Senior Manager, Inventory
Noon.com
Total years of experience :11 years, 4 Months
Optimizing inventory level to maximize products availability & minimize holding cost by managing demand, supply, distribution planning and customers service.
• Structured & built the whole department starting from objectives, roles, flow charts, structure, JDs, KPIs, and Policy & Procedures.
• Improved demand planning & forecast accuracy by:
- Conducting detail analysis of inputs and outputs of the qualitative and quantitative data.
- Using various statistical modules and trend analysis.
- Establishing a monthly Sales and Operations Planning process.
• Developed Max/Min Stock Limits per SKU per Branch, which reduced inventory days of cover of the major suppliers by 40%.
• Led the sales & returns orders entry, prioritizing & tracking delivery and reporting, CCFOT with root cause analysis to evaluate & improves.
Managing Supply & Distribution Planning to cover the monthly sales & promo plan.
• Improved the planning processes through:
- Daily updating the MRP data to insure catching every reorder point.
- Considering expiration date VS monthly demand consuming & shelf life constraint for Key Accounts to increase the accuracy of the expected upcoming stocks cover.
- Changing Safety Stock policy which decreased its value by 46% and increased the availability of unstable SKUs.
• Achieved a level of coverage that contributed to reach the company highest sales ever in 2015
Replenishing SKUs in the branches’ warehouses considering each branch’s target and scheduled requests to ensure the availability & continuity of sales by Scheduling & Prioritizing daily inbound & outbound operations and Optimizing daily trucks POs quantities to achieve optimal coverage in all Branches.
• Achieved a level of branches stocks availability contributed to reach the company’s second highest sales in 2014, and followed with the highest ever in 2015.
• Effectively participated in SAP implementation project as a Key User since the Blueprint on Sept. 2013, go-live in Feb. 2014, until 2018 with related continuous improvement.
• Designed a model that assigns Jeddah zones to each salesman effectively, considering driving distance, customers’ counts & weights.
• Designed a model that ensures the availability SKUs in all branches, considering holding cost, lead time demand, main stock available and WH capacities.
