Afzal Matathil, Supply Chain Manager

Afzal Matathil

Supply Chain Manager

McDonalds-RICC

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Engg. & Manufacturing Management
Experience
13 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months

Supply Chain Manager at McDonalds-RICC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2020

• Ensuring consistent supply of Food and paper products to stores by continues monitoring inventory levels and taking timely decisions.
• Ensuring minimum wastage of stock by effective demand forecast and coordination with marketing and operation.
• Adhering to Budget requirements & to achieve department goals.
• Provide clear direction to department and delegate & coach the team.
• Effectively managing the suppliers and improving partner relationship to gain maximum benefit to the company.
• Ensuring consistent supply of fresh products.
• Negotiating and hedging the best price with regional & local suppliers.
• Supporting marketing for NPD and promotions.
• Monitoring global supply chain trend/crisis to take necessary action in advance.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER at BAS Global Investments
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2016 to March 2020

Managing entire supply chain operations; procurement, International import & export logistics, inventory control and warehouse operations.
•Project manager for SAP B1 implementation
•Set up a new warehouse and reduced operational cost by 85%.
•Improved inventory accuracy to 100%.
•Strategic vendor sourcing for hospitality projects (OS&E and FF&E) across the world to meet customer requirements.
•Improving inventory turns with efficient inventory control.
•ABC analysis for strategic inventory management and pricing.
•Defining standard procedure and process mapping for supply chain operations and deriving operational policies.
•Defining key performance indicators for supply chain functionalities.
•Leading physical inventory verification across the organization.
•Actively involved in decision making process for defining business strategies.
•Identifying & evaluating brands/vendors for future collaborations for retail/wholesale segments.

WAREHOUSE & LOGISTICS MANAGER at Al Nasser Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2013 to August 2016

Two time- BP owner for SAP HANA implementation, MM- WMS (Manufacturing & Retail Industries).
•Managing day to day warehouse operations.
•Managing day to day inbound and outbound logistics.
•Selecting Freight forwarders to get maximum cost benefit.
•Improving inventory accuracy to 99.6%.
•Process improvement by defining and implementing operational policies and procedures.
•Responsible for conducting cycle counting and annual physical inventory verification across the organization.
•Investigation and taking PA on inventory discrepancies.
•Cost reduction projects in warehousing and logistics.
•Warehouse storage capacity enhancement.
•Team leader for MRB team.
•Ensure the warehouse operations are in complains with health and safety standards.
2010 /2012: Student at Coventry University.

Customer Quality Engineer at APC by Schneider Electric
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2007 to April 2010

• Exclusively handling Japanese key account customer’s quality concerns.
• Leading six sigma projects to understand the root cause and to take preventive actions at factory level by forming a cross functional team.
• Analyzing quality issues with Cause and Effect, FMEA, Control charts, Pareto charts, histogram and other quality tools like 8D reports.
• Visiting factories to identify and eliminate quality issues at the origin.

Education

Master's degree, Engg. & Manufacturing Management
  • at COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
  • March 2013

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at NTTF
  • September 2007

Diploma, Electronics
  • at Govt. Polytechnic, Kannur
  • August 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Inventory Management
SAP ERP
Logistics
Warehouse Management
Procurement
COST CONTROL
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP
LOGISTICS
MANAGEMENT
POLICY ANALYSIS
PROCESS ENGINEERING
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Procurement
STRATEGIC SOURCING
PROJECT MAPPING
QUALITY TOOS
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS PROCESS MAPING
SIX SIGMA
NEGOTIATION

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Tamil
Intermediate
Kannada
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Six Sigma White Belt (Certificate)
Crisis Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2021
Basic Supply Chain Training Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2021