Logistics and Supply Chain Executive
Retail Arabia International
Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months
• Overall responsibility of end to end logistics and supply chain.
• Managing sea & Air shipment for multiple brands (Hamleys UK, Plylones France and House of Fraser UK)
• Managing third party logistics and distribution to the stores.
• Providing logistics guidelines to international vendors.
• Handling of Toys shipments to UAE, KSA & Qatar & Turkey.
• Freight negotiation with forwarder and third-party logistics providers.
• Managing buyer consolidation in China and UK.
• Directly coordinating with planning and operation department for stock transfer.
• Monitoring and controlling warehouse inventory.
• Initiating for new business requirements submitting to management.
• Developing business by gaining new contracts, analyzing logistical problems and producing new solution
• Managing e commerce logistics and last mile delivery
Import shipment management.
• Managing all import shipments from Asia and Europe.
• International freight forwarder management an experienced in freight negotiation
• Handling import shipment having 50 FEU per month
• Analyse monthly reports such as, Lead time analysis and expense analysis etc.
• Provide visibility of shipment movements to the management and buyers.
• Preparing presentation and SOP to international vendors for achieving company goals.
• Providing guidelines and set KPI for import professionals.
Export Shipment Management
• Responsible for all GCC exports ( KSA, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain ).
• Managing cross boarder documentation and customs related issues.
• Export freight management and rate negotiation with transporters.
• Experienced for managing warehouse and logistics setup for new territories.
• Monitor documentation for GCC cross boarder movement.
• Overall responsibility of point to point transport
Warehouse Management
• Managing project cargo.
• Monitoring the quality, Quantity, Cost and efficiency of the movement and storage of goods.
• Control warehouse operation, space utilization and team management.
• Awareness of FIFO while on distribution.
• Responsible for stocks and stock movement of non-trading items and monitor inventory.
• Monitor warehouse in and out documentation.
• Managing warehouse stocks and put away of materials.
• Skilled and experienced in set up of new warehouse and relocation
Preparation of various documents required for executing import shipments either by sea, air or by road. Coordinate and manage cargo pick-up till its delivery to the Warehouse.
Managing and coordinating with various departments of the company for the expediting the Shipment orders.
Coordinating and communicating with various Liners and Forwarder like NYK Line, Global Cargo, K&N, Maersk Line, Balaji Shipping, etc and getting best freight rate in market Sea as well as Air shipment.
Handling all documentation related work and giving instruction to the supplier to arrange docs as per our requirement.
Once shipment sailed following for the supplier copy docs for our internal work like data entry, Payment purpose, and for the updating in shipment chart.
Follow-up for the original docs Air as well as Sea shipment before arriving to port.
Preparing Import declaration and handed over the docs to the clearing dept for purpose of D.O collection and Passing customs Bill of Entry.
Processing fright payment to liner as well as forwarder before credit period is over.
Preparing of cost sheet all import shipment.
Filling original docs in customs to get refund deposit in case shipment cleared under copy docs.
Updating shipment report daily base to the management, buyer and the warehouse on daily base.
Preparing Logistics lead time analysis and various reports as per management requirement
Analysing & processing all types of Bill of Entries like Normal BOE, FREEZONE B.O.E, Re- Export BOE, Transhipment BOE and Export documents.
Directly coordinating with Shipping Lines and Internal Departments for smooth operation.
Explaining & Guiding shipping lines and agents about DPA & CUSTOMS documentation procedures.
Verifying all types of documents and collect the relevant port charges.
Processing various types of export documents and finalizing the cut- off report for vessel loading.
Handling Help desk to answer telephonic queries
Dealings the cash, cheques transactions and invoices
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