Supply Chain Manager
Sweet Store
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :19 years, 5 أشهر
• Plan and implement the overall supply chain strategy
• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Customer Service teams
• Determine key supply chain KPIs
• Suggest solutions for process improvements
• Work with finance, sales, and manufacturing team to determine best vendors and distributors
• Build and maintain good relationships with vendors
• Manage an accurate inventory of warehouse materials
• Schedule and track inbound and outgoing shipments
• Recruit and train of warehouse personnel
• Ensure materials are delivered to sites in a timely manner as per clients’ criteria
• Negotiate rates with carriers
• Maintain customer service logs and safety records
• Meet with suppliers to discuss performance metrics, to provide performance feedback, or to discuss production forecasts or changes
• Document physical supply chain processes, such as workflows, cycle times, position responsibilities, or system flows.
• Design or implement plant warehousing strategies for production materials or finished products.
• use IT systems to manage stock levels, delivery times and transport costs
• use associated information systems to coordinate and control the order cycle
• coordinating drivers, vehicles, loads and journeys
• Arrange warehouse, catalog goods, plan routes and process shipments
• Spearheading the whole gamut of logistics operations right from liaising with government agencies for clearance and duty exemption of all inbound shipments and coordinated with freight forwarder for maintaining the status of all inbound and outbound shipments to update customer about order status.
• Actively involved in organizing the dispatch and delivery of goods, simultaneously keeping the senior managers posted about the supply chain process to ensure that the management and delivery of stock runs efficiently coordinated.
• Administering overall logistical functions for the department, thus streamlining operations, formulating and executing logistics procedures to reduce overheads and enhance profit margins, whilst ensuring strict adherence to company requirements.
• Ensuring optimal usage of all available resources to execute delivery as per schedule and within budgeted overheads. Enforcing budgetary guidelines, cost control and cost cutting measures.
•Overseeing the supervision of transportation and distribution costs, consequently sourcing and identifying potential suppliers to ensure that the most cost effective sources are being transacted and analyzing current market trends in order to consider present and future resources availability.
•Accountable for planning the quickest and least costly transport routes, thus ascertaining that all contractual obligations are completely implied by the logistics team, thereby preparing paperwork for regulatory bodies and audits to enhance better workflow.
• Responsible for maximizing truck fills along with negotiating transportation rates and services with couriers based on operational standards of the organization.
• Keeping a track of all relevant documentation, vehicle logbooks, and fuel consumption records & servicing protocols to ensure smooth functioning of the operation in an efficient and effective manner.
•Functioning in close collaboration with the Package Engineers to ensure the protection of all freight during transportation consistent with overall goals and objectives of the organization.
• Keeping the existing supply chains effective and establishing new ones, while monitoring applicable logistics, new market trends and catering to the latest.
• Maintained accurate inventory records and optimal stock levels by conducting periodical physical inventory check in the warehouse and evaluated physical inventory with the company ERP system stock to ensure complete stock accuracy.
• Oversaw the supervision of dispatching and receiving operations to formulate long and short-term strategies for enhancing organizational revenues.
• Monitored and substituted the damaged goods, thus proficiently updated the stock reports and submitted the same to the senior management for further corrective measures.
• Resolved all labor's issues and kept a record of all operations systematically by means of Microsoft Great Plans system (G.P) to ensure smooth workflow.
• Evaluated latest/most innovative technologies to help organization achieve established goals in an efficient and effective manner.
• Supervised and monitored the whole gamut of warehousing and logistics operations including order processing, scheduling tasks for maintaining stock, managing inventory levels to effectively meet delivery targets leading to growth in sales and profits.
• Managed supply chain, maintained accurate inventory records and optimal stock levels by reviewing inventory on periodic basis with attention to receipt/dispatches.
• Kept a track of storage locations, supply and maintenance orders to ensure accurate inventory in accordance with current usage trends as well as monitored accounting records and man-hours to optimize cost control initiatives.
• Monitored inventory of raw materials, audited usage and accordingly authorized orders to ensure continual supply with minimal idle stock.
• Liable for supervising and enhancing the seasonal stock volume, consequently issued return authorization and reviewed return policies terms and conditions to ascertain better functioning of day to day activities.
• Effectively allotted the merchandise to various clients in accordance with applicable rules & regulations, simultaneously delivered exceptional customer service by proactively building customer relations through soliciting feedback and addressing/resolving customer complaints in a timely manner.
• Evaluated inventory movement, to determine appropriateness of procurement actions, audited major vendor invoice discrepancies to effect corrective action.
• Administered overall logistical functions for the department, thus streamlined operations and formulated policies to reduce overheads and enhance profit margins.
• Directed logistics operations, designed/ implemented plans for judicious management of warehouse, ensuring optimal usage of resources to operate as per schedule and enforcing budgetary guidelines & cost control measures.
• Responded to branches issues and delivery status, thus lend a helping hand to the branches in placing stock transfers and accordingly establishing the Min - Max quantities and efficient shipping method of stock transfer to various branches ensuring on time delivery and procedural adherence.
• Managed and monitored the inventory count in the warehouse to maintain inventory accurateness, thus accountable for identifying and rectifying errors in inventory count and ensured that overall safety standards are utilized in the warehouse.
• Developed and implemented policies, procedures and systems to ensure timely ordering/ delivery of orders at the lowest possible cost.
• Maintained efficient business relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure that all company purchase orders are received accurately, quantities and prices are according to approved mark-up policy.
• Assumed responsibility for foreseeing the loading of vehicles, completed stock and load by areas as per company and local regulations.
• Analyzed critical scenarios and established standardized processes for efficient trouble-shooting, while striking yield
Al-azhar University, Egypt