Irshad Ahamed, Specialist - Supply Chain

Irshad Ahamed

Specialist - Supply Chain

Alghanim Industries

Location
Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, General Management
Experience
14 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months

Specialist - Supply Chain at Alghanim Industries
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since December 2014

Leading a team of 35 in managing USD 17 mn worth of inventory across three warehouses

Formulated inventory control policy; optimized availability by balancing cost and service objectives
- Built a statistical model incorporating demand volatility; lowered safety stock level by ~18%
- Implemented ‘reorder point planning’ in SAP with staggered delivery; lowered cycle inventory by ~7%

Working with Suppliers’ to finalize a vendor managed inventory program for high value SKUs

Redesigned ‘slotting’ strategy in warehouse; improved order-picking rate from 19 to 22 orders per hour

Performed root-cause analysis on non-moving inventory; recommended changes to the S&OP process

Specalist - Project Management at Alghanim Industries - Kirby Building Systems
  • India - Hyderabad
  • June 2013 to September 2014

Customer service: Identified gaps in customer service and presented a report to the CEO
- Implemented ‘single point of contact’ for strategic customers to improve control over the project and to offer personalized service; customer satisfaction index improved from 76% (H2’14) to 79% (H1’15)
- Established a support desk & a framework to manage customer complaints within defined service levels

Developed a dashboard to track forecast accuracy, actual vs. plan, issues, schedule & cost variance

Strategy: worked on a go-to-market project to enter retail market for ‘building components’

Process improvement: built process map of order management cycle; proposed revamp of ‘engineering approval’ activity through application of lean principles; this reduced the overall cycle time by ~13%

Summer Analyst at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners
  • India - Delhi
  • April 2012 to June 2012

Worked independently on valuation of five portfolio of road assets bid under BOT contracts by NHAI; built financial models & analyzed sensitivities for purchase pricing

Interacted with consultants & research analysts to assess investment climate in SE Asia’s Infrastructure sector; recommended opportunities in Power & Port sector in Thailand and Road & Power sector in Vietnam

Assistant Manager - Planning & Systems at NTPC Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2007 to June 2011

Prepared macro level strategies for infrastructure works ( ~ INR 14000 mn) pertaining to Thermal Power Projects

Single-handedly improvised the system of daily progress reporting by creating an Excel tool

Evaluated & finalized Budget Estimate for over-all Capital Expenditure for financial year 2010 & 2011

Prepared ‘Exception Reports’ for critical works and activities for review by the Chief Executive Officer

Member, Special team: studied foundation works & brought in various changes that improved output by 20%

Education

Master's degree, General Management
  • at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  • April 2013

-1 out of 28 students (from a batch of 375 students) selected for exchange program with HEC Paris -Elected to the Placement Committee by 750+ students; recognized as ‘Best Placement Cell’ by India Today

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at National Institute of Technology, Trichy
  • May 2007

-Secured Gold medal for securing highest CGPA (Rank 1/44 students) in B. Tech. Civil Engineering 2003-07 -Conferred Outstanding Student in B.Tech. Civil Engineering for the year 2006 by Alumni association of NIT Trichy -Secured Academic Proficiency prize for three consecutive years

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at St. James Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • March 2003

Secured 3rd rank in School

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Project Management
Business Development
Retail Management
Strategy Work
MS Power Point
MS Excel
MS Project

Languages

English
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Hindi
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Tamil
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