Demand Planning professional
Danone
Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 4 Mois
• Managed short-term (ST) and long-term (LT) forecasting for perishable yogurt products with limited shelf life.
• Pioneered continual enhancements to planning methodologies through the creation of innovative tools.
• Partnered closely with the projects team to strategize, execute, and oversee the progress of novel initiatives.
• Collaborated with customer solutions to assess performance metrics, report on key performance indicators (KPIs), and engineer resolutions for enduring business dilemmas.
• Led the deployment of the new O9 platform within Danone Canada, orchestrating seamless coordination with global teams.
• Formulated production plans for plane floor panels and structures.
• Acted as a liaison between clients and the production team to uphold a high service rate.
• Collaborated with the Engineering Methods team on re-planning and designing production lines to enhance productivity.
• Designed and implemented an AI tool to streamline shop floor planning and analyze the contribution of each workstation and builder.
Engaged in production planning within a project-based non-standard job shop, fulfilling the following responsibilities:
• Developed monthly production plans for the LV Panels factory and coordinated monthly production schedules for multiple supplier plants, including Metal Fabrication and Breakers.
• Managed and controlled raw material inventory effectively.
• Led weekly operations meetings and crafted production/materials monitoring dashboards to facilitate smooth operations.
• Ensured seamless coordination between Project Management, Production, Quality, Purchasing, and Supply Chain departments to monitor materials delivery and production progress.
• Spearheaded continuous improvement initiatives and automation of planning processes, leveraging both programming skills and extensive business acumen.
Operational Responsibilities:
• Developed and maintained the Master Production Schedule (MPS), coordinating with relevant plants for execution.
• Created and managed rolling plans based on sales channel forecasts.
• Conducted product ABC classification and contribution analysis.
• Oversaw weekly master shipments to various distribution channels within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
• Managed shipments and transfers between distribution centers (DCs).
• Conducted studies on external procurement and imports.
• Prepared monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) briefings, including analysis of Excess and Obsolete (E&O) inventory, Inventory Trends, and proposed action plans.
Additionally, spearheaded projects focused on continuous improvement within the Supply Chain and implemented SAP business solutions.
*Shop monitoring.
*Continuous improvement.
*Production planning.
*Expediting.
•Production planning.
•Monitoring the production of Badr and 10th of Ramadan factories for issues related to the supply chain.
•Supply chain continuous improvement.
•Transversal management of the warehouse and the workshops to assure smooth material flow and on time delivery.
•PMI product margin analysis.
•New local business projects management and coordination with the associated teams.
•Direct management of the supply chain assistant.
• Developed an automated tool to verify product Master Data, ensuring optimal data quality for exchanges with top European customers.
• Managed daily orders operationally, conducting meticulous checks for data inconsistencies.
• Served as a universal problem solver, addressing issues related to data transfer, blocked orders, and invoicing discrepancies.
• Conducted thorough investigations and implemented troubleshooting measures to meet "on-time delivery, " "consistent pricing, " and "delivered quantity" standards.
• Required advanced proficiency with SAP and exceptional problem-solving and communication skills.
Graduation Project - (Focus: Lean manufacturing, Production engineering)
•Proposed an engineering solution to balance the assembly line in the Low Voltage plant and meet the company’s demand. New lines were proposed using the single model two sided deterministic, and the single model one sided stochastic analysis methods, the demand was to be fulfilled by limiting the waste in time and resources, and allocating specific tasks to each worker.
2008 Gioventy Cairo, Egypt
Co-founder
• An IT startup in Cairo, formed by young engineering students, introduced business technology
solutions and applications.
Jun. '07 - Aug. '07 GASCO (Natural Gas) Cairo, Egypt
Intern
Scada - Natural Gas networks
2013 Master of Engineering (Mechatronics) [Automatic control, signal estimation, mechanics of complex structures & C++ programming] Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France)
2010 Bachelor of Science (mechanical design and production engineering) [Mechanical design, manufacturing, industrial engineering & quality control] Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University (Egypt)
2004 Egyptian General Certificate of Secondary Education