Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Hobbies and Interests
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Klevin Niño Hidalgo

Summary

Experienced logistics professional with expertise in transport operations and a deep understanding of the Blue Yonder Package, specifically TMS. Demonstrated success in driving results by effectively engaging and collaborating with cross-functional teams across 5 years of project implementations with the Woolworths Group.


Trained in a combination of Research Psychology and Supply Chain Management where skills in communication, statistical analysis, problem-solving, optimization, stakeholder management and a commitment to continuous learning are foundational to my professional identity. These attributes combine to make an ideal candidate for a product manager role.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Blue Yonder TMS/WMS Subject Matter Expert

Primary Connect
07.2021 - Current
  • Developed and completed thorough testing scripts for BY TMS and WMS implementation at WORDC, WYRDC, ARDC, MSRDC, ToRDC, TasRDC, CRDCNZ, YADC and BRDC.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop effective training materials and documentation.
  • Conducted workshops to educate and assist end users for their transition to new technologies and processes.
  • Liaised with TCS and BY for enhancement/problem fix development and testing facilitated through JIRA.
  • Engaged with carriers and financial teams to develop TMS tariff builds for EPDC, ARDC, ToRDC, VIC-basin KM-transition and FNQ rail project.
  • Developed 3-leg load tariff for ARDC and simplified implementation of Primary Freight backload planning.
  • Solo implementation for TORDC TMS.
  • TMS master data refresh for VIC-basin.
  • TMS Optimiser - implementation at PRDC, ARDC, MLDC and EPDC. Led MLDC to ~2km/per pallet performance improvement while decreasing planning duration from 5 hours to 2 hours per day.


Route Planner, TMS Specialist

LINFOX – Woolworths MFDC
2020 - 2021
  • Load planning for 225+ Woolworths stores during MFDC transition phase through to BAU – balancing WW and LFX expectations on meeting deadlines and efficient, financially productive planning.
  • Time-sensitive role requiring a strong understanding of how TMS and WMS work together, where communication between the two collapses and, how to troubleshoot problems and finding workarounds.
  • Christmas Eve 2020 – HFA outage resulted in the potential for stores not receiving meat for 24th – assisted in coordinating the manual replanning for all meat pallets into respective stores in addition to dealing with the increased volume during peak.
  • Optimizer manual workaround – numerous instances where Optimizer has stalled and prevented changes to existing loads – discovered bypass via dock schedule to ‘release’ loads from optimizing status to continue workflow to DC.
  • Dedicated trainer for new Linfox staff on TMS/WMS systems

Allocator, MNDC Supervisor

LINFOX – Woolworths MSRDC
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managing labor to meet service requirement while balancing the needs of stakeholders and overall network, in a safe and financially productive manner.
  • Exposure to state-of-the-art technology that required adaptability to develop and evolve strategies with short and long-term perspectives.
  • Largely independent learning of three customer programs – WW Tactics, BY WMS, Vision – understanding their data flow and integration.

Education

Master of Business - Supply Chain Management

Monash University
01.2018

Graduate Diploma - Psychology

Deakin University
01.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, Physiology

Monash University
01.2014

Skills

  • Communication and Stakeholder Management
  • Conflict Management
  • Team Management

  • Concept Research and Application
  • KPI Tracking and Analytics
  • Task Prioritisation

Accomplishments

  • Developed 3-leg load tariff for ARDC and simplified Primary Freight backload planning.
  • Solo implementation of ToRDC TMS.
  • FNQ rail project tariff turnaround in 2 weeks notice.
  • VIC-basin tariff overhaul - transitioned all sites to KM rate.
  • VIC-basin TMS master data refresh including: using Google Apps Script and Maps API to highlighting 200+ shipping location discrepancies by comparing latlon and address data.
  • Developed an interim solution by identifying all permutations of undesirable "Ferry Route" stores in VIC by conducting latlon groupings to separate two region groups that optimiser should not build together.
  • ~2km/per pallet improved performance through MLDC Optimiser.
  • Reduced MLDC planning time from 5 hours to 2 hours.
  • Self-taught SQL.

Certification

  • 2018 GS1 Academic Certificate
  • Developed an understanding of the standardizing system developed by GS1 to identify, capture and share information within an organization and interoperability with its trading partners.
  • Understanding that GS1 members have products (GTIN), trade/shipping units (SSCC) and locations (GLN) with unique IDs – often a barcode – so resource information can be carried seamlessly, items can be tracked and current data can be viewed instantly on shared EDI systems.

Hobbies and Interests

Sustainability, Process Development, Commodities Trading, Nutrition, Fitness and Mental Health, Travel

Timeline

Blue Yonder TMS/WMS Subject Matter Expert

Primary Connect
07.2021 - Current

Allocator, MNDC Supervisor

LINFOX – Woolworths MSRDC
01.2019 - 01.2020

Route Planner, TMS Specialist

LINFOX – Woolworths MFDC
2020 - 2021

Master of Business - Supply Chain Management

Monash University

Graduate Diploma - Psychology

Deakin University

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, Physiology

Monash University
Klevin Niño Hidalgo