أحمد الصباغ

“Methode Electronics, Inc. is a leading global supplier of custom-engineered solutions with sales, engineering and
manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.”
• Developing and implementing purchasing strategies to streamline operations and increase efficiency.
• Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating tasks to ensure that the department
operates smoothly.
• Maintaining relationships with suppliers, negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, and terms to ensure the
best deals for the company.
• Maintaining a supplier database, keeping accurate purchase records, and ensuring that all related
documentation is up to date.
• Reviewing and evaluating offers from suppliers to select the most competitive proposals based on price,
quality, delivery schedule, and supplier performance.
• Sourcing items cost-effectively and efficiently, while ensuring that the products meet the company’s quality
standards.
• Analyzing market trends to identify potential new suppliers and alternative sources of materials.
• Addressing issues concerning defective or unacceptable goods with suppliers and taking corrective actions
when necessary.
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Achievements:
• Rebuilding foreign section with new team while providing training and support required for achieving
company goals.
• Resolving 80% of old receiving and unpaid invoices issues.
• Build a calculation control system to procure consumables products and maintain safety stock

Yohansa is education, training, and knowledge sharing platform “
Oversee all aspects of the company’s purchasing and operations activities in Egypt.
Sales/Marketing:
• Managing customer/supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc.
• Responsible for contracting with marketing agencies and software companies.
• Responsible for contracting with full time and part time platform instructors.
• Ensuring that all services meet the required quality standards and specifications.
• Arrange and approve marketing plan and budget.
• Conducting market research and analysis to identify new opportunities, trends, challenges, and best practices
in the learning industry, and providing feedback and recommendations to the regional director.
• Review social media monthly report to analyse strengths and weaknesses points.
• Set and review monthly KPIs to discuss strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
Operations:
• Manage the country operations to achieve agreed annual objectives.
• Participate in Budget committee meetings to set the annual targets and benchmarks.
• Ensure that current website and app is continuously working, and all services is running properly.
• Ensure on customer satisfaction by monitoring and supporting customers inquires on daily basis.
• Develop and implement strategies to grow the business and expand into new markets.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including partners, suppliers, and educators.
• Ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.
• Providing Reports to the regional director and provide regular updates on the country’s performance.
Achievements:
• 30 - 40 % cost saving after localizing media production studios.
• Complete implementation of the company website and application.
• Finalised contract with the marketing agency as well as approve and implement marketing campaigns.
• Increase number of contracted instructors

Developing and implementing purchasing strategies.
Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating tasks.
Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc.
Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation.
Coordinating with inventory control to determine and manage inventory needs.
Managing the maintenance of office/manufacturing equipment and machinery.
Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications.
Preparing cost estimates and managing budgets.
Working to improve purchasing systems and processes.
Training new employees in the purchasing process and how to use the purchasing system.

Support the development and implementation of the supply chain strategy in the plant.
Monitor and control the inventory performance against the inventory budget.
Participates to actions to reduce the level of stock in all the product sections.
Conducts inter-departmental meetings to identify stock deviations, run root cause analysis and define corrective actions.
Follows and tracks the material manual movements in company ERP system.
Participates to the reduction actions on Material Variance.
Supports the Stock-take process in the plant.
Organizes stock take differences root cause analyses.

Being responsible for Purchasing tasks for projects from customer RFQ via SOP till end of life production
Made global inquiries for all relevant parts (new, serial, development parts, make or buy decisions) for project applications.
Support of selection and release of suppliers
Negotiates costs and identify material cost reduction ideas together with Engineering/ Production and insure its implementation.
Followed up and made all reports that shows productivity performance within projects
Reporting back to the Productivity Buyer that ideas have been implemented in production
Made sure that sample shipments coming from suppliers physically arrive the plant
Coordinated with global purchasing team in getting direct information from the plant in all material and supplier related issues to insure it is solved on the required deadline.
Pre-selection and negotiation of local sources in co-operation with the Project management.
Presenting the local suppliers to the Sourcing Committee in the business unit in order to get a sourcing decision by the team.

Being responsible for Purchasing tasks for projects from customer RFQ via SOP till end of life production
Made global inquiries for all relevant parts (new, serial, development parts, make or buy decisions) for project applications.
Support of selection and release of suppliers
Negotiates costs and identify material cost reduction ideas together with Engineering/ Production and insure its implementation.
Followed up and made all reports that shows productivity performance within projects
Reporting back to the Productivity Buyer that ideas have been implemented in production
Made sure that sample shipments coming from suppliers physically arrive the plant
Coordinated with global purchasing team in getting direct information from the plant in all material and supplier related issues to insure it is solved on the required deadline.
Pre-selection and negotiation of local sources in co-operation with the Project management.
Presenting the local suppliers to the Sourcing Committee in the business unit in order to get a sourcing decision by the team.

Supervising on all BOM activities
Responsible for producing comprehensive monthly report
Responsible for training new BOM comers
Distributing daily tasks
Analysing BOM materials and developing processes to reduce
the cost effective of the harness
Applying 6 Sigma projects to decrease the number of errors in the BOM
Applying 6 Sigma projects to improve the sub assembly area
Analysing stocks values to prevent negative stock

Supporting the BOM team in all BOM activities
Responsible for producing comprehensive monthly report
Responsible for training new BOM comers
Distributing daily tasks
Analysing BOM materials and developing processes to reduce
the cost effective of the harness
Applying 6 Sigma projects to decrease the number of errors in the BOM
Applying 6 Sigma projects to improve the sub assembly area
Analysing stocks values to prevent negative stock

Applying modifications that would reflect in the harness
Creating new BOM charts
Maintaining existing charts
Analysing current and future charts
Producing monthly reports
Applying 6 Sigma projects to decrease the number of errors in the BOM
Analysing stocks values to prevent negative stock