Supply Chain
Arabian Trading Supplies
Total years of experience :31 years, 1 Months
ATS is one of Saudi Arabia's largest marketing and distribution operation. The company employs over 2, 000 people with turnover of SR 4 billion.
▪ Lead FMCG technical Supply Projects and Investment plans - from concept definition till handover to operations. This includes Green and brown field investment and planned future Manufacturing expansions. Main scope of work is to build a MEGA DC to consolidate the western region fragmented DC with more than 120’000 palette position over a 300’000Sqm KAEC land.
▪ Lead the FMCG Network design evaluation and analysis across the Kingdom.
▪ Lead the definition, design, Procurement and construction of the group FMCG MEGA DC project. An investment will dramatically improve/change the competitiveness of the group within the Kingdom.
▪ Drive Productivity initiative across Supply Chain, identify productivity opportunities through synergies, which will help driving efficiencies, enhancing productivity and leveraging ATS Supply Chain.
▪ Define, develop, Standardize and roll-out ATS best practices among divisions and proactively review/ introduce International Global Supply Chain Best Practices to accelerate our journey towards being best Service Provider within the Kingdom.
▪ Define, develop and lead the group Integrated business planning towards an Agile partner that strongly bond suppliers with consumers to improve the life of the world consumers (Suppliers to End Consumers
Middle East, Africa and Turkey
As a private, family-owned company, Mars, ranks as the 3rd largest privately held company with brands in more than 73 countries and more than group consolidates sales of $30 billion
▪ Accountable for the development and execution of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey (META) regions Chocolate supply chain End-to-End strategy.
▪ Improving End-to-End supply chain performance by leveraging knowledge and best practices across our regional network.
▪ Responsible for leading value based proposition Strategy development and is one of the global core members of the affordability forum.
▪ Leading the META manufacturing excellence sites - A forum to establish a framework to support site maturity strategies with a link to the regional and global forums. This includes manufacturing best practices definitions and implementation and the definition of the cross site support requirement and mobilization
Key Achievements
▪ Revamp the development and submission of the Investment appropriation funds, and delivered the best “nominated” investment plan in the history of MARS through a record time.
▪ Steered the organization towards the delivery of the Battle plans and closed any supply gaps.
▪ Developed the Manufacturing Excellence charter based on the site pull not push strategies, with clear deliverables to deliver the business agenda.
▪ End-to-End Supply chain spoke person with all company other functions and regions.
▪ Smooth and successful integration within MARS unique culture and its Ways of Working.
Bel Food
Greater Africa Performance Improvement Industrial
established in 2005 to make the UAE dates sector financially viable and internationally competitive. Also committed to improving local lives through production innovation and sustainable agriculture.
▪ Full control of the governmental dates subsidy business with management of the two main manufacturing facilities covering: procurement, logistics, warehousing and physical distribution, engineering, packaging, supply and demand management.
Key Achievements
▪ Delivered a 30% reduction in country dates subsidy spending worth 350 million AED and consolidated existing 22 warehousing locations to 8 centralized mega size warehousing facilities.
▪ Hired 900 temporary laborers from India, Egypt, and Jordan to operate the 8 receiving locations replacing the high costs of 500 permanent staff.
The P&G global corporation operates in 180 countries with consistently high standards and integrity. Its products used by 4.2 billion of the 6.5 billion people on the planet today. Joined P&G in 1992 and gained promotion on many occasions over this 14-year period, culminating in the position of Regional Logistics and
Regional
Egypt
▪ Arabian Peninsula Personal Care and Cleansing (PCC) Operations group manager and consolidation project Leader, responsible for the relocation of the PCC to Egypt.
▪ Accountable for setting-up and mobilization of all contract manufacturing to full P&G standards.
Key Achievements
▪ Successfully led the scanning, negotiation and procurement establishment of a newly established third party manufacturer.
▪ Achieved all required benchmarks for quality and compliance, overseeing a wide range of control areas covering: country product, raw materials and finished product control.
