. From the information that our customers give us, the presentation and\nfollow-up of our shipments, as far as transport is concerned, is usually\na value with which we make the difference.   <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS FOR 2019? WHAT IS THE GROWTH FORECAST IN YOUR DEPT. FOR 2020? <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Last\nyear we created this department as such in September, but we finished the\nyear loading approximately 6,000 pallets on about 200 trailers, we made about\n1,500 material receptions and made about 2,000 national deliveries with\nour own transport, apart from having made about a thousand\nparcel shipments. In addition, we make about 100 special packages of\nwood for maritime transit. <\/p>\n\n<p>In\n2020 the forecasts say that we will double some of these figures, but\nat least, in others, we will grow at least around 20-25%.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>CAN YOU HIGHLIGHT A RECENT SUCCESS STORY?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>I believe\nthat the success of the logistics team is directly related to that of\nother departments. This is a chain in which all the links are equally\nimportant, although it is worth mentioning that during the last few months we have\nreceived several congratulations from large customers highlighting\naspects directly related to our participation, such as\npackaging, documentation management and shipment tracking that were\ncritical for the continuity in time and form of their projects. <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>FINALLY, WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONVEY TO MTECH CUSTOMERS ABOUT YOUR DEPARTMENT AND TEAM?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>I believe that our differential value is important, and that with a good logistics management you can save many euros in a project, so I would invite you to interact with us in order to contribute ideas and methods from which you will benefit in costs, beyond the value of the products you buy from our company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TELL US ABOUT DAVID, WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND IN THE LOGISTICS AREA AND, ESPECIALLY, IN THE COMPANY? The 10 years before I joined the company I worked in companies linked to the logistics sector. For 3 years I even had my own business. I have been working at Mtech for 13 years now, of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5680205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtechgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}