Supply Chain Manager
Dairy Link Co. for Consultancy & Dairy Solutions
Total years of experience :10 years, 6 months
• Plan and develop the business strategy and strategic objectives.
• Balance supply & demand levels thru demand management and capacity planning.
• Responsible for all financial decisions related to procure and deliver goods and services.
• Setting adequate inventory levels and define inventory policy, classifications, and safety
stocks.
• Lead (S&OP) sales and operations monthly meetings and achieve a high-level of
collaboration between operations, sales, marketing, and finance.
• Develop items-wise procurement planning, supplier relationship and long-term contracts
whenever applicable.
• Manage the procurement and develop purchasing supply plans including vendors at a
global level to ensure optimum benefit to the company.
• Review contracts, assess and mitigate the risks and ensure conformance to terms and
conditions.
• Oversee air & ocean shipments from North America and Europe.
• Develop warehouse keeping procedures for inbound and outbound process.
• Design warehouse layout to ensure efficient space utilization and adjusting routing
strategy, travel time, and inventory slotting.
• Manage inbound logistics including customs clearance, management of third-party logistics
(3PL), and freight auditing.
• Ensure supply and demand growth and reduce costs and expenses related to logistics
• Revenue management and smart pricing as a part of demand management.
• Maintain appropriate customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and design
related services.
• Manage the internal cross-functional supply chain team performance.
• Set yearly supply chain operations budget.
• Identify current constraints and bottlenecks and working to streamline incrementally.
• Continuous process improvement (CPI) by initiating lean six sigma projects.
• Risk management, risk response plan, and contingency plan.
• Create and enforce sustainability models.
Demand Planning & Distribution Planning
• Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as
part of a demand planning function.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop
statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine
the forecast model to reflect updated sales and business assumptions.
• Interact with sales, marketing, and finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with sales, marketing and
finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand
forecasts.
• Use and maintain the demand planning excel temple as the primary forecasting tool.
• Conduct S&OP series of meetings with sales, marketing & finance to achieve consensus
and generate preliminary intermediate master plan against resources.
• Optimize the stock level, classify it and make sure that the stock value meets the needed
availability for the clients.
• Prepare forecasted data in DRP table to create time-phased order point (TPOP).
• Forecast the trends in product consumption to provide the needed number of stocks and
its turnover.
Procurement:
• Oversee the procurement process from the early planning stages of establishing
specifications and down thru purchase cycle and payment process.
• Negotiate contracts to ensure obtaining purchases at the lowest cost possible.
• Asses each supplier's performance including payment terms using scorecards and key
performance indicators (KPIs).
• Valuate the supplier and manufacturer base on their performance and technical ability.
Logistics:
• Plan all key transportation activities with management on periodic basis.
• Managing the operations of freight forwarder by instructing our trusted forwarders and
participate in cost analysis in all stages.
• Supervise air and ocean shipments from North America and Europe.
• A.B.C Inventory control.
• Provide assistance in warehouse space utilization by designing facility layouts to achieve
maximum storage efficiency.
• Analyzes movement to assign safety stocks, safety lead times, and days of supply.
Participating in monthly meeting with management team to improve customer experience
including sales staff, marketing, and operations teams.
Explain the current marketing mechanisms and provide information to consultants on
product availability and gives feedback on demand and lead time to management.
Interact directly with customers or coordinate proper and seemly interaction with
customers.
Working closely with Oriflame consultants and customers to resolve their issues.
Verify the amount of cash in the course of the day and to pay the daily drawings to the
cashier.
Secure and properly store cash documents in accordance with the Personal Data
Protection Act.
Preparation of the protocol in the case of fake means of payment and send to the nearest
police station.
Close cooperation with financial management to exchange information on consultants '
debts.
Branch management and supervision of different events on monthly bases.
Recommending improvements to boost performance and reduce costs.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to book of accounts, such
as general ledger accounts from purchasing, warehouse and others.
• Reconcile sub-ledger accounts (such as warehouse inventory).
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries,
documents, and reports from purchasing documents, warehouse transactions for inbound
and outbound deliveries.
• Prepare monthly spend analyses and explain trends/variances.
• Prepare monthly sales reports into excel spread sheet for analysis.
• Process monthly payroll by verifying attendance, overtime and absence of labor and office
staff.
• Provide advice and assistance and early warning of financial problems.
Analyzes dispatch plan to fulfill all shipments and other requirements for LD&T on daily
basis.
• Managing & supervising the entire shipping process from the time of placing the order till the
stocks arrive to warehouse and dispatching.
• Verifying shipping different documents and gives instructions to clearance team for a smooth
delivery to GCC & Levant.
• Liaise closely with suppliers, principals and team members, effectively manage availability to
maximize service levels & maintain Shipping levels as per agreed norms.
• Runs billing process and control interfaces between SAP and 3PL reports.
• Creates and monitor KPIs for FG Warehouse (shortage product, inventory levels, service
level, and inventory turnover) to increase productivity and waste minimization (as Lean).
• Gives shipping orders to freight forwarder according to planning requirements (part of
balancing supply with demand).
• Financial day closing with IBM by verifying uncommitted credits and gives confirmation to settle til predetermined dates.
Order processing thru different tools, managing the loading operations and control related
activities.
• Supervise warehouse staff (PepsiCo, Contractors & Sub contractors) 40 people.
• Maintain good standards of housekeeping in all warehouse areas including the yard,
finished goods store, samples area, paper store and all storage locations.
• Highlighting problem areas by closely monitoring any excess, ageing or near expiry stocks
and working closely with planning to liquidate the same.
• Co-ordinate with written instructions activities with warehouse storekeepers and
warehouse in charge.
• Conduct product availability and logistics related training to all staff and to the new fresh
joiners and monitor them.
• Reconciliation (Systore QA stock and SAP stock, MEAS&D VS SAP load out) variance(s)
• Follow up with Dispatcher In charge for arranging warehouse with FIFO/FEFO.
• Cross check with shipment to confirm only old products are shipped.
Certified In Production and Inventory Managment -under process
Diploma in Bussiness managment