ali al-qahtani

Designation Chronology:
• August 2017 - Present: General Manager- Supply Chain & Facility Services
• June 2015 - July 2017: General Manager - Logistics and Supply Chain

Accomplishments:
• Played a key role in developing high standard, high-performing, resilient supply chain that drive sustained, profitable growth.
• Enabled realization of cost savings of 6, 000, 000 SR in 2018 and 10, 225, 195 SR in 2017.
• Instrumental in building a win-win portfolio of supplier partnerships.
• Embedded a culture of continuous advancement and built a transformation road-map for the SCM function across the organization.
• Entrusted with ownership, accountability & fiscal responsibility on spend mgmt.

Key Responsibilities:
• Commanding all facets of supply chain management - procurement, logistics, warehousing, inventory management, material forecasting, capacity planning and sourcing, master scheduling, inventory control and financial costing for projects and production in plants.
• Driving the company toward achievement of its vision through development and implementation of best practices in supply chain, strategic sourcing and planning & Facility Services management.
• Expert strategic negotiator/influencer, negotiating suppliers’ quotations technically and commercially and driving down cost whilst sustaining quality and service levels from suppliers.

Facilities Services Excellence
• Heading Facilities Services Department, which comprised of Projects, Security & Safety and Maintenance divisions.
• Serving the Corporate & Dealerships through planning, design, construction and maintenance of its physical facilities efficiently KSA Wide.
• Functioning as trusted technical advisor to senior Management to facilitate enhancement of existing and new capital investment in facilities.
• Enforcing functions compliance with: GENERAL MOTORS Quality Standard, providing smooth operations, maintaining customer satisfaction as well as augmenting organization revenue through cost reduction.

Accomplishments:
• Steered world-class logistics and supply chain initiatives that enable speed, flexibility and agility to deliver profitable top-line growth.
• Accomplished deliverable results that affected the bottom-line of the organization in record time.

Key Responsibilities:
• Established strategies, policies, procedures, and overall team to optimise value of the entire function in creating a world class procurement and materials management.
• Managed inventory, established controls to ensure Company is operating at the highest level of performance based on KPIs & minimised supply chain risk.
• Steered strategic sourcing through identification of cost-effective vendors for procurement with an aim of reducing cost while improving quality & reliability.
• Enforced vendor localization/ indigenization for curtailing costs.
• Supervised contract administration, negotiated and identified innovative solutions that support supply and service contracts optimization, improved quality, delivery, pricing and lead-times, in line with Organizational policies, procedures and quality standards.
• Endeavoured to achieve high internal customer satisfaction scores through departmental performance and achieving set KPIs.
• Managed a team for all customs clearance activates for all imported materials including chemical permits. As well as a team responsible for applying the new exemption and manage all existing exemptions.
• Served as company ambassador whilst visiting government officials in all ports and in the Ministry in Riyadh.
• Supervised manpower recruitment/ planning & training. Provided leadership and vision by assisting the staff with the development of long range and annual plans, and with the evaluation and reporting of progress on strategies.

Accomplishments:
• Pioneered implementation of structured lean methodology to facilitate cost reductions by 10, 000, 000 SR in 2013/ 2014.

Key Responsibilities:
• Streamlined procurements, established supply chains, handled purchase order cycle encompassing planning, volume allocation among suppliers, negotiating contract and delivery terms.
• Developed and implemented company procurement/ sourcing policies and procedures. Steered procurement process based on the internal customer needs, and issued purchase orders to the suppliers.
• Streamlined operations, controlled operating costs resulting in enhanced profitability. Generated MIS reports to provide feedback to the management on financial performance viz, Order v/s Supply, Suppliers Credit, Profit, etc.
• Conducted audits to improve the quality of the raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods.

Accomplishments:
• Handled full inventory management and stores within Tihama power (One main in Khobar and 4 Sub-stores in the Power Plants locations.
• Delivered cost savings annually: 5, 625, 000 SR in 2012
• Superintended a team responsible to handle slow-moving materials, critical spares, and capital spare projects.

Key Responsibilities:
• Leveraged commercial acumen for enhanced financial resources management-budgeting, dexterously negotiating price/ contracts for supplies and services with vendors and contractors.
• Co-managed the project to implement ERP system to issue and control all contracts (rated, One-off- Term).

Accomplishments:
• Entrusted to serve as Member of the Steering Committee for company restructure from April to November 2010.
• Delivered challenging targets through stable, transparent procurement operations, control and monitoring. Registered costs savings to the tune of 4, 977, 995 SR in 2010.