Abid Amin, Manager Procurement and Logistics

Abid Amin

Manager Procurement and Logistics

OITC Group

Location
Qatar
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Manager Procurement and Logistics at OITC Group
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since November 2012

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Writing Policies, Procedure and establishing formats for Procurement & Logistics, Warehouse and Inventory Management, Freight Management, Fleet Management, Material Handling, Disposal of Discard items and Fixed Asset Management System.
• Sourcing manufacturers, suppliers, service providers (clearing & forwarding agents, transporters), sourcing alternative products.
• Pre-qualification of vendors, initiation of enquiries, quotation review & techno-commercial evaluation.
• Negotiation, facilitate order/ contract finalization and processing/ signing of orders/ contracts with suppliers.
• Optimized and reduced costs where possible, addressed and resolved the discrepancies to ensure effective cost management.
• Implemented strategic inventory plans for short term and long term implementation within the budgetary limits to ensure the maximized available working capital.
• Inventory control Management and Warehouse management at multiple locations.
• Responsible to manage the inventory level and accuracy for all kinds of engineering, chemicals, packing, general and raw materials on weekly and monthly basis.
• Ensured proper documentation and management of all incoming materials and consignments according to the company procedure.
• Ensured timely reconciliation of inventory record and carrying out cyclic stock checks.
• Prepare management information reports in order to ensure that Senior Business Managers have the relevant information needed to support strategic decision-making.
• Liaison with Government authorities (like Customs, Min. of Env, Chamber of Commerce, Civil Defense etc) and service providers for air/ sea/ land shipments.
• Compliance with organizational procurement policies & procedures for open and fair tender and recommendation to top management in case of specific procurement/ regular purchases & end-user requisitions.
• Responsible for Customs clearance through Single Window System and coordination with the port of destination/origin for import and export.
• Research and monitor activities and trends in logistics supply markets to support the selection committees for informed commercial decision making with established law and policy.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Generated extra QR 0.7 million in 2018 by selling old inventory from Industrial area & Old airport warehouses.
• Cost saving of QR 1.5 million from procurement budget through introduction of new vendors & strict inventory control in the docking system of maintenance hangar project for Qatar Airways in Hamad Intl Airport.
• Identifying new routes & new vendors at the onset of blockade in Qatar thereby saving approx. 1 million in purchase costs of consumables & project purchases.
• Reduction in Customs Clearance time through proper planning, documentation & timely mobilization of fleet thereby reducing demurrage occurrences to less than 10% of total shipments handled per year.

Partner at Al Amin Logistics
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • November 2011 to November 2012

• Responsible for complete operations to ensure timely deliveries.
• Worked on fleet & work force management,
• Development of new customers, new routes, new work shops
• Liaise with the banks for the arrangement of Over Draft facility for the company.
• Managed Debit and Credit notes.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Organizing fast turnaround time for vehicles under repairs to < 24 hours for minor and <3 days for major maintenance.

Software Engineer at Knowledge Corporation
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • May 2011 to October 2011

• Logistic Project Development for a transportation company in Pakistan.
• Inventory management system for an online trading company
• Worked on different Web development tools using PHP, MySql, JavaScript, Ajax, Jquery, Html, WordPress, Drupal and Payment Gateways.
• Involved in Client communication and Project Development from requirement gathering to deployment.
• Working with QA teams and identifying project risks.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
Part of a team that made the inventory management system go online in record 1.5 months.

Assistant Software Engineer at E-Vision Software
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2010 to February 2011

• Website Development for online art gallery in Melbourne, Australia
• Development and execution of the projects according to the defined requirements.
• Developed secured and robust web applications.
• Managed multiple projects and communicated with multiple clients simultaneously.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code using PHP, MySql, HTML and Java Script according to international standards using Object Oriented Approach.
• Built high performance web user interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, custom controls, or other tools.

Investment Promotion Officer (IPO) at Ministry of Privatization & Investment, Board of Investment (BOI)-Islamabad
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • July 2007 to January 2008

• Promoting Domestic and Foreign Investment
• Providing all the necessary information to the Local/Foreign companies and assistance in coordinating with other Government Departments/Agencies.
• Providing opportunities information for investment and facilitating companies that are looking for joint venture.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Kohat University of Science & Technology Kohat Pakistan
  • December 2006

Merit Scholarship in First Semester.

Specialties & Skills

Logistics Management
Procurement
Supply Chain
Procurement
Logistics
IT Skills including Web Programming and Database
Supply Chain
Inventory Management
Vehicle Management
Staff Management
Vendor Management
Warehousing
Fixed Assets Management
Customs Clearance
Website Development

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Pushto
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Sustainable Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Distribution (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Asset Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Fleet Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Warehousing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Procurement (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Introduction to Standards (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Partner Capacity Enhancement in Logistics (PARCEL) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Services Provision Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Road Safety Online Course Module1 and Module2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
eLCI - Logistics Cluster Induction online Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Basic Humanitarian Logistics Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019
Course completion certificate of Marketing by CeUS in 2004 (Certificate)
Certificate for Best Extra Curricular Activities in FFMS (Certificate)
ASP.net Sql Server (Training)
Training Institute:
Burraq Accademy
Certificate for Participation in KTech. 2005-“National Seminar on Emerging Technologies” (Certificate)