Egypt
▪ Financial accountability and ownership of a $30m USD leading Egyptian capital planning and spending.
▪ Capital procurement country manager with a wide remit, which encompassed capital supplier selection, negotiation, contract establishment and spending to ensure proper effective cost governance.
▪ Successfully ran the capital system, including forecasting, issuing of capital requests from senior management, issuing fixed assets disposal orders and finance reconciliation.
Baby & Feminine Care, Egypt
▪ Successfully managed the development of world-class operation systems in the manufacturing plants in Egypt, with asset value $70 million and annual production exceeding $50million.
▪ Saved an annual amount exceeding $5, 000, 000 through a multi-functional cost saving program.
▪ Turned around poor global efficiency in production premises at
Cadbury has the leading position in confectionery in Africa through its operations; its products are in high demand and sold in the majority of countries throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Kraft Foods is the largest confectionery, food, and beverage corporation globally with brands in more than 155 countries and circa 140, 000+ employees worldwide.
▪ Key business planning position: to develop, align and manage the Supply Chain strategy for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT region) of Kraft.
▪ Conducted detailed analysis of planned initiatives, demand versus available capability/capacity and ongoing evaluation of cost base to ensure competitiveness and profitability.
▪ Developed, aligned and maintained an integrated continuous improvement program across MENAT region.
▪ Broad remit at Cadbury with overall responsibility for the Supply Chain Operations, business and individual improvement, development, maturity and growth within Egypt, and Morocco - Leader of the Continuous Improvement strategy for Middle East, Africa Supply chain sites.
▪ Manufacturing Director, responsible for 5 factories with total of 1000 management heads, technical staff, permanent and daily labor across Egypt and Morocco.
▪ Responsible for cost of Goods manufactured within Middle East and North Africa; encompassing the selection of new cost effective raw and packaging materials suppliers and accurate hedging of prices.
Key Achievements
▪ Handpicked to create a high-level strategy for the MENAT region in line with Kraft's future objectives.
▪ Selected to lead a multi-disciplined business team to define and agree a consolidation plan of closure for 3 cross country factories and a new mega factory built in an economically friendly environment. Business case approved with funding of $50m and 2.4 years ROI.
▪ Viewed as trusted advisor to commercial group, presenting proposals to influence the future roadmap.
▪ Demonstrable over-target performance on assigned personal and business KPIs 2007, 2008, and 2009.
▪ Selected to lead a multi-functional enterprise team at Cadbury to compete for Excellence in Quality Award. Result judged through high-level production quality, export and industry innovation standards. Won this prestigious award, positively promoting sites' image locally; and globally within Cadbury.
▪ Radically reorganized poorly performing manufacturing cluster at Cadbury to fulfil vision of being 'Best in Class'. Conducted SWAT analysis; implemented a strategy, which yielded measurable improvements across all sites, with the main site elected as the best site globally - hosting a main board visit.
▪ Successfully delivered a 6% year on year cost reduction at Cadbury through establishing a macro cost reduction plan focusing on: alternative incoming materials qualification, increasing machines' global efficiencies, reducing headcount, assessing skills and improving performance management system.
responsible for performance optimization and control across all regional FPLC (Finished Product Logistics Cost spending).
Key Achievements
▪ Successfully led both the regional and country RCCP (Rough Cut Capacity Planning) for logistics/DC developing necessary expansion proposals/recommendations accordingly.
▪ Achieved the broad remit assigned by P&G through building and developing the necessary logistics capabilities required for the region, this covers the finished product warehousing, transportation and logistics procurement.
▪ Optimizing, negotiating and establishing country by country and regionally the right logistics, and distribution center solution (outsourcing projects, leasing options, build and operate, build and hand-over to another logistics provider to operate, etc.).
▪ Cost saving leader across both in-bound and out-bound logistics costs, improving service costs of regional trucking companies.
Thesis topic: (Entrepreneurial) Small & Medium Business Development.