Sourcing Coordinator
Service Sales Corporation
Total years of experience :11 years, 3 Months
• Managing production and supplies of all leading brands (Calza, Liza, NDure, Toz and Skooz) of SSC with local purchase maintaining brand image of company.
• Developing and implementing purchasing strategies, vendor selection and capacity booking.
• Product development and identifying cost bracket for next season purchase with collaboration of merchandising team to make product more standardized and less investment of vendor on making samples.
• Implemented quality control and management strategies of international standards of shoes making and conduct training for vendors to make sure product quality as per sealed samples from company lab.
• Managing more than 30% of local sourcing solely with more than 3000 SKUs and managing all vendors of local sourcing.
• Working on vendor development and management to build long term relationship with company, ensuring them support on product development and financial assistance for as per company policies.
• Explored 4 new vendors locally, contribution in increasing local sourcing buying and guided them on machinery usage, cost cutting with maintaining quality standards and waste management to maximize their profits and reduce wastage in production.
• Managing claim department of company to claim the defective shoes to vendors which have production issues and suggest vendors how to handle this manufacturing issues in future that resulted 20% less claim issues from vendor site.
• Coordinating with finance department regarding payment, tax and claim settlement to resolve issues of payment between vendors and company.
• Managing Product quality and on time delivery to shops with minimizing warehouse storage, in-transit lead time and logistic issues that resulted 15% growth in local buying and sales growth of local product.
• Managing and settlement of purchase orders with planning team according to vendor production capacities so in result of this product is available on time season launching with less pending orders.
• Managed seasonal planning for purchase of Jewelry and Fabrizio category with minimum inventory level and alien budget with company annual budget of purchase.
• Managed weighted rating selection process with team and engaged customers to achieve record success of new SKUs.
• Managed 90+ shops level distribution of stock with addition of new cluster of shops on basis of sales contribution.
• Managed repair department of jewelry category and conducted training of on spot jewelry repair and sales tactics for all shops sales person that resulted 35% reduced repair burden and increased 15% overall sales.
• Categorized shops on basis of customer selection of product and purchased stock as per customer income level with support of sales team.
• Managed stock allocation of newly introduced brand of fabric (Fabrizio) and maintained stock movement, purchase budget and new store opening requirements reports to maximize the sales with minimum stock redistribution and maintain quality of product to enhance the new brand image.
• Managed warehouse team solely, train them for on time product dispatch and introduced new packing strategy for safely movement of jewelry stock from warehouse to shops.
• Introduced bar code system for jewelry that resulted actual inventory at shops to minimize the missed stock.
• Categorized the jewelry category on basis of manufacturing material and local or import source to get the data which product material and source is giving best sales return (margin) and have less repairing issues.
• Conducted sales analysis using the data of past sales forecasting and actual sales of company.
• Conducted retailer’s analysis using retailer’s views about the offered packages and profit margin for retailers and company marketing policies.
• Sales force analysis conducted marketing research to boost company annual sales.
• Conducted research on comparison of competitors marketing campaigns and company marketing campaigns to drag out the gap of marketing.
• Worked on company new launch project, found market best vendors and done selection on basis of price, quality and on time delivery.
• Coordinated with production department for availability of raw material for the production.
• Conducted stock taking and audit of Berger Paints with Pakistan leading audit company KPMG.
• Did advance excel working like pivot table, summarizing data into useable information reports for further production and purchasing of raw material.
• Supply and demand analysis using marketing reports and point of sales data to minimize the raw material handling cost and for warehouse management.
• Oracle based ERP working like production order, checking the stock and generating reports from the system.
I have studied Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Strategies, Project Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Logistics Management as my elective courses.And i have also studied Strategic Brand Management, International Project Finance and Strategic Alliance and Partnership as my free electives.
Faisalabad College of Science and Commerce, Faisalabad
B.Com (2nd Division) 2009
Faisalabad College of Science and Commerce, Faisalabad
I.Com (1st Division) 2007
Gov. Crescent Model High School, Faisalabad
Matriculation (1st Division) 2